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Patent attorney, astrophysicist, & Stack-and-Packist 🏙️🥑🔋⛷️. Ready to help enforce state housing law.
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This Budget Act makes investments in affordable housing and transit operations. But thanks to the leadership of Governor Newsom, Senator Wiener, and Assemblymember Wicks it also contains transformative housing policy we have championed for decades. This is a generational moment. An inflection point.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

How much will the 85' height threshold in the proposed infill housing CEQA exemption affect potential development? Not by much, for two reasons: 1. Most infill apartments are midrise wood construction. 2. Over 85', you are building with steel and concrete, so you are paying union wages anyway.

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

It’s not done until it’s done, but we are moving in the right direction on housing streamlining in California.

submitted 17 hours ago • 5 comments

The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

submitted 23 hours ago • 446 comments

the universal binding of Supreme Court decisions affords justices more power than is necessary to give particularized litigants justice. “inferior” judges should pay the Court no mind, do their own thing, let each set of litigants appeal to the Supreme Court if that’s their thing.

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

Learning is almost automatic fair use. Output needs a lot of qualifications to be fair use. And 4 lines of a poem might very well be a lot.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

These are blatant lies and incredibly offensive. Shame on Trades for using the pain of Black and immigrant Californians to try and block a bill that will raise wages for the vast majority of construction workers and build desperately-needed housing

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

We're so close to fixing key drivers of California's housing crisis: ✅️ SB 79 would legalize apartments near transit. ✅️ AB 130 would end frivolous litigation against infill. ✅️ AB 253 + AB 1308 would prevent permitting/inspection delays. ➡️ Here's how you can help.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

It’s only a slight exaggeration to say that the official enviro position should be: “Maximize development of luxury housing near fixed transit.” A 🧵 on why.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

On @nrdc.org's equivocal endorsement of SB 79: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19381...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Call me crazy, but I think California's housing crisis that's made it home to 50% of America's unsheltered homeless population while comprising just 12% of the national population, should take precedence over sweetheart deals for a union with 500k members in a state with 19M working people.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

The main lessons to me of Mamdani’s win: 1. Democratic voters really are fed up with their fossilized, incompetent establishment. 2. Housing is by far the number one issue, and if you want to beat that establishment, own the housing issue by pledging to make it easier to build housing of all kinds

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

cross-posting a couple of threads on the huge CA housing trailer bill: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19377...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

What timing! @volts.wtf interviews @scottwiener.bsky.social & @buffywicks.bsky.social on CEQA reform. This is a must-listen for anyone who considers themselves an enviro or a progressive. Dave is as green & progressive as they come and he asks all the right questions. (link in next post)

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments