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Sharing some of the hate mail I’ve received for supporting housing 😇 jeremyl.substack.com/p/nimbytales...

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Amidst everything going on in the world, it’s still crazy to me how little we talk about how wrong Euclid v. Ambler. America might be a much more free, affordable place if it were decided differently jeremyl.substack.com/p/zoning-con...

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Check out my favorite urbanist content from the last month, smuttier than ever open.substack.com/pub/jeremyl/...

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In the Bay Area, ABAG hired a firm called Opticos Design to create a 181-page handbook that has become the baseline model everyone else iterates off of abag.ca.gov/sites/defaul...

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San Mateo’s multi-family Objective Design Standards are 85 pages! Planning taken to a counterproductive extreme www.cityofsanmateo.org/DocumentCent...

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Really a terrible indictment of Karen Bass as a progressive that she saw Livable California’s single-family-only fundamentalists as a respected coalition

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Menlo Park NIMBYs fighting housing in downtown parking lots quote Joni Mitchell to argue the city should keep paradise paved!

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If you’ve ever wondered about the difference between YIMBY Action, YIMBY Law, California YIMBY, California Housing Defense Fund, or any of the other dozens of YIMBY orgs in CA, I’ve made a guide for you jeremyl.substack.com/p/guide-to-c...

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HAA letter to Moraga, CA for tonight's Planning Commission meeting re proposed 49-unit, 100% affordable, housing development project for seniors on Park Street. @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov @california-hcd.bsky.social drive.google.com/file/d/1OotP...

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I have received some amazing hate mail jeremyl.substack.com/p/nimbytales...

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YIMBYs have a lot less influence than we’d like based on how CA leaders responded to the LA fires. But we also have huge opportunities for the future! Read more at jeremyl.substack.com/p/what-las-f...

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Proud to announce my Substack, Jeremy’s Quarterly, will be a family business! My brother Benji will be the editor. First post about Bay Area YIMBYism comes out tomorrow—subscribe now to support a new dynasty jeremyl.substack.com/p/introducin...

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The start of a new media empire

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Fruits of the California rain

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Have we tried stopping Trump with endless public meetings where crotchety old people can give public comment about how they weren’t consulted and don’t approve ad nauseam? It works pretty well to prevent any change in blue cities

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LA leaders doing everything in their power to embody the meme

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This Tuesday, LA County Commission will vote on a clusterf*ck resolution to speed the rebuilding of firetraps -- while exempting "fire impacted communities" from virtually all state housing laws for the next 5 years. 1/5

submitted 81 days ago • 18 comments

Great event in Lafayette CA, with 23 people coming out on a Tuesday night to learn about the basics of housing policy! The housing movement growing in the suburbs 💪🏻

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Pro-housing movement stronger than ever: Of 103 public comments about affordable homes on city-owned parking lots in downtown Menlo Park last night - 47 supportive - 5 neutral - 51 opposed Oppo spent $10k+, still barely outnumbered volunteer supporters 🌇 this is what power looks like

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Proud to receive my first hate mail from a former California state senator, starting with the legendary line “Dear Schmucks”

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The California housing element process led to more upzoning than cities have done in the last 50 years—but it’s almost exclusively along major corridors and stroads 😔

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Mushroom madness from the last week! Seven different kinds of edibles + a nice haul of chanterelles

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Amazing mushroom hunt today! AMA

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Has anyone ever studied the relationship between public sector union employment share or compensation rates or job security (all interesting variables) and the use of consultants in local governments? Great thesis idea for some MA or PhD student if not!

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CA Democrats on track to lose 4 house seats and electoral votes by 2030, and the only way out is by unleashing a massive boom of new housing in our cities Read on at www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

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Facing longterm electoral disaster, @GavinNewsom is preparing to sue the Trump administration. He can be the hero CA needs if he focuses just as much on major wholesale housing reform Ready my latest in the Chronicle: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

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Ad by Menlo Park small business owners: “We Support Affordable Housing in Menlo Park,” just not anywhere nice especially if it’s near us or would help our own employees live here Tell your Menlo Park friends to sign this petition in support of the affordable homes actionnetwork.org/petitions/ye...

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Menlo Park small businesses are organizing to kill affordable housing on city-owned parking lots downtown, a commitment in the city’s housing element Making very gross claims that housing will “sacrifice” the downtown and “destroy the village charm” (Menlo Park is the VC capital of the world)

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Just imagine if local governments did things like this!

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We have been working on a website for the guerilla bench project which is now presentable enough to share: bench.builders See where benches are, report problems, and suggest spots that could use a bench.

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I feel a little burst of optimism about American democracy when new council members take their seat. I was proud to watch Nicole Fernandez and Danielle Cwirko-Godycki seated in San Mateo tonight, Jim Cervantes in Lafayette Any new local electeds the Bluesky people are excited for??

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Interesting North-South Alameda County divide on Prop 5 (easier affordable housing bonds), which did well everywhere in Berkeley and Oakland—even the wealthy hill neighborhoods Whereas Prop 33 (no limits on local rent control) was narrowly supported in the flatlands

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California has budgeted three million dollars for ebike subsidies after spending one billion, six hundred ninety million, one hundred fifty seven thousand, eight hundred and eighty four dollars on electric car subsidies.

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