Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

Salesperson: and as you can see, the jacket has this wonderful red lining Me, an urban planner, eyes narrowing: it has WHAT

I’ll believe the kids are into “y2k fashion” when they bring back the puka shell necklace with gelled and cap-highlighted faux hawks. Also leave trans kids alone.

Damn, who could have seen this one coming?

Beyond being counterproductive for housing affordability, this system is inherently more likely to result in favoritism, clientelism, and, at times, corruption

This is why 99% of existing homes in Boston are illegal according to the city's own zoning code. Making it impossible to build anything - even the type of homes that already exist - strengthens the city's leverage in these negotiations.

This is, without question, an Inclusionary Zoning Moment™

i can never tell if these people know they are creating a corrupt system of influence peddling or they really are unable to think a single step ahead to the obvious outcome of their ideas

"The rule of law, but for land use" remains an *profoundly* radical position.

This is one of the best analyses of left anti-development politics that I’ve read. While the specifics refer to California in 2025, the broad outlines characterize housing opposition in most deep blue states and cities.

I have YIMBY planner friends who swear up and down that these views are anything but hegemonic in planning but they’re not. The planning profession by-and-large believes the San Francisco model works. It’s near a consensus position.

This may be controversial but I think that people who work in public sector urban planning should understand how the real estate development business actually works. bankerandtradesman.com/planning-chi...

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

The Democrats still are not Labour.

Democracy is when a couple dozen tenants who don’t want to move can prevent thousands of their neighbors in decrepit, mold-choked old buildings from getting brand new apartments at the same rents.

Is there anything else unifying the states that have done this, anything at all

Combatting housing discrimination is one of the stronger arguments for social housing imo.

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Whenever I am frustrated about land use regulation in California I take a deep breath and remember that England exists.

Cool site

Every aspect of life as a gay man is unimaginably better than it was when I was born in the mid 80s. We beat the plague that was killing us by the hundreds of thousands and then won broad social and civic equality.

Great to see TODCO getting back into the business of building housing. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

"Building 10,000 in apartments downtown Sacramento next to jobs, Amtrak, light rail, and every possible amenity will be great for affordability, walkability, and climate goals" vs. No it won't.

We need to crush these people to restore a basic sense that moral behavior actually means anything at all. That is what is at stake here.

Carrying a surveillance device in one’s pocket at all times: I sleep A city-owned camera takes a picture of your license plate and sends you a ticket if you run a rear light: “This is a hecking jorjorwell 1984”

The California Insurance Commissioner’s choices affect every homeowner and driver in the state. Jane Kim is an incompetent political climber who would blow up California’s already-in-crisis insurance market if elected. It is VITALLY IMPORTANT that every Californian vote for Ben Allen.

funnily enough, the Oklahoma chapter of the National Fire Sprinkler Association (NFSA) was one of the proponents for the single-stair code proposal in OK. You know who supported efforts to waterdown Seattle’s single-stair provisions 40 years ago? The NFSA.

Not just the fastest, or the cheapest, or the best, but the *only* possible solution to climate change is a rapid global buildout of clean energy infrastructure. If you're standing in the way of that, you're not working on climate change & should be honest with yourself about your priorities.

“how dare you hold people accountable for their actions” is really the perfect summary of DSAers who choose to ally with NIMBYs that donate to republicans