New data: California has 12% of the US population but 30% of its homeless & 50% of unsheltered homeless. Why? CA doesn’t have more mental health issues than other states. Rather, it’s about housing. We have fewer homes per capita than other states. We must prioritize new homes.

when someone confidently says "we need to rewrite the whole thing from scratch", what they mean is "i don't know how to read and navigate this". look for the person who tells you how to rewrite parts of it without breaking the running system. they'll be quiet and sound unsure

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it's been weeks and we truly cannot stop thinking about this California Zephyr pic

Update 41: It's complete! Future Cupertino, California Been working on this drawing on and off for the last 3 years, it's been great to also see the progress Cupertino For All has been making over the same time. Here's to a bright tomorrow with more housing in Silicon Valley 🐦

Twitter is closing its doors to hobby bots like this one. They tell us a week before this happens. There's been a lot of measured, well-mannered commentary from other makers of Twitter bots. I thought I'd share my uncensored thoughts instead. Fuck this. 1/?

Less Cars, More Money: My Visit to the the City of the Future mrmoneymustache.com/2023/04/07/car…

So I know it’s been less than a week :P but I’d love to see what ya’ll are cooking up for Vision Pro so far??? SHARE

I’M AMAZED I’VE NEVER SEEN THIS BEFORE! Didn’t think I could like Bill Nye more. Via cars.destroyed.our.cities Bill Nye

If the Barbie movie’s marketing department was in charge of BART’s capital projects:

🧵Bringing back downtown San Francisco isn’t rocket science. We need the will to: ✅ Transform the financial district into a mixed use neighborhood. It never made sense for it to be just office. It should be office, housing, nightlife, restaurants, markets, entertainment, etc ⬇️

Let's dive into the findings from this report. It starts with a short introduction and an overview of HCD's statutory authority to conduct this kind of review, then moves on to an explanation of why HCD is specifically scrutinizing SF's housing policy.

Today, we advance President Biden's vision for world-class passenger rail on American soil. Our historic funding will support some of the biggest rail projects of our time and create hundreds of thousands of good-paying American jobs.

The President has released a very solid national housing plan to increase the supply of housing. The housing shortage, while most acute in California, is national. It’s harming middle & working class people, increasing homelessness & harming the economy. Thank you, Mr. President.

We need a future that includes housing for all San Franciscans. This past week, I directed Planning to revise our proposed citywide rezoning plan so we see actual construction spread across the entire City.

In the past 50 years, Tokyo has built more new homes than the *total* number of homes in New York City. New York City’s expensive housing costs are entirely a policy choice.

Drinking a flat white at Flat White in London on the recommendation of CromulentCoffee #cromulentcoffee It’s most excellent.

Many don’t realize that the first people Hitler sent to his concentration camps weren’t everyday Jewish citizens, but his political opponents. So, when Trump rants about retribution, locking up his opponents, and giving them “very long sentences,” I can’t help but take him

📣Instruments in Xcode 16.3 Beta 2 contains a brand new tool for analyzing CPU workloads: Processor Trace. It uses hardware execution tracing to accurately reconstruct program execution and is available on M4 and all iPhone 16 devices. Learn more on developer.apple.com/documentation/…