I don't care if you're driving a Tesla or a toboggan — if you've got ghost plates, we're taking you off the road.

Day 37. Still no movement on this Palisades permit. A sub 800 sq.ft. ADU pre-approved by both the state AND the city, on a flat lot. If it takes this long for something so simple, how are thousands supposed to rebuild after the fires? We need real accountability—enough with the

Minimum parking requirements destroy our communities. 🖼️ Parking Reform Network

Palo Alto denied 66 housing units because a group of senior homeowners thought that “hot young singles” having a balcony would mean that beer bottles could fall to the street. In case you’re wondering if aliens should abduct us all at this point.

This has been a problem with this discourse from the beginning. People like Ro Khanna read "investors" and assume it means institutional investors/PE but that's not what the cited research says! Thread.

If your goal is to address housing affordability, people need to point to better evidence that investor activity is driving high rents/home prices! Yes, investors increase demand for home purchases but they are not just sitting on houses, they are renting them out.

Remember: Permitting skyscrapers in urban cores like Manhattan accommodates demand & opens up the opportunity for suburban land use in places like Queens, just 10 miles out If you love the suburbs, you need to legalize Missing Massive towers near transit & job centers

According to Redfin, the hottest neighborhood in the country is Clinton Hill in Brooklyn, which is 20x denser than Charlotte, and is served by two subway lines and within walking distance to multiple parks. But there’s “no demand” for neighborhoods like this.

I genuinely don’t understand why DOGE has been so obsessed with cutting raw staff headcount over deregulation. If you keep the same onerous regulatory process but fire all the regulators you have made it *harder* for businesses, not easier!

Truly a disgrace to end DirectFile. Emblematic of the whole DOGE effort to make government less efficient in the service of rent seekers

Just finished my new floor heating.

New units of housing permitted per 1,000 residents in 2022; Austin Metro: 18-units 🏠🏠🏠🏠🏠🏠🏠🏠🏠🏠🏠🏠🏠🏠🏠🏠🏠🏠 Denver Metro: 8-units 🏠🏠🏠🏠🏠🏠🏠🏠 New York City Metro: 3-units 🏠🏠🏠 Los Angeles Metro: 3-units 🏠🏠🏠 SF Metro: 2-units 🏠🏠 Boston Metro: 2-units 🏠🏠

By far the weirdest thing of my entire career in climate activism has been the rather strident refusal of climate donors and most major climate orgs to engage deeply on housing and transportation. These are the largest sources of climate pollution in the United States.

California officials: “On the one hand we have people leaving our state, polling showing housing costs are the top issue for voters, we promised them to lower them, our state analyses show we need to pass bills like this….but on the other hand, some Groups have Concerns, so no.”

We need full scale University of California campuses in downtown Los Angeles, San Jose, downtown San Francisco, and out near Palm Springs.

The gaps in Amtrak's network are wild from my vantage point in Greater Los Angeles. No direct train to Phoenix. No train to Vegas. No train to Bakersfield. No train to Tucson during the day. Forget high-speed rail for a sec. Can we have medium-speed rail?

Members of the CA Senate Housing Committee who voted against SB 677 yesterday but espouse desegregation need to take a hard look in the mirror.

We would lap Germany if people could live near where they work and where job demand is.

In a world where you can be anything, be kind.. 😊

Woooohooooo! Go Metro Forward! With love from Cal-ITP!