I'm in the SF Chronicle Today discussing how the CAR stance on housing reform is ultimately detrimental to young aspiring homeowners, and to their own agents

Over the past 4 years LADWP’s budget has increased 19% more than LA’s city budget. The power fund specifically has increased by 29% more.

Feels like a big deal

Whether it’s for housing or transportation or just running a city - there’s an opportunity for Dem leaders to embrace ‘systems’ - creating processes that work. Daniel Lurie 丹尼爾·羅偉 is paving the way - the quote we hear in SoCal over and over - ‘he transformed SF in 6 months’

Chris Spoke I think people feel this way about cities. People miss super cheap, yet formerly majestic real estate. The quote at the end: “Thrifting used to reward wandering. You showed up bored. You left with a high quality vintage jacket or shirt that actually isn’t made of some paper thin

big_pedestrian Mayor Matt Mahan Robert Hayes One of the most effective things I believe states can do is amend model building codes where possible, building a pattern book of sorts that right sizes code to building scale - I.e. the middle building code I sometimes talk about. Single stair is a first example “pattern”. We

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Avant / Après Rue Jacques Hillairet dans le 12ème arrondissement de Paris

For city officials in North America: every single person who tries panelized prefab to make more environmental, cheaper housing finds the problem is idiosyncratic zoning and regs kill economies of scale and make housing in your city more expensive. The hidden cost of minor regs!

We’re missing a crucial housing type in the U.S.: Housing over small shops Life on the ground floor Starter homes above It creates the backbone of a walkable city. Also known as a Residential-over-Retail, a 15 minute street, and a Livable Community.

What if the majority of 'NIMBYs' are 'soft NIMBYs' & are just reacting to awful architecture--but would get on board with density if it meant beautiful buildings in lovely walkable neighborhoods? After 5 years and hundreds of meetings -- we found that LA homeowners flipped from

When Americans go to other countries, they notice that the cities there feel much nicer. Why? The reason is simple: America has a lot of crime and public disorder, and those other countries don't. noahpinion.blog/p/why-does-ame…

Joe Cohen Leslie Ridings Councilmember Nithya Raman Councilmember Ysabel Jurado Eunisses Hernandez Mayor Karen Bass TraciParkforLA If we want better policing IMO we need to move away from “fund vs defund” towards how are we using dollars? Eg, do we hire more officers so we don’t need overtime? Use money for heavy metal task force so we aren’t throwing good money after bad w light repairs? That’s the convo

The paper linked below is getting play today. I gave it a read. Things that jumped out to me: 1. It does not model development economics like those of us who actually develop housing do. 2. This is unsurprising since none of the BAE staff seem to have ever practiced

Many Toronto lots are 120 feet deep. What if the sad little side yard could be bridged- letting the apartments above grow wide, but leaving a walkway to a substantial garden building behind? Dreaming up a future Toronto over here...

Japan has the world’s best railway system. 28% of Japanese passenger-kilometers are by rail. Germany manages 6.4%, and the USA manages 0.25%. Just one Japanese company, JR East, carries more passengers than China’s entire railway system, and four times as many than Britain’s.