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Aaron Green

14 days

We really need to stop using “affordable housing” when we mean “deed-restricted low-income housing”. Causes way too much confusion, is abused by bad-faith actors, and in this case invalidated SB9!

Chris Elmendorf

@CSElmendorf

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It is therefore quite ridiculous for Judge Kin to hold that "affordable housing" as used in SB 9's statement of intent "unambiguously" means "deed-restricted affordable housing." /14

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 months

Governor of North Dakota understands walkable urbanism better than Los Angeles City Council.

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@berkie1

2 months

“We built cities all over America that are designed for automobiles and not designed for people... Our housing costs are high, in part because of the way that we've designed our cities." - @GovDougBurgum North Dakota comments during the @NatlGovsAssoc winter meetings

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Aaron Green

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2 years

Left-NIMBYS literally have no solutions for rising rents. We’re not going to abolish capitalism, seize buildings, spend trillions on social housing, or any of the other unicorn fantasies they have. So what they’re effectively pushing for is continuation of the status quo.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

Almost nothing about this street would be legal anywhere in the US

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

6 months

Berlin banned luxury remodels, heavily restricted Airbnb, put strict caps on rent and yet rents are still rising. Who could have predicted??

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

NIMBYs in San Diego held a meeting to discuss the Navy’s plan to build 14,000 new homes and the Navy, who was invited but doesn’t need any local approval, didn’t even bother to show 😂

NAVWAR redevelopment raises ire in Mission Hills

With few options left, opponents urge public to contact Congress, Navy Secretary By Kendra Sitton Discussions about NAVWAR’s redevelopment proposals dominated a recent special meeting of the Uptown...

sdnews.com

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 months

Housing theory of everything - rents are much lower in South Korea and Japan, allowing people to spend more on clothes, plus more walkable neighborhoods means more people see you throughout the day so you put more effort into what you wear.

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For reasons I don't fully understand, the tailoring scene—and really the fashion scene in general—is better in East Asia (and mostly South Korea and Japan) than in the US as a whole. There are more interesting shops, tailors, and shoemakers. Also, there are more hobbyists.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

Los Angeles with more housing and transit would be the greatest city in the world. Paris or Tokyo, but with perfect weather.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

AOC just retweeted the Curbed article about her becoming a YIMBY.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 months

About 600,000 have died in car crashes since this accident. A mind boggling difference in how we approach safety.

Ryan Radia

@RyanRadia

2 months

3 weeks ago marked 15 years since Feb 12, 2009—the last multiple-fatality accident involving a U.S. passenger airliner (Part 121). 11.6 billion passengers have since boarded a scheduled U.S. airline flight, with just 2 passenger fatalities (Part 121: Southwest 1380; PenAir 3296)

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

5 months

”Genocide Joe” prevented a wider regional war that would have undoubtedly killed tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands in both Israel and Lebanon.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

When you don't build $1M condos in Los Angeles, you get $1M single-family homes in Riverside County which require 100 miles of driving to get to and from work every single day.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

3 years

“You can’t build your way to affordable housing!” I tweet from my brand new $285K townhome in Houston.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

3 months

Prediction: LA will bid out the demolition of this property, agree to an absurdly high price, launch a process of “re-imagining the land for truly affordable housing”, and then nothing will happen and the land will sit vacant until the end of time.

Jack Witthaus

@jackwitthausla

3 months

City of Los Angeles officials are initiating a process called abatement that could give them the power to demolish the graffitied Oceanwide Plaza and even take control of the property. For now, the city just wants the tagging cleaned. @CoStarNews

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

5 months

Such a disaster for blue states. Purposefully shooting ourselves in the foot so we can appease a small minority of misanthropic NIMBYs.

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@scottlincicome

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Net domestic migration 2022-2023:

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

3 years

Santa Monica affordable housing fees on new construction: Apartments: $36.49/sf Condos: $42.62/sf Single Family Homes: $0.00/sf 🤡 🤡

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

3 months

A new California law prohibits elected officials from participating in entitlement proceedings if they've received more than $250 from the applicant. So my recommendation for developers is to donate $251 to every NIMBY councilmember. And then your project will be approved!

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

E-bikes need to be harder to steal. The ability to track and de-activate remotely, start with a key, etc. would all be cheap to implement and make them far less interesting to thieves. Seems like a no-brainer considering how much they cost.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

Incredible how not a single person running for Mayor of Los Angeles has a plan to bring rents down. It's just assumed that high rents are an immutable feature of the city.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

Many people are saying a "Big Boy" ticket in 2024 would win with 400+ electoral votes.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 months

This is nuts. A family wants to build an ADU for an elderly grandparent. Malibu denies the permit, family sues, wins, Malibu appeals, family wins again. Now Malibu is appealing to the Supreme Court. And lo and behold - @TheCACoast has weighed in for Malibu and against the ADU.

Let's Get Neighborhood Approval to Save the Planet

@ChrisByBike

2 months

This story is crazy. Malibu is going to the state supreme court to fight a 400 square foot ADU. And of course coastal commission is at the center of it.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

New York Times @wirecutter says it’s fine to have outdoor propane heaters because “two-thirds of global emissions are produced by just 100 companies” 🙄 🙄

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

What I’ve learned about “centering equity” is that it can only be done by paying consultants $550/hour.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

SORRY, NIMBYS. WE CANT HEAR YOU OVER THE NOISE OF OUR ARLEIGH BURKE CLASS DESTROYER

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

3 months

This is 100% true. NIMBYs don’t know how to vocalize this, because they can’t imagine a world in which you don’t drive, but the main opposition to new housing is the cars that come with it, not the housing itself.

@Alex_Armlovich

@aarmlovi

3 months

People don't fear *density*, they fear *traffic* If you drive & park across LA 2x a day, the congestion will radicalize you. "How could we possibly build up when the free roads are packed & the free parking is full?" We price out people instead of pricing cars

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

This should be a radicalizing moment for the legislature. You’re really going to allow the state’s flagship university to deny an education to thousands of students because of a poorly designed law?

Liam Dillon

@dillonliam

2 years

Because of a lawsuit under California’s premier environmental law governing development UC Berkeley may have to slash enrollment by a third

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

Fascinating to learn that when Exxon refines natural gas into propane, it’s all for their own personal consumption.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

So either California Democrats will get serious about building more homes near jobs and transit, or Republicans will privatize federal land and force us to build exurban sprawl leading to more wildfire risk, freeway expansions, traffic, and carbon emissions from cars.

Liam Dillon

@dillonliam

2 years

Proposal from U.S. Sen Mike Lee (R-Utah) would allow homebuilding on some federal land and their estimate says the plan could wipe out a quarter of California's housing shortage.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

$475 in fees for a brand new duplex in Houston. In California, this can often exceed $100,000.

Donovan

@DonovanBuilds

2 years

Here’s how much it cost to submit plans for review in the city of Houston Keeping fees like these reasonable helps maintain some sense of affordability by allowing nobodies like me get into the game, which increases supply

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

We should demolish every apartment building constructed since 1980. This is all ~luxury~ housing, which raises rents, therefore demolishing all of it will lower rents!

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

My landlord is such a great guy. When a neighbor selfishly asked him to fix their heater, he said no because better amenities would cause gentrification. Amazing!

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

Very cool that Los Angeles is spending almost $10B of local, state, and federal transit dollars to extend the Purple (D) Line and there will be very little new housing nearby because NIMBYs have decided that the old crapbox single-family homes should never be torn down.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

3 months

“You can only build housing on these parking lots if at least 25% of the total units lose money. Otherwise, it’s better for the land to remain as parking” - Mayor of the city with more homeless people than any other city in the entire developed world.

Sammy Roth

@Sammy_Roth

3 months

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass has finally weighed in on the proposed Dodger Stadium gondola. Before supporting the project, she wants Frank McCourt to agree that at least 25% of any development of the stadium parking lots would be dedicated to affordable housing:

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

3 years

This is how Tokyo deals with flooding - massive underground storage tanks which fill with excess water, and then discharge into the river after the storm. The US is primitive country so this is not possible here. One day, maybe we can become an advanced nation like Japan.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

It’s illegal to replace single-family homes with apartments in this neighborhood ostensibly to prevent gentrification. Doesn’t seem to be working too well?

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

Lennar is building new homes in the Houston suburbs for $225,000. Only $192 per square foot. Meanwhile in Los Angeles, Measure HHH projects are consistently exceeding $1,000/sq ft in construction costs alone. A total racket.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

Amazing - a parking iceberg in Santa Monica. New building will have 3 stories above ground for people, and 5 stories underground for cars.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

Los Angeles built a tremendous amount of attractive multifamily housing in the 1920s. Today’s architects are just as capable. But we don’t get buildings like this anymore because they have to deal with arbitrary rules for height, density, setbacks, etc.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

The mother of a transgender child wants to move her family from Texas to LA but can’t make the finances work. Yet another victim of California’s housing shortage. Stop calling yourself a progressive if you don’t believe this problem needs to be solved.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

Just got a breaking news alert that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere hit its highest level ever. If not even Berkeley can maximize housing near transit, no city in California can. State preemption is mandatory. Time to stop screwing around.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

6 months

Seems like you can learn more from a few hours playing Cities Skylines 2 than you can by going to planning school.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 months

I love this article. A nonprofit exec complaining about new development, a USC sociology professor who bought in 2008 calling himself a victim of gentrification, and long-time residents saying how great it is that crime is down and their homes are worth way more.

Los Angeles Times

@latimes

2 months

How student housing around USC is transforming a historic Black and Latino neighborhood

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

We should be actively tearing down everything built pre-1980 as a matter of public health. These buildings are seismically unsafe, loaded with asbestos and lead, and have few of the amenities that we all deserve (HVAC, sound insulation, etc.).

Warren J. Wells, AICP 🚴🏙️🦀

@WarrenJWells

2 years

Miss me with those "New buildings are flimsy and ugly" TikTok critiques. I live in a 100-year-old building that I am realizing is full of lead. Give me a new-build, five-over-one with modern building codes any day.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

1 month

Lower rents is not a catch 22 for YIMBYs. It's exactly what we want and we'll all be thrilled if it happens across the US.

talmon joseph smith

@talmonsmith

1 month

what're all the yimby guys gonna do if they get their wish not in small isolated Ws like Austin but across the US & their c-suite bedfellows start feeding everyone quotes/panicked notes & CNBC hits on overcapacity/reduced incentive to build not destiny. but a potential catch 22?

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

One of the lessons here is that NIMBYs will oppose any project, whether it's 10,000 units or 100,000 units. So might as well propose as many as physically possible.

Plan calls for 100,000 housing units around new stadium, but not everyone is on board

The state released a rendering of what 20,000 and 100,000 affordable housing units would look like around the future stadium.

www.hawaiinewsnow.com

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

3 months

The gondola requires no public funds, so the answer to this question is zero.

Ysabel Jurado

@YsabelJuradoLA

3 months

A gondola would serve fewer than 100 regular season games, but a bus lane keeps LA going year round. Bus lanes have no off season. How many bus lanes could LA build for the price of one gondola?

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

They think this is a funny April Fools tweet but it’s actually a great idea.

Santa Monica Police

@SantaMonicaPD

2 years

Breaking News: Due to rising gas prices, the #SantaMonica Police Department is ditching gas powered vehicles for electric bikes while awaiting the delivery of a new fleet of Teslas. @elonmusk

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

Not that any of them even support social housing. They say they do but refuse to embrace AB2053 and haven’t proposed any bill of their own. It’s all vibes. They’re not serious people and policy makers shouldn’t take them seriously.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

4 months

Why are people so committed to this idea that we have enough homes. Like even if YIMBYs are wrong is it really that bad of a thing to build more walkable, sustainable communities and provide millions of well-paid construction jobs along the way?

Darth Powell 🦈🇺🇲🇺🇦🇵🇱🇫🇮

@GRomePow

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 months

The legislature could pass a law on Monday exempting CAHSR from CEQA. It would save the state massive amounts of time and money and deliver green transportation years sooner than currently anticipated. Says a lot of about our priorities that we don't bother.

@Alex_Armlovich

@aarmlovi

2 months

CAHSR can't even post its wins without bleakly parodying CEQA environmental review The project was approved by the Governor of CA & the Obama Admin in 2008 And now in 2024 they're posting *segments of environmental review* as wins

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

3 months

YIMBYs proven right yet again. "As higher-quality apartments came online, it provided opportunities for households to upgrade, freeing up lower-quality apartments—where demand tends to run closer to available supply—in the process."

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

1 month

I’m totally fine never developing another inch of California’s non-urban coastline. But in urbanized areas development should be completely unrestricted. In a sane world Venice would look like Barcelona.

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Brazil should be an example to Californian policymakers that you can build a lot of housing by the beach and the experience of the beach is still the same.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

The University of California will be admitting 5,000 fewer students this year because of one guy who spends half the year living in New Zealand, and the legislature didn’t do a thing about it when they had the chance. Deeply shameful.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

What a fantastic project. 1,316 beds, zero parking, and right next to a brand new light-rail station in La Jolla.

Mat

@thoughteds

2 years

More shots of UCSD's just approved student housing towers off the new @MidCoastTrolley . 230-240ft. When will UTC break 300ft? 🤔 h/t skyscraperpage SD forum, UCSD project EIR

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

Democrats have given up on passing a climate bill, are tweeting about the need to boost and oil and gas production, and now are investigating whether solar is too cheap. Fantastic work all around.

Solar Industry ‘Frozen’ as Biden Administration Investigates China (Published 2022)

More than 300 solar projects in the United States have been canceled or delayed in recent weeks because of an investigation by the Commerce Department.

www.nytimes.com

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

Only 12% of Metro bus riders make more than $50,000 per year. Almost 60% make less than $20,000 per year. So I agree, ticketing cars that block bus lanes is a form of class warfare. Just not in the direction some may think.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 months

Brightline West thinks they'll eventually need to charge $400 roundtrip from Socal to Vegas. I want them to succeed but I don't see how that happens at this cost. Flights to Vegas, even during peak weekends, rarely exceed $300 - $400 roundtrip.

New high-speed train from Vegas to SoCal will be a model for the nation — if it succeeds

The White House is betting that Florida's Brightline can build a successful high-speed rail line. But the Las Vegas-to-Southern California route has challenges.

www.latimes.com

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

The Tejon Ranch Company has a market cap of only $462M. California could buy it today and send HSR through their land instead. Would save about $5B in construction costs, shave 12 minutes off total trip time, and halt the disastrous sprawl development currently planned. Alas ...

Market Urbanism

@MarketUrbanism

2 years

And I'm not even mostly about going through the Central Valley downtowns – of the suboptimal routing decisions, I think that choice is the most forgivable. It's first and foremost about the dogleg to Palmdale, and also insisting that San Jose goes on the trunk and not a spur

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 months

Shout out to everyone who said bike lanes cause gentrification. Voters in South LA did not agree.

Omar Ureta

@theworksla

2 months

Just where LA voted for Measure HLA for Safe Streets Based on current counts as of 3.6.2024 My office, @theworksla , is busy working through the data making maps! Let us know if you need services developing preliminary maps with the primary so far!

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

6 months

Los Angeles has quietly announced that they will abandon their Housing Element commitment of rezoning some single-family neighborhoods. As usual - Mayor Karen Bass and City Council have zero interest in solving LA's housing shortage.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

4 months

This is exactly right. There are ZERO examples of cities rolling out inclusionary zoning policies and then seeing housing become broadly more affordable. The purpose of IZ is not to make housing more affordable, but to allow NIMBY politicians to pretend that they care.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li

@perdricof

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in a shocking turn, a bold new inclusionary zoning initiative has produced a grand total of ZERO new affordable housing units if the function of a system is what it does--then IZ's function is simply to allow electeds to posture as progressive while supporting nimbyism

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2 years

Support the troops 🇺🇸

Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

3 years

The 101st Upzone Division.

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@AaronGuhreen

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NIMBY: Stop building new homes!! Also NIMBY: What the fuck, why are there so many people around without homes?!?!

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@AaronGuhreen

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A 71-story residential highrise in San Francisco moving forward with AB2011. This alone makes the entire bill worthwhile.

San Francisco Chronicle

@sfchronicle

6 months

Veteran developer Paul Paradis is on a mission to add another “jewel” to the city’s crown: a 71-story tower that would rise higher than any existing apartment building in San Francisco, and become the third tallest building in the city.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

I love LA’s open space requirements. Who the heck would ever use one of these balconies??

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

No one's rent is going down in Los Angeles until apartment buildings are made legal in West LA.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

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Historic preservation is rapidly becoming the go-to NIMBY strategy to stop new housing. The legislature really needs to put some guard rails on this practice. The vast majority of these buildings are unremarkable and unworthy of any type of protection.

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@AaronGuhreen

2 years

This is how you keep Alex Villanueva in power.

Albert Jaragua Corado

@digitalurn

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Here's my recommendation for sheriff. It's blank because you don't have to vote for a fucking cop

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

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This “documentary” argues that the only reason anybody in the community supports the gondola is because they were brainwashed by being given free tacos.

eric kelly

@eric_kelly

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A billionaire in L.A. is trying to build an aerial gondola over one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city so he can develop the parking lots at Dodger Stadium into a retail entertainment complex. Not only will one our most historic parks get consumed by the project, but…

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@AaronGuhreen

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I have heard several times that legalizing small apartment buildings in this neighborhood could lead to displacement and gentrification.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

Completely legal to build one of these near any transit stop in Los Angeles but try to build an apartment building instead and all of a sudden city council will have *very* serious gentrification concerns.

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This is dumb. Preserving existing stock is NOT important. If someone wants to turn an old home into many new ones, let them!

American Planning Association

@APA_Planning

4 months

An affordable housing crisis grips the U.S. Beyond zoning reform, preserving existing stock is vital. Learn how local governments can use zoning strategies to safeguard smaller, older homes in this month's Zoning Practice.

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Aaron Green

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In an article about safety on buses and trains, the LA Times interviewed a nonprofit employee who recommended a) eliminating fares, and b) not adding more police despite acknowledging that more police leads to fewer assaults.

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@AaronGuhreen

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I live about 4 blocks from California’s coastline and agree that we should make it look like Rio de Janeiro.

Brian EdwardsTiekert

@bedwardstiek

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Whole lotta guys who live 3000 miles away having strong opinions about California's coastline today.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

Do left-NIMBYs believe that we need to be tearing down market-rate housing, or is the amount that exits today the perfect quantity?

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

5 months

California should permanently cap the number of vehicle registrations at its count as of today. Someone moving out of state, getting rid of their car, etc. could sell their registration to someone else but the total number of cars in the state could never increase again.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

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Remember all the drama and consternation over the Venice Blvd bike lanes? Turns out, you don't need to hold dozens of temper tantrum sessions just because a few NIMBYs want to whine. You can do what's best for the city instead.

Michael Schneider

@schneider

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So proud of everyone that fought for safer streets for the last two years. 🙏

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

It's really remarkable that people in Santa Monica hold themselves out as statewide leaders on housing. In 1970, Santa Monica's population was about 90,000 people. In 2022, Santa Monica's population is ... about 90,000 people!

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

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California’s housing reforms are NOT working. The legislature has not done anywhere near enough. Cities outside of California are building. This isn’t an interest rate problem. This is a problem of rules which remain far too costly and restrictive.

Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈

@JosephPolitano

15 days

Less than 1,400 units of housing were permitted in the San Francisco metro area last quarter, the lowest amount since Q1 2012. Total disaster For context, metro Austin permitted 8,400 units and metro DC permitted 5,600 over the same time period. Even metro Omaha permitted 1,900.

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Article here. A real shocker that these “anti-gentrification” policies didn’t work.

No Balconies or Luxury Toilets: How This City Fought Soaring Rents and Lost

Rents are rising at a record pace in Berlin despite anti-gentrification rules and rental caps.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

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Why don’t we just do this all the time?

Metrolink

@Metrolink

6 months

Traffic in and out of LA is being significantly impacted due to the closure of a portion of the 10 Freeway in Downtown LA. We’re adding extra cars and service along the San Bernardino Line. Learn More:

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Aaron Green

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WOW! Voters in the City of Los Angeles back SB 9 by a 37 point margin (60-23) per a new LA Times poll. Support for SB 10 even stronger. LA City Council and @LADemocrats are deeply out of touch. This is massive support for bills which almost all of them opposed.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

3 years

The 101st Upzone Division.

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@AaronGuhreen

2 years

Should be legal on every R1 parcel in Los Angeles.

Bryn Davidson @Lanefab

@Lanefab

2 years

A fully accessible 6 plex with shared roof deck and a big shared green space in back. Apartment density (1.4FSR)

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

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Folks, your anger needs to be directed at the legislature. They have the power to reform CEQA but are too scared to do so. Call your State Senator and your State Assemblymember and let them know you’re furious at them for sitting on the sidelines.

Sara Libby

@SaraLibby

2 years

BREAKING: UC Berkeley must slash admissions by thousands after state Supreme Court sides with neighbors who sued.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

Pro-housing advocates should be outraged about the fake 4plex legislation in San Francisco. The Board of Supervisors just laid out a path for every city in the state to circumvent SB9. Woodside was egregious. This is worse.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

3 years

Here's something - @kdeleon was on salary with Michael Weinstein last year. Earned more than $100K as a consultant for Healthy Housing Foundation, an AHF org. Seems like a big deal? Could definitely explain his hard-NIMBY shift on housing politics.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

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If @metrolosangeles and @KarenBassLA pick a monorail for the Sepulveda Pass, it will go down as one of the worst transportation decisions of all time. On par with LA abandoning its electric street car system in favor of personal automobiles.

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Housing units permitted per 1,000 residents. Dallas/Orlando about 5x Los Angeles and San Francisco. St. George, Utah almost 10x! Truly a great mystery why housing is so expensive in California. Probably some mystical combination of greed, private equity, and witchcraft.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

4 months

Imagine being a university professor and thinking some protest from 50 years ago is more important than homeless students today.

Kian Goh

@kiangoh

4 months

So, do places of historical and present political struggle not matter at all to yimbys? Or do they just not matter as much as new housing?

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@AaronGuhreen

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There were many dumb decisions involved in the drafting of Measure ULA but one of the more underdiscussed dumb decisions was not making the tax marginal. This has led to many people selling their homes for $1 less than the threshold so they can avoid the tax completely.

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@AaronGuhreen

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Los Angeles housing permits per 1,000 people: Brentwood/Palisades - 0.8 Sherman Oaks/Studio City - 4.7 Hollywood - 13.3 Wilshire/Koreatown - 14.6 Downtown LA - 27.1 Citywide - 5.8 For comparison: Dallas Metro Area - 8.4 Orlando Metro Area - 9.9

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

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What is the police take for why traffic laws are almost never enforced anymore? Like, what do chiefs of police or police unions say?

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

I’m unfortunately seeing this all over Southern California. Despite the overwhelming popularity of outdoor dining spaces, city planners just cannot see them as something worth keeping.

James Brasuell 🚌 🚇

@CasualBrasuell

2 years

Truly dismayed to see the outdoor dining tents at Chapman Plaza have been replaced by freshly painted parking spaces.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

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@tar_xvzf This is one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the entire world.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

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California now has the highest unemployment rate in the nation. I haven’t seen too many people connect the dots but this is absolutely because of our housing shortage. Businesses aren’t growing because housing costs have made it too difficult to hire.

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@AaronGuhreen

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Check out this ADU that @TheCACoast rejected for blocking views. That tiny little sliver of a structure behind the trees in the 2nd photo? That's the problem. Completely insane.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

3 months

This is such a waste of @CalEndow resources.

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Aaron Green

@AaronGuhreen

2 years

The only thing that’s insane about this is that the building on the left is still standing. In a sane world, it would have been replaced by something better decades ago.

NRB

@vivrantny

2 years

I wanted y’all to see this insane ass pic I took in Brooklyn the other day

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Aaron Green

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The next ballot measure in San Francisco should eliminate the Board of Supervisor's zoning authority completely. Hugely counterproductive to entrust them with these decisions. Empower the Mayor who has citywide democratic legitimacy to make housing decisions instead.

London Breed

@LondonBreed

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Today is a setback in our work to get to yes on housing. But I will not let this be the first step in a dangerous course correction back towards being a city of no. We will not move backward. My statement on the Board of Supervisors downzoning vote:

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