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Ansel Lundberg

@ansellundberg

4 years

@Howe_Ely @dannolan My man made a damn graph

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6 years

The Purge begins. Everything is legal for twelve hours. I immediately approve permits on a twelve story apartment building in south Berkeley

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3 years

The onion does not miss

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@ansellundberg

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We found him: the worst guy in California

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@SaulGonzalezCA

21 days

My story this afternoon on KCRW @metrolosangeles is studying building a rail line through L.A.’s Sepulveda Pass, but a Bel Air resident and former CEO of Ticketmaster is vowing to stop if it’s a subway below his community. #KCRW #MetroLA #405

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3 years

The Academic Debate re: Zoning Reform in High-Cost Regions @TribTowerViews

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@ansellundberg

2 years

This sentiment is extremely controversial among housing advocates and policy people but it is impossible to increase “access to homeownership” while also ensuring that homeownership is a reliable retirement investment. These priorities are at odds.

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@ansellundberg

9 months

It's wild to me that people think that new apartments are the *cause* of rising housing costs

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@ansellundberg

4 years

Why do people tend to understand "ending single-family only zoning" as "an end to single family housing"? That's partly why I usually try to phrase it as "ending apartment bans."

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@ansellundberg

3 years

Proud to announce that we will now be receiving a 15x larger tax subsidy from the State of California than we did when we were renters!

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@ansellundberg

2 years

It is very frustrating that “making drivers go slower” is ENTIRELY within the power of local governments, yet they continue to find excuses for why they can’t do anything about it. Road safety is a policy choice, and right now, saving lives is a lower priority than moving cars.

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@ansellundberg

3 years

@daveweigel Would you say his disappointment was immeasurable?

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I hate it when motorists “roll” at me when I’m walking. It feels like I’m about to die. Just… leave your foot all the way on the brake. It’s that easy!

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@ansellundberg

4 years

Seen on my morning walk. This pedestrian-crusher probably shouldn’t be street legal.

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@ansellundberg

4 years

@SenMikeLee This doesn’t sound nearly as good as you think it does, bro.

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@ansellundberg

2 years

I grew up in a small town (Chico, CA) and never had to be picked up from school. I always walked, rode my bike, or took the city bus. Now I hear of the "car pickup line" at suburban schools — sounds nightmarish. We need a better transportation system that serves kids and parents.

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@ansellundberg

2 years

If I never saw one of these again, I’d be happy.

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@ansellundberg

8 months

Say a homeowner wanted to sell his property. Instead, a developer proposed she takes title to the land, demolishes the house, and builds ten apartments on the land. In return, the homeowner receives three of the ten condos with which he could do what he wanted. Is this fair?

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1 year

The bicycle is a marvelous invention, with an impact that is almost completely, one hundred percent positive. For individuals as well as for the environment. A bike is one of the world’s most powerful instruments for change. When people ride bikes, good things happen.

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4 years

Living near railroad tracks is 100x better than living near a freeway

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4 years

California

Cincinnati Needs Mass Public Transit

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4 years

What’s something that ISN’T Republican but FEELS Republican to you?

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Imagine seeing this and thinking any other form of regional transportation is worth investing in

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A different POV 🥹

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When we don’t build infill housing near transit and jobs in Sacramento, all that pent up demand for places to live goes 40 minutes northeast and is absorbed by whatever the hell this atrocity is.

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2 years

Hearing NIMBYs in Elk Grove talking about a permanent supportive housing project applying for SB 35 streamlining makes me realize how great this law is. It is very pleasing to see these people driven absolutely nuts over 70 affordable homes that they can’t block.

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3 years

The hero we need, not the one we deserve

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@ansellundberg

2 years

Talked to someone yesterday who learned recently of the YIMBY movement. They expressed concerns about water availability in California, and we discussed how that’s often used as a red herring to block housing. They were taken aback and said they meant no such thing.

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2 years

Many housing advocates are coming to terms with the fact that municipal control of land use was a mistake, and that it should be ceded to state governments. What other functions of government are administered at the wrong level and why?

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@ansellundberg

5 years

motorists be like “should I murder this family out for a bike ride or suffer a delay of 0.000001 seconds 🤔🤔”

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@ansellundberg

4 years

I really love this bus stop bench.

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4 years

@Supermansings @JoeBiden @KamalaHarris Dude, you could take this ballot to the Supreme Court for being so badly designed that it’s probably disenfranchising people lol

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And it better be on a former surface parking lot

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@PSArsonist

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Ok Sacramento, calm down

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@MAlmanzarComedy @notkristiane Bill Hader & Kate McKinnon

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@ansellundberg

3 years

A motorist driving and honking aggressively at a bicyclist is assault with a deadly weapon. There is a massive inherent power imbalance between bikers and motorists. Cities have a duty to correct that imbalance by building infrastructure that slows cars and protects bikers.

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@ansellundberg

3 years

My brother-in-law and I got each other the same Christmas present. And we both loved it.

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@ansellundberg

4 years

So yesterday, we took the “yes in my backyard” thing REALLY literally... 💒🥳💍

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@ansellundberg

2 years

Dressed as one of my heroes

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@ansellundberg

2 years

@cyclelicious

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@ansellundberg

3 years

As a Sacramentan, it’s hard not to talk about SF, which refuses to legalize housing, and thus is constantly pushing economic migrants to Sac. We try to do the right thing on housing & we’re happy to have SFians here, but it’d be nice if they could stay put if they wanted to.

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@MattHaneySF

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A lot of people who don't live in San Francisco or no longer live in San Francisco definitely talk about San Francisco a lot.

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Public agencies should never sell land outright to private entities. Always lease long term.

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@ansellundberg

1 year

Last fall, I purchased an eBike to replace my non electric commuter bike. I have put about 900 miles on it in the past 6 months. Here are some things I’ve learned. Spoiler alert: it changed my life. 🧵

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@ansellundberg

4 years

Imagine if instead of going after drinking and enacting prohibition, Mothers Against Drunk Driving went after DRIVING and ended car culture... saving hundreds of thousands more lives in the process

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@ansellundberg

2 years

enough bs, let’s build housing

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@ansellundberg

3 years

What percent of this new luxury housing is affordable?

NIMBY Patrol

@NimbyPatrol

3 years

What exactly am I looking at? #PaloAlto

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@ansellundberg

3 years

The YIMBY movement has always been about building more homes of all kinds, not “just luxury condos.” How do I know this? Because we’re fighting to remove veto points + apartment bans that stand in the way of ALL types of homes: affordable, supportive, senior, public, market rate.

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@ansellundberg

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Average state DOT policy:

fuck every word

@fuckeveryword

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fuck pedestrians

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@ansellundberg

4 years

People Who Have a Specific Place in Their Home Where They Keep Manuals for All Their Small Appliances for Warren 2020

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@ansellundberg

2 years

we need to make driving slow cool again. driving fast? driving around like a little speed racer? that’s cringe. you’re trying too hard. slow down and relax! take it steezy.

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@ansellundberg

5 years

30,000 new jobs 8,000 new homes someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my city is dying

Roland Li

@rolandlisf

5 years

30,000 new jobs 8,000+ new homes, 33% affordable $2 billion in city fees After nearly a decade, Central SoMa's transformation is poised to start following four lawsuit settlements (2016 vs. 2040 by @SOM_Design )

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@SilvermanJacob Camp stoves: NEVER BURN A GAS STOVE INSIDE YOUR TENT Kitchen stoves: it's okay though, we're cool :)

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6 years

(w 20% BMR of course)

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2 years

We can solve challenges *related* to new housing without resorting to “just don’t build the housing” as the solution. Politically, it’s a win to plan wisely for a future of abundance.

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@ansellundberg

3 years

Under the California Vehicle Code, crosswalks legally exist at all intersections unless otherwise prohibited with signs. Crosswalks may be marked or unmarked.

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@ansellundberg

6 years

@chrisFnicholson Good point, I’m thinking of Manhattanizing Palo Alto and North Beach in SF

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5 months

Big news: we became parents this month! Baby Warren is now the center of our universe. I'm still working on my bike-based child transport strategy... please send suggestions

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3 years

@axios

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@ansellundberg

3 years

There’s an untold political story about SB 9. This bill affects housing in the whole state. Like ADU legislation, it shows that local government as a whole can’t be trusted to handle land use in the context of a massive housing shortage. Another step in the right direction.

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2 years

California should really have a unicameral legislature with 120 seats.

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@ansellundberg

3 years

I don’t post a lot about work, but I think it’s exciting that SMUD, the electric utility I work for, has a 2030 zero carbon goal. This, combined with Sacramento’s recent land use reforms focused on infill and TOD, mean that our region is a true pioneer on climate action.

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@ansellundberg

2 years

I wonder if my state senator would send a letter to Caltrans asking them to consider removing I-5 through downtown Sacramento.

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@ansellundberg

3 years

The American Dream actually has nothing to do with freeholding real estate or securing a spouse and offspring; it’s actually just having friends and family with whom you can have a sick Fast & Furious-style BBQ after completing a big mission

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@ansellundberg

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After 24 years as the CEO of @lundbergfarms , and spending his entire career there, my dad is retiring. He has been a great leader for the family and for the natural food industry & organic farming movement. Congrats, Dad! 🎉

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@ansellundberg

3 years

Since Congressman Paul Gosar (R-AZ) is in the news for possibly committing treason, I want to make sure no one forgets the most savage campaign ad of all time in which all 6 of Gosar’s siblings endorse his opponent

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@ansellundberg

2 years

walking or biking under a freeway is a soul-destroying experience. it feels like your vital spirit is being leeched out.

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@ansellundberg

2 years

I ride my bike as if Assembly Bill 122 were the law of the land. Not only because it was passed by both houses of the legislature (yet vetoed by @GavinNewsom ), but because it’s the safest way to navigate traffic signals on a bicycle!

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@ansellundberg

4 years

I come from a multigenerational farming family in CA. I know big ag is putting lots of $$ into the #NoOn15 campaign. Take it from me: don't worry. Prop 15 exempts farmland from being reassessed. We need to vote #YesOn15 to fund our schools & communities. Farms will be just fine.

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@ansellundberg

3 years

A city can’t “exceed” its “goal” for a certain amount of homes under RHNA. There’s no “goal,” it’s a MINIMUM number of homes that a city needs to demonstrate that it has PLANNED for. It’s a bare minimum number and if a city exceeds it, it does NOT mean to stop!

Rafael Mandelman

@RafaelMandelman

3 years

Last Tuesday a super-majority of the Board voted to delay a market-rate development at 469 Stevenson. For context, San Francisco has far exceeded our ABAG-determined goal for new market rate housing from 2015-2022, with over 18,000 units built and over 56,000 in the pipeline. (1)

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@ansellundberg

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Homeownership is a vicious cycle. In its current form in the US as an institution, it is unsustainable and untenable. Why? Because it’s still buoyed by exclusionary policies and freehold land ownership.

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@ansellundberg

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New job alert! This was my first week as a Policy Developer at @California_ISO working on western electricity market design 🔌 I'll be working on resource adequacy, among other things. #energytwitter , hit me up!

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@ansellundberg

3 years

RE: [EXTERNAL] RE: Re: RE: EXTERNAL RE: Re: Question

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@ansellundberg

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@DeanPreston Are you calling Mayor Darrell Steinberg and the entire Sacramento city council libertarians and accusing them of being not progressive? If not, why not emulate what we did in Sacramento?

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Scramble pedestrian crossing should be the default signal mode, and drivers should have to stop, get out, and push a "DRIVE" button

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@ansellundberg

1 year

Last thing you see before your city ends its housing shortage

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@ansellundberg

3 years

I’ve attended many housing element meetings in the Sacramento region where the councilmembers remind the audience that “cities don’t actually *build* housing.” Well, what if the State of California *did* build housing? Market rate, affordable, AND very low income? It can be done.

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@ansellundberg

2 years

Local governments can avoid doing CEQA analysis on new housing 😳 if they simply make the approval process nondiscretionary 😂

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@ansellundberg

2 years

@sssabriiiinaaa me: yes I spend nothing on gas each month also me: what do you mean you don’t eat 2,600 calories a day?

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Ansel Lundberg

@ansellundberg

4 years

I got doored yesterday. I’m mostly okay, except for a sprained hand. It sucks because it was my handshake hand, my trigger hand for my Switch controller, and my fork hand when I eat chicken souvlaki. We need protected bike lanes now. The Dutch reach will not save us.

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@ansellundberg

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@lydia_kou You know what’s one-size-fits-all? Only allowing one unit of luxury housing per lot, and making all other kinds of housing illegal. That doesn’t sound unique to me.

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@ansellundberg

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This is my last week at SMUD. I've worked here for over six years, which is the job I've held by far the longest in my career. It has been an honor to serve our 1.5 million customer-owners in the Sacramento region by making sure they have access to reliable, low-cost electricity.

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@ansellundberg

4 years

Vote yes on 15

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@SoPasDad

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This morning I found out that I pay four times as much property taxes as my local South Pasadena Trader Joe’s. My Trader Joe’s is four times the size of my home, so I am paying 16 times more per square foot than TJs. They are literally paying $400 a month in property taxes.

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4 years

Manhattanization? Why yes, I’ll take two

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California needs a special economic zone

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2 years

I wonder how many years were shaved off the US male life expectancy due to the cultural trope that salads are “for women”

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@ansellundberg

4 years

@TheEpicDept He really said

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Consolidating special districts across the state should be an explicit public policy goal in California.

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@louismirante

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@jaycaspiankang Excellent question. Mindnumbingly short-sighted answer.

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@ansellundberg

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@GavinNewsom This footage is pre-COVID for those wondering

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Every historic district should be accompanied by a progressive real estate transfer tax on properties in the district. Value is created by the historic designation; why shouldn't the community be able to reclaim that value that was created by preserving the historic element?

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@ansellundberg

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And the governor signed. Imagine if we did this for removing infill housing rezones from CEQA consideration

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The California Senate and Assembly have both just unanimously passed the bill removing student enrollment from CEQA consideration - 72 hours after the measures were introduced.

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Ansel Lundberg

@ansellundberg

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Wow... “NON-EXHAUST emissions already account for over 90% of PM10 and 85% of PM2.5 emissions from traffic.”

(PDF) Non-exhaust PM emissions from electric vehicles

PDF | Particulate matter (PM) exposure has been linked to adverse health effects by numerous studies. Therefore, governments have been heavily... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

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Ansel Lundberg

@ansellundberg

4 years

So, CA's Senate Bill 50 failed to pass today. It would have ended apartment bans in jobs-rich areas and near transit. It would've put us on the path to solving CA's housing shortage. I believe it is now the responsibility those who opposed SB50 to present their own solution.

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Ansel Lundberg

@ansellundberg

3 years

Please read this article now

The American Mortgage Is An Investment In Inequality | NOEMA

The institution of homeownership in America is a finely tuned wealth-building machine for the wealthiest and whitest, first and foremost.

www.noemamag.com

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Sokka confirmed YIMBY

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@JoshuaPotash > we can’t lose sight of the fact that we have enough homes for all yes we can, because we literally don’t have enough

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The only way Taylor Swift can make up for being the number 1 source of global greenhouse gas emissions is if she runs against Marsha Blackburn for US Senate.

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@calebsaysthings Wrong, they’re heroes

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Apropos of … some academic geographers writing galaxy brain papers bending over backwards to defend NIMBYism, I present to you: the good geographers of @UCSBgeog (which is a nice snapshot of what probably 95% geographers are up to)

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I will literally fav any tweet roasting the California Coastal Commission

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