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Advocate for good neighbors. Housing policy and legislation with @BayAreaCouncil . Board member at @casitacoalition and @sacyimby . Formerly @cayimby . He/him.

Sacramento, CA

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Joined July 2010

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 months

Are you interested in joining the @SacYIMBY book club? For our meeting in August, we're reading City of Quartz by Mike Davis, perhaps the most influential book on a city in California. If you'd like to join the book club, you can do so here:

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This list signs you up for information about the Sacramento YIMBY book club. For our first book of 2024, we read Homelessness is a Housing Problem by Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern. It is...

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 months

Mexico City is decades ahead of the US on housing production policy. For example, in 2017, across a city of about 9 million people, they simply abolished parking minimums. That's about the same population as the roughly 90 jurisdictions in LA County.

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Anyone who fancies themselves an urbanist should visit Mexico City

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

3 years

Truly jaw dropping. The City of Berkeley votes 9-0 to eliminate parking minimums and enact parking maximums. The former NIMBY capital of the West Coast is officially YIMBY. Just stunning.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

3 years

You can call it urbanism, or YIMBYism, or climate change action, or whatever you want, but everyone loves walking to their friend’s house or to a date night or to a farmer’s market, and that simple fact should be a part of your politics.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

3 years

By a vote of 8 to 0, the City of Sacramento tonight becomes the first in California to eliminate single family zoning, allowing fourplexes by right in all areas. In the same action, it eliminated most parking minimums and committed to explore parking maximums. UNANIMOUSLY!!!

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

5 years

Amtrak blaming millennials for killing their communal dining car instead of blaming their former airline company CEO for undercutting Amtrak’s customers, employees, and service tables is PEAK lying boomer. For the record, I love the Amtrak dining room.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

5 years

In honor of the workers striking for higher wages from Lyft and Uber today, I offer the finest content (it’s not mine) from the early days of NUMTOT. Take the bus! Don’t cross the picket line!

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

A few minutes ago, Governor Newsom signed AB 2097, enacting some of the most sweeping statewide reforms of parking minimums ever adopted in the US. It is easily one of the most important affordable housing victories of the decade, and it will reduce housing prices and emissions.

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2 years

The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden, fundamentally a land use restriction imposed by God, was Earth's first zoning code. In this thesis, I explore how everything was perfect before zoni

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

8 months

This is genuinely massive with huge industry ramifications. Not only is Redfin leaving, it’s forcing its agents to leave NAR as well, which means they also have to leave state and local associations (like the California Association of Realtors). They are leaving for two reasons:

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Redfin is ending its support of the National Association of Realtors due to NAR's anti-consumer policies and a pattern of alleged sexual harassment.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

. @iamcardib … welcome to the YIMBY movement

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

3 years

Actually the rule that says you can't do this is your local government's zoning code

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

It took 1 year and 45 days to build the Empire State Building in 1930. One hundred years later, I spoke yesterday with the developer of a Silicon Valley nineplex who is spending 4 years and six months on his project. That’s unacceptable and local government policy is to blame.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

A first in the country bill, SB 457, a refundable tax credit of $1000 for not owning a car in California, PASSES to Governor Newsom for his signature with bipartisan support! Impressive work by Sen @Portantino .

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

One my favorite things about urban planning Twitter is that Just Some Guy with A Normal Job and a passion for the topic will casually and brutally ratio the United States Secretary of Transportation

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bruh our country looks like this, we need other countries teaching us

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

3 years

By a vote of 9-0, the City of Berkeley, one of the originators of single family zoning, moved tonight to eliminate it, a first for the Bay Area. Hundreds showed up to support. Extremely inspiring to see this change in the wind. Congratulations @loridroste and all in Berkeley!!!

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

I'm obsessed with the Island of Sark: - one of the last places on the planet where all cars are entirely illegal - yes even the ambulance is a cart pulled by a tractor - abolished feudalism in 2008 - 12 percent of eligible voters ran for office in 2008 (their first election!)

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

5 months

In "progressive" California, 13 families face the risk of homelessness because the Coastal Commission is forcing them to cut the height of their trailer homes in half, as they "significantly obstruct views" from a trail up the hill where wealthier people live. Views<<<homes 🧵

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

In about 100 BCE, the City of Rome reached 1 million people, the first city in the world to do so. Of every 100 people born in the world that year, 3 were born in the City (not the Empire) of Rome. Roman insulae, apartment buildings up to 6 stories tall, allowed the City to grow.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

5 years

Does your local government’s zoning code spark joy?

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

1 year

Absolutely unbelievable. A NIMBY group is suing San Diego using the California "Environmental Quality" Act to stop San Diego from allowing apartments with less parking near transit, a proven emissions reduction strategy. This law is fundamentally broken.

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San Diego sued for allowing developers to forego parking requirements, build higher, and construct...

Livable San Diego filed a lawsuit claiming that the city failed to consider the environmental impacts of revised Transit Priority Areas.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

5 years

AB 68 was signed 20 minutes ago, effectively ending single family zoning in California.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

4 years

We intentionally built a civilization to satisfy a false and juvenile myth of personal independence, but instead we got removed from communities that include our friends and our families. We were promised leisure and instead got only loneliness.

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Who Americans spend time with as they age (x axis=age)

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

Autocentrism is always a choice that’s pretty easily undone, here or abroad. We can simply choose to have a much better life and then have it in like three weeks.

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Brussels is working hard to reduce noise and pollution, and one strategy has been to pedestrianize major streets in the city center.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

3 years

Fucking MASSIVE statistically valid poll buried in City of LA's most recent housing element update. They find that SEVENTY NINE percent of people in LA say upzoning single family areas to allow fourplexes is a priority, FIFTY THREE percent saying this is high/major priority

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

My "mom and pop" landlord took 3 days to respond to my email about roaches my housemates and I found and then violated the law by failing to disclose chemicals they were using to spray around the building before using them. Why are these people valorized over professionals again?

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3 years

The smallest experience that’s most profoundly changed my life was reading that Tolkien considered Samwise Gamgee to be the Lord of the Ring’s chief hero.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

Especially with a $12,000 standard deduction, the Mortgage Interest Deduction stands out as perhaps our most ludicrous housing law: -$70 billion at federal level -only goes to wealthy -economists agree it *increases* home prices and decreases ownership rates, opposite its goal!

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

1 month

In a shocking 9-0 decision, the US Supreme Court this morning ended California's post-Prop-13 era of insanely high fees on housing development. Now it's up to housing advocates to remake fee law in their own image.

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Builders may fight 'impact fees' that fund municipal projects in California, Supreme Court rules

The Supreme Court says home builders in California may challenge the fees commonly imposed by cities and counties to pay for new infrastructure.

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1 year

Developer wants to build a huge apartment on a vacant parking lot in downtown San Jose and the historical preservation people warned of “an impending extinction event” of “historical context”

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

Imagine pissing off the government so hard that you get the entire apparatus of the California State Legislature and the Governor to overrule your lawsuit in three days. Stuff never happens this fast. NIMBYs in shambles.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

High rent kills all high risk creative culture. So many would-be businesses, chefs, artists, and musicians don’t exist because of it.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

1 year

Remember when Robert Reich was tweeting about how bad economic cartels are but simply would refuse to answer why he was NIMBYing a 12-home mixed income project going in across the street from him in downtown Berkeley that proposed to demolish a derelict barn

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4 months

For a summer trip, I want to go from Maui to Oahu by ferry to avoid a flight. Well, there was a ferry, but it got shut down by a Sierra Club lawsuit alleging incomplete environmental analysis. So I got one of the +100 daily flights. Anti-environment "environmental" laws are bad!!

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

3 years

If you are seriously that concerned about the death chances from the Johnson and Johnson vaccine, I have really bad news for you about the automobile

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

4 months

This is the best lobbying story. California adopted a rule requiring new buildings w/ waterless urinals to install water all the way to the urinal. They were convinced to do this by people who build the pipes. One example of how CA's building code increases cost for no reason.

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Waterless urinals? Awesome! Sustainable! Plumbing codes that make you install water lines just in case you decide to replace them all with old water-wasting ones? Really dumb. So, if you've ever wondered what that silver nub is up and to the right, now you know.

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3 years

E-bikes have a really exciting potential to naturally displace a lot of car usage. I hope public agencies prioritize e-bikes in the years to come

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

1 month

I am increasingly of the opinion that the environmentalist movement's opposition to modernizing environmental laws for climate change and the housing crisis is an existential issue for Californians. This week I am extremely worried this problem can't be solved. 🧵

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

According to recent research, if a gallon of gasoline was taxed to fund offsetting the harm that burning it does to other people, each gallon would cost about $10

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

3 years

Congratulations to @RBReich on losing your last appeal tonight to block a small apartment building across the street by designating a rotten shack historic. May the families who move in across from you, especially the low income family, flourish and bring you much discomfort.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

5 years

I, Too by Langston Hughes is perhaps my favorite poem.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

6 months

These """luxury condos""" that people probably opposed because "who can afford that?!" are about 60 percent less than or almost $1 million cheaper than the median home in the Bay Area right now.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

Just in!!!!! In what I’m calling the first SB 9 project, an architect just told me he filed today to use SB 9 to split a lot and have two homes on each lot - in Palo Alto! 4 homes where once will have been 1, all with a promise of great opportunity. A YIMBY/fair housing victory!!

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

SB 9 will work: I'm willing to bet the first SB 9 project is proposed in a place like Palo Alto on day one of the law going into effect (Jan 2022). I bet it will offer future residents great schools, good jobs, a healthy environment, and the promise of opportunity.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

9 months

This is how politicians should talk. They should call a spade a spade, be truthful, earnest and honest in combatting misinformation. It’s easy to retreat under misinformed hostility, but strength and truth are necessary elements of any good government. Thank you Mr President.

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The President is a true Scorpio ♏️

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

3 months

Congrats to the City of Sacramento for eliminating single family zoning tonight and committing to a general plan that allows small apartments even in our wealthiest areas. That’s climate smart, anti segregation, and the right way to fight rising housing prices. So proud of us!!

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

3 years

California is about to legalize quadplexes everywhere, a huge victory in the fight for fair housing and affordable housing.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

8 months

First: they’re leaving because NAR at every level have covered up, belittled, and empowered decades of staggering sexual assault against their employees and members. The current NAR president only resigned after the NYT wrote testimonials of 29 people.

President of Powerful Realtors’ Group Resigns After Sexual Harassment Claims

Calls for Kenny Parcell to step down from the National Association of Realtors began immediately after The New York Times published an article with complaints of harassment and discrimination from...

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

8 months

I try not to be hyperbolic but I’m legitimately shocked NAR and Redfin could not work this out in private - that NAR was so intransigent and secretive! Redfin is one of the Nation’s most significant players in real estate. Them breaking with NAR so publicly will ripple.

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4 years

Fascinating. $ZM, which runs Zoom Video, did have a big turnaround around the COVID-19 outbreak, but $ZOOM, a defunct company with no relation, is having a spectacular year.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

4 years

Americans hang art of parking-free cities that are impossibly dense under their zoning code but then oppose the very same policies in their neighborhoods. Why?

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

9 months

@vanillaopinions 👆problematic silencing of esoteric nonprofit knowledge

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

Responding directly to Governor Newsom's proposal to give motorists a $400 rebate per car, the Legislature has reached consensus on something different. They propose to the Governor to cut checks of $200 to people making less than $125,000 + $200 per dependent.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

1 year

California’s Air Resources Board plans to offer $1000 point-of-sale discounts on e-bikes to anyone making 300% of federal poverty line, or about $85,000 for a family of 4

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

8 months

Second: Redfin is leaving because NAR only allows brokers and consumers to access some information about real estate if you pay them membership and contribute to their advocacy. The MLSs are silently the backbone of pricing real estate - and you only get them as a NAR member. 👇

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

9 months

A former mayor of Davis is suing the city for installing playground equipment without doing environmental analysis. The California “Environmental Quality” Act implies change is bad, treating children, homes and playgrounds as pollution. The law is broken.

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City of Davis sued by former city mayor and his wife over noisy playground equipment - The Aggie

Former Mayor Krovoza and his wife sue the city over Arroyo Park Sky Track equipment By LA RISSA VASQUEZ — [email protected] On Oct. 17, the city

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

1 year

The court’s ruling tonight stopping the UC Berkeley student and homeless housing project is abhorrently stupid. A complete capitulation to NIMBYs. There will be a legislative fix. And I don’t expect CEQA to live many years longer as a deterrent to infill housing. Joke law.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

10 months

Poland has the same population as California and a much smaller economy, but it’s adding 2.5x the housing we are, about what experts think we need to resolve our shortage. We have the wrong policies. We can build this much too.

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It seems like this year, Poland will break the all-time record of number of new dwellings completed in a single year. 245-250k completes are expected, more than even in the 1970s.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

Homeless people in California are more likely to be born in California than housed people in California are. “People come here from across the country to be homeless” is simply untrue, even if it were morally relevant.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

Eliminating parking requirements is good for the environment, actually

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

Every local government is like "we are completely unlike other local governments, with entirely unique context, sensitivities, and laws," and then has the exact same bans on affordable housing, low density land use, and requirements to own a car as every other local government

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

11 months

A Californian local government considered where to put affordable housing and this happened. The local government ejected the one Black person who attended the hearing, not the person who said the N word. The Legislature needs to preempt locals and push for housing production.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

3 years

Sacramento is taking public comment on our general plan amendment, which would eliminate single family zoning, and it's just person after person after person supporting the plan. We've only had one opponent. I am shocked. So much Sacramento pride rn

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

Gm to the YIMBYs

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

I’m so glad we’ve left the period where we negotiated with NIMBYs. When I started working on housing, we used hear *all the time* that we have to be reasonable and try to balance with NIMBYs. Now everyone recognizes they want nothing - and we have the power to push past them.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

Lots of economics papers explaining how fuel price incentives affect driving behaviors explained in one tweet:

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When gas was $1.65 I used to drive around to “clear my mind” .. now!? These thoughts living with me.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 months

Austin is choosing to make it profitable to build multifamily housing. Californian politicians aren’t. Same interest rates, materials costs, etc. and in Texas property taxes (the largest single operating expense) are higher than California. A housing crisis is our choice.

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Here's a wild stat (or brutal, if you're Californian) Last year, Austin MSA (population: 2.4M) permitted 21,300 units worth of 5+ unit apartment buildings—more than LA (pop: 12.8M) and SF (pop: 4.6M) combined

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Her, being nice: “Oh you work on housing policy? That sounds interesting. What’s that like?” Me, resisting Unleashing Thoughts on Tax Law: “Oh, it’s nothing. It’s pretty boring.” Her: “Not to me!” Me, straining to hold back The Flood: “Really?” Her: “Totally!” Me, broken:

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

4 years

The United States was a 250 year social experiment conducted by Harvard University. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

4 years

In light of @RobSchneider attacking a legislator who said more housing is more important than lawns, let's review the history of lawns. Top lines: lawns were created to be aristocratic displays of wealth. Requirements for lawns help ensure only wealthy can afford housing. (1/9)

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

1 year

Denver DSA voting to prevent a golf course from being a huge mixed income housing project like

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The membership of Denver DSA has voted to endorse a “NO on 2O” position - denying the developers the ability to execute a plan that we think is ultimately a loss for the city. Read our statement below if you wish to learn more about why:

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

4 years

The website FiveThirtyEight is actually named after the number of ways there are to stop a housing project in California.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

10 months

Do new homes bring in new people, or do they create room for existing residents and relieve pressure on rents? A recent report from the San Francisco City Controller found 84% of residents of new housing moved from a home in SF, creating room in cheaper housing stock for others.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

4 years

California, “a progressive state,” uses incarcerated slave labor to fight its wildfires and then, when these people are rehabilitated, it bars them from employment in fire departments.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

7 months

“These vacant units, Jerry! The developers build them and keep em vacant and write it off their taxes! It’s a write off Jerry!”

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

3 years

A huge congratulations to CM @loridroste for carrying this for 5 years through thick and thin. Tonight you're all our hero. And congratulations to the YIMBYs and other advocates who made this happen. Big ups to @eb4everyone , South Berkeley Now, and many others

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

Survived my surgery only to wake up to a nurse asking me what I do and then explaining that she didn’t know if homeless people would be better off with homes. I will be back. This is my villain origin story

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

3 years

It absolutely rules that hospital janitors are getting the vaccine before rich people. Let’s absolutely keep this up. Poor people are at a substantially higher risk for COVID than rich people and thus should be prioritized.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

10 days

A chair of the Sierra Club is admonishing Governor Newsom today for supporting a 40-unit infill 100 percent affordable housing project in the Coastal Zone because the process has only taken “years” to get to this point. With environmentalists like these, who needs oil spills?

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

AB 2097 heads to the Governor!!! Eliminating parking minimums is coming to California!!!!

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

6 months

Listening to a CEQA attorney in a wealthy Bay Area suburb explain that because of laws I have worked on the planning commission can no longer use CEQA as a fake reason to deny a housing project 🥲

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 months

The City of Oakland permitted 5 homes (not projects, homes) in January. SF permitted 6 homes in January. The scale of this housing crisis is going to get unimaginably worse.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

8 months

The median price of a home in California in 2009 was $293,000 and today it's $831,000. LA got particularly screwed. In 2009, the median price of a home in LA was $340,000, and today it's $1 million.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

5 years

There’s a train

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

California’s cities are *so* far behind Mexico City in *so* many ways

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

Folks, if you like your single family home, you can keep it

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

3 years

It’s way too expensive to not have a car in this country, and it’s way too expensive to have a car in this country. A failure of government policy.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 months

The Builders' Remedy, sponsored by the Bay Area Council, is perhaps the most successful housing law ever in California. Just one of the law firms I work with has dozens of projects and tens of thousands of homes in review. It's a staggering wave of housing about to crash on rents

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

As some of you know, this is my last week as CA YIMBY’s legislative director. It's been an honor to represent this organization and work with the broader movement over these past ~5 years. Together we’ve built a movement, completely transforming California housing politics. 1/x

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

4 years

This would absolutely change the lives of so many people I know. They’d pursue their dreams, start families, and take productive risks if released from the yoke of this debt. This would be amazing, completely life changing.

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Tom Winter

4 years

Schumer saying Biden can cancel first $50,000 in student debt via executive order. And will do so in first 100 days. This will change so many lives.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

9 months

A fracture explodes: this week, CA’s top NIMBY groups joined a major wing of the environmental movement to oppose SB 423, which allows faster/cheaper homebuilding. That’s at odds with experts who say infill housing reduces emissions and segregation. Left-NIMBY alliance deepening!

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

11 months

The Squamish People are developing a massive amount of housing on land returned to them by the Canadian government - local government zoning restrictions don’t apply to the tribe.

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Khelsilem

11 months

Proud to celebrate the development of Sen̓áḵw with our Squamish People and the unveiling of the official model for Sen̓áḵw. It will be on display at Sen̓áḵw at the Museum of Vancouver for the next month.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

3 years

This is heinous:

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

Cities interested in affordable housing policy could buy development rights to a home in a single family zone, upzone it, and then sell the development rights, keeping profit, if any. They could use that money for affordable housing, infrastructure, whatever!

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

3 months

A reminder that Senator Wiener wins elections by consistently larger margins because voters resoundingly support the work he does on housing and he’s one of the most popular politicians in California. *Not* voting like Senator Wiener on housing is now the political liability.

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Senator Scott Wiener

3 months

I’m truly honored to receive over 70% of the vote in my Senate reelection campaign. Now off to November for the runoff. Thank you voters!

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

3 years

My landlord has now taken down my "no exclusionary zoning please" sign SEVEN times and is asking people in my house who keeps putting it up. My housemates tell him they don't know. Solidarity, folks 😤👍

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

3 years

Interesting fact I learned today! AARP was started because a school principal found a former teacher living in a chicken coop. That's why they've always been there for housing, from ADUs to SB 50.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

3 years

Thank you, Meghan and Harry.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

8 months

I believe we should build apartments in the City of San Francisco

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

5 years

In 1921, Sears would mail you a mansion for today’s equivalent of $91,000.

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Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

4 years

Gavin Newsom signs all the housing production bills I was tracking!! A lot of NIMBYs and HOAs about to be real mad.

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