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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

6 months

Do more road diets.

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Saad Asad

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9 months

Nearly a third of San Diegans spend more than 50% of their paycheck on rent. Anti-housing groups talk a lot about the quality of life - but what quality of life is there if you can barely spend on transportation, food, or leisure?

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@kenklippenstein 30%?! What a giveaway. Make it 100%.

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10 months

NIMBY San Diegans say, "We don't wanna be LA!" Yet they demand: -More parking lots -Just suburban homes -Wider freeways I hate to say it, NIMBYs, but you can't clone LA's urban design and expect not to become LA.

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8 months

@TheWarOnCars Tobacco industry vibes

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

1 year

Today the San Diego Planning Commission voted unanimously to hold up SB 10 implementation for fear of what it would do to single-family neighborhoods. Meanwhile, I drove past a gigantic multimillion-dollar mansion today in Mission Hills with a No on SB 10 sign.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

2 years

This comment from @louismirante nails it. You need a 100 green lights to get housing built, but just one red light to stop it whether it be community objection, frivolous lawsuits, burdensome rules, etc.

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@realsaadasad

7 months

@marcelemoran It’s also a bit of a vicious cycle. Make the dining room less pleasant and then more people will use the drive thru. Shaping consumer trends rather than responding

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

4 months

San Diego's historic review process is broken. Properties >45 years old must have a site-specific survey to determine if the structure is historic before construction is allowed. Here's a recent submission. Is this historic? 🧵

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

11 months

There are over 11k fewer young kids in the San Diego region than before the pandemic. SD is losing its future. We must tackle the high cost of housing and address quality of life concerns that young families have!

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

3 months

Important advocacy tips from the pros:

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

1 year

@paulkruegersd Cool, thousands of San Diegans recently voted in city council candidates that support more housing than not. If these protests were truly representative of less housing, Hough and Lukacs would have won.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

6 months

UC San Diego's enrollment should grow because California's population has grown. Public universities are one of the best tools for economic mobility, and we should aim to continuously expand enrollment (even as pop. stabilizes).

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

2 months

Encinitas: -95% of land zoned for single-family -Met 0.07% of housing goals (2014-2019) for low and very-low-income homes -Just 20 min from UTC jobs Legalize housing in Encinitas.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

1 year

UCSD has the 4th highest enrollment in the state at 42k students. It is the largest employer in all of San Diego County. And it sits beside the biggest job center in the city. It's non-negotiable. We need to build more housing in the University City area.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

6 months

San Diego City Council passes its Housing Action Package 2.0 7-1! Thank you, Councilmembers, for supporting housing: @SeanEloRiveraD9 @JoeLaCavaD1 @CMKentLee @CMWhitburnD3 @vivianmorenoSD @marnivonwilpert @CMRaulCampillo These reforms: -Encourage new home construction…

Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

9 months

San Diego's Housing Action Package 2.0 is on the docket today and deserves your strong support. While it doesn’t include all our desired policies, this reform package aims to spur more affordable and market-rate housing development through impactful changes. We all know…

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

4 months

Our neighborhoods aren't museums. Preservation reviews instantly trigger in San Diego once a building turns 45. This is a waste of staff time. Check out my letter to the editor for more of my thoughts:

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

6 months

Point Loma residents do not get veto power over the homelessness crisis. We don’t need community meetings, open mic nights, etc for wealthy residents to oppose an abandoned lot from being used a temporary shelter.

An empty lot by the airport could be San Diego's biggest homeless shelter. It's already hosting a...

Point Loma residents are protesting a proposal to house hundreds of people at H Barracks, south of Liberty Station

www.sandiegouniontribune.com

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

1 year

Is this forreal? Last bus of the night is at 7:53pm??? On a major corridor in a dense part of the city…

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

11 months

So @MayorToddGloria Housing Action Package includes the implementation of SB 10, a state law that cities can opt-in to increase housing supply and affordability. A Zillow study finds San Diego's median rent exceeds San Francisco's, so SB 10 can help address this crisis. 🧵

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

11 months

San Diego is in the early stages of exploring the feasibility of municipalizing SG&E! In the 7/20 Environment Cmte, Council members will hear a report showing it's financially feasible for the City to acquire SDG&E's delivery and transmission assets of SDG&E. Some thoughts 🧵

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

8 months

The uncovered side of this story: Low-income college students fed up with San Diego housing costs.

CBS 8 San Diego

@CBS8

8 months

College East residents fed up with ADUs overpopulating neighborhoods

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

3 months

@sdut This is a non-starter. The rail is a critical connector for the military between Vandenberg, Camp Pendleton, and Miramar. Economically, the train brings in $1B of goods each year. Diverting those goods to the 5 causes congestion and delays that impact businesses and jobs.…

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

10 months

San Diego's power company, @SDGE , is working behind the scenes to block national climate policy, even as it publicly touts commitments to reducing emissions. This blatant hypocrisy risks climate progress when bold leadership is needed most. 🧵 #UtilityMomentofTruth

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

8 months

@paulkruegersd I do love the irony of someone taking a pic from an apartment building lamenting the building of…another apartment building.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

7 months

To say I'm upset about the failure to pass meager housing reforms is an understatement. I sent a personal note to the Mayor and Council members about my displeasure.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

1 year

Packed YIMBY meeting today where the 4 San Diego council members up for for re-election came to seek our endorsement. A testament to the power that YIMBY Dems have built over the past five years.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

11 months

News that San Diego’s median rent is higher than San Francisco’s is especially troubling because San Diego median wages have always been lower than SF’s. Even more reason to pass @MayorToddGloria ’s Housing Action Package, including SB 10.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

7 months

Congrats to @Monica4SanDiego ! Our new County Supervisor. Much needed to bring back a 3-2 Democratic majority! Woo

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

10 months

The dumbest argument against SB 10 is that no other large city has adopted it. Guess what? No other city adopted ADU density bonuses and it has worked phenomenally at building affordable housing. No other city had a legally blinding Climate Action Plan. And while not perfect,…

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

2 years

Balboa Park is a gem. But also this road should be a pedestrian pathway.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

9 months

If your answer to "where do we build housing in CA?" is "out east." You're a climate denalist. More sprawl means more vehicle emissions. Not to mention, the refusal of coastal cities to build is leading to housing crises in Sacramento and Fresno.

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@realsaadasad

4 months

@maxdubler This is bonkers to me. She sounds like what someone in a much less transit dense city would say. It’s the Haight in San Francisco!! People 100 pct take public transportation, esp in a all affordable housing building

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

11 months

San Francisco closed JFK promenade in Golden Gate Park to cars. It’s a wonderful place for walkers, bikers, kids, and people of all ages. Let’s dream and demand a world where Balboa Park’s roads in San Diego cater to humans not cars.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

7 months

A new CA law would allow homeowners to sell ADUs on their property. Great policy, but unfortunately, it’s opt-in. And see what NIMBYs are saying

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

10 months

NIMBYs tell us that building more homes will ruin the dream of homeownership. Too bad it’s already near its death in California.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

7 months

Reviewing San Diego's Annual Housing Report. We permitted 5.3k homes in 2022, up from 5k in 2021. To stay on track to meet our City's housing goal set by the state, we'd need to permit 16k units per year for the next 6 years.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

10 months

@MayaBodnick TOC finals are not representative of typical debate. It’s a very elite group who can afford to travel to multiple out of state tournaments who can even qualify. Comparing State finals and Nationals are a more accurate view of the typical debate experience.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

5 months

Let’s goooooo! Get the biggest NIMBY out of the SF Board of Supervisors and support Bilal!

Bilal Mahmood 馬百樂

@bilalmahmood

5 months

It's official. I am launching my campaign for San Francisco Supervisor. Because it's time for results, not excuses. It's time for progress, not regress. It's time for collaboration, not disfunction. It's time for Dean Preston to go.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

2 years

Racially concentrated areas of influence in San Diego. Census tracts that are 80 pct white with $125k median income. What you expect: La Jolla, Point Loma, Bankers Hill, Mission Hills, Coronado, Kensington

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

9 months

Demolition begins for the first affordable student housing downtown! 800 units! Won't be ready until 2028 though.

New student housing at San Diego City College will rent for $500 below market

San Diego City College is one step closer to building an affordable housing apartment complex for students on its campus that is expected to be completed by 2028, according the San Diego Community...

www.nbcsandiego.com

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

7 months

Over 500 unhoused folks died in San Diego County this year. Yet Point Loma residents are up in arms about an emergency shelter site on a vacant site near them. NIMBYs make my blood boil.

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@realsaadasad

1 year

About 14 pct of San Diego’s downtown is devoted to parking. This puts SD roughly in the middle of the pack compared to American cities, it’s no Vegas but it’s also no SF either. I will say, many of those northern lots are so under-used, and should be redeveloped into housing.

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@realsaadasad

1 year

People who were homeless in San Diego were: -118 times more likely than the general population to die of a drug overdose -19 times more likely to be murdered -12 times more likely to be assaulted -8 times more likely to commit suicide.

‘A Daily Game of Russian Roulette’: Homeless in San Diego (Published 2023)

As a record number of people die on America’s streets, Abdul Curry fights to stay alive.

www.nytimes.com

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

3 months

The median La Jolla home is $2.2M. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were more affordable homes in such a well-resourced area? Wouldn’t it be nice if service workers didn’t have to sit in traffic to La Jolla? I think so. My latest letter to the editor:

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

4 months

San Diego's City Planning Department is on a roll as part of its annual code updates: More Homes -Allow large shopping malls to be converted into mixed-use projects w/ housing as the primary use -Allow more ground-floor commercial to residential conversions downtown -Ban…

The San Diego Union-Tribune

@sdut

4 months

Huge batch of proposed San Diego policy changes would make it easier to open behavioral-health clinics, turn malls into homes and more

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

11 months

@KUSINews @ToddGloria If they choose to, SB 10 allows property owners to sell their property to someone who wants to build up to 10 units. Single-family homes next to apts are common in Normal Heights. This will add gentle density to address our housing crisis. Most opponents are wealthy homeowners.…

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

11 months

Another day on Balboa drive where I just can’t find any parking.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

10 months

This is the crux of the debate over SB 10 in San Diego. It's one policy, but the fundamental debate is: Should San Diego be a town for the wealthy and retirees? Or should it be an inclusive city for all income levels?

Hamilton Nolan

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10 months

It is impossible to overemphasize how important housing costs are. EVERYTHING about how cities work or don't work starts with housing costs. Cities that don't build enough housing to meet demand are fucked. It's that simple. Build more housing.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

2 years

I sometimes wonder what the point of housing targets are if we don’t even get close to reaching them.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

7 months

Housing Action Package already lost SB10 and now more? And we have to wait even longer? State needs to intervene as @Scott_Wiener did to San Francisco. Annual reviews of San Diego's housing permitting process. City leaders aren't serious; time to put it in adult hands.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

1 year

YIKES. Councilmember Whitburn claims "safe sleeping sites" are essentially outdoor shelters. " This is legally gray to even say. Warren v Chico says, "Shelter must be more than an asphalt tarmac with large umbrellas for shade that does not include a roof, walls, water, or…

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

1 year

Opponents claim the character of single-family neighborhoods will be destroyed. But let me show you what 8 units next to a single-family house looks like. It's not that scary:

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

1 year

Council members LaCava, Wilpert, Campbell, and Campillo voted against expanding housing near transit centers. And today, they voted to increase enforcement against homeless people. Fewer homes, more penalties is not the solution to a housing crisis.

Lisa Halverstadt

@LisaHalverstadt

1 year

. @SeanEloRiveraD9 says he will be voting no. “I want to make sure what we do doesn’t cause more harm.” He is concerned this ordinance will do that. @SDCityCouncil just voted 5-4 to approve the homeless camping ban.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

5 months

Many small, wealthy cities such as Coronado, Del Mar, and Encinitas in SD County refused to comply with new housing laws. But looks like pressure from the AG Rob Bonita’s @California_HCD is working. They’ve had to support new housing and plan for more.

The State Is Serious About Forcing Housing Production in Small Cities

Warnings and lawsuits from the state’s top officials are pressuring some of California’s small cities to fulfill their housing responsibilities.

voiceofsandiego.org

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

6 months

San Diego County is expected to only have 2% annual rent gain in the next two years thanks to increase in rental construction. New housing of ALL KINDS slows rent growth. Slower rent growth helps all San Diegans.

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@realsaadasad

1 year

Next week, San Diego City Council could grant an appeal that removes the old Mission Hills Library's historic designation. I live close by, and this old abandoned library is a terrible use of the land. It's at the very edge of the commercial district, so no one even walks by.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

4 years

You don't need to write in boring, marketing speak. But the next worst thing is a forced casual speak. You know - when the marketing email is trying TOO hard to be relatable. It's just as inauthentic to do that.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

4 months

Nice house! It's over 45 years old, though. So the owner has to have a site-specific survey if they want to do any construction! Waste of the owner's time and money and waste of the staff's time. Let them remodel. Bureaucrats don't need to poke around.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

7 months

Key San Diego City Council actions in 2023: -Declare housing a human right -Ban homeless encampments -Reject policy reforms to produce more housing No wonder San Diego is the most expensive city to live in the U.S.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

11 months

Many Mission Hills homes in SD had racial covenants that often read like this: “no part of the premises hereby conveyed shall be conveyed, transferred or demised to any person other than the White or Caucasian race.” Opposition to SB 10 has similar exclusionary vibes.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

3 months

Thank you to @AlvarezSD for introducing AB 2560. The bill challenges wealthy coastal areas that block apartment buildings with affordable units. Removing their special exemption is fair - the coast should be open to all Californians, not just the rich.

California’s coastal areas could see more density housing under new bill

A new bill is looking to expand housing accessibility in California’s coastal neighborhoods by eliminating these areas’ exemption from a state law allowing developers to increase densit…

fox5sandiego.com

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

5 months

AI-generated image of the NIMBY ideal version of San Diego

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

7 months

I watched the 3 hours of San Diego City Council discussion on Housing Action Package 2.0. Here's why each Councilmember voted the way they did: @SeanEloRiveraD9 would only support the package if it added amendments that a) Added restrictions where offsite affordable housing…

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

4 months

Anti-housing groups and “preservation” groups are one and the same. I don’t even mean it metaphorically. The chair of SD’s anti-housing group was the main applicant to designate his neighborhood as historic.

Gail ☮️🌻 ♎️🌴🐶🌇🌳🚲🌼

@GailFriedt

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- Talmadge community desperate to stop housing

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

7 months

Hearing Neighbors for a Better San Diego suddenly care about equity in City Council comments is so insulting. In the Planning Commission meetings on the new housing action package, they said we shouldn't discuss race and segregation. But when it's helpful to them, they'll…

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

10 months

refusing to build more homes is class warfare against the poor

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

1 year

Hey, so council member Jennifer Campbell opposed the expansion of more housing, opposed new tenant protections, and now supports increased criminalization of homelessness. Why did @sandiegodems want folks to vote for her? Repub Linda Lukacs would have voted the same.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

1 year

Community planning meeting! I’ve heard so much about these. The demographics of the meeting look nothing like the demographics of the student-heavy area.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

6 months

California needs to build 180,000 homes per year in order to address it's housing shortage. We're averaging just 80k. This crisis is decades in the making. A new article from @AlenaBotros helps explain why: 🧵

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

3 months

Housing is cheaper than criminalizing homeless folks or paying for emergency services when people are at their worst.

Housing Matters

@Housing360

3 months

The @UrbanInstitute ’s analysis of the Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative found that the per person annual cost of emergency public services for programparticipants was on average $6,876 less than the control group.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

4 months

Carlsbad City Council reluctantly agrees to upzone thanks to fierce enforcement of state housing law and fear of builder's remedy. Housing Element is doing God's work in smaller cities, where local pols would typically struggle to upzone.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

1 year

"California and New York continue to hemorrhage their population despite the prevailing liberal tolerance about welcoming outsiders and being a refuge for the marginalized." via @idothethinking

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@realsaadasad

6 months

New mass timber apt building coming to North Park! Mass timber is more sustainable than concrete and steel because it: a) Absorbs carbon b) Concrete/steel emit massive amounts of CO2 in its production Hope to see more mass timber in SD!

North Park Building a Trend Setter - San Diego Business Journal

A $21-million, five-story apartment complex under construction in North Park is a first for San Diego, according to its developers. Niima, by Hub & Spoke Communities and Pogo Dog Development at 2519...

www.sdbj.com

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

8 months

Thank you to @voiceofsandiego for the opportunity to share the pro-housing perspective at the annual Politifest.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

1 year

Thank you to many SD council members for standing up for housing over the years. I kindly ask you to continue to stand with those burdened by high housing costs and not the mansion owners of Mission Hills. Support SB 10 implementation in San Diego. @JoeLaCavaD1 …

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

1 year

The old Mission Hills Library has sat vacant since Jan 2019. The City proposed turning it into 28 supportive housing units, but the Historic Resources Board in Sept 2020 designated it historic, preventing any new development. Here’s how it stands today:

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

6 months

NIMBYs at it again - if not homes, it's clean energy. A new battery facility near Escondido will store enough energy to power 300k homes for 4 hours. Yet locals raise concerns about fire risk, community character, and even terrorism. 🧵

Proposed energy storage project near Escondido draws concern from neighbors

North County residents are speaking up and trying to stop a proposed battery storage project from being built.

fox5sandiego.com

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@realsaadasad

7 months

The new Hillcrest community plan is a win-win-win for housing, sustainability, and quality of life. See my letter to the editor in @sdutOpinion :

Opinion: Hillcrest plan addresses 'multiple crises at once.' Residents should keep an open mind.

This plan is a win-win-win for housing, sustainability and quality of life.

www.sandiegouniontribune.com

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

1 year

I'm disappointed that our public servants aren't willing to stand up to the wealthy. And this has implications across California. If San Diego can't implement SB 10, will LA even bother?

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

1 year

@SenBrianJones @KUSINews Do you seriously think if re removed porta potties people will just get up and decide, "Hey I guess I don't wanna be homeless anymore." There's a reason that Republicans have not held statewide office in CA for over a decade. It's because of unserious suggestions like this.

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@realsaadasad

1 year

Most working folks who have to move and find a new place to rent can't attend these meetings. And that has a huge impact on our housing decisions.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

10 months

Over 400+ comments on the Planning Commission meeting tomorrow regarding SB 10 (A state law that cities can opt-in to allow small 2-10 unit homes in areas near transit zoned for single-family use) Unfortunately, nearly 300 of those comments oppose SB 10. Make your voice heard…

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@realsaadasad

1 year

Do you think a working person whose day job isn't politics could gather 30 friends to attend a 9a Planning meeting? You could call in, but you don't know when you can actually comment, so you could be waiting for 3 hrs.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

4 months

This isn't just for full teardowns, by the way. Here's another submission. Does the City staff really need to analyze if this building is historic?

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

10 months

So the NIMBY groups have officially allied with Republicans? We have a 9-0 Democratic City Council. Many CM opponents are fellow Democrats, not Republicans. Even in Jen Campbell’a district, the Republican lost by 13 points.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

1 year

Let's turn the circle back for a bit. SB 10 went into effect in 2022. It allows cities to streamline the building of 10 units on any parcel in urban or transit-rich areas. This could help gradually increase the supply of housing.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

6 months

Love it. In a vote on the San Diego City Council president, many Council members were whining about their committee assignments, shedding crocodile tears, and accusing Council President @SeanEloRiveraD9 of unfairness. @Monica4SanDiego , meanwhile, tells it like it is. 🔥

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@realsaadasad

10 months

10 out of the top 25 ZIP codes in California with the largest increases in home values over the past six months were located in San Diego County. The biggest increase? Mission Hills, home to the richest, ardent anti-housing advocates.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

9 months

Neighborhood quality doesn't matter if nobody lets you live in the neighborhood.

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@realsaadasad

5 months

Glad SD is reforming historic preservation rules misused by NIMBYs to obstruct homes. Calling an auto shop "historic" is absurd. Current system lets unelected boards arbitrarily block density. New rules will better balance preserving true heritage and increasing housing.…

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@realsaadasad

1 year

It’s so laughable that the City wants to add more parking to Balboa drive. It’s always empty like this.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

2 years

Packed house at @BikeSD Gears and Cheers event!

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

10 months

Oooh @sdmts showing off their new rapid electric buses at Chula Vista Lemon Festival. Look at those cushy seats!

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

1 year

Feels silly for the tallest structure on 30th St in North Park to be a parking structure.

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

6 months

32 🎉! Just a simple kbbq dinner with two of my oldest pals. I don’t think I even talked about housing once…

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

9 months

Public higher education is one of the biggest boosts to social mobility that the state provides. Letting NIMBYs throttle the growth of UC San Diego and its students is unacceptable.

For subscribers: UC San Diego badly needs housing. How about a village for 6,000 students?

Chancellor Pradeep Khosla says the fast-growing school must add more beds because many students can't afford to live in La Jolla and UTC

www.sandiegouniontribune.com

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

6 months

Boggles my mind how much less populous most states are compared to California. 20 states have a population smaller than San Diego County!

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

1 year

SB 10 could add 10-unit complexes across SD. Yet our input process privileges the wealthy, both in time and money, who oppose housing. Here are a few more mansions in Mission Hills with Anti-SB 10 signs. Is this who our public servants should prioritize?

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Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

7 months

San Diego's housing permitting time is SLOW. The Independent Budget Analyst Office made two recommendations last year: 1. Implement a code library so staff and developers can easily review the code and changes (if you look at most cities, you can search their code library using…

Saad Asad

@realsaadasad

7 months

@SteveHa63582317 Great question! About 306 days from Submission to Entitlement. About 313 days from Entitlement to Permit. LA is: About 196 days from Submission to Entitlement. About 83 days from Entitlement to Permit. SF is 496 and 620, respectively.

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