ansel
YIMBY in Sacramento.
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- Reposted by anselTrump wants to POSION YOUR CHILDREN! Governor Gavin Newsom won’t let him. Don’t believe the tabloid headlines. EPA isn’t stopping California from enforcing California law.
- Reposted by anselGovernor Newsom, I’m asking you to fast track this bill. Our democracy is hanging by a thread, and accountability cannot wait.
- Classic US transit agency staff behavior. Utterly inexplicable
- LA's transit agency still pushing back against law allowing for more housing to be built near transit stops. cal.streetsblog.org/2026/01/26/l...
- I'm not a constitutional lawyer, but I trust @raders.bsky.social and @protectdemocracy.org, and I support this idea. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
- Reposted by anselThe elites and institutions have folded but regular people haven’t
- Except for unicorns like @louismirante.bsky.social. You gotta look for the 10x lobbyists
- Reposted by anselNew from me: A brief for @rooseveltinstitute.org on the logic of YIMBY policymaking and its applicability to other domains. What principles underlying the YIMBY agenda are transferrable to thinking about energy, healthcare, and other areas? Short 🧵 to follow. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
- Can we make THIS the default NPS question? "if asked" does a lot here.
- I understand that a 9 or a 10 is supposed to indicate respondents who are likely to recommend the product unprompted... but I still don't like the generic version.
- Attempting to use the search function in Outlook calendar is guaranteed to ruin my entire day.
- Gang
- Where the hell is the rice
- No thanks, I'll pay full price
- Reposted by anselVery dumbed down lit review: - "institutional" landlords are more likely to charge market rate rent, and to file evictions, but also less likely to discriminate based on race, sex, or bad credit - "mom and pop" may undercharge vs. market, less likely to evict, but also more likely to discriminate
- One of my favorite lesser-known bands of the 2000s. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw-A...
- Reposted by ansel
It appears Sacramento region environmentalists may have successfully killed a solar project. - Faving my friends' posts on here.
- Reposted by anselIt's very funny to me that developers in Sacramento will build and rent market rate apartments at $1700/mo and those in SF build and rent similar apartments at $3200/mo and yet both will often say some version of "zoning & process doesn't really matter for us, the big obstacle is financing."
- Happy new year!
- Very grateful for the support for SB 79 from Sacramento legislators Senator @angeliqueashby.bsky.social & Assemblywoman Maggy Krell. There is a strong coalition of pro-housing folks in Sacramento who will not forget your aye votes for this bill. Thank you! @sacyimby.bsky.social
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDuJ... really good
- My pro-housing wish list for 2026: - statewide base zoning layer - CEQA exemption for zoning code updates to match General Plan map - legalize small lot development by enabling point access blocks in building code - unlock for-sale housing by reforming condo construction defect law What else?
- this is for California state legislation—something I meant to include in the original post.
- Reposted by anselState funded projects should be entitled and permitted by the state. This situation is absurd.
- We are a creedal nation. That creed is working over 40 hours/week and having boundless access to consumer credit. JD Vance can never take that from us
- Reposted by anselSUVs and big Utes "are 44 per cent more likely to kill an adult pedestrian or cyclist in a crash compared with a sedan, and 82 per cent more likely to kill a child" www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
- Reposted by anselTransit's main competition is cars. If you raise fares from $2.50 to $3, you're still way more affordable than driving. But if you cut the bus from every 15 to every 20, you're screwed because cars have infinity frequency and 24 hr service span.
- Anyone seen any numbers on CA-01? Like a construction of LaMalfa, Denney, and McGuire‘s results by county in the last few elections?
- Reposted by anselIdk how I can have 15k followers and ZERO engagement??? For one, I’m not *that* boring??? And two, I genuinely think something is wrong with Bluesky’s algo.
- Reposted by anselI’m Audrey Denney, and I’m running for Congress in California’s First District: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScGY... I believe in the power and resilience of the North State. When things get hard, we show up for each other. Now, we’ll show up together: www.AudreyforCongress.com. #AudreyforCongress
- I last ate here with my uncle this summer lol this is the family spot Used to eat here all the time when I worked at the farm
- Julotta dawn church service - a Swedish American tradition - with my wife, dad, and son in Butte County this morning. Merry Christmas.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julotta Now I’m tired and it’s time for bed.
- Reposted by anselNEW VIDEO: Let's talk about proportional representation www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/lets-talk-...
- Reposted by anselFlood Advisory issued December 24 at 9:45PM PST until December 25 at 9:00PM PST by NWS Sacramento CA Additional Details Here.
- A project I led is mentioned in this video! It was a demanding yet fun year at CAISO. I really like working here.
- As 2025 comes to a close, the California ISO is celebrating a year of progress, partnership, and innovation.⚡ Here’s to an even brighter 2026, focused on collaboration and building an even stronger and more reliable grid, together! 💡Read the ISO’s Year in Review: ow.ly/y7Je50XNMYv
- Reposted by anselvia The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon
- Reposted by anselToday the California State Senate pro Tempore, that body's leader, released the committee assignments for 2026, and I would say that they're quite good overall for housing legislation's prospects. There are some tight corners, but also a path. Next session starts in just a few weeks!
- Ian Choudri has got that dawg in him
- The RFQ is out for CAHSR's new delivery plan. This builds on the August business case update, under which Bakersfield-Merced is out and Bakersfield-SF is in. This higher-revenue connection allows HSR to enter a P3 that will bring forward financing to allow them to complete the Pacheco Pass crossing.
- Reposted by anselthe main reward you are likely to get for total loyalty to trump is the destruction of your career and your reputation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
- Reposted by anselIt’s wild that we spend years, with significant community engagement, to draft comprehensive plans, and we don’t automatically update zoning codes to match those plans. Instead, American planners often need to restart years of new battles to change zoning. This system has so many veto points
- Reposted by anselCalifornia's construction defect liability system was supposed to protect consumers. But a new report suggests it has become a barrier, preventing middle-income families from buying condos and townhomes in California’s expensive cities:
- Do not forget that the Central Valley goes all the way up to Redding. Never let them take this away from you.
- Reposted by anselAs someone who used to have a long car commute, I can just feel the crushing weight of that in so many of these comments. It takes a toll. And yet we still have not built the requisite housing or transit connections to reduce this commuting burden.
- Okay, now do property owners
- In Santa Monica, the FPPC has disqualified pro-housing Councilmember Jesse Zwick from all future housing votes. They said that because he works for a housing non-profit, he’s “conflicted” and must recuse. Pretty absurd. The NIMBY deep state strikes again. www.smdp.com/state-regula...
- ”any reasonably foreseeable financial effect on a source of income to a public official or the official's spouse is material if the decision will achieve, defeat, aid, or hinder a purpose or goal of the source." yeah, okay FPPC
- what about changes to councilmembers’ property values brought about by city policy? what about real estate agents serving as city council members???
- Reposted by anselIn Santa Monica, the FPPC has disqualified pro-housing Councilmember Jesse Zwick from all future housing votes. They said that because he works for a housing non-profit, he’s “conflicted” and must recuse. Pretty absurd. The NIMBY deep state strikes again. www.smdp.com/state-regula...
- Reposted by anseltonight the government killed a story on cbs about the slave labor camp in a foreign country theyre illegally sending people to
- any US American born before 1980 can’t cook… all they know is asset price inflation, low wages, low goods inflation, eat hot chip , and lie
- some of the best advice I’ve heard in business, which also translates to politics: “respond to events.“
- Also when did pixelated boat become so cool?
- Reposted by anselTwo weeks ago, a very dear friend of my parents was killed while cycling by an SUV driver who turned left into him without looking. The CHP officer tried to protect his killer by bizarrely claiming *he* had been at fault. Even when presented with VIDEO evidence, CHP appears to be doubling down.
- Reposted by anselSomeone requested this alternate graphic: total tax, by year built, for all residential structures in Berkeley. In terms of local property/parcel tax yield, the five years from 2020-2024 amount to more revenue than all the buildings built during the thirty years 1970-1999.
- Reposted by anselThe Portland row-houses are a good example of what major gains in zoning reform produce without building code reform. It’s simultaneously a win for affordable urban housing and an indictment of our ability to produce multifamily housing comparable in quality and features to more urban countries.
- Reposted by anselI asked @aoc.bsky.social about why she posted this tweet, and she said “because JD Vance is a goober, man.”
- Reposted by anselThese people are living in retirement communities and don’t even know it. It’s incredible. Student enrollment has fallen off a cliff all over coastal communities. Marin county’s median age is as old as Japan!
- I frequently thank God for the musical stylings of Oklou. I am very excited to finally witness her performing live this spring. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Yr...
- Reposted by anselSimply getting the state to socialize all that risk is not an alternative to substantially reducing the risk. If you do the former without the latter, you're basically hamstringing the state and penalizing low-income Californians who live outside the WUI.
- Reposted by anselMy least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)
- Reposted by anselI'm very tired of repeating myself about this, but, as someone who works professionally on housing affordability, this is a disgusting lie.
