Sam Gould

What can mid-rise housing look like on side streets where lots are redeveloped one at a time? This example is a good one.
- All homes have windows in at least two directions.
- Elevator building.
- Entry door from a balcony for fresh air.
50x122 is a common lot size in much of western North America.

Lmaooooo

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social on #SB79 just now in his Twitch conversation with @connoreatspants.bsky.social: "It’s on my desk & I will be reviewing it on its merits. It’s really important housing legislation, and I recognize how important it is."

Folks: keep calling + urging him to sign! (916) 445-2841

The people posting those flyers either don’t know of the Berkeley Elmwood neighborhood’s repulsive history of weaponizing downzoning in support of racial exclusion, or they embrace it.

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Oakland launches an e-bike lending library There are now 50 electric bikes available for rent at the Fruitvale BART. It just takes a deposit and a modest fee.

This rules so hard. It's been a longstanding conviction of mine that the best way to convince people to replace car trips with ebike trips is by letting them try out an ebike for free.

Love the Oakland Public Library. oaklandside.org/2025/09/25/o...

These no bike signs on Macalla Rd on Yerba Buena Island are kinda confusing being above explicitly marked bike routes.

Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization Section 1.  Antifa as a Terrorist Threat.  Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States

Ok let’s talk about this:

He cites no legal authority because there is none.

“Antifa” isn’t an organization.

Being anti-fascist means fighting fascism.

They’ll label anyone they want to go after as “antifa” or providing “material support” & prosecute them.

(For the record, that’s fascism.)

Come to Temescal, and see how the traffic calming done in 2020-21 created the most vibrant dining and bar scene in the inner East Bay.

YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity! How This Small City Built Light Rail For Cheap

The most underappreciated issue in urbanism is the Anglosphere’s transit construction cost problem.

It’s not just that we’re spending too much money on any particular project.

It’s that we could be getting *much more transit* for the *same amount of money we’re currently spending*.

A flier taped to a streetlight pole that reads: “I also have access to a printer, And I say Upzoning is cool and good and it is my friend Let ‘em build some housing! What're you worried about, people with jobs and homes using the Red Line? Atraid of density? then why did you move to the big city my good friend [emoji making a ‘this guy’s nuts!’ gesture] ‘But I wanna drive my car!’ The bus is better because you can read a book on the bus Dear ‘Save Edgewater’: If I ever see you again claming that increasing supply increases prices I will spank your bottom and enroll you in an econ class at Loyola Say YES to proposed Upzoning in Edgewater Email: Leni@the48thward.org Call: (773) 784-5277

God bless whoever put up this pro-upzoning poster in Edgewater, please put up more

Bay Street being setup for pride

Emeryville Pride is today! Local queer vendors, food, drinks, and performances on a car free Bay Street!

Careful with this guy, he's been calling my personal number and sending me angry emails for years. Currently he is under a temporary restraining order for threatening/stalking city staff.

My statement on the recall of Supervisor Engardio:

To address any of the important issues of our time -- climate change, racial equity, economic equality, traffic safety, democracy -- all of us need to put our jobs at risk in order to make bold and necessary choices. Always know your backup job plan, then do what's right

SF skyline

Pure white fog

Views when riding my bike in the East Bay vs in San Francisco.

In 1991 I was sleeping in my car. I charmed a landlord and signed a lease for a $400 a month studio in the Mission. I want San Francisco to again welcome misfits. Build housing.

SB 79 HAS PASSED!

50% +1 on every single vote. Cleanest possible we could have passed. I love this team!

Proudly voted for #SB79 to build dense, transit oriented housing. If not here, where else?

I’ve lived near transit all my life. But too much of it is stuck as suburbs. Cities are evolving, living things. They are not mausoleums to the past

@scottwiener.bsky.social
@cayimby.bsky.social

HUGE HOUSING NEWS: The Assembly just passed our bill allowing more homes near public transportation, SB 79!

We need more housing & we need it near transit. It’ll reduce traffic congestion & carbon emissions & increase transit ridership & affordability.

Go housing! Go transit!

SB 79 (Wiener): Transit-Oriented Development and Upzoning SB 79 will make it faster and easier to build multi-family housing near transit stops, like train and rapid bus lines, by making it legal for more homes to be built in these areas and streamlining exi...

[BILL ALERT] SB 79, which broadly legalizes more homes near high quality transit stops, has passed the Assembly floor! The bill now goes to the Senate for concurrence, then the Governor’s desk. cayimby.org/legislation/...

The guns are the problem. Whether it’s high school students or Charlie Kirk or anyone else getting shot, this country has to crack down on guns and pass actual gun control laws to protect everyone’s safety.

If blue states are going to be a refuge for people fleeing authoritarian tyranny in red states, they can't have a median home price of $900,000.

We want the alternate reality where Governor Newsom saves San Francisco by confirming the budget deal to keep Muni, BART, Caltrain and AC Transit running.

Just the nation’s highest court saying it’s ok for masked secret police to grab people off the streets & disappear them simply because they’re Latino.

The Supreme Court once again has abandoned the Constitution & the idea of a democracy where everyone has to follow the law.

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

We’ve been informed by the Governor’s Department of Finance that it won’t agree before our legislative session ends (on Friday) to finalize a $750M bridge loan to Bay Area transit.

This loan was agreed to in our June budget. Without it, BART, Muni, et al will cut service.🧵

Amoeba Music plans to build apartments above its Telegraph Avenue store The record store would move into the ground floor of the new development and will preserve the People’s Park mural on its Haste Street wall.

What a fantastic development. Historical icon Amoeba Music will build housing on its site and remain a music store (and preserve the famous People's Park mural). Pretty A+ all around. Thankfully, no CEQA for infill means this project can't be fucked with.
www.berkeleyside.org/2025/08/28/a...

It's not just that she admitted this, but that she cited it as a *positive example* of LA meeting community needs and why local control is good!

Completely insane!

Thomas Hochman @ThomasHochman Follow I'm putting together a team The YIMBY case for Alligator Alcatraz MIKE SOLANA Editor in chief With both the federal government and the state of Florida aligned, construction of an ICE facility in the middle of the Florida Everglades was impressively swift. But late last week, federal judge Kathleen Williams demanded it shut down on environmental grounds. "The project creates irreparable harm in the form of habitat loss and increased mortality to endangered species in the area," she wrote. Hmmm. The facility is just about 158,000 square feet. Florida wetlands comprise something like 11.4 million acres, or 17,800 square miles — or something like 500 BILLION square feet. So what's going on here? Is ol' Tree Hugger Kate really blocking this itttty bitty lil building in an endless swamp because it's harming the environment? Nah, this is some NIMBY shit. And so I call on all our new Atlantic libs on Substack: will you lib out with me, and stand with our Florida YIMBYs at Alligator Alcatraz? Or do you stand against abundance? From the Pirate Wires Daily newsletter piratewires.com PIRATE WIRES Charles Fain Lehman Build More Prisons The case for incarceration 8:41 AM • Aug 25, 2025 • 10.8K Views

I strongly support a left/liberal vision of abundance: abundant housing, clean energy, mass transit, medical advancements, scientific research, etc.

but that’s exactly why I get so angry at the right wing “abundance” bros for whom abundance just means abundant concentration camps