Sarah Rogers

This is at best a distraction from policies that would actually help bring down the cost of housing, and at worst will keep single-family neighborhoods income-segregated by locking out more renters.

I’m at my office in downtown SF and definitely felt that one!

How To Delay Affordable Senior Housing in SF, Despite a Law That Blocks Appeals Bernal Heights neighbors demanded and got a smaller building. Now they say it shouldn’t cut a private park in half. This wasn’t meant to happen.

Thanks to @thefrisc.bsky.social for featuring us in today's article on "How To Delay Affordable Senior Housing in SF, Despite a Law That Blocks Appeals" thefrisc.com/how-to-delay...

The groups and individuals in California that are fighting to block more housing production—many of whom claim to be fighting for progressive values—seem intent on delivering the White House to JD Vance.

Defend markets, ignore everything else Alex Pretti and the one true omnicause

From @jerusalem.bsky.social: “The problem for elites who wish to silo their politics in the realm of pure economics is that it is not actually possible to cleave the “rule of law when it comes to dealing with protesters” away from the “rule of law that enforces contracts.”

an administration staffed to the top with degenerate liars

Picture of the a plaque at the German Resistance Memorial in Berlin.

You did not bear the shame.
You resisted.
You bestowed the eternally vigilant symbol of change by sacrificing your impassioned lives for freedom, justice and honour.

— The German Resistance Memorial in Berlin

Lessons from YIMBYism: Taking “Abundance” Back to Its Fundamentals Lessons from YIMBYism examines how supply-side reforms, public investment, and state capacity can make progressive social policy work as intended.

First: Supply matters. To decarbonize, you need green energy infrastructure. For universal health care, you need a lot of doctors. And you can't buy your way out of supply constraints solely through subsidies. You need subsidy *and* increased supply. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

America has a housing shortage. Every single housing proposal you see that is not "build more housing" will have the primary effect of pushing up the prices of existing housing, and is therefore, in reality, a plan to enrich current homeowners. In conclusion, build more housing.

Zohran Mamdani’s mayoralty is the final nail in the coffin of left-NIMBYism.

progressive pro-housing politics is the future

Fantastic choice by Mayor Lurie! Ruth is smart, earnest, tireless, and dedicated to building bridges in the wild world of SF politics.

Simply 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.

The 86 affordable units provided in this project that Supervisor Chan claims "aren't enough" are 6x what has been built in the Marina in the last 2 decades.

D9 Neighbors for Housing Holiday Social Come help us celebrate all D9 Neighbors for Housing has accomplished this year, and also raise money to support the great work Mission Food Hub does in the neighborhood. We'll enjoy beverages and ligh...

Come help us celebrate all D9 Neighbors for Housing has accomplished this year, and also raise money to support the great work Mission Food Hub does in the neighborhood! RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/d9-ne...

Be Right Back - Wikipedia

Black Mirror saw it coming back in 2013 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Righ...

“The purpose of the system is what it does” for the last 47 years was to restrict housing, prioritize aesthetics, & favor the financial interests and preferences of affluent incumbent homeowners, resulting in wild unaffordability & the loss of low- and moderate-income residents, as predicted in 1978

I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.

Anyone who was born an American and therefore feels superior to someone who had to work to become an American doesn’t know the first thing about being an American.

Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence

$1.6bln: The amount of his fraud scheme

7: Years of his sentence

10,000: Victims of his fraud

1,000: Letters from victims to the court

13: Days he served

1: Pardon from Trump

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

@liberalcurrents.com has been doing outstanding work - the essays and podcasts have really taught me a lot and articulated a clear (and rallying) vision for liberalism. I am super-excited for projects like the one described here, which is why I donated to their fundraiser, & you should, too!

So true - you just hear different rhetoric, based on the person’s political identity, as to why no more housing is needed (or why it’s not right for this particular location, etc).

Working on housing in SF has made me realize that the most bewitching siren song is one that claims a large, complex problem (like lack of housing) has a distant villain or easy solution that requires no inconvenience to you to address. This is a classic example of the genre!

Reading the comments on any story about housing is a great way to understand how we got a housing shortage.

I’ve used 2.5 vacation days this year to attend hearings expressly to counter wealthy Pacific Heights NIMBYs mad about their neighborhood being upzoned. They like to refer to it as urban renewal.

The only things that would make this news better are (1) getting even more units onto this site and (2) build the 30th St BART station we’ve longed for

At Land Use (again) and it's literally all the same people it always is (myself included)...like who are we fooling that the same 75 people showing up every time is "the will of the people"? What a sham public process is sometimes, sadly

He’s the most effective legislator in the state - very smart, very persistent, knows how to build and use power, not afraid of MAGA. Would be a worthy successor to Pelosi.

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

Currently on display at public comment in SF: family zoning will cause the bulldozing of entire neighborhoods, but also per the city economist nothing will happen. Checkmate!

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools