Anthony Lazarus

welcome to the future! with SB 79 and the rezoning plan from Mayor Daniel Lurie, #SF enters a new pro-housing, pro-transit era that will be more inclusive and more affordable.

the status quo wasn't working. it's kind of messed up that there was so much resistance to changing it

Waiting (and Waiting) For the Geary Bus Congratulations to San Francisco! The city that claims to know how has finally done it: Supervisors recently approved a design to build dedicated bus lanes along Geary Boulevard. That means Muni’s bus...

i began my transit advocacy ~25 years ago when a few neighbors and embittered merchants had epic meltdowns over improving our Geary bus line thefrisc.com/the-ballad-o...

NIMBYs and dead-enders can still bellyache all they want. but now #SF and other cities have now entered a new era

pretty much yeah
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Astonishing how many people can’t tell the difference between “loved debate and free speech” and “carried out an effective PR campaign for specific, previously unpopular ideas”

imagine that

A Six-Story Apartment Building Is Tearing This Small California Town Apart A community in Marin County is struggling to comply with state mandates for more housing; ‘When you move to a small town, you don’t come to live with a tower.’

love it how the article mentions "an aging population living in aging homes." which all screams cheap af to me www.wsj.com/real-estate/... (free link) 2/2

GOOD NEWS: California's housing reforms are defanging NIMBYs and their bogus and subjective claims about "aesthetics."

building housing is a lot of things, but it is not cheap. (in fact, if you want it to be cheaper, you have to have more of it.) 1/

Lighting buildings and gardens during the Golden Hour (or Magic Hour) of early evening make a place even more magical for photographers & cinematographers, but also makes for enchanting Walk Appeal at close of day while people walk home or to dinner.

god forbid the whole city would get a vote on idk closing Columbus to cars, a new college in the Marina, a subway in the Richmond, whatever. fricking train wreck t.co/24a8DRYTxG

#SF politics are kinda cooked. THE WHOLE CITY got to vote on Prop K, and yet people still say that a car cut-through was "taken away without much input from them." mk

In July, New York Times reporters witnessed other Adams supporters handing out red envelopes with cash at three separate campaign events: one in Flushing, Queens; another in Manhattan's Chinatown; and a third in Sunset Park in Brooklyn. At those events, Mr. Adams picked up support from leaders of influential Chinese community groups, including several with close ties to the Chinese government.

The event, organized by four influential community leaders, buzzed with dozens of fervent backers, proudly wearing shirts adorned with Mr. Adams's face and energetically waving U.S. flags as they chanted and called for his re-election. One of the organizers, Steven Tin, the director of Better Chinatown USA, which hosts the Lunar New Year parades in Manhattan's Chinatown, was seen by The Times holding $50 bills and handing out red envelopes to reporters from Chinese-language news organizations.

Five days after the event in Queens, Chinese American community leaders held a rally at Confucius Plaza in Chinatown in Manhattan, where Times reporters again witnessed red envelopes being distributed. Then, on July 27, Times reporters saw more envelopes being passed out at the Sunset Park rally. Robin Mui, the chief executive of the Sing Tao U.S. newspaper, was among the organizers of the Manhattan rally. Mr. Mui made at least one trip, in 2014, to China with Mr. Adams and Ms. Greco.

Let’s hope the NYT public editor looks into why Times reporters witnessed multiple instances of cash being handed out at the mayor’s events but didn’t write it up til they got beaten on the story by a feisty nonprofit site ….

Apologies …

We are being told the Times no longer has a public editor.

why *do

Palo Alto residents push back on proposed El Camino Real apartment project Residents raise privacy, sunlight, and traffic concerns over proposed apartment building

why does we have a housing crisis?
some say it's because of greedy developers.
others say it's private equity.
others say it's landlords keeping units vacant.
maybe it's NIMBYs who assert they "want housing done right."
what do you think it is?
www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/13/p...

Puerto *Rico 🇵🇷

Maybe the Right needs its own Joe Rogan-like figure

Aaron Peskin blasts London Breed as he enters S.F. mayors race The comments from Peskin were a possible preview of a message he will promote after he...

fuckstick obstructionists like to decry new buildings because they may be "200-foot luxury housing towers for the international elite" — this is an exact quote from former Sup. Aaron Peskin www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/a... some progressives we have around here

San Francisco ultra-luxe condo market heats up downtown after ‘Trump slump’ The current mindset for the city’s condo-buying elite: “The price is no object. Give me the best thing you’ve got.”

"Before 2020, many of 181 Fremont’s buyers were looking for secondary homes in the city ... Today, most of the building’s buyers are local, upgrading within the neighborhood and purchasing primary residences." sfstandard.com/2025/08/03/s... stop listening to #SF antigrowthers and NIMBYs

yea we can blow this one too

✅ PASSED ASSEMBLY LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE: SB 79 by @scottwiener.bsky.social that would end the exclusionary housing policies that have made housing more expensive and transit inaccessible, allowing more people to live within walking distance of quality transit and boosting ridership.

stop listening to NIMBYs that just say no because then you won’t have anything www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/n...

just based on this ‪@missionlocal.org list there’s some $5.5 million in public money going into #SF Mission district nonprofits t.co/SwOfMExH3u and everybody knows how this neighborhood continues to struggle. it’s fair to ask what the community is getting in return

birds of a feather 🪶

Julie Kirschbaum of Muni notes that devastating service cuts to Muni, BART, Caltrain, AC Transit will harm Bay Area economy; mentions Muni's cost reductions and the fact that a SF is also looking at a complementary regional measure to maintain Muni...

We haven't yet fixed the fact that you can stall or stymie a housing project by saying 'I'm opposed unless we have a structured, enforceable, community-led process for daily land acknowledgements during construction' or something." missionlocal.org/2025/05/miss... (reposted)

they are!

The Secretary of State is getting rid of foreign aid and diplomats. The HUD Secretary opposes housing assistance. The Secretary of Commerce is killing businesses. The head of the EPA is promoting fossil fuels and forever chemicals. The Attorney General is a crook.

Trump’s Second Term Would Look Like This The former president and his allies have explained their plans quite clearly.

In August 2022, I predicted six steps Trump would take in a second term to replace our liberal democracy with something like Viktor Orban's Hungary. Shall we review the bidding a month in? 1/10 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

tl;dr this more-virtuous-than-thou "I'm so progressive!" nonsense contributes nothing, and we've all grown sick of it. women, you keep doing what you're doing.