Alex Gourse

Bottle of wine meme. Top: Thanks for having us at your lovely home. Middle: Look I just think we need to add more housing in the places where people want to live, like near jobs, schools, and transit Bottom: Single family zoning was explicitly invented as a facially race-neutral policy to preserve residential segregation and "local control" is the "states' rights" of our time.

Happy Thanksgiving

2025 Holiday Soiree Get ready to celebrate the 2025 Holiday Soiree, a fabulous in-person event filled with festive cheer, delicious food, and housing champions!

As a reminder the @housingdefense.bsky.social annual event (our Holiday Soirée) is tomorrow night (11/20/25) from 5 to 8 PM at the University Club at 800 Powell St in San Francisco. All YIMBYs are invited! Tickets available here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-holid...

Totally. It’s a 4+1 in the style of this (and I’m fine with it):

Article doesn’t exist, just clickbait for the feed. Nothing but Feed, all the way down.

Literally: This. Is. How. It. Happens.

Especially pernicious because the effects are largely invisible even as they accumulate. It just seems like the opposition is weak and ineffectual; you never see what people would have said and done if they weren't threatened and intimidated.

Wonderful news for those who care about fixing California's brutal housing shortage, bolstering transit ridership, and meeting the state's climate goals!

Lots of excitement over SB 79—understandably. I would add, every single bill California YIMBY sent to the governor was signed today. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/10/g...

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In early 2025, beaver activity in the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, Czech Republic, contributed to the restoration of a wetland ecosystem. A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that coincidentally accomplished environmental goals of the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million,

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

As institution after institution caves in to him, he’s emboldened to escalate — now seeking to bankrupt the NY Times for not endorsing him or giving him favorable coverage.

Bending the knee to an authoritarian doesn’t make him stop. It makes him more aggressive.

We must fight back. No more caving.

YouTube video by Juan Negron PATTI JO: "MAKE ME BELIEVE IN YOU" [A Tom Moulton Mix]

World needs more kickass 70s driving bass lines youtu.be/UIVUPNaEUjQ

What a piece of shit.

The whole using-conditional-spending-to-extort-colleges thing was very clearly conceived of as payback for the desegregation era.

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

One sign that we are living under an authoritarian regime is that a lot of people are acting like they are living under an authoritarian regime.

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AB 609: Environmentally-Beneficial Housing Exemption AB 609 will create a streamlined permitting process for multi-family housing in already-developed urban areas by exempting these projects from the California Environmental Quality Act. The bill define...

[BILL ALERT] AB 609, which exempts infill housing from additional review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) while preserving CEQA review for planning, has passed the Assembly floor and now heads to the Senate!

Learn more: cayimby.org/legislation/...

Google Streetview of the property with PIN10 1433400004: 1967 North Lincoln Avenue

1967 North Lincoln Avenue

I'm currently experiencing a phenomenon that @alonlevy.bsky.social and others have talked about a lot, which is the hollowing-out of technical expertise at a public agency. I want to explain how it's happening in this case, because I think it's pretty typical

“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

They’re destroying federal science capacity & California needs to step up & expand science capacity at the state level.

I introduced SB 829 to create the California Institute for Scientific Research & authorize the State of California to produce vaccines. It just passed the Senate Health Committee.

When a person is abducted, there's a number to call to report & identify. A habeas petition challenging the abduction is electronically filed in that district, by a lawyer admitted in that district, within 30 minutes of the call. Anywhere in the country, 24 hours a day.

Nothing else is good enough.

Now @abovethelaw.com has created a Biglaw Spine Index, an easy-to-navigate table with the 2024 Am Law 200 color-coded to show the fighters, the capitulators, and the silent.

bsky.app/profile/abov...

If MAGA really wanted more high-wage jobs where people work with their hands, they would be trying to boost construction work. But instead they’re crashing housing production and trying to protect high resource areas from upzoning.

Life is a series of repeating prisoners dilemmas.

Civilization is the unlikely broad agreement to cooperate.

We all take this condition for granted, daily, but nobody knows how to intentionally create it.

Trump thinks he a genius for constantly defecting.

Where will my horses shit if my neighbor’s lot is less than a full acre?

The equestrian NIMBY is a Silicon Valley specialty.

Musk is definitely going to accuse the dems of buying votes

Obviously this is an invitation to cascading misidentification where entire social networks get falsely labeled as gang members.

We’re doing Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo again, except both at once, and to random dads and barbers abducted off the streets of America for the crime of being Latino