Mahdi Rahimi

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

Delay. Deny. Defend. That’s sadly been your playbook when it comes to homes. It’s such a shame this site never got built.

Love to see it! Same goes for BART. We should have tall developments right on top of Glen Park, 24th and 16th street stations in SF.

I just bought your book simply because I think you have incredible knowledge and insight on housing and architecture. Very curious what evidence you have for this claim of structural market failure for housing. Why markets works for nearly everything but not for homes?

They’re entitled under conditions that make them prohibitively expensive to build. Developers are required to pay a hefty tax for “inclusionary zoning” and use labor and materials that cost ~40% higher than the market. Remove these barriers and watch them pencil like they do all over the country.

This is disingenuous. Making housing largely illegal and subject to discretionary whims makes all types of housing (including subsidized housing) more expensive to build.

Curb bulb outs.

“Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass and metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools have to. That’s the question that needs to be asked.”

- Police Chief in Madison, WI

Profiles in courage!

I wonder if we can incentivize delivery companies to use these in SF.

Thank you for your leadership and your service.

Oh interesting. So 20 feet of crosswalk is measured from the far side of it?

The legal requirement is 20 ft, this is maybe half of that. Bigger!

This could be Valencia Street.

If you want to understand why healthcare pricing is horrific, the first thing to know is that our system puts 100% of the credit risk for deductibles, copays and co-insurance on hospitals and doctors. That's insane.

We have turned them into Sub Prime Lenders 🧵

How One of the World’s Richest Men Is Avoiding $8 Billion in Taxes (Gift Article) The chief executive of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, has taken advantage of popular loopholes in the federal estate and gift taxes, which have quietly been eviscerated.

We really need to do something about this type of abuse. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/b...

The solution to poor driving is rocks

Parking on the pavement? Put some big ol' rocks in the way

Are cars going too fast? Cover the road in little bumpy rocks

Street too wide? Big pile of rocks for cars to go around

Need a bike lane? Line of chunky rocks to keep cars away

Rocks 👍 🪨🌳🚶🚴‍♂️

Why don’t we have a state wide permitting office?

even better, we should build infrastructure that makes bad driver behavior impossible: car free spaces, concrete protected bike lanes, BOLLARDS!! cheaper and more effective than cops or cameras. please consult the Triangle

What’s the solution?

Regarding insurers, this is basically true, but the problem is this:

The stuff that people get mad at them for doing is often stuff that a single public entity with monopsony power would ALSO do. Remember "death panels"? There's no universe where SOMEONE isn't making these decisions.

What’s your take on expanding access to medical care and reducing healthcare costs in CA by joining and implementing IMLC?

I really cannot overemphasize to you enough that any alternative system of insurance would also limit care. There is no world in which you have free unlimited access to whatever health care you want.

How Madrid built its metro cheaply - Works in Progress Madrid tripled the length of its metro system in just 12 years — faster and cheaper than almost any other city in the world. What can its expansion teach other cities?

good piece on how Madrid built out a massive metro expansion for like 1/20th of what it costs in NYC worksinprogress.co/issue/how-ma...

How many people do you think are housed with the salary they make from building those carrier groups? Besides geopolitical and security primary reasons defense spending is also a huge domestic jobs program.

Dear Perro Sanxes,

I am 26 year old American Citizen. My people and my country yearn the freedom and justice you enjoy in Spain. please send Eurofighter Typhoons, a collection of spanish wine, and a buch of civil servants who work in metro construction agencies

Dallas' minimum parking requirements mandate that bars must have one parking space per 100 square feet of floor area.

Literally government-mandated drunk driving.

How Madrid built its metro cheaply - Works in Progress Madrid tripled the length of its metro system in just 12 years — faster and cheaper than almost any other city in the world. What can its expansion teach other cities?

What does it take for @sfmta.bsky.social to be like the Spaniards? worksinprogress.co/issue/how-ma...

After a tumultuous run, San Francisco set to close exorbitantly expensive homeless site San Francisco's only safe parking site for homeless people living in vehicles will close after three years of legal disputes, code violations and complaints.

Do you want to rent a mansion in Sea Cliff or stay at a parking lot in your vehicle in Bayview? Because the latter costs San Francisco taxpayers more in subsidies. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/h...

My parents bought their first home when I was 10. It was the one before this one. 1200 sqft, 3 small bedrooms, 1 bath but split. Third floor walk up. Our neighbor had demolished a SFH to build 3 units, sold 2 and kept 1 for himself.