Upzone the coastal elites

As a California homeowning senior, I support this. I also believe I should no longer have to pay my longtime hairdresser, and any restaurants, grocery stores, or other businesses I've been patronizing for decades, of which there are several. Ongoing expenses? Not my problem. /s

Very telling that the initiative exempts all home value for CA seniors. Could have easily capped the exemption to the first $1M in value, but the motivation isn't about low-income seniors in modest homes, it's about the rich wanting an exemption.

This excellent story Dave Rand posted on Twitter is a perfect illustration of the kind of person Nithya Raman is:

It's $.75/hr, for 6Kw. 12.5 cents/kWh is a steal (for CA)

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The level 2 EV charging at my local library is like 1/3 the cost of overnight home rates.

Nithya Raman voted against the city's silly opposition to SB79. She has pushed for a big fix to ULA (15 year new construction exemption).

She's awesome!

Councilmember Nithya Raman to run for L.A. mayor, challenging onetime ally Karen Bass Raman would immediately pose a formidable challenge to Bass. She was the first council member to be elected with support from the Democratic Socialists of America.

A pragmatic pro-housing leftist candidate running for mayor of the biggest city on the west coast against one the most vociferous NIMBY elected officials in the state? Be still my heart!

www.latimes.com/california/s...

not saying we need to agree with everything landlords say, but let's also not pretend NYC rent control is capitalism.

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"That’s the free market, baby!"

I'm sure he's done many good things, but his failures on the biggest issue are what they are, and get worse when he's running for state office.

meh, they're boosting their local favorites, seems good to me.

(except the Mahan bit, nah, he failed to support sb79 and is therefore currently bad)

Was just watching this otherwise innocent video on the bay area.

But I laughed so hard at the claim that SF has among the "most innovative urban planning in the world."

youtu.be/vNpgsPnbCoE?...

We already got burned by Bass, she really needs to show more explicit support for market housing, and promise to reform single family zoning in particular.

For one, she should commit to restoring ED1 to single family zones.

That's great. Hopefully she'll expand her website at some point.

This smells very much of left-nimbyism. Would love to be wrong, that she actually supports sb79, but it doesn't seem likely.

Did she support sb79? I can't find evidence of that

Los Angeles is America's second biggest city. Basically anyone paying recognizes that the city is broken and that the people running it have failed. And yet, as of today, there is not a single serious challenger to the incumbent mayor. Why have Democrats just given up on the cities they run?

Still overpriced and there's more actual value in my 2013 Leaf.

Tips?

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We have acquired a mushroom log....

I wonder what kind of limits the UC faces there....

Could it just backdoor into a social housing agency ;)

The UC system generally needs to massively ramp up its construction of housing, using its ability to ignore zoning.

San Jose wants industrial land exempt from housing law - San José Spotlight With just five months before landmark housing legislation takes effect throughout California, San Jose officials are racing to exempt broad swaths of the city from the law.

@mattmahansj.bsky.social undermining his gubernatorial campaign by seeking excessive exemptions from sb79.

sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-wan...

NYTimes not earning my subscription with this garbage.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/r...

I'm fine with mansions if the zoning is unrestricted and the property tax structure is good. They want to waste money and pay huge taxes while consuming few services, ok.

mansion districts imply subsidy via zoning limits. That's just dumb.

Sure, by being honest about what their insurance rate would be if they rebuilt.

Simple test for whether there is a housing supply shortage: if you remove all constraints on supply (zoning, height, FAR, etc), does the quantity of homes increase? If yes, then supply was constrained. If no, then it wasn't.

When people see the quote for that being twice their regular quote, maybe they'll ask, is it because I'm underinsured?

I do like the idea in one of these bills of require offering of guaranteed replacement coverage.

An example of environmental concerns being handled without CEQA?