Bobby Garrity

We have such a stupid transportation system in this goofy country that affects every corner of our life.

Higher costs, worse air, more deaths and injuries, no places you can go and let your kid run around.

These are all things we've given up so people can drive a car at 40 mph in a city.

And how much Transportation is hidden in the other categories? What portion of Housing costs is the garage under your apartment building? What portion of Food is the sea of parking surrounding the supermarket? What portion of Healthcare is car-related injury and respiratory disease?

No more big city mayors who hate big cities.

People who think mass deportations are a housing affordability strategy have no place in the YIMBY movement.

Borders should delineate legal sovereignty but should not be barriers to movement.

regarding AC as a decadent, climate-irresponsible indulgence and regarding home heating as an essential necessity is unironically eurocentrism considering that one is objectively more emissions heavy than the other.

The entirety of every urban area, including its suburbs, should be governed by one central local government with one school district. No more exclusive enclaves with snob zoning and pseudo-private schools.

California's main policy goal for the next decade should be to strip as much governing authority away from Los Angeles as possible.

WHAT. CAN LA DO ANYTHING RIGHT?

ALLEGEDLY we're getting one soon

Trump is more personally culpable for the high cost of housing than any undocumented immigrant ever could be.

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

Feels like things are going really well for Trump

There are clear policies to fight climate change. And equally good ones on affordability.

Thankfully though, we don't have to choose. They're the same policies:
1. Legalize infill, multi-family housing in every city.
2. Streamline renewable energy & storage.
3. Invest in good, reliable transit.

We have to turn the Growth Machine back on until median rent is less than 30% of median monthly income and median home prices are below 4x median annual household income.

Kevin Kiley introducing a bill to ban partisan gerrymandering at the national level and desperately trying to become a Reasonable Bipartisan after Newsom deleted his district shows how you *acutally* uphold norms btw: you impost costs for breaking them

Lol. Now let's pass the bill he thought it was

LMAO. And I love the sticker!

Ellay wants the light

When I read The Great Gatsby in high school, I thought it was dumb. Yearning for a green light you can never reach? Come on, who would believe that?

But now seeing Ellay try to catch a red light she never will be able to, it all makes sense now.

Very worried that it would further harm redevelopment, and therefore end up increasing rents. I'll write in opposition to it

Yeah I said I wouldn't start thinking about the 2026 election until after the 2025 election and well here we are

Oh I missed that too. Well then she's off my list as well.

But who left IS good on housing? Is there anyone?

Damn. And she just said this now? After it's been signed?

I'm out of the loop, what's this with Betty Yee?

If you are unhappy with the state of electoral politics / political parties you too can Be The Change

Though they are usually well intentioned, unfunded inclusionary zoning requirements make housing less affordable by increasing the cost of building new homes, which worsens the housing shortage and drives up rents.

It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.

even within your own lifetime it is difficult to recall how much better everything you eat, drink, and touch is than it used to be