We don’t give the California Coastal aesthetic enough love A top tier architectural genre

What policies do you think are the best candidates for being a real fix everything switch in the US? Claude: Legalize Housing ChatGPT: Legalize Housing Grok: Legalize Housing It’s over for the NIMBYs. YIMBY has won.

The San Francisco Chronicle endorses @Scott_Wiener for the United States Congress, saying he's the only candidate capable of filling Nancy Pelosi's shoes! sfchronicle.com/opinion/edit…

Manhattan, 1931 — Before the skyline became a forest of skyscrapers.

Safeway is partnering with a homebuilder to build nearly 4,000 homes on underused parking lots across five Bay Area sites — a direct result of state housing law, AB 2011. sfgate.com/local/article/bay…

It is a shock for many people to find out that the most beautiful neighborhoods in this world, like Paris or Edinburgh here, are literally illegal to build as structures in 99% of the modern West, and involve street widths/pavers/"human scale" that govts won't build in 99%.

I think this reflects our confused spiritual relationship with our own past. We feel a strong and intuitive affinity for what we used to build, while our contemporary frameworks consider such buildings misguided and "immoral". The mind says massing prohibitions and setbacks; the heart says beautiful masonry, higgeldy-piggeldy layouts, and Victorians. Rather than resolve the tension, we designate large fractions of our city ontologically confused, simultaneously protected and illegal; sanctified and condemned.

Check out @FairweatherPhD's new book, "Hate the Game," about what's broken in the design of our economy and how to get what you want: hatethegamebook.com/ Daryl's a brilliant economist -- and a big YIMBY Democrats for America!

Hi look how nice it’s going to be in LA next weekend. Why not join me and a bunch of other people who love cities at the festival of progressive abundance! Tix below