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Remember when San Francisco banned algorithmic rent pricing in fall 2024? They promised at the time that "we're taking action locally to ensure our working renters can afford to live here." Good reminder: It's all about supply and demand, not conspiracy theories.

An EIR takes three to five years in California. That is not environmental protection. That is a development tax on time. The timeline is not proportionate to environmental benefit. It is proportionate to 50 years of institutional complexity accumulation around a process that

The Bay Area housing shortage is 100% self inflicted, as any ride on Caltrain will show. Well-intentioned legislation in the late 1970s put environmental protection and property tax stability over the ability to build housing to meet the demand of a rapidly growing region. The CA political machine then moved in and layered on new fire codes, seismic requirements, energy efficiency standards and other rules that have made building housing more expensive than anywhere else in the country. These were good ideas taken too far. As Silicon Valley wealth ballooned, commuter towns grew wealthy and pulled up the ladder - NIMBYs blocked developments and prices rose. Impact fees, inclusionary housing, CEQA - it’s hard to building housing in the Bay Area because that’s the way the system was designed. Decades passed and after the twin shocks of the GFC and Covid, building has fallen off a cliff and now with the new tech boom - Artificial Intelligence - there’s not enough apartments or homes for the people who want to move here. I wish there were an easy way out. Some magic bullet - a single policy. They’ve passed dozens of new regs aimed at making it easier, with minimal impact. A regime that took decades and a coordinated political movement to build will not be torn down in a matter of years. It can only be taken apart in the same way, brick by painful brick.

the overwhelming economic evidence shows us that building housing, including market rate housing, reduces rents---if you oppose building new housing you are hurting tenants. period. full stop. arguing otherwise is the equivalent of climate denial at this point

there are hundreds of studies at this point showing that building market rate housing reduces rents, and vanishingly few that suggest it increases them. even the most yimby skeptical papers argue that market rate housing doesn't reduce rents *enough*

So-called "inclusionary zoning" is a tax on new less-expensive homes that lets urban elected Democrats NIMBY new housing on behalf of their homeowner constituents while posing as friends of the poor. The Supreme Court should throw it out as an unconstitutional taking.

Americans really, really, REALLY don't like progressive ideology.

America's most beautiful neighborhoods were built in a time when there was no design regulation—developers didn't complete along the margin of fighting for permits, but along the margin of producing a better product.

This is the way forward - much cheaper than building from scratch.

HAPPENING NOW: Join Palo Alto and East Palo Alto City Officials, Caltrans, Valley Water, and other regional partners to recognize the start of construction of the Newell Road Bridge Replacement Project. Learn more at paloalto.gov/Newell

Affordable housing requirements in new apartment buildings do not force land owners or developers to take lower profits. They just wait until rents go up enough to cover the cost of the subsidies.

Transit-oriented development works everywhere it's tried. We just keep deciding not to try it. Tokyo, Amsterdam, Zurich, Singapore. Dense housing near transit. High ridership. It's not complicated.

San Diego fell from 5th to 12th most expensive rental market by building more multifamily housing per capita than any other California city. This is what happens when you actually build. The lesson isn't complicated.

Flock saves lives.

Last year, the city of Austin turned off their Flock cameras as the result of a targeted misinformation campaign. This weekend, for nearly 24 hours, three suspects drove around Austin in stolen vehicles, undetected, conducting a shooting spree at 12 separate locations. They shot multiple people, houses, apartment buildings, businesses, and fire stations. They committed multiple robberies and car thefts during the spree. Despite a full manhunt involving 200 officers, with helicopter and K9 support, they weren't able to locate the suspects, and the spree continued. Luckily, the suspects drove into the Flock-supported city of Manor, TX. Manor is a small city with ~20k residents, and a fraction of Austin's budget. What they do have is modern technology and the ability not to fall victim to misinformation campaigns. After the suspects drove into Manor to continue their shooting spree, Manor PD located them almost immediately. The residents of Manor stayed safe. This is a tale of two cities. I love Austin. I have plenty of friends who live there. I myself almost moved there years ago. I'm glad that the shooting spree is over, but I just wish it never happened.

For 45 years, Berkeley built virtually no new housing. By the mid-2010s, it was the most expensive college town in America. Shortly thereafter, YIMBYs took over and kicked off a building boom. Today, nominal rents are below 2018 rates—remarkable progress on affordability.

I serve on East Palo Alto City Council, and we recently had a contentious meeting in which two council member, Ruben Abrica & Carlos Romero, tried to kill Flock Cameras. We kept Flock. Over the weekend our police caught a shooting suspect in under three hours. Flock works!

Transit investment without land use reform is a library with no books. Good infrastructure. Wrong policy. You can build the best light rail in the world. If the stations are surrounded by single-family zoning, the ridership ceiling is low. Always.

May '22 at 6pm, Jack Farrell Park in East Palo Alto, while kids were on the playground with more playing baseball, shots rang out between multiple parties. 1 defendant, Luis Javier Mariscal (40), has pled no contest to felony assault with a gun, sentenced to 8 yrs, 8 mths prison.