Saad Asad
@realsaadasad
Comms @cayimby.bsky.social. Previously, Advocacy at YIMBY Dems of SD & Product Marketing @ U.S. Digital Response. Tweets on housing, climate change, and San Diego/California politics
Legalizing middle housing is step one. Washington learned step two the hard way: building codes designed for single-family homes make stacked flats too expensive to build even where they're allowed. futurewise.org/building-cod...
Never seen this before: SD County Supervisor Monica Montgomery-Steppe just went over to the SD City Council to give an incredibly YIMBY public comment for a new for-sale housing project. Game over, NIMBYs.
The screenshots are further proof of @maxdubler.com thesis on there being only two positions on housing.
When you're left-wing and want to exclude people, you call the people you dislike "transplants." When you're right-wing and want to exclude people, you call the people you dislike "illegals." They both want the same outcome The better solution: build more homes for everyone.
Escondido approved 94 townhomes replacing vacant storefronts and storage units on a transit corridor. thecoastnews.com/escondido-ok...
Love going on the news to talk about housing when there’s new housing going up behind me!
San Diego's desalination plant supplies 10% of county water, making the region secure enough to sell Colorado River rights to Arizona and Nevada. It works, but it is energy-intensive and disrupts marine life. Water recycling achieves the same goal with fewer tradeoffs.
Here’s the draft map for SB 79 eligible stops in San Diego. SANDAG, San Diego’s regional planning agency, -Included many (not all) bus rapid transit stops in North Park & City Heights that YIMBY Dems advocated for. -Excluded Solana Beach. -Designated Oceanside as Tier 2 instead of Tier 1 🧵
People who live in ADUs need housing. Clairemont Mesa homeowners instead park their trailers on their curbs with signs…to protect curb space. Throwback to @acbowen.bsky.social story on ADU residents. www.kpbs.org/news/politic...
Clairemont Mesa residents have developed custom signs to bully renters in ADUs s/o Wes Morgan:
Join APA San Diego Young Emerging Planners on June 17th, 6-8pm at Mason Ale Works for a panel on what SB 79 means for our region. RSVP soon: bit.ly/YEP26SB79
La Mesa built 254 homes last year against a state target of 3,797 by 2029. At that pace, a shortfall is a certainty. SB 79 exists because cities have consistently chosen character over housing for people who need it most. timesofsandiego.com/housing/2026...
Gross. City Council Candidate Richard Bailey donated to a gun rights lobby group a day after the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting.
The recommendation was: "Up to 3% on $25M" LA's is 4% above $5M. Moreover, this post cited Shane's 2020 research. His most recent research showed that the costs of ULA outweighed the benefits.
Prop 13 promised to protect homeowners from rising taxes. What it actually did: locked in big tax breaks for whoever bought earliest, pushed cities to favor malls over housing (better for sales tax revenue), and left renters and newer buyers holding the bill.
San Diego County is short 134,500 affordable units. Carlsbad just finished 19. At that pace, and with an 11-year approval-to-completion timeline, the shortage gets worse faster than we can build. thecoastnews.com/la-costa-apa...
San Diego drivers are paying $6+ a gallon partly because California lost 18% of its refining capacity. Now CARB is trying to decarbonize and keep remaining refineries open at the same time. That contradiction has a cost. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/06/01/w...
San Diego's clean energy push is landing hardest on rural communities who didn't create the demand. Jacumba negotiated $4M in community benefits by staying at the table. Boulevard wants $7M. That's the right fight: fair compensation, then build. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/26/c...
San Diego hasn't built enough housing since 2004, and 80% of its poorest renters spend over half their income on housing. A 90% jump in affordable housing production shows progress is possible. www.kpbs.org/news/racial-...
SD Friends! Join us for a panel on SB 79. The San Diego Chapter of the American Planning Association will host this event on June 17 in Barrio Logan. Registration: bit.ly/YEP26SB79
Lol, Shane Harris has allied with NIMBYs on issues not limited to, but including: -Historic preservation abuse -Reducing the number of backyard homes (ADUs) -Opposition to allowing more homes near transit through SB 79 He has never supported housing.
South San Diego City Council (District 8) candidates are all relatively YIMBYs. Was a tough vote to endorse. @YIMBYDemsSD selected Venus Molina.
All the Spencer Pratt bots came after me on the other site. But this is such a fun ad for @Nithyaforthecity.bsky.social - just wait for the twist.
SD United Communities, one of the backers of City Council Candidate Richard Bailey and a major NIMBY group, tells us what they really want: disenfranchisement of renters, young, and minorities.
The federal government spends $100 billion on technology annually, 80% on aging systems. Software gets budgeted like a bridge — one-time capital, minimal upkeep. That assumption compounds until a costly, politically difficult overhaul becomes the only option left.
New apartments are 76% electric-heated, and their residents drive less and use less land. Building more of them cuts carbon emissions by up to 14% in metro areas, while also lowering rents. Housing abundance and climate progress are the same investment. www.sightline.org/apartments-a...
Here is how the two leading Democratic candidates responded to a question from Axios on how they would reduce housing costs. The Republican candidate did not answer questions. www.axios.com/local/san-di...