You can drive for literal hours through Ohio without ever entering a precinct that voted for Kamala Harris

Blows my mind that in July 2026 we have programmers insisting there is zero utility for LLMs despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Will somebody think of the poor homeowners impacted by SB 79?

Little known fact: Thomas Jefferson was the longest lived president

Eli Gill: "So, my grandmother had an opportunity to buy land in Santa Monica for about $10,000 and she opted not to because it would make her hair frizz. So, the coast isn't for everybody. [clears throat] But my point is supply and demand does work here. It works everywhere."

Lana Negrete: "the supply and demand model I don't believe works in places like Santa Monica. There's something called the coast and it's just much more expensive to live here. So that theory may work in a grocery store or in other places, and housing is much less expensive to build other places. "

YIMBYs need to be REASONABLE

Inspiration is theft (laudatory)

Landlords in markets with unfunded IZ can charge more because less housing is being built.

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Behold the tax assessment for the first apartment building I lived in here and despair

Days since NIMBYs compared new apartments to a prison: 0

I see your SF and raise SM

Santa Monica's planning department is including 4 DTSM bus stops as Tier 2 TOD in its SB79 analysis. www.santamonica.gov/sb79-transit...

July 30, 1981 Santa Monica's population declined from 88k to 84k over the next two decades.

Even the information the state already has is not readily accessible and a PITA to fetch. I built this graph (and an entire data ingestion pipeline) to track new-tenancy rents in Santa Monica's rent controlled housing stock because our current registry is so opaque!

Unrelated of course

The opening paragraph of Santa Monica's Rent Control charter amendment is interesting because it squarely names the root cause in the first 6 words of the first paragraph.

Will Parker should come to some planning commission meetings in California, many policymakers still adamantly believe that there is no shortage of housing.

AGI inbound

Fable 5 classifier too strict :(

There was so much push back to SB 9 but it never amounted to much due to this poison pill. Now it's sailing through the legislature, amazing.

Rent registries are great tools

Something is wrong with 3BRs, but it's also the smallest category. These rent controlled median rents look reasonable though