Jenny Build Housing Silva
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Sitting on a dock by the bay. 🏡🛥️ MEHC is now Call Marin Home. YIMBY. @jcdjcd.bsky.social biggest fan.
I'm surprised that documented, widespread rent increases are so quickly dismissed. The paper's data doesn't show this. Further, the use of a country-wide average, rather than a rent number that reflects where job opportunities for college grads are, would understate the impact of rents.
Huge kudos and a huge win for Marin! CLAM just held a housewarming for 12 tiny homes in Pt. Reyes Station. This was part of a larger, herculean effort to create housing in West Marin for the families displaced in when the ranches in were shut down. This is the effort we need!
Between Swalwell and Platner, I think Stephen King is right. Our congress is likely full of rapists, and the establishment really doesn't care, as long as they are discreet. Unlike King, I don't think this is OK. We should just replace the rapists.
This project is on a housing element site that was approved "ministerially". Yet, the developer is dropping it because they have to make changes to the approved design that make it infeasible. How is it an "approval"? www.marinij.com/2026/07/06/d...
We are off to hike to our GG Bridge viewing spot to see hopefully see the fireworks. With the fog poring in- it's not looking promising.
Amazing model of New York City by Joe Maken. I had fun comparing his model to population density maps- it turns out, population density is not tightly correlated with the built environment.
New California income levels for affordable housing just came up. Sadly, but not suprisingly, AMI continues to rise. In Marin, a single person is now low income at $117,700. Marin, SF, San Mateo all have AMIs for a family of 4 at $200,000. Santa Clara at $205,000. www.hcd.ca.gov/sites/defaul...
No suprise here - the prize for lowest production of any in-demand area is San Rafael. Just 33 units permitted last year - all ADUs. San Rafael one of the best places to live in California, if it just built housing. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This ugly mismash of materials and oddball articulation is a frequent outcome of design review.
Everyone loves the houseboats because they are charming and quirky. Walking down the dock, you experience 100 different personalities. Some boats are cute, some beautiful, and some are not. But altogether, It's charming and interesting. Design review would have made it boring.
I have a new visualization I'm testing this week. The top shows the income distribution of Marin households. The bottom shows the distribution of rents and home prices. There is no housing available for households with less than $65,000 in income. We have a shortage of $5k/month apartments.
It offends me so much. It's more expensive, less energy efficient and ugly. No one builds like this, unless forced. There are beautiful areas with flat front buildings everywhere.
Groups of cops patrolling Isla Vista at 9:00am. The USCB Deltopia party was cancelled, and presumably this is to ensure it doesn't happen. Don't love groups of cops patrolling student areas, especially when nothing is happening.
Does this look like "historic charm" to you? So much fear mongering in this piece - There are 10 proposed buildings. Several won't be built. Only 2 are taller than what's there now. Usually, the Chronicle pokes at Marin's insular ways. Not this time. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
My daughter may be able to leave Marin, but she can't leave the housing crisis. (And love her layout of the story). dailynexus.com/2026-03-05/p...
It'd be easy to mock Sausalito for an error like this. But a jurisdiction of 7,000 with a volunteer city council that is responsible for roads, bicycle infratructure, parks, building codes, zoning, police will make mistakes. Especially when it spends most of its time fighting housing laws
More on Strawberry. This is the first time I've heard a regular housing development described in bedrooms. Scare-monger much? This is 197 new housing units on 197 acres. This has been in process for 12 years. No development is low density enough to escape opposition.
More photos.Surprisingly, the onramp to 101 was open. Lots of drivers making bad decisions. Lots of flooded buildings. Lots of individuals pumpting their water next door - doesn't seem so neighborly.
The car alarms ringing alerted me to the King Tides today. It's the highest I've ever seen them. This is salt water - not so good for cars. We are trapped in our homes when this happens - there's no way to drive or bike out.
I haven't been there in years, but the Trader Joe's on Masonic in SF used to routinely back up traffic for cars waiting for a spot to open up.
United Way has done work on this. Maybe he's a little high for a national average, but much closer to his number than $31K. (And, the United Way way understates the cost of health care. For me, it's $1,900/month for the bronze, high deductible plan.)
Finally rode my bike on the Richmond Bridge. Getting to the bridge from San Rafael requires crossing Sir Francis Drake with no light or even a crosswalk. There is no signage anywhere on how to reach the bridge, and apparently, you must share the road with cars.