Same thing goes for San Diego as for the rest of California: As long as we have a housing crisis, new people will keep entering homelessness faster than we're able to house them. Housing First needs to be paired with a broad-based affordability strategy. voiceofsandiego.org/2022/10/25/san…

The incomparable Mike Davis leaves us. RIP.
thenation.com/article/cultur…

New antisemitic talking point just dropped: 'Regardless of how you feel about Kanye, can you believe what the Jews are doing to him??' twitter.com/SevaUT/status/…

The great thing about builder's remedy is how it hits wealthy, exclusionary towns in particular. Builder's remedy creates a penalty they can't just buy their way out of.

My cat, Herbert, is far more agitated about that patch of light on the ceiling than he was about the 5.1 earthquake.

Not now, earthquake!!

NEW: Kingston is considering ending single-family zoning and parking minimums. The Hamptons may tax home sales to fund affordable housing. Huntington may allow basement apartments.

Some New York suburbs want to build again.
nysfocus.com/2022/10/25/som…

SHOUP KLAXON thecrimson.com/article/2022/1…

Why in the world is IIHS— whose mission is to reduce car crash deaths— telling people to avoid smaller cars?

Do pedestrian and cyclist deaths not count?

I question the implication that Iceland's geothermal energy isn't a natural resource, but to bolster this point it's worth noting that Norway didn't start getting rich off North Sea oil until around the twilight of social democracy's golden age. twitter.com/DavidSligar/st…

Friendly reminder that the 'electric vehicle revolution' is being led by electric bikes, which are outselling electric cars. Yes, that includes in the U.S.: bicycling.com/news/a39838840…

I'm sure this is all the product of a good faith effort to find the optimal sites for new housing sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…

''There’s tons of money that goes into homelessness, particularly in Los Angeles,' she told me. 'My budget was almost a billion dollars. But the money comes with such confined requirements that it’s almost impossible to spend.'' nytimes.com/2022/10/23/opi…

And this sort of thing is most likely to happen in places that aren't building enough new housing twitter.com/maxdubler/stat…

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