ansel
@ansel.lundberg.com
YIMBY in Sacramento. professional electric grid understander. sharks 🦈🏒 and kings 💜🏀 fan. we live in a society. he/him
A common rebuttal to speed cameras is that we should just redesign streets to slow people down. We should! But roads in cities across the US have been built to allow suburban commuters to drive as fast as possible. It will take time to undo that damage, and we know cameras work to slow down drivers.
The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · 3d ago"Cameras issued nearly 200,000 citations — and more than half were mailed to an address outside of Oakland..."
Unbelievable. People will die because @senatorcervantes.bsky.social is pro-DUI calmatters.org/investigatio...
Lawmakers gut major DUI reform through 'hostile amendments'
Sabrina Cervantes' committee's "hostile amendment" gutted a major DUI reform bill with widespread support in Sacramento.
calmatters.org
I think Wahab's legacy in the state legislature is mostly negative, but I ended up rooting for this outcome largely out of hatred for AIPAC.
Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · 4d agoCongratulations to Dr. Aisha Wahab on securing this big win in the CA-14 special election! Despite millions in outside spending against Dr. Wahab, Congress just added a real Democratic fighter who will focus on making life better for working families and life worse for the Trump regime!
Making them look our kids in the face because that’s who we’re fighting for
ansel@ansel.lundberg.com · 4d agoWas proud to get out and speak in support of City of Sacramento‘s automated red light camera enforcement program tonight with my son, representing a new group, “Parents with Kids on Bikes.” Cameras like these make our streets safer. The data will be managed by the Public Works Dept, not the police.
People tell me all the time that Waymo is bad because Google is unaccountable. In other news, humans are so accountable that this woman who killed a whole family will (checks notes) be getting her driver’s license back in her mid-80s after (checks notes) transferring all her assets.
San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · 6mo agoThe woman prosecutors said killed a family of four after ramming into a bus stop with her car in San Francisco’s West Portal neighborhood will avoid jail time after changing her plea in court.
Very normal stuff, where a bill to require interlock devices on the cars of DUI offenders was derailed by... ...wait for it... ...an Assemblymember with a DUI arrest whose sister has received two DUIs. calmatters.org/investigatio...
Lawmakers gut major DUI reform through 'hostile amendments'
Sabrina Cervantes' committee's "hostile amendment" gutted a major DUI reform bill with widespread support in Sacramento.
calmatters.org
Multiple elements here to applaud. For now, Ansel and his fellow organizers have hit upon a constituency that exists needs to be organized into a political force: people with kids on bikes! I can easily see chapters popping up in many many places!
ansel@ansel.lundberg.com · 4d agoWas proud to get out and speak in support of City of Sacramento‘s automated red light camera enforcement program tonight with my son, representing a new group, “Parents with Kids on Bikes.” Cameras like these make our streets safer. The data will be managed by the Public Works Dept, not the police.
Was proud to get out and speak in support of City of Sacramento‘s automated red light camera enforcement program tonight with my son, representing a new group, “Parents with Kids on Bikes.” Cameras like these make our streets safer. The data will be managed by the Public Works Dept, not the police.
I just had the Oreo S'mores ice cream from Baskin Robbins. Ridiculously delicious.
Absolutely fizzing at the Karangahape Station first look event.
I'm working to end unfunded inclusionary zoning in El Cerrito, which has produced zero affordable units. A year ago City Council reduced inclusionary fees to 25% and reduced or eliminated other fees for four projects. It worked! One of those projects is going to Planning Commission next week.
M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray.bsky.social · 2w agoThe evidence is by now clear and policymakers/planners are slowly starting to respond to it: unfunded inclusionary zoning programs ultimately hurt housing production and affordability. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/13/b...
"We are unable to improve Los Angeles because of cars and I am unwilling to change that" may as well be Karen Bass's campaign slogan
“I brought a whole crew down for this stunt but unfortunately there was a car so we couldn’t fix the pothole” is a perfect distillation of every critique of Bass all at once. @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social should turn this into an ad
Only five of California's 539 local jurisdictions are on track to hit their 2020s housing permitting goals. (The exceptions being San Diego and a lot of sprawl.) I think it's high time we admit that RHNA hasn't really worked and start thinking about what comes next. calmatters.org/housing/2026...
Don't get me wrong, I lift every morning. But being a man is not really about how you show up in the gym. It's how you show up for your family. It's about how you show up for your community.
I tell this story a lot, but the reason I could even go pro in the HGL (Housing Guy League) is because I was reading all of @ansel.lundberg.com’s posts 10 years ago. It was a delight to finally meet and properly introduce ourselves.
ansel@ansel.lundberg.com · 3w agoIt was wonderful to meet up with @adammongrain.bsky.social (of More and Better Housing Canada) in Montreal to share housing policy advocacy stories and lament over the political salience of parking. I hope the California / Canada climate and housing connection remains strong.
It was wonderful to meet up with @adammongrain.bsky.social (of More and Better Housing Canada) in Montreal to share housing policy advocacy stories and lament over the political salience of parking. I hope the California / Canada climate and housing connection remains strong.
SB 79 has been in effect for a month now, so I wrote my take on how implementation is going. Pretty well, I think! But there are some important tests coming for HCD @cayimby.bsky.social cayimby.org/blog/sb-79-o...
SB 79, One Month In: Taking Stock of California YIMBY’s Signature Bill
SB 79, California YIMBY’s signature legislation that legalized apartment buildings near transit stops throughout California, went into effect on July 1, 2026. Under the law’s provisions, jurisdictions...
cayimby.org
I'm back at my day job and have Big Picture Thoughts about our democracy. Give it a read! www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/were-all-l...
We’re all looking at the midterms wrong
November isn’t just the endgame of authoritarianism. It’s the start of whatever comes next
ifyoucankeepit.org
Alameda County: meet your candidates Join us in downtown Oakland on Thursday Aug 20th at 6pm for a mixer to meet candidates and elected officials running for office across Alameda County this fall. RSVP required. @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social
Meet Your 2026 Alameda County Candidates!
An informal mixer to meet candidates running across Alameda County this fall. Grab a drink, ask questions, and get a feel for who's on your ballot.
events.humanitix.com
Urban PMC get class conscious RIGHT NOW!!! I’m begging you!
Ben Raderstorf@raders.bsky.social · 4w agoThe Democratic Party is trapped in a self-consciousness trap. 1. Their brand has been successfully smeared as latte sipping elitists 2. A decade of trying to outrun those smears with anxious message testing, brand discipline, and consultant-speak hasn't just failed, it's made the problem much worse
The Democratic Party is trapped in a self-consciousness trap. 1. Their brand has been successfully smeared as latte sipping elitists 2. A decade of trying to outrun those smears with anxious message testing, brand discipline, and consultant-speak hasn't just failed, it's made the problem much worse
Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰@urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 4w agoThere’s this weird thing going on in Dem politics where pollsters, Dem elected leaders, and center-left pundits have 1. All landed on this messaging consensus for more than a decade. 2. Oriented all their comms around this consensus and then 3. They all pretend this is not happening
Over the past sixty years, all sides of the housing question have moved from treating unionization as simple sectoral bargaining to operating like a guild system. That’s been terrible for both unions and for housing. The way to fix it is just to go back.
Joe Cohen@cohenhouse.bsky.social · last mo.Narrative violation: In the 1960's, when housing construction was the highest and most-profitable, California's construction industry was almost entirely unionized
