Of the eight apartment projects that broke ground in Los Angeles in July, seven were "100% affordable." With a total of 842 units, multifamily permitting in LA continues to be elevated compared to recent years

TIL the speaker of the NYC City Council is married to one of the Founders/Principals of Crescent Heights, the real estate development firm

It's weird realizing that not only have I voted for Francesca Hong before (she won 88% of the vote), I also ate at the restaurant she owned. However, I never went to the bar she now bartends at

South Carolina is now the first state in the nation for the Democratic Primary and this just ran in The State, the newspaper of Columbia, South Carolina. Come out to the rally and lobby day next week in Sac and help get our legislators to undo the cuts! actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...

Why would you buy a 1 bedroom condo in DTLA when for the same price you could get a 4 bedroom townhome in Hollywood? (although I have a feeling that the townhome is underpriced to set up a bidding war)

This has to be the only brand-new condo building in LA with a brick facade and cornices, right?

I'm curious why the developer of this for-sale Frogtown double duplex chose to build it as a condo rather than small lot subdivision or TIC

It’s kinda a weird feeling to be scrolling Instagram and come across a reel with almost 200k views that’s about your tweet

Someone should give me $100 million so I can start my missing middle infill business, my think tank, and my community velodrome nonprofit.

Some long-lived housing updates: -The next phase of Newhall Ranch, which will add 3,617 homes in Santa Clarita, was approved by the LA County Planning Commission -5350 Wilshire Blvd, adding 419 units across from the La Brea D Line, has released its EIR after 4 years of silence

Ladies and Gentlemen, a 2nd SB79 project has been proposed in Santa Monica. www.liveondelaware.com/assets/2904_...

Joe Cohen@cohenhouse.bsky.social · last wk.

Santa Monica appears to have its first SB 79 application, which proposes demolishing a duplex on a four-unit property and replacing it with an 8-unit five-story building, with two replacement affordable units. The (placeholder SB 330) plans show it as a single-stair building

The house on the right was demolished last year to build a 3,500 sf mansion + ADU The house on the left just filed plans to be replaced with five starter homes under SB 1123 CA state housing laws are delivering results.

I miss Paul's Pel'meni in Madison. I really could go for a $9 massive plate of dumplings right now. (I just checked my local pierogi place, and it’s $28 for eight)

"Mansiontop" >4-5 story condo building. >5-10 units >Ground-floor/underground parking >Lower floors each have two or three cheaper 2-3 bedroom homes >Top floor is a single 2,000+ sf mansion w/ a private roof deck I expect to see a lot of these built in CA over the next decade

Santa Monica appears to have its first SB 79 application, which proposes demolishing a duplex on a four-unit property and replacing it with an 8-unit five-story building, with two replacement affordable units. The (placeholder SB 330) plans show it as a single-stair building

These are the cars I’ve rented in the past two month. Below I’ll leave my impressions. 
Genesis GV70 Toyota Tacoma BMW 530i Mazda Miata Chevy Trax Toyota Prius

I’ve had six different rental cars over the past two months, so I think I’ve become an expert on 2026-model cars. They ranged from $25k - $55k, but the experience was surprisingly similar. All had the same tech. All had plenty of power. All were responsive. Should I do an in-depth review later?

Business idea: a strip club called the Cakedcheek Factory

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 · 2w ago

Narrative violation: In the 1960's, when housing construction was the highest and most-profitable, California's construction industry was almost entirely unionized

Narrative violation: In the 1960's, when housing construction was the highest and most-profitable, California's construction industry was almost entirely unionized

SB 1097 would have given CEQA exemptions for transmission buildouts and it didn’t even make it out of first house. This state talks a big game about climate transition but can’t even stomach modest reforms to accommodate green energy growth.

Chirag Lala@cthelala.bsky.social · 2w ago

This load growth is perfectly compatible with rapid increases in the share of clean power consumption on the grid. But you have to make it easier to build and interconnect. Trying to restrain the load growth on climate grounds is a public admission of failure. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

For the past couple of years, I've been working to set up the South Bay Cities Regional Housing Trust. At the first Board meeting for the Trust, I presented on Affordable Housing 101. This was my very first slide, "Building housing costs money."

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 2w ago

The two hardest and most unforgiving facts in housing policy are that it actually costs a lot of money to build new homes and that the rents that poor people can afford are not enough to pay off the cost of construction.

Why does every restaurant suddenly serve branzino?

Santa Monica's first residential high-rise in over 50 years appears to be moving forward. This is thanks to Santa Monica's "offsite" pilot program allowing the developer to pay a $14 million fee instead of including 64 affordable units on site.

This is who they sent out on our streets to murder us

LAX People Mover is 3+ years delayed with $880 million in settlements because of corporate greed. This is why we can’t build in America.

Los Angeles is ugly by choice (video by @streetsforall.org)

I'm learning that people really don't know floorplate efficiencies: The answer is 1) 82% 2) 79% 3) 77% Generally, mid-rises are in the mid-80's, and the taller a high-rise is, the lower the efficiency is. And 3 would be much lower if its units weren't much larger than 1 & 2

Joe Cohen@cohenhouse.bsky.social · 3w ago

Guess the floorplate efficiency for these three projects: hint: 1) is 8 floors, 2) is 24 floors, and 3) is 62 floors

LA's AHIP program is allowing affordable housing projects to break ground in record time… 1035 Crenshaw Blvd submitted their application on 8/22/2025 It required no Planning Department review, so zoning and building code compliance were reviewed concurrently by LADBS. (1/2)

Guess the floorplate efficiency for these three projects: hint: 1) is 8 floors, 2) is 24 floors, and 3) is 62 floors