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Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 5h ago

All of you should let your mayors and councilmembers know that if your city does not embrace pro-housing reforms then it is very likely leaving federal grant money on the table. www.pew.org/en/research-...

The Success of the New Federal Housing Law Now Rests on States and Localities

The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, enacted on July 11, represents the first comprehensive federal law in decades designed to increase homebuilding. The bipartisan package contains more than 50 prov...

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Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · yesterday

I'm going to be at the Council of Infill Builders Summit in Los Angeles, August 19-20. Come by and say hi! Nithya Raman's going to be one of the keynotes, so we might get some new details on her plans for Los Angeles. www.councilofinfillbuilders.org/events/2026-...

2026 CA Infill Summit: Best Practices and Breakthrough Opportunities - Council of Infill Builders

The Council of Infill Builders' goal is to transform California’s urban landscape by championing sustainable land use that prioritize efficient growth, vibrant communities, and a resilient future for ...

councilofinfillbuilders.org

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 23h ago

If El-Sayed crushes Stevens tonight, as seems likely, it would be nice if we could finally do away with this notion that AIPAC can single-handedly buy elections. If anything, this race shows how much their influence has diminished inside the party over the past few years. Good riddance, too.

Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀@aceckhouse.bsky.social · yesterday

SB 79 at one month: 1) Very encouraging signs of developer interest in actually using the law 2) New projects are all in high resource areas with exclusionary histories 3) We won’t see the full impact in most of the state’s biggest cities for another 5 year 4) Beverly Hills is on some bullshit

Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀@aceckhouse.bsky.social · 2d ago

Most cities are doing their best to follow the law, but some are not. The worst is probably Beverly Hills, which is trying to use a shell game to disappear nearly 3,000 homes worth of zoned capacity. HCD should have nipped this in the bud, but there's still time for them to bring down the hammer.

Beverly Hills was the first city to propose a local TOD alternative plan, which are allowed under SB 79. The core logic of those plans is straightforward: The city can move some of the zoned capacity from one place to another; the alternative plans are then reviewed and certified as compliant by the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). But Beverly Hills is trying a shell game by which they just make that zoned capacity disappear instead. A local alternative plan under SB 79, also referred to as an “Eckhouse Plan,” must maintain the same “net zoned capacity” as the state zoning standards. Net zoned capacity is calculated by subtracting the density & floor area of existing uses from the capacity allowed by the zoning. Since the law requires cities “maintain at least the same total net zoned capacity” between SB 79 and the local alternative plan, the city should do that on both sides of the ledger: subtract existing uses from SB 79’s capacity, and from their local plan’s capacity. Instead, Beverly Hills calculated net zoned capacity from SB 79, and then compared that to the total zoned capacity of their local plan. The result: overcounting their local plan’s capacity by nearly 3,000 homes, or 15% of the total capacity. Most troublingly, HCD did not address this problem in their initial review of the city’s alternative plan. We will continue to work with HCD and other stakeholders in Beverly Hills to ensure that their final Eckhouse Plan is compliant with the letter of the law.
Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · yesterday

I'm going to be at the Council of Infill Builders Summit in Los Angeles, August 19-20. Come by and say hi! Nithya Raman's going to be one of the keynotes, so we might get some new details on her plans for Los Angeles. www.councilofinfillbuilders.org/events/2026-...

2026 CA Infill Summit: Best Practices and Breakthrough Opportunities - Council of Infill Builders

The Council of Infill Builders' goal is to transform California’s urban landscape by championing sustainable land use that prioritize efficient growth, vibrant communities, and a resilient future for ...

councilofinfillbuilders.org

Stephen Jacob Smith@stephenjacobsmith.com · 7d ago

I'm going to be speaking at the California Infill Summit on Aug. 20 in DTLA. More about the conference here: www.councilofinfillbuilders.org/events/2026-... Half-priced tickets through the end of the week available here: www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...

2026 CA Infill Summit: Best Practices and Breakthrough Opportunities - Council of Infill Builders

The Council of Infill Builders' goal is to transform California’s urban landscape by championing sustainable land use that prioritize efficient growth, vibrant communities, and a resilient future for ...

councilofinfillbuilders.org

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 2d ago

ODYSSEUS (mournfully): "What if your husband can't come home because he built the horse statue that, through an unclear causal chain, is going to make everyone forget how to read."

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 2d ago

If I were going to go really out on a critical limb, I would say that Nolan interpreted Odysseus as the guilt-ridden creator of a giant spectacle that eventually leads to mass illiteracy because he (Nolan) is ambivalent about his status as an auteur of big tentpole pictures.

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 2d ago

Finally saw The Odyssey, which is the consummate Christopher Nolan film in that it has moments of near-sublime spectacle that make you believe in Big Movies again mixed together with dialogue like, "Our Age of Bronze is ending."

Stan Oklobdzija@stano.bsky.social · 5d ago

I realize the powers of LA and NYC's mayorship are vastly different, but just having a person like this articulating a vision of what progressive governance actually looks like would be massive for California politics. We need to dream bigger than starting a nonprofit or planning a protest.

Benjamin Schneider@benschneider.bsky.social · 5d ago

Progressive LA Mayoral Candidate Nithya Raman told Vanity Fair that her main difference with DSA is on housing. www.vanityfair.com/story/nithya...

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 6d ago

Not only does this guy refer to his own act of manslaughter as "MY trauma," he also calls it "the fatal accident I was in" as if a court did not find him legally liable for it. www.instagram.com/p/DbZgUOsC8_1/

DoomloopDispatch on Instagram: "Biking advocates are not good people. They have the same morals and ethics as Republicans. #cycling"

8 likes, 3 comments - doomloopdispatch on July 29, 2026: "Biking advocates are not good people. They have the same morals and ethics as Republicans. #cycling".

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Chris@chrisbybikes.bsky.social · 6d ago

He killed a passenger in his car and was found guilty of vehicular manslaughter. The passenger was Pulitzer Prize winning journalist David Halberstam.

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 6d ago

I'm very glad Hopkins Street is going to get its bike lane. It should not have taken anywhere near this long or gotten this vicious. Anyway, here's a piece I wrote three years back about how this fight helped precipitate my decision to move out of Berkeley. usa.streetsblog.org/2023/05/18/e...

Essay: Why Even The Most Progressive Cities Are Failing Their Car-Free Residents — Streetsblog USA

As traffic violence has climbed over the past few years, a number of ostensibly progressive, climate-friendly cities have demonstrated that they are uninterested in taking even modest steps to support...

usa.streetsblog.org

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 6d ago

The only television newsrooms that are actually competing for Fox News's viewership are OANN and Newsmax. Whenever any mainstream network has tried to peel of Fox viewers, they've just ended up humiliating themselves.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 7d ago

NEW: Under Bari Weiss, CBS News has shifted to the right to try to grab some of Fox News' audience. Not only have they failed to do that, but they've driven off so much of their core audience that CBS Mornings is now perilously close to getting beaten by Fox & Friends. zeteo.com/p/mamdani-de...

Since taking over CBS News last fall, Weiss has actively shifted the network to the right in an apparent effort to capture some of the conservative audience that regularly watches Fox. At the same time, she wants to appeal to the supposed “70% of the audience that identifies themselves as center-left to center-right,” as her boss David Ellison asserted after he purchased her anti-woke blog The Free Press. The problem is that her strategy appears to be driving an increasing number of CBS News’s core audience away while failing to attract any of Fox’s viewers. In fact, according to Nielsen data obtained by Zeteo, the news network’s weekday offerings are in danger of getting passed by Murdoch’s cable news programs head-to-head. During July, ‘CBS Mornings’ averaged just 1.623 million total viewers per day, compared to the 1.436 million that ‘Fox & Friends’ pulled in for the month. The gap between the shows, now at 13%, has narrowed considerably. When Weiss became the head of the network, ‘CBS Mornings’ held a 26% advantage over Fox’s morning program. July was the lowest-rated month in ‘CBS Mornings’ history. And while the summer months typically bring lower ratings for news shows, the gap between ‘CBS Mornings’ and ‘Fox & Friends’ is tighter than it was last July – when the CBS show held a 23% advantage. Additionally, ‘CBS Evening News’ is on track for its worst month since Weiss installed Tony Dokoupil as its anchor, averaging just 3.814 million total viewers a night. It is also the fourth consecutive month that the program has attracted fewer than 4 million viewers. When reached for comment, a CBS News spokesperson shared a Paramount press release boasting that ‘CBS Evening News’ was narrowly up 2% in total viewers compared to last year, which was the program’s worst July in history.