The SF Chronicle's rejection of Prop 45 nails it: "Lawmakers need to craft more fundamental CEQA reforms...But [Prop 45] as written would lock California into a regulatory regime that makes it easier to build the same environmentally ruinous projects that gave us CEQA in the first place."

Endorsement: CEQA is a mess. Prop 45 is even messier

OPINION: There is no question that CEQA needs fundamental reform. But California’s Prop 45, at its core, is poll-tested nonsense in service of sprawl, the Chronicle’s editorial board writes.

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Join us for the most informative and fun ballot party of them all!

D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF)@d9neighbors.bsky.social · 2w ago

There are FIVE housing-related measures on the November ballot! Join us TOMORROW, Thursday, at 5:30 pm at Teeth Bar in the Mission for drinks, snacks, and an awesome discussion featuring the measure proponents! Moderated by @io-y-g.bsky.social. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/housi...

True single stair reform is desperately needed and accepted the world over. Lurie administration backpedaling is a blow to getting more housing built. SF politicians often claim they want more housing then undermine any way to get done. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Mayor Daniel Lurie touted a key housing reform. Critics say it changes almost nothing

Housing advocates say the mayor’s pending revisions are more public relations than meaningful policy and would do little to spur construction of new homes.

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Opponents to RTM (and Prop H in SF) regurgitate the same old tired lines about mismanagement and efficiency, yet they struggle to point to anything concrete. Many of their arguments are conspiracy adjacent. @idothethinking.bsky.social deconstructs the BS.

Voting Against The Bay Area Transit Measure Is a Fatal Mistake

The East Bay Times and Mercury News Editorial Board write a bad column on the transit tax measure.

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I’ve been working on single stair reform for years. HAC sponsored a bill in Sacramento this year and we’re honoring leaders from Culver City on Single Stair reform. Any framing that this is single stair reform in SF is factually inaccurate. @jkdineen.bsky.social

San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · 2w ago

For years, housing advocates have championed a change to this design rule as a way to encourage construction of smaller multifamily housing projects in San Francisco. Now, it’s finally happening.

not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.

Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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It is legitimately insulting that we live in a time where democracy ACTUALLY IS under attack, but a bunch of neighborhood busybodies who hate housing think not having enough meetings is an assault on democracy. Get a grip missionlocal.org/2026/09/rich...

At Richmond District town hall on Safeway housing project, neighbors see an assault on democracy

Some 60 people attended to listen and air their thoughts about a proposed eight-story Safeway redevelopment project in the Outer Richmond.

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Absolutely scorching endorsement, bringing serious heat for Weiner and against Chan, but a blast furnace at Pelosi for her role in this race and her true reasons for it. Never read an editorial this heated in Chron www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/edit...

Endorsement: Who should replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress? It’s not even a choice

OPINION: The most intriguing thing about the race between Scott Wiener and Connie Chan to fill Nancy Pelosi’s House seat is that it has become a race at all, the editorial board writes.

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Cities are living things and neighborhoods change as newcomers leave their mark. This is okay, even if it is often uncomfortable. The best thing we can do is build a lot of new homes so that new people can move in without displacing long time residents.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis@kendrawrites.com · last mo.

Yes what @alsorae.bsky.social said. I would also add, they're moving into more and more spaces that are outside of the areas that transplants traditionally lived in.

Yes, every billionaire is a policy failure. You know who else is a policy failure? Your Berkeley hippie grandpa who pays $100 in annual property taxes on a $2.5 million house and uses the leftover cash to sue people who try to build apartments in his neighborhood.

I am neither YIMBY nor NIMBY but a secret third thing (still a NIMBY) www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...

I live in a 120+ year old building. It’s missing basic amenities many folks take for granted that have come along since then. The “charm” of extremely old housing stock comes with a lot of costs! www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...

I could not disagree more strongly with this approach. Landmarking bars, clubs, dance studios, and poets’ homes locks the city in amber and blocks new housing, which makes it impossible for non-rich future young people to move to New York and contribute to the culture. Just lay a plaque!

Curbed@curbed.com · last mo.

The longtime New York City preservationist Andrew Berman has been on a crusade to protect Greenwich Village’s character for decades. It used to make him a hero, now it’s put him at odds with just about everyone.

There was already backlash against the smaller proposal. There will always be backlash from people who don’t want more homes unless they fit some magical, ever changing formula because they don’t want more homes. That’s their whole deal! www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Exclusive: Proposed S.F. apartment tower more than doubles in size, sparking fears of backlash

A developer that proposed the largest housing development ever in this San Francisco neighborhood is more than doubling the number of homes at the site and adding three stories to the project.

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"We need housing for teachers." "We need housing for artists." "We need housing for firefighters." This command and control shit drives me crazy. Just build enough housing for people.

Join us for another round of our popular Green Density Tour on August 30th! This time we'll explore Bernal Heights ecology and talk about opportunities for further greening to create a safer, more welcoming environment for pedestrians and new neighbors. RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/berna...

The fight to restore Sunset Dunes to roadway is the dumbest most wasteful ballot measure—we’ve already voted on it twice! Indicative of the west side NIMBYS that have throttled housing and transit for decades.

Urvi@theurv.com · 2mo ago

I respect the work she’s done in DC but I don’t think Connie is the fighter to take the reins. Scott has so much more legislative experience and tackling big issues. The whole sunset dunes thing just rubs me the wrong way- we know the road will be taken over by erosion eventually why fight for that?

Amidst a housing affordability crisis, there is legislation moving through City Hall right now to arbitrarily double the number of historical landmarks and make it harder to build housing, and put us at risk of violating state law. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...

A supervisor wants to double the number of historic landmarks in S.F. Is it a NIMBY ploy?

Opinion: We can’t just preserve the past, we have to encourage new great design that we’ll want to landmark down the road, writes columnist Allison Arieff.

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Every time www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

Editor's Notes: Trump Is a Crook, and the Concern Trolling Over Fraud Is Beneath Contempt

This administration has gutted the machinery of anti-fraud enforcement and pilfered the country on an unprecedented scale.

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

JD Vance: "If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer"

Absolutely horrifying. This kind of sick shit (which happens on some level every day in California and beyond) is why advocates push back on the idea that the only housing boogeymen are big corporations. Petty bourgeoisie assholes like these kill by a thousand cuts and it has to end now.

Jordan Grimes@cafedujord.bsky.social · 3mo ago

For the last 4 (!) years, I've been chronicling the journey of a 40 unit 100% affordable housing project for senior farmworkers in Half Moon Bay, California. Despite being approved in May, the journey sadly isn't over: a measure has qualified for the ballot this November to stop the project. 🧵

Yet another Kalshi offering that serves no legitimate economic purpose. It's not possible to make a rational bet on this without material non-public information. It's a market solely for fraud by both regulators and corporate insiders, and everyone connected to it in any way should go to prison.

Kalshi Will Offer Sports-Style Betting on Drug Trial Results

Kalshi Inc. is expanding in biotechnology by offering wagers on the outcomes of clinical trials and regulatory decisions, giving traders a more direct way to bet on key industry catalysts.

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Paul Pelosi is 86 years old and has the money to afford a driver. There is no reason why he should still be behind the wheel. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

67 degrees in the Bay Area while much of the rest of the continental United States cooks in the heat. Another reason why we have a moral imperative to build millions of more homes here, and another reason why Bay Area NIMBYism is soft climate denialism.

This article is trying really hard to fit the difference between NYC and SF into a left-right axis when the relevant axis is government that works vs government that doesn’t work. sfstandard.com/2026/06/27/s...

NYC went left. San Francisco went moderate. Here’s why.

While NYC is busy popping champagne for Democratic Socialists, San Francisco’s lefties are licking their wounds after a moderate takeover. What’s going on?

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OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 5mo ago

“There is a larger principle here. States should not outsource their housing policy to local governments that tend to have a bias toward the status quo. States should assert more control over lot sizes, multifamily zoning, permitting processes and more.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/o...

Here's my take on the California gubernatorial candidates' housing agendas, based on the Ezra Klein-hosted forum from last week. publiccomment.blog/p/the-candid...

The Candidates Talk Housing

Thoughts on the recent housing forum for California's gubernatorial field

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There is no equivalent on the Democratic side for the pure, undiluted nihilism coming from the federal government right now. We basically have one party of technocrats and one party of Branch Davidians.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 6mo ago

The Trump administration has announced two more payouts for energy companies to walk away from U.S. offshore wind projects under development.

“RFK is a eugenicist who believes that people with chronic health conditions deserve to die preventable deaths” is a plain fact that the news media cannot or will not tell the public.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“This was not a disease that was killing healthy people. It was killing sick people”. RFK Jr. lying about the COVID19 pandemic.