Feels crazy connecting every problem to housing, but if you literally shot yourself in the foot, a lot of your problems would come back to having shot yourself in the foot

Thank you to the @ladailynews.bsky.social for publishing my op-ed on how single-family zoning is keeping Los Angeles down! Making LA a more affordable, livable city will require making it legal to build housing in more of the city and that's what I'm running to do. www.dailynews.com/2026/05/27/h...

Henry Mantel: Single-family zoning is the anchor dragging Los Angeles down

The only way to make LA more affordable is to roll back single-family zoning so that we can finally build enough housing to solve this housing crisis once and for all.

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California's ballot is insanely long--but there's a shortcut!

UCLA rents are too damn high. Here's why.

Spencer Pratt stans are like "Sure, he's reality tv scam artist pathological lying know-nothing conspiracy theorist registered Republican that voted for Trump...but he is NOT MAGA"

You know who Spencer Pratt reminds me of? Amy McGrath. Someone who soaks up money and attention from out of state donors excited over social media videos and completely ignoring the fundamentals of the race.

Today's the last day to register to vote! If you haven't registered to vote or want to check your voter registration status, you can do so online here: www.lavote.gov/home/voting-...

Thrilled to have the recommendation of progressive voter guide Knock LA! In it, they finished with: "He might talk about zoning reform so often that it seems like a bit, but his non-zoning platform is clear, measurable, and results-oriented." Want to explain why I talk about zoning reform so much🧵

These “luxury apartments” with poor maintenance went viral in LA. It turns out I live in them!

Why is LA broken?

LA City Council just voted to keep rents high again. Here's what went down. ⬇️

Car at mechanic for a nearly $3000 repair. Forced to drop my kids off at school in a vehicle that costs ~half that brand new which they vocally prefer and is a lot more fun to drive.

We're officially going to be on the ballot in June, thanks to all your support! 🙏🥳

I am not Zohran.

Tomorrow (Tuesday) is a big day for SB 79 in Los Angeles! You can make a big difference by giving comment at the PLUM committee hearing, 2pm at City Hall Here’s what's being decided:

Join us tomorrow for our canvassing kickoff! RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We need driving tests for elderly drivers. States like Illinois and New Hampshire already do. But did you know California has been moving in the opposite direction? 🧵

Driver in deadly 99 Ranch Market crash had driving privileges pulled at scene

A 92-year-old woman was making what appeared to be an unsafe left turn before clipping a bicyclist and crashing into a 99 Ranch Market in a deadly chain of events Thursday in Westwood, the LAPD told N...

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Centralized permitting authority for projects of statewide significance seems like a reasonable and objectively correct policy. Think about: - light rail and rapid transit projects - major state-funded housing projects - green energy infrastructure

M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray.bsky.social · 7mo ago

State funded projects should be entitled and permitted by the state. This situation is absurd.

No, Abundance isn't "only for the Top 5 Metro Areas" 1. Abundance addresses lots of things, like FDA approval processes and clean energy, that aren't geographically specific. 1/

Extracting value on the front end of development (community benefits) instead of the back end (taxes) is eating the seed corn. It'll never produce as much community benefits as planting a good harvest and sowing it when it ripens.

Paid respects to the Brown students killed while simply studying for an Econ test as generations of us had before. Nobody is safe until we are all safe.

A former drug dealer released early is now helping the government free scores of convicted fraudsters. Woke city gone too far? Nope, just the Trump administration's "Pardon Czar."

Half the education posts are like "my kid has a 5.3 GPA and invented $5 insulin and got rejected from DeVry" and half are "60% of freshmen do not know enough math to read the numbers on their classroom doors"

I write a voter guide for every California election, and am thrilled to write my shortest one ever: Yes on Prop 50. tobyhardtospell.substack.com/p/yes-on-50-...

Yes on 50: A very short voter guide

You've already read the tl;dr.

tobyhardtospell.substack.com

No Kings protest today. I didn’t see any of the “Hamas terrorists” or “violent criminals” the White House warned about but I did see the dog who ate the Epstein files.

Sex is great but have you ever changed housing law for the world's fourth largest economy?

Can’t believe SB79 passed the governor by a single vote!

Key to using AI effectively: treat it like a person dumber than you, not a person smarter than you.