The fact that young people are melting down over possibly not being able to access their favorite Chinese communist spy platform (TikTok) is unsettling.
Maybe go outside? Take a walk? Do something other than doom scroll stupid mind-melting dances?
This will make me unpopular with some unions, but we all need to do our part. The city needs to delay ANY labor provisions added to ED1. I understand the social benefit of them, but now is not the time to lessen an ongoing active program poised to get some more AH. As one in…
@jake_gotta Yet for some reason Scott Wiener and his dem pals in the state legislature keep passing more and more laws regarding the non-subject!! Further inflaming the unproductive discourse. How do we move forward?
There's no such thing as centrist neoliberalism. So called centrist neoliberals are just far leftists pretending to be centrists. You are literally labelled a far right extremist for holding 90's democrat positions in 2025 USA.
🚨🚨🚨Even if you support a rent freeze during the state of emergency, AB-246 contains a fatal flaw that, if not fixed, will make the housing shortage much worse:
The bill implements vacancy control that is set to expire a year after the state of emergency.
If a landlord has a current rent-controlled tenant paying a significantly under-market rent who leaves, the rational action is for them to not re-rent the unit until the bill expires.
We need all the housing available that we can get right now.
AB-246, as currently written, will make it impossible to find an apartment and will cause homelessness to skyrocket.
I’ve also noticed that conservatives are nearly always labelled as such in the first sentence, whereas liberals are simply “journalists” without an ideology.
I introduced legislation (SB 79) to:
1. Up-zone areas around major transit stops (rail, bus rapid transit) for denser housing
2. Empower transit agencies to zone/permit projects on their land
3. Streamline (ministerial approval/no CEQA) projects on these up-zoned parcels🧵
Says a lot of housing is local and cities are in the lead on zoning reform. Turner says fed gov't can't force that, but should encourage cities to pursue zoning reform.
Online young men: Housing didn’t keep pace with inflation.
Me: Buy a house outside of Des Moines with your laptop job.
Them: WHAT? I deserve to live in a big city!
Call me a boomer, I don’t care, the level of snobbery is off the charts from some of you.