Zachary J. Brown

Just doing my best. Solidarity Forever!

[Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler]

“Homes for all, just not here” is the liberal California homeowner credo distilled to its essence.

[Senator Scott Wiener @Scott_Wiener]

Spencer Pratt used his social media platform to spread extreme misinformation & disgusting scare tactics against our housing laws, including SB 79 (more homes near public transit) & SB 9 (duplexes & fourplexes).

Pratt is a mega NIMBY & he lies, which he’s doing again here.

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

something like 99%+ of economists agree that building market rate housing reduces rents. Connie Chan's views on housing are equivalent to believing the world is flat

vote @Scott_Wiener

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

It blows my mind that the UC system still doesn’t even let students submit standardized test scores for admission

It’s so so so bad

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

The crusade against standardized testing failed so hard.

[Bauhaus Movement @BauhausMovement]

K A N D I N S K Y • Circles in a Circle • Geometric abstraction

[Joan Miró @artist_miro]

Constellation Awakening at Dawn #artbots #miro

[Joan Miró @artist_miro]

Painting #artbots #miro

[Amedeo Modigliani @artmodigliani]

Portrait of Jeanne Hebuterne in a Blue Chair #artbots #modigliani

[Senator Scott Wiener @Scott_Wiener]

The Senate just passed my bill to ensure people can replace drafty windows with energy-efficient windows, without cities or HOAs obstructing them from doing so. Energy bills are through the roof & people should have the tools to lower their bills.

Right now, some cities & HOAs are banning people from weatherizing their windows for aesthetic reasons, or forcing them to pay dramatically more money to fabricate replica windows.

SB 908 puts a stop to this practice & gives people a tool to lower their cost of living.

Thank you, colleagues!

[Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler]

Requiring that 30% of these new high rise apartments be rented at a loss killed the project’s financial feasibility.

Now 0 new apartments will get built and the 840 rich households that would’ve lived in those fancy new homes will bid up the price of older, cheaper apartments.

[Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler]

Let’s be clear about what’s at stake here: banning new single family rentals reduces the overall supply of housing and excludes working class people who cannot get a mortgage from single family neighborhoods with good schools. Democrats should not support this.

[Zachary J. Brown @_zjb1]

@_KennyUong_ Thanks for all the content this week!

[Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler]

My unpopular YIMBY opinion is that this ugly flip job is preferable to any set of public policies intended to prevent people from doing stuff like this because they inevitably empower the most insane HOA Karens on earth to force people to use windows that cost 5x as much.

[Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler]

This is not a good faith attempt to build subsidized affordable housing. This is a punitive tax on new homes meant to make it impossible build any new less-expensive homes in Santa Barbara.

[Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler]

I love that NIMBYs still trot out the "overcrowded schools!" line in places where enrollment is at 30 year lows and districts are closing schools for want of students to teach.

[Zachary J. Brown @_zjb1]

@_KennyUong_ @metrolosangeles Welcome back, Kenny!

[Emmanuel @EmmanuelSPV]

Avant / Après la végétalisation des voies centrales de la Rue du Commandant Mouchotte dans le 14ème arrondissement de Paris. La transformation a été terminée le mois dernier.

[Zachary J. Brown @_zjb1]

@maggietarmey99 @_lej44 @_KennyUong_ At UCLA, right? I recognize your name! What a funny coincidence!

[Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife]

Outside Delft Station, the absence of cars reveals a richer urban soundtrack: trams gliding, bells ringing, birds chirping, laughter echoing, and bicycles creaking by.

In place of roaring engines, the human-scale soundscape brings the street to life: so serene, yet full of life.