Mark Dinan

Silicon Valley Recruiter. Lives in East Palo Alto. East Palo Alto City Council 12/2024 - present. Vice Mayor of East Palo Alto, 2025

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

the overwhelming economic evidence shows us that building housing, including market rate housing, reduces rents---if you oppose building new housing you are hurting tenants. period. full stop.

arguing otherwise is the equivalent of climate denial at this point

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

@ReidChalker there are hundreds of studies at this point showing that building market rate housing reduces rents, and vanishingly few that suggest it increases them. even the most yimby skeptical papers argue that market rate housing doesn't reduce rents *enough*

[Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler]

So-called "inclusionary zoning" is a tax on new less-expensive homes that lets urban elected Democrats NIMBY new housing on behalf of their homeowner constituents while posing as friends of the poor. The Supreme Court should throw it out as an unconstitutional taking.

[Mark Dinan @markdinan]

@JaredDHardin Weber is the only answer

[Mark Dinan @markdinan]

@nycvoter @mattyglesias @MattZeitlin Now I am sad

[Mark Dinan @markdinan]

@bankertobuilder We should take our cues from the Vatican

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Americans really, really, REALLY don't like progressive ideology.

[Mark Dinan @markdinan]

@moseskagan @loobah_l @JorCru https://t.co/i8uc3rPkxo

We passed a street vendor ordinance in East Palo Alto this spring. Government exists so you can regulate things like this.

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

America's most beautiful neighborhoods were built in a time when there was no design regulation—developers didn't complete along the margin of fighting for permits, but along the margin of producing a better product.

[Mark Dinan @markdinan]

@ArmenSaryan @AaronNagler I remember getting a George Webb hamburger somewhere during that streak

[Mark Dinan @markdinan]

@jasonc_nc https://t.co/ooVbeaHe6j

[Mark Dinan @markdinan]

@jasonc_nc I am from a small town of 1500 in Wisconsin. All the smart kids left as soon as the could.

[Mark Dinan @markdinan]

@jimmygandhi @devahaz @ad0rnai The only bar in East Palo Alto is at the Four Seasons, so….

[Mark Dinan @markdinan]

This is the way forward - much cheaper than building from scratch.

[Guy Oron @GuyOron]

BREAKING: The Seattle Social Housing Developer has announced its first acquisition, a 150-unit apartment building near Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle, for the cost of $60.9 million. It plans to convert half the units to be affordable for low and middle-income tenants.

[City of Palo Alto @cityofpaloalto]

HAPPENING NOW: Join Palo Alto and East Palo Alto City Officials, Caltrans, Valley Water, and other regional partners to recognize the start of construction of the Newell Road Bridge Replacement Project. Learn more at https://t.co/D2fHXEniSl

[Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler]

Affordable housing requirements in new apartment buildings do not force land owners or developers to take lower profits. They just wait until rents go up enough to cover the cost of the subsidies.

[Vignesh Swaminathan PE MrBarricade @viggyswam]

Transit-oriented development works everywhere it's tried.

We just keep deciding not to try it.

Tokyo, Amsterdam, Zurich, Singapore. Dense housing near transit. High ridership. It's not complicated.

[Saad Asad @realsaadasad]

San Diego fell from 5th to 12th most expensive rental market by building more multifamily housing per capita than any other California city.

This is what happens when you actually build. The lesson isn't complicated.

[Kim-Mai Cutler @kimmaicutler]

Flock saves lives.

[Rahul Sidhu @rahul]

Last year, the city of Austin turned off their Flock cameras as the result of a targeted misinformation campaign.

This weekend, for nearly 24 hours, three suspects drove around Austin in stolen vehicles, undetected, conducting a shooting spree at 12 separate locations. They shot multiple people, houses, apartment buildings, businesses, and fire stations. They committed multiple robberies and car thefts during the spree. Despite a full manhunt involving 200 officers, with helicopter and K9 support, they weren't able to locate the suspects, and the spree continued.

Luckily, the suspects drove into the Flock-supported city of Manor, TX. Manor is a small city with ~20k residents, and a fraction of Austin's budget. What they do have is modern technology and the ability not to fall victim to misinformation campaigns.

After the suspects drove into Manor to continue their shooting spree, Manor PD located them almost immediately. The residents of Manor stayed safe.

This is a tale of two cities.

I love Austin. I have plenty of friends who live there. I myself almost moved there years ago. I'm glad that the shooting spree is over, but I just wish it never happened.