Recently someone told me on social media that he doesn’t care about my sex life and no one does. I hope he’s enjoying my land-use commentary. Sorry I haven’t updated in a few days. I have been working on a piece for a new publication called the New Modality. It’s about relationship anarchy, so if … [Read more…]
Lately, I’ve been manifesting a little. Not everything. Normal bowel movements remain elusive. Despite this, mostly what I’ve been manifesting is extremely hot sex. More than once I’ve thought of exactly what I want to happen in pretty fine detail, run it by someone who seems like they might be down, and it happened. #blessed. … [Read more…]
My friend and fellow YIMBY Steven Buss has written a must-read post on tech’s responsibility to the Bay Area. I’ve reposted it below. In 2011, when Marc Andreessen wrote “Software is eating the world,” the average seed round was about $500,000¹, and the median rent was about $2,600.² As of EOY 2018, seed rounds were up to … [Read more…]
A new working paper from the Dutch central bank shows that subsidizing people’s home mortgages mostly helps wealthier-than-average people buy bigger houses than they would’ve otherwise. It also drives up the price of land and exacerbates income inequality. Business lending, on the other hand, reduces income inequality. The authors wondered why income inequality is greater … [Read more…]
In San Francisco, it’s nearly impossible to build any kind of housing without a public hearing. In a city with a severe shortage of housing that’s causing knock-on effects ranging from homelessness and staggering income inequality to mass displacement and environmental degradation, our leadership supports allowing neighbors to appeal a permit for nearly any reason, … [Read more…]
Hello my babies. If you’ve been reading me writing about the housing crisis and wondered how you can get involved in the solution while drinking with amazing folks in what passes for formalwear in this fashion-forsaken city, I highly recommend you attend our annual YIMBY Party Party (formerly known as the Gala) on October 10th. … [Read more…]
In most of the country, getting a permit to build on your own property is simple, straightforward, cheap, and fast. You buy a piece of land. You propose something to build on it that conforms to applicable zoning and building requirements, and you submit that proposal for review. The city reviews it in a timely … [Read more…]
Last night I attended Destination Health: Solving Homelessness. Destination Health is an event series hosted by the Commonwealth Club and sponsored by Kaiser Permanente. The place was packed. Darrell Steinberg, Mayor of Sacramento, began the night by saying he wanted an obligation to shelter the homeless written into law in California. Los Angeles County Supervisor … [Read more…]
Guys, gals, gender non-conforming individuals. There’s a new diet in town. Now I’m restricted to no caffeine, dairy, sugar, and can only drink clear liquors. This is not a failure, my healer/doctor/functional medicine guru/astrologist (I don’t do astrology but she does) insisted. The goal was to learn. And we learned that I have a lot … [Read more…]
Hello my babies. I’m back from vacay and man. On the one hand my life is awesome and I’m so grateful. I have wonderful friends and family who went out of their way to make me feel really special on my birthday. On the other hand I’m behind on absolutely everything and my elimination diet … [Read more…]