Last week I wrote about why the upcoming SF District Attorney race is important. This week I want to add a little to that conversation and then give a very brief summary of where I stand on the four candidates. The new DA will replace George Gascón. While Gascón has been rightly criticized for declining … [Read more…]
A city’s District Attorney wields an incredible amount of unchecked power. “The prosecutor has more control over life, liberty, and reputation than any other person in America,” Former U.S. Attorney General Robert Jackson said. SF is about to elect our next DA. The stakes are high. A good DA will follow in former SF DA … [Read more…]
Since the latest “our friends turned out to be secret Nazis” episode, I’ve been thinking about Nazi-adjacent ideas. I’m guessing that for some people, the link between ideas that are merely conservative and ideas that are white supremacist or misogynistic isn’t obviously clear. And maybe ideas I’ve been lumping together don’t fit as closely or … [Read more…]
I’m not sure what the saddest part is of finding out that a person you once joked was a Nazi turns out to be like, an actual Nazi. Or, at least someone who liked to use coded slurs for people of color in emails. And converse with avowed white nationalists. And write for their websites. … [Read more…]
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…]