Jertell
@jertell.bsky.social
Planning, music, development a few other things shoutout CenCal
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In city after city, police are the single biggest budget item.
And I don’t mean like 2% when everything else is 1%. I mean like 40%.
Police take priority over drug treatment, psych care, housing, etc etc etc.
And now we are here.
And I don’t mean like 2% when everything else is 1%. I mean like 40%.
Police take priority over drug treatment, psych care, housing, etc etc etc.
And now we are here.
June 7, 2025 at 3:20 AM
In city after city, police are the single biggest budget item.
And I don’t mean like 2% when everything else is 1%. I mean like 40%.
Police take priority over drug treatment, psych care, housing, etc etc etc.
And now we are here.
And I don’t mean like 2% when everything else is 1%. I mean like 40%.
Police take priority over drug treatment, psych care, housing, etc etc etc.
And now we are here.
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One comparison point I haven't seen people mention re: the Thunder and the Warriors is the volume of goatees. SGA, J-Dub, Dort, and Wallace all have goatees just like Steph, Klay, and Draymond did when they started their run. This has gone extremely overlooked.
June 9, 2025 at 2:03 AM
One comparison point I haven't seen people mention re: the Thunder and the Warriors is the volume of goatees. SGA, J-Dub, Dort, and Wallace all have goatees just like Steph, Klay, and Draymond did when they started their run. This has gone extremely overlooked.
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Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
June 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
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People often stop me in the street (never happened) and ask: “What do people like on Bluesky?”
“Mountains and flowers,” comes my reply.
Mt. Fuji with a sprinkle of flowers for #stunday.
❤️ ✌🏽
#photography #nature #art #eastcoastkin #stormhour #photohour #fuji #japan #flowers #bloomscrolling #scape
“Mountains and flowers,” comes my reply.
Mt. Fuji with a sprinkle of flowers for #stunday.
❤️ ✌🏽
#photography #nature #art #eastcoastkin #stormhour #photohour #fuji #japan #flowers #bloomscrolling #scape
June 8, 2025 at 11:24 AM
People often stop me in the street (never happened) and ask: “What do people like on Bluesky?”
“Mountains and flowers,” comes my reply.
Mt. Fuji with a sprinkle of flowers for #stunday.
❤️ ✌🏽
#photography #nature #art #eastcoastkin #stormhour #photohour #fuji #japan #flowers #bloomscrolling #scape
“Mountains and flowers,” comes my reply.
Mt. Fuji with a sprinkle of flowers for #stunday.
❤️ ✌🏽
#photography #nature #art #eastcoastkin #stormhour #photohour #fuji #japan #flowers #bloomscrolling #scape
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I like telling authoritarians where to shove it in multiple languages
The fact that there's an ASL interpreter there.... Thank you @aoc.bsky.social 🥹😍🤟🏼
May 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I like telling authoritarians where to shove it in multiple languages
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Literally everyone with money on the line understands that building more homes lowers the price of existing homes because the price of housing is set by supply and demand.
When I signed the lease for my Sacramento apartment, I told agent what I did for a living. He said, "Hey, don't legalize too many apartments, I'm already having to give out two months free to fill up this one." He had a more sophisticated understanding of housing than many people in the Capitol.
okay sure so it worked in Denver
and in Austin
and it worked for downtown Oakland and for Sacramento
and yes, it’s worked for decades in Tokyo
but how can we be *sure* that building a lot more homes will make California a more affordable place to live??
and in Austin
and it worked for downtown Oakland and for Sacramento
and yes, it’s worked for decades in Tokyo
but how can we be *sure* that building a lot more homes will make California a more affordable place to live??
April 26, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Literally everyone with money on the line understands that building more homes lowers the price of existing homes because the price of housing is set by supply and demand.
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So-called “inclusionary zoning” is bad policy and we should stop doing it.
Tying affordable housing funding and mandates specifically to new market-rate development is saying, in effect, we are going to tax the renters in these new buildings in order to pay for housing subsidies for, in many cases, slightly poorer or simply luckier (won a housing lottery) renters.
April 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
So-called “inclusionary zoning” is bad policy and we should stop doing it.
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This photo captures an imbalance perfectly.
A dense, human-scale environment where everything fits, until a midsized SUV shoves its way in, claiming space like it’s entitled to it. That’s the design failure of car-centric cities.
A dense, human-scale environment where everything fits, until a midsized SUV shoves its way in, claiming space like it’s entitled to it. That’s the design failure of car-centric cities.
April 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This photo captures an imbalance perfectly.
A dense, human-scale environment where everything fits, until a midsized SUV shoves its way in, claiming space like it’s entitled to it. That’s the design failure of car-centric cities.
A dense, human-scale environment where everything fits, until a midsized SUV shoves its way in, claiming space like it’s entitled to it. That’s the design failure of car-centric cities.
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The price of housing is set by supply and demand.
If your city added 50,000 net new jobs last year but only built 10,000 new homes, rent is going up because demand outpaced supply.
However, it’s going up LESS than if the new homes hadn’t been built.
Many people struggle with this counterfactual!
If your city added 50,000 net new jobs last year but only built 10,000 new homes, rent is going up because demand outpaced supply.
However, it’s going up LESS than if the new homes hadn’t been built.
Many people struggle with this counterfactual!
April 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The price of housing is set by supply and demand.
If your city added 50,000 net new jobs last year but only built 10,000 new homes, rent is going up because demand outpaced supply.
However, it’s going up LESS than if the new homes hadn’t been built.
Many people struggle with this counterfactual!
If your city added 50,000 net new jobs last year but only built 10,000 new homes, rent is going up because demand outpaced supply.
However, it’s going up LESS than if the new homes hadn’t been built.
Many people struggle with this counterfactual!
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my offer to america: we bring woke back
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
my offer to america: we bring woke back
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Full support for any member of Congress, and I mean any member, that mobilizes articles of impeachment on the entire administration immediately. This has gone too far.
April 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Full support for any member of Congress, and I mean any member, that mobilizes articles of impeachment on the entire administration immediately. This has gone too far.
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The purpose of American zoning is to make housing more expensive.
It does that by outlawing inexpensive homes like apartments on the overwhelming majority of residential land, which is reserved exclusively for the most expensive kind of housing: detached single family homes.
It does that by outlawing inexpensive homes like apartments on the overwhelming majority of residential land, which is reserved exclusively for the most expensive kind of housing: detached single family homes.
If city council/planners actually planned for affordability, they’d ban mansions, not apartments. They’d have lot size maximums, not lot size minimums. They’d have higher fees per sq ft of mansion, not apartments. They’d charge the rich in mansions more, not everyone else in apartments.
March 31, 2025 at 12:41 AM
The purpose of American zoning is to make housing more expensive.
It does that by outlawing inexpensive homes like apartments on the overwhelming majority of residential land, which is reserved exclusively for the most expensive kind of housing: detached single family homes.
It does that by outlawing inexpensive homes like apartments on the overwhelming majority of residential land, which is reserved exclusively for the most expensive kind of housing: detached single family homes.
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remember what i said about RFK Jr. being a eugenicist first and foremost? www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...
Agency for older adults, people with disabilities to be shuttered under HHS cuts
In 2022, the Administration for Community Living provided more than 261 million meals to older adults, assistance such as respite care to more than 1.5 million family caregivers, and independent-livin...
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March 30, 2025 at 11:54 PM
remember what i said about RFK Jr. being a eugenicist first and foremost? www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...
Tower District should be as vibrant as the Gaslamp District is in San Diego
March 17, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Tower District should be as vibrant as the Gaslamp District is in San Diego
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The purpose of a system is what it does. Zoning exists primarily to make housing more expensive.
What land use controls do is reserve 80% of residential land for low density housing for the top income earners. They force all multifamily housing into the scraps of land that’s left, often only on polluted arterials (like the apartment I live in.)
Do not piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining
Do not piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining
March 14, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The purpose of a system is what it does. Zoning exists primarily to make housing more expensive.
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A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
March 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
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Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.
March 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.
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As a massive fan of "Sing Sing" I felt this one deeply
March 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
As a massive fan of "Sing Sing" I felt this one deeply
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I don't ever want to see another Hollywood movie where the United States does something to save the world in any way, shape, or form. I draw the line of unbelievable shit at flying dragons.
February 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I don't ever want to see another Hollywood movie where the United States does something to save the world in any way, shape, or form. I draw the line of unbelievable shit at flying dragons.
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Perhaps I only just started noticing them, but there are new kei cars everywhere in Guatemala City.
February 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Perhaps I only just started noticing them, but there are new kei cars everywhere in Guatemala City.
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Land-use planning is my passion.
February 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Land-use planning is my passion.
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I’m on midwinter break.
February 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I’m on midwinter break.
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The Fresno police officer at the center of former Police Chief Paco Balderrama’s fall from grace is making a new claim of retaliation by the city.
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Fresno Police Officer: City Retaliates After I Blew Whistle on Balderrama
The Fresno police officer at the center of Paco Balderrama's fall from grace is making a new claim of retaliation by the city.
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February 27, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The Fresno police officer at the center of former Police Chief Paco Balderrama’s fall from grace is making a new claim of retaliation by the city.
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