@kbehroozi.bsky.social
Mostly housing and transportation policy. Local elections matter!
Sure wish HCD were watching Menlo Park right now.
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Sure wish HCD were watching Menlo Park right now.
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If you live in a pre-1970 single family home, you're 19x more likely to die in a fire than if you live in a post-2010 multifamily building www.pew.org/en/research-...
Modern Multifamily Buildings Provide the Most Fire Protection
A large body of research has demonstrated that apartment buildings and other types of multifamily housing can provide many benefits to a community, especially when built in high-demand areas where hou...
www.pew.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:15 AM
If you live in a pre-1970 single family home, you're 19x more likely to die in a fire than if you live in a post-2010 multifamily building www.pew.org/en/research-...
Or selling necessary food, or building sidewalks, or developing life-saving vaccines, or designing and building solar devices or or or...
Why should the provision of housing be somehow uniquely exempt from capitalism? (this rhetoric feels especially ironic coming from homeowners in Silicon Valley).
Why should the provision of housing be somehow uniquely exempt from capitalism? (this rhetoric feels especially ironic coming from homeowners in Silicon Valley).
October 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Or selling necessary food, or building sidewalks, or developing life-saving vaccines, or designing and building solar devices or or or...
Why should the provision of housing be somehow uniquely exempt from capitalism? (this rhetoric feels especially ironic coming from homeowners in Silicon Valley).
Why should the provision of housing be somehow uniquely exempt from capitalism? (this rhetoric feels especially ironic coming from homeowners in Silicon Valley).
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Conversations about fire safety in the United States should begin by asking, “Why is our fire fatality rate so much higher than in many other nations, including many nations that allow single buildings?”
If our codes are good, why do they deliver bad results?
If our codes are good, why do they deliver bad results?
If I organized conference sessions, webinars and meetings on the following topic, would you want to be part of one?
FIXING AMERICA’S BROKEN CODES: When it comes to safety and affordability, the US isn’t doing well. Our fire and traffic death rates are far higher than in many other nations.🧵
FIXING AMERICA’S BROKEN CODES: When it comes to safety and affordability, the US isn’t doing well. Our fire and traffic death rates are far higher than in many other nations.🧵
October 23, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Conversations about fire safety in the United States should begin by asking, “Why is our fire fatality rate so much higher than in many other nations, including many nations that allow single buildings?”
If our codes are good, why do they deliver bad results?
If our codes are good, why do they deliver bad results?
Oh damn, I know the source of that cookie. But it should be chocolate chip, and warm, and eaten while still walking back to campus.
September 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Oh damn, I know the source of that cookie. But it should be chocolate chip, and warm, and eaten while still walking back to campus.
(no one but Atherton)
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 AM
(no one but Atherton)
Here, with zero evidence, he casually accuses Haitian immigrants in Huntsville, AL of "raping your women and hunting you down at night." www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
This sounds like Klan rhetoric.
This sounds like Klan rhetoric.
Charlie Kirk warns that Haitian migrants "will become your masters" if Trump loses the election
www.mediamatters.org
September 14, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Here, with zero evidence, he casually accuses Haitian immigrants in Huntsville, AL of "raping your women and hunting you down at night." www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
This sounds like Klan rhetoric.
This sounds like Klan rhetoric.
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk... is pretty hard to square with civility, and I'm not sure what context makes it better. I guess he's not raising his voice and he's wearing a tie, so...
Charlie Kirk: Joe Biden should be "put in prison and/or given the death penalty for crimes against America"
www.mediamatters.org
September 14, 2025 at 3:59 AM
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk... is pretty hard to square with civility, and I'm not sure what context makes it better. I guess he's not raising his voice and he's wearing a tie, so...
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All right, I wrote about it:
The White Civility Council
As the nation reckons with the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, there has been a notable trend from mainstream pundits and press outlets. They have tended to downplay or outright i...
campaign-trails.ghost.io
September 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
All right, I wrote about it:
We were just talking about the fact that the current administration hadn't gotten around to killing Waymo yet. Spoke too soon...
September 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
We were just talking about the fact that the current administration hadn't gotten around to killing Waymo yet. Spoke too soon...