Max Dubler 🏳️🌈
@maxdubler.com
Posting for California YIMBY about housing, and for myself about skateboarding and cameras. Tradeoffs are real. he/him
📍 San Francisco
📍 San Francisco
What's your plan to repeal the Faircloth amendment and build the state capacity for this?
November 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
What's your plan to repeal the Faircloth amendment and build the state capacity for this?
Also this building is being built by a nonprofit developer.
November 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Also this building is being built by a nonprofit developer.
How do you explain regional variation in rates of homelessness? Why are there more homeless people per capita in New York and Los Angeles than in, say, Houston?
November 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
How do you explain regional variation in rates of homelessness? Why are there more homeless people per capita in New York and Los Angeles than in, say, Houston?
How do developers make money from empty apartments?
November 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
How do developers make money from empty apartments?
Do you really think the greedy tech companies will make internet-connected pocket computers with built-in cameras and telephones affordable to working people?
November 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Do you really think the greedy tech companies will make internet-connected pocket computers with built-in cameras and telephones affordable to working people?
Supply and demand forces kept people housed perfectly well before we decided to stop building enough new housing ~50 years ago.
November 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Supply and demand forces kept people housed perfectly well before we decided to stop building enough new housing ~50 years ago.
Stancil (a) lives in one of the only cities with broadly affordable housing; and (b) is right that *excluding healthcare, education, and housing,* we are much better off than previous generations.
November 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Stancil (a) lives in one of the only cities with broadly affordable housing; and (b) is right that *excluding healthcare, education, and housing,* we are much better off than previous generations.
People see a post about something and decide that this is their opportunity to say their piece about any topic tangentially related to that thing, even if it has nothing to do with what you actually wrote.
I don't know if we can blame this on illiteracy or if it's just poor manners.
I don't know if we can blame this on illiteracy or if it's just poor manners.
November 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
People see a post about something and decide that this is their opportunity to say their piece about any topic tangentially related to that thing, even if it has nothing to do with what you actually wrote.
I don't know if we can blame this on illiteracy or if it's just poor manners.
I don't know if we can blame this on illiteracy or if it's just poor manners.
Residential real estate investors make money by buying property and then leasing it to rent-paying tenants who live in it.
November 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Residential real estate investors make money by buying property and then leasing it to rent-paying tenants who live in it.
Yeah this is why prices rise at the bottom of the market first.
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Yeah this is why prices rise at the bottom of the market first.
I don’t have to. We have public meetings where people go up to the mic and say “I worked hard to afford my home here and we should not lower the bar for newcomers just because they want to live here” or “we need affordable housing for *the community,* not luxury condos for gentrifiers” ALL THE TIME.
November 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I don’t have to. We have public meetings where people go up to the mic and say “I worked hard to afford my home here and we should not lower the bar for newcomers just because they want to live here” or “we need affordable housing for *the community,* not luxury condos for gentrifiers” ALL THE TIME.
I disagree pretty strongly. A great many people believe that their communities should only build housing for the types of people who deserve it, whether that’s wealthy people who have “worked hard to afford a home in this community” or the morally deserving working poor, rather than yuppies.
November 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I disagree pretty strongly. A great many people believe that their communities should only build housing for the types of people who deserve it, whether that’s wealthy people who have “worked hard to afford a home in this community” or the morally deserving working poor, rather than yuppies.
Georgism isn’t super relevant to California because prop 13 does not appear to be going anywhere any time soon.
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Georgism isn’t super relevant to California because prop 13 does not appear to be going anywhere any time soon.
Our volunteers’ time is a precious and limited resource. We should not waste it on duplicative campaigns that can be won at the state level.
November 11, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Our volunteers’ time is a precious and limited resource. We should not waste it on duplicative campaigns that can be won at the state level.
Thanks Mark! DM me if you have ideas for how to slap down bad behavior from local governments on ADU stuff.
November 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Thanks Mark! DM me if you have ideas for how to slap down bad behavior from local governments on ADU stuff.
I like the classic Dohm, which I have on a timer. When I travel I play a recording of it on my laptop.
November 11, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I like the classic Dohm, which I have on a timer. When I travel I play a recording of it on my laptop.
Totally agree. It’s a less useful framework at a larger scale of governance.
November 11, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Totally agree. It’s a less useful framework at a larger scale of governance.
Housing politics is fundamentally a conflict between people like me who believe we should build homes of all types to welcome everyone and people who believe they should have the power to use housing policy to pick and choose who gets to live in their community.
November 11, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Housing politics is fundamentally a conflict between people like me who believe we should build homes of all types to welcome everyone and people who believe they should have the power to use housing policy to pick and choose who gets to live in their community.