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mmautner
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Software + economics 🌇 🚶🏽‍♀️🚲🛴🚌🚅 Urban environmentalist, pro-freedom of movement, we are all immigrants. Charge market rate for car parking.
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Is private equity really the issue, or is it the power of existing homeowners to block construction?
‘This will negatively impact home values’—California parents oppose plan to build affordable housing for teachers
Residents of San Jose cited concerns about the effect new affordable housing would have on home prices.
www.marketwatch.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Don’t be fooled by him. Private equity is a small part of the problem. This is a distraction.

In his own district, regular homeowners fight tooth and nail to block housing. People have held hunger strikes to block homeless shelters and housing for teachers

www.marketwatch.com/story/this-w...
‘This will negatively impact home values’—California parents oppose plan to build affordable housing for teachers
Residents of San Jose cited concerns about the effect new affordable housing would have on home prices.
www.marketwatch.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This tired retreat to NIMBY populism will receive a choir of “boos” in the years to come.
a woman in a gray dress and head scarf is standing in front of a stone wall .
ALT: a woman in a gray dress and head scarf is standing in front of a stone wall .
media.tenor.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Most substantive legislative bill this year. Let’s hear some sputtering about “neighborhood character”
November 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Lol, I think they’ve got that covered! 🤌
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
In short: no
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.

The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.

"I could smell the onions and mustard."
November 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Very rational take—“we’re full, go to Texas”
November 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
He also is worried about the housing units being AirBnBed, and yet he operates an AirBnB less than a mile away
November 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM