Sam Shapiro-Kline
@originalssk.bsky.social
Housing, housing, and more housing
Santa Monica
Santa Monica
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"Giving L.A. a veto over state policy would doom California to more of the same — rising costs, worsening displacement and endless obstruction." calmatters.org/commentary/2...
Opinion | Los Angeles housing permits are tanking, yet leaders want Newsom to veto a major reform
Signing SB 79 should be an easy call, despite pressure from L.A. Newsom should know better than to let L.A. dictate state housing policy.
calmatters.org
October 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"Giving L.A. a veto over state policy would doom California to more of the same — rising costs, worsening displacement and endless obstruction." calmatters.org/commentary/2...
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Senator Aisha Wahab is speaking to Santa Monica’s Northeast Neighbors (NEN) group tonight. NEN is a notorious NIMBY group, “representing” 5000 multi-millionaire single family homeowners.
Something tells me they would not support social or Affordable housing in their exclusionary nabe!
Something tells me they would not support social or Affordable housing in their exclusionary nabe!
August 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Senator Aisha Wahab is speaking to Santa Monica’s Northeast Neighbors (NEN) group tonight. NEN is a notorious NIMBY group, “representing” 5000 multi-millionaire single family homeowners.
Something tells me they would not support social or Affordable housing in their exclusionary nabe!
Something tells me they would not support social or Affordable housing in their exclusionary nabe!
@urbanizela.bsky.social Santa Monica put out a notice of availability for 2 large sites that are available now as Surplus Land. Is that something you'd be interested in covering? www.santamonica.gov/media/Housin...
www.santamonica.gov
July 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
@urbanizela.bsky.social Santa Monica put out a notice of availability for 2 large sites that are available now as Surplus Land. Is that something you'd be interested in covering? www.santamonica.gov/media/Housin...
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Look at the difference between NorCal and SoCal.
In the Bay, out of the 11 Senators repping urban areas, 8 voted yes.
In LA County, out of 13 Senators only 4 voted yes.
The LA delegation is killing housing bills.
In the Bay, out of the 11 Senators repping urban areas, 8 voted yes.
In LA County, out of 13 Senators only 4 voted yes.
The LA delegation is killing housing bills.
June 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Look at the difference between NorCal and SoCal.
In the Bay, out of the 11 Senators repping urban areas, 8 voted yes.
In LA County, out of 13 Senators only 4 voted yes.
The LA delegation is killing housing bills.
In the Bay, out of the 11 Senators repping urban areas, 8 voted yes.
In LA County, out of 13 Senators only 4 voted yes.
The LA delegation is killing housing bills.
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Cities choose to have a housing crisis.
Between March 2024-2025, Sacramento’s population grew, rents did not increase, and weekly wages rose by 9%
Nothing short of a resounding endorsement of the city’s commitment to infill housing development.
www.bizjournals.com/sacramento
Nothing short of a resounding endorsement of the city’s commitment to infill housing development.
www.bizjournals.com/sacramento
www.bizjournals.com
May 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Cities choose to have a housing crisis.
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Don't build luxury housing, just turn existing affordable housing into luxury housing and deport the working and middle class who live in it to Nevada: this is the California status quo.
Senator Durazo: "affordable housing solutions and the rights of tenants are top priority for me. The concern is that it would open the door for more market rate at the expense of affordable housing. I am aligned with nonprofit groups who are concerned that this would lead to more market rate."
April 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Don't build luxury housing, just turn existing affordable housing into luxury housing and deport the working and middle class who live in it to Nevada: this is the California status quo.
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I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.
I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.
Headed to El Salvador to meet with government officials and discuss return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
youtube.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.
I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.
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This is no longer left vs. right.
It’s democracy vs. autocracy.
Everyone must pick a side.
We choose democracy.
Join us on 4/19.
It’s democracy vs. autocracy.
Everyone must pick a side.
We choose democracy.
Join us on 4/19.
April 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This is no longer left vs. right.
It’s democracy vs. autocracy.
Everyone must pick a side.
We choose democracy.
Join us on 4/19.
It’s democracy vs. autocracy.
Everyone must pick a side.
We choose democracy.
Join us on 4/19.
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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
Renters aren't pollutants! It's time for CA to say yes to infill housing.
CA's prohousing caucus has thrown down gauntlet: No more CEQA, period, for any housing project on an infill site (up to 20 acres!) that complies with applicable general plan & zoning standards.
A decisive break w/ "everything bagel" tradition!
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A decisive break w/ "everything bagel" tradition!
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Bill Text - AB-609 California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: housing development projects.
AB 609 California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: housing development projects.
leginfo.legislature.ca.gov
March 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Renters aren't pollutants! It's time for CA to say yes to infill housing.
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What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!
February 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!
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Auckland went all in on YIMBY, and the results are clear: 43,500 new homes in 10 years, and rents down 28% relative to peers.
www.population.fyi/p/beyond-ske...
www.population.fyi/p/beyond-ske...
Beyond Skepticism: Data Confirms Auckland's Zoning Reforms Delivered on Housing Promises
Three rigorous studies, 43,500 new homes, and a 28% drop in rents: The data is in on Auckland's great housing experiment
www.population.fyi
February 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Auckland went all in on YIMBY, and the results are clear: 43,500 new homes in 10 years, and rents down 28% relative to peers.
www.population.fyi/p/beyond-ske...
www.population.fyi/p/beyond-ske...
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I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge.
We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style
Here’s the details 🧵
We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style
Here’s the details 🧵
February 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge.
We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style
Here’s the details 🧵
We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style
Here’s the details 🧵
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Protesters rally in downtown L.A. against deportation — Demonstrators rallied at City Hall and walked onto the 101 Freeway carrying signs and chanting, “Si se puede!”
lapublicpress.org/2025/02/down...
lapublicpress.org/2025/02/down...
Protesters rally in downtown L.A. against deportation
Demonstrators rallied at City Hall and walked onto the 101 Freeway carrying signs and chanting, “Si se puede!”
lapublicpress.org
February 4, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Protesters rally in downtown L.A. against deportation — Demonstrators rallied at City Hall and walked onto the 101 Freeway carrying signs and chanting, “Si se puede!”
lapublicpress.org/2025/02/down...
lapublicpress.org/2025/02/down...
When we let housing be built with few strings attached, it can be affordable! This project in pricey West LA shows the way.
44-unit development for low- and moderate-income renters
ED1 development fully-framed at 11418 W. Missouri Ave. in Sawtelle
An affordable housing development that once found itself at the center of a battle over challenges to the Mayor's Executive Directive 1 is fully-framed in Sawtelle.
la.urbanize.city
January 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
When we let housing be built with few strings attached, it can be affordable! This project in pricey West LA shows the way.
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This is climate change denial in policy form.
This Tuesday, LA County Commission will vote on a clusterf*ck resolution to speed the rebuilding of firetraps -- while exempting "fire impacted communities" from virtually all state housing laws for the next 5 years.
1/5
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January 27, 2025 at 6:19 AM
This is climate change denial in policy form.
This proposal is truly galling from Horvath, who campaigned as being pro-housing. It not just paves a path to build back worse and entrench every mistake in past CA housing policy, but also limit the ability of rebuilding homeowners to reduce their costs, like with a SB9 duplex
basically every state housing law: the HAA, the Housing Element Law, the Density Bonus Law, the commercial-corridors upzoning laws, the parking-reductions-near-transit law, the 5-hearing limit & objective-standards definition of SB 330, and more.
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January 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This proposal is truly galling from Horvath, who campaigned as being pro-housing. It not just paves a path to build back worse and entrench every mistake in past CA housing policy, but also limit the ability of rebuilding homeowners to reduce their costs, like with a SB9 duplex
While not discussing the wildfires, this is what rebuilding could look like. Upzoning around stations surrounded by single family zoning like Westwood/Rancho Park on the E Line is a climate-focused solution.
We are thrilled to announce SB 79, a new bill from @scottwiener.bsky.social that will legalize multi-family housing near transit. We are excited to co-sponsor this landmark legislation with SPUR, @streetsforall.org and the Bay Area Council.
January 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
While not discussing the wildfires, this is what rebuilding could look like. Upzoning around stations surrounded by single family zoning like Westwood/Rancho Park on the E Line is a climate-focused solution.
The Palisades and Eaton fires have pushed LA's housing crisis to a new level. I write about actions local governments should take to unlock faster housing production: santamonicanext.org/2025/01/afte...
After the Fires, Action on Housing Can’t Wait
Los Angeles County has been grappling with a housing shortage for years, a crisis that has manifested in crippling rent burdens, widespread displacement, and a shameful number of residents forced to e...
santamonicanext.org
January 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The Palisades and Eaton fires have pushed LA's housing crisis to a new level. I write about actions local governments should take to unlock faster housing production: santamonicanext.org/2025/01/afte...
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Newsom: let’s suspend CEQA so we can rebuild exactly the same way but keep apartments in safer areas impossible to build
Newsom suspends landmark environmental laws to ease rebuilding in wildfire zones
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order suspending parts of the Coastal Act and the California Environmental Quality Act to aid homeowners rebuilding after losses in last week's wildfires.
www.latimes.com
January 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Newsom: let’s suspend CEQA so we can rebuild exactly the same way but keep apartments in safer areas impossible to build
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Current estimates are that more than 6,000 homes, apartment buildings, businesses and other structures have been lost in the two most destructive ongoing L.A. wildfires.
For comparison, L.A. County as a whole permitted 24,300 new homes in 2023 per Census data. www.latimes.com/california/l...
For comparison, L.A. County as a whole permitted 24,300 new homes in 2023 per Census data. www.latimes.com/california/l...
More than 6,000 homes, structures lost in Palisades, Eaton fires, officials say; more fire weather ahead
Five people have died, but officials say the death toll is likely to be higher. More than 6,000 structures have burned and at least 130,000 residents are under evacuation orders. Experts say L.A. is ...
www.latimes.com
January 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Current estimates are that more than 6,000 homes, apartment buildings, businesses and other structures have been lost in the two most destructive ongoing L.A. wildfires.
For comparison, L.A. County as a whole permitted 24,300 new homes in 2023 per Census data. www.latimes.com/california/l...
For comparison, L.A. County as a whole permitted 24,300 new homes in 2023 per Census data. www.latimes.com/california/l...
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To add to this, Caruso was THE HEAD OF THE WATER BOARD and never said word 1 about storing more water in the Palisades in case of emergency, until the houses he bought for his kids were affected.
I think it also should be mentioned that the person who really got this going was Rick Caruso, the West Coast Trump/developer who Bass kicked the ass of in the election, and who falsely spread conspiracy theories about fire hydrants in the same radio interview.
Not going to stick up for Bass because this is the job, but we’re all in our feelings right now and going after a mayor in a weak-mayor city over a countywide disaster is cope. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/u...
January 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
To add to this, Caruso was THE HEAD OF THE WATER BOARD and never said word 1 about storing more water in the Palisades in case of emergency, until the houses he bought for his kids were affected.
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A long but absolutely crucial read. Democrats lost the 2024 election not because voters swung right and switched to Trump but because Dems stayed home. Dem recovery means understanding why and getting voters to choose them, not the couch.
How Trump “Won”
The Anesthetized Anti-MAGA Majority
www.weekendreading.net
January 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
A long but absolutely crucial read. Democrats lost the 2024 election not because voters swung right and switched to Trump but because Dems stayed home. Dem recovery means understanding why and getting voters to choose them, not the couch.
Today, public school teachers can't afford even studios in Santa Monica. What would a more affordable future look like?
santamonicanext.org/2024/11/what...
santamonicanext.org/2024/11/what...
What’s Affordable in Santa Monica?
With new council-members elected, now is the time to consider what can be achieved together to make Santa Monica a better place to live. The race featured lots of discussion on the need for more affor...
santamonicanext.org
November 15, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Today, public school teachers can't afford even studios in Santa Monica. What would a more affordable future look like?
santamonicanext.org/2024/11/what...
santamonicanext.org/2024/11/what...