The mayor is stripping Palisades homeowners affected by the fires of their property rights, and being cheered on for doing it by a bunch of far right conspiritards who think the Palisades fire was a government-planned disaster to steal people's property. Huh!

As a result of state housing law, Encinitas permitted more new apartments last year than the city has permitted collectively in the ~40 years since federal permitting reporting started.

This is outrageous. I am working with 4 clients on post Eaton Fire Altadena lots where they have had their primary residence burned down. Running the numbers it makes zero financial sense to rebuild like-for-like on most R1 lots. In a couple cases, my clients have no option but

Democrats want to ban fossil fuels, Republicans want to ban renewables. Together, they’ve found bipartisan common ground: banning energy. Where is the pro-energy party?

All these Santa Monica council members talking about inclusion and opening up Santa Monica to new families are funny. On the rental side their rent control policies ensure the same people stay for ages. We manage a building where 3 of our 3BR apartments are occupied by single

Until Dems get California right people are going to keep hating them.

Very Xi, only he does it on the sly.

This is an extremely disturbing step. BLS is supposed to be a bunch of nerdy statisticians, not propagandists who tell the reigning POTUS what he wants to hear.

More CCP than banana republic.

This is a really smart point. My parents had a lovely Classic Six on the Upper West Side—but because my mother was 26 when she had me, I remember the years she spent scraping paint and patching plaster to make it a lovely classic six rather than the decaying wreck they bought for

A point to remember is that X is just as performative as LinkedIn only in the opposite direction.

Why must EVERY. SINGLE. UNIT. of new housing be such an uphill battle? We have a developer who wants to build 1 (one!) apartment building with 32 units in Middlebury and the NIMBYs are of course fighting it tooth-and-nail. Why does it have to be like this?!

Sigh. This is pure demagoguery from someone I hear good things about. He's smart enough to know 100% immediate deductibility is mostly about plants and equipment. Private jets and fancy cars are noise.

Richard Epstein would certainly argue as much.

He's amazing. Ah, youthful energy!

I know Kamala Harris would have made some terrible appointments. But would any come close to RFKJr in awfulness?