Max Dubler π³οΈβπ
@maxdubler
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Microblogging and policy at @cayimby. Tweets about why housing is expensive and how to make it affordable. Also, skateboarding and pictures of houses. He/him.
San Francisco, CA
Joined November 2012
Salesperson: and as you can see, the jacket has this wonderful red lining. Me, an urban planner, eyes narrowing: it has WHAT.
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Boomers love posting stuff like this and then calling the police on teenage skateboarders because theyβre making noise.
No helmet, no elbow pads, no kneepads and no fear!.Oh how did we survive? π
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Abusing the Americans with Disabilities Act to bring your pet into restaurants and grocery stores is tacky.
Whatβs the most boomer complaint you have?.
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Anyone who comes to America can be an American. Thatβs like our whole Deal.
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Bud Lite has been the default cheap beer at gay bars since 1977, when labor unions and LGBT groups organized a boycott of Coors to protest Coors' practice of forcing employees to take polygraph tests that included questions about their sexual orientation.
This is what happens when you use a marketing and advertising agency that has never met one of your customers.
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While Iβm sure they had a good time, this guy took his daughter on a video shoot, not a camping trip.
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Living off the land.
Whatβs something people romanticize but itβs actually horrible?.
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New transit fare evasion discourse just dropped.
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This kind of dense, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities
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This is the main thoroughfare in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods on earth.
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I used to be a professional photographer. The people who lit, shot, and edited this portrait are either (a) utterly incompetent, (b) hyper-partisan Democrats, or (c) insane.
The Inaugural Portrait of the 50th Vice-President of the United States, JD Vance.
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I was a professional photographer for 10 years. The iPhoneβs long exposure mode, which uses the phoneβs motion sensors to correct for your hand movements and produce crisp photos in situations that used to require a tripod, is an absolutely astounding feat of engineering.
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βI donβt know why people complain about housing affordability when they could just spend four hours a day commuting.β.
There are many who are very invested in proving that affordable housing doesn't exist in the US. If you show them affordable housing, they'll say "but there's no jobs there!". If you show them this $49k 3bd 1100 sq ft home in South Bend Indiana -- 90min from Chicago -- I'm not
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This kind of dense, walkable, pizza-oriented development is illegal to build in almost every US city.
we all want to live here don't we
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There are more current UCLA students than coal miners in the entire country.
Rural folks do this thing where they're like "you out of touch coastal elite, in REAL America EVERYONE does X" and you look up how many people do X and it's like 1% of the population.
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Thrift stores exist to raise funds for the charities that run them, not to give people easy access to cheap clothes.
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You do not have a right to a fixed and unchanging neighborhood character.
PEOPLE DON'T WANT APARTMENT COMPLEXES BUILT NEXT TO THE HOME THEY JUST PAID OFF AFTER 30 YEARS.
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This woman is an absolutely incredible writer because she is able to spin βgetting shushed in the Absolutely Silent room at Brownβ and NYPD crackdowns on loud car stereos into a story about how poor people of color actually love noise pollution.
If gentrification has a sound, itβs silence. Xochitl Gonzalez on why the rich love quiet so much, and what it means for everyone else:
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If you make the buildings a little taller and let them touch, you can have lovely courtyards.
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Iβm just a man, standing in front of the criminal justice system, asking why a 71 year old driver who killed a child with her car is not permanently losing her license.
The driver who struck and killed a 4-year-old girl in a S.F. intersection will avoid jail time, the DAβs Office announced. Karen Cartagena, 71, will serve two years of probation, complete 400 hours of community service and enroll in a driver safety class.
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For those of you who may not be super familiar with San Franciscoβs geography, here is some important context about North Beach.
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@captgouda24 βDo you have a disabilityβ is only a rude question if you think having a disability is shameful.
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Nonsense. If you can afford a $400+ phone, you can afford to spend $20 on a pair of usb-C headphones. People who use their speaker in public are not being systemically oppressed by big corporations, theyβre just rude and inconsiderate.
The WSJ missed the forest for the trees. The issue with speakerphones is systemic. Apple stopped offering direct headphone hookups on their phone. A lot of people for a variety of reasons don't want to use Bluetooths. Apple should be called to account but, hey, it wouldn't be the.
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@trapper_hackett @Drinkin_Bros Are you going to cry if you have to sit in your air conditioned mobile living room a few seconds longer?.
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All of these cars put together have less capacity than one (1) ten-car BART train.
Oakland/San Francisco Bay Bridge Toll Plaza at sunset. You may hate traffic, but this view of people seemingly driving home, adds to the poetry of the scene.
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I think we should put 400,000 additional dwelling units here.
@cafedujord you should get out a map of California and mark on the map where YOU would build 400,000 additional dwelling units.
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Here are the prices of the homes for sale in the neighborhood depicted in this illustration.
Sneak peek π of this weekend's cover. Look out for the story on Thursday at
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Former pro downhill skateboarder here. The way to make an event like the Dolores hill bomb safe is to shut the road down to traffic, line the sidewalks with hay, and require participants to wear helmets; not to have cops in riot gear fire flash bang grenades at kids.
Just want to remind everyone that the Dolores Hill Bombing regularly resulted in serious and life threatening injuries for the kids in past years. This has been a very dangerous event.
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This real estate guy lost all his money because Austin built a bunch of new housing, which raised vacancy rates and gave tenants more leverage to demand lower rents in the existing building that he invested in. If you want to screw landlords and speculators, build more homes.
Lost $100,000 in real estate. Invested in a real estate syndicate with "professionals.". The original proposal was 11% yearly cash return.* The property just went to foreclosure. But Noah, landlords always get rich and real estate always goes up.π. I don't know. Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
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If I did not want tall buildings near my home, I would simply not live in Manhattan.
This is just awful. We live in a 5 story bldg in Manhattan being swallowed by high rises and are currently in an impossible battle to stop the βtallest hospital in the worldβ from being built outside our windows. Families want to move because traffic/construction will endanger.
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I will never forgive General Motors for what they did to Los Angelesβ once robust streetcar transit system.
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QUESTION: Whatβs a gadget thatβs become βnormalβ that you think is ridiculous and unnecessary?. My example β I get that a lot of people really like them, but Iβve never understood the attraction of an electric toothbrush. Just move your hand. I canβt justify the energy use/waste.
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California cannot be a refuge for people fleeing red states when rent is $2,800/month.
Look, I appreciate all of these Democratic governors committing to fight back against Trump but if your plans donβt include building new housing to make it affordable for people to live in your states, you are wasting our time.
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New York City built more housing in the 1920s alone than it has built in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s COMBINED. Nobody alive knows what an actual urban housing boom looks like.
@ckayerawlings In NYC the real estate boom has raised rents as most new constructions are luxury buildings which incentivize existing landlords to raise their rent to the new average.
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Iβm not a big RETVRN guy but we really do need to get back to the time when urban housing was so cheap and plentiful that any kid could show up in San Francisco or New York and find a place to live that they could afford on entry level service sector wages.
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@constans lol remember when all those cops retired right after the George Floyd protests got them a TON of overtime.
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Someone on another microblogging platform posted "OUR GRANDPARENTS COULDβVE BUILT US TRAINS BUT INSTEAD THEY GAVE US PARKING LOTS" and I think that may be the most succinct history of postwar American urban planning I have ever read.
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This is Grad School for βI will NEVER touch grass.β
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Los Angeles could look like this if its streets were not run by sociopathic traffic engineers.
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Many (most?) Americans explicitly believe that they should be allowed to drive as fast as they want, all the time; and that speed limits are fundamentally illegitimate laws that exist solely to generate ticket revenue.
Why are the US Americans on Facebook so vehement against speed cameras, they're so benign and objective.
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Harvey Milk himself brokered the deal between the Teamsters and the gay bar owners. Coors' market share went from 40% to ~14%. From The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts:.
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I hired professional house cleaners for the first time today and I can physically feel the lifestyle creep setting in.
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American urban planning sucks because deep down, everyone with real power believes these 2 things:. 1. Cities are amenities that exist to serve nearby suburbanites. 2. Urban residentsβ quality of life is less important than ensuring that people can drive fast and park for free.
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People have an incredibly hard time with βthis type of housing should be legal, even if I personally donβt want to live in it.β.
IMO, we should build more units like this and some even smaller so that people who can't afford to pay $2k/ month for rent can still get shelter. There should be more diversity in housing so everyone can have a home, regardless of income level.
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While that craftsman house is very cute, Iβm pretty sure that roughly 65% of older neighborhoodsβ appeal over new developments is that they have a mature tree canopy, fully grown-in landscaping, and homes that have been painted to match the ownersβ preferences.
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I am of the uncontroversial belief that Californiaβs temperate coastal areas should be full of inexpensive multifamily housing, like Spainβs is, rather than reserved for $3,000,000 single family homes.
California housing policy pushes people out of temperate, climate-safe areas on the coast and into inland exurbs where they are at risk of extreme heat and wildfires.
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@LittleMammith How do you get to your third year of law school without learning that the first amendment does not give you the right to disrupt a dinner party in someoneβs home?.
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No dude we straight up donβt have enough houses because we havenβt built enough of them for 40 years.
We have an insane amount of energy, wealth, stuff etc. The fact that people are angry and have no security is not a problem of "scarcity," to be solved by "abundance.".
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I would simply not spend forty thousand dollars on a car.
@ramit You post this as if itβs a choice. Cars cost as much as a house used to. What do you think car payments should be for a $40-80,000 vehicle?.
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@CoraCHarrington Absurd and beautiful stuff like this is why I love haute couture and hope the highest end of the fashion industry thrives.
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The chillest way to drive on the highway is to post up in the right lane with your cruise control set at the limit. Canβt recommend it highly enough.
People in the US routinely drive over the speed limit. They also view people who honor speed limits or drive slightly below as incompetent or a problem. Speed kills.
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We have the technology.
Feel like one of the biggest urban/suburban cultural differences is grocery shopping. When asked how I bring home a week's worth of groceries w/o a car, the answer is. I don't. I pick up groceries multiple times per wk, sometimes just enough for that night's dinner.
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All that said we do NOT have to pretend that Bud Light tastes good.
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Ordering delivery on DoorDash is a bad habit I picked up while stuck at home during a global pandemic, not a world-changing medical technology that has saved millions of lives.
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@mistresstailor Wild as hell that people are demanding historical accuracy from a dress you made for yourself that is inspired by a couture show from 6 months ago.
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The lights are off in this building because it is night time and people are sleeping or not at home. Hope this helps!.
Presumably the Yimby theory for why so many of the Centrepoint flats are unsold and unoccupied is that there aren't enough of them? Have I got that right?
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The CyberTruck looks like a Pontiac Aztek rendered on a PlayStation 1.
Saw my first cyber truck in the wild.Don't mean to be a hater but. that's not a good lookin vehicle
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We hear a lot about βluxury beliefsβ from right wingers on here but βI would be happier subsistence farming on a homesteadβ is probably the pinnacle of luxury beliefs. A literal Marie Antoinette take.
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The X logo looks like itβs for one of those ridiculous fragile masculinity subscription box services that would send you like an axe, a bottle of hot sauce, small batch coffee, and some beard oil every month in 2019.
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An unfortunate side effect of building 97% of Americaβs transportation infrastructure around cars is that enforcing reasonable consequences for dangerous driving (eg license suspension) amounts to taking away peopleβs ability to participate in society as a full citizen.
I've experienced this maneuver about five times at the same intersection while dropping off my daughter at school, including twice today. Look, I am not an anti-car bike-hippie loon, but some people's licenses should be confiscated and their cars crushed into cubes.
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For those unfamiliar with SFβs geography, this is why the Board of Supervisorsβ decision to downzone the northern waterfront was so offensive to so many YIMBYs:
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Local public transit agency nonviolently stops fare evasion with this ONE WEIRD TRICK. Police unions HATE him.
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The degrowth framework is very straightforward:. When I (geography masters degree, anti capitalist, cool) go to CDMX for a week, it is a virtuous cultural exchange. When you (business undergrad, uncool, Biden voter) visit Mexico City itβs a commodified, exploitative transaction.
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American cities made this kind of very inexpensive housing illegal decades ago on the assumption that poor people would get nicer housing as a result. Instead, millions of people were forced into overcrowded, expensive housing and hundreds of thousands were made homeless.
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Californians will be like "we need to protect this neighborhood's character forever" and the neighborhood looks like this
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Correct. You do not have a right to use the stateβs police power to exclude poor and working class people from your neighborhood.
βGo completely isolate from everyone in society if you donβt wanna live around certain peopleβ.
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This is what gentrification actually looks like: six relatively inexpensive apartments being replaced by three very expensive townhouses.
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The best part of Vancouverβs indigenous-led developments is watching old white dudes scream, cry, and fill their diapers about new apartment buildings in a major world city.
Watching the BC leaders debate. @Dave_Eby says we should look at the great things First Nations are doing at the south end of the Burrard St Bridge. Well, I see it almost every day and as an architect said to me today, it's their way of saying "it's payback time". It's awful.
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At the risk of being too βhousing theory of everything,β in a sensible world, this guy would just get a cheap apartment and move out. But because he lives in the Bay Area, heβs stuck living with his mentally ill mother and obeying her rules.
His mom has extreme household rules due to her mental health issues
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This is going to sound classist but ~60% of Americans do not have passports and have therefore never visited a real city that truly prioritizes pedestrians.
There's a large group of Americans who simply cannot handle the notion of making city streets nicer to *be in* rather than convenient to *drive through*. Opposition to speed cameras, traffic calming, etc. flows from that basic mindset. It's incompatible w/ progressive planning.
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Iβm closer to 50 than 20 and I love living in a neighborhood with cafes, transit, and a music venue.
@xurbanxcowboyx NOBODY wants cafes, transit and music venues in thier neighborhood. We don't build society based on what young people want.
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If we are going to bail these people outβand we shouldnβt, because they all knew this land was sliding when they bought or built their homesβthe state should buy these properties at their prop 13 valuations and not a single dime more.
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Personally I do not care if rich people who live right next to one of the most important job centers in the western hemisphere lose their water views so that poor people can have homes.
Developers want a tower taller than San Franciscoβs Telegraph Hill β next to Telegraph Hill. Itβs not a good idea, writes urban design critic @JohnKingSFChron.
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The rents that poor people can afford are not high enough to pay back the cost of building new apartments; so builders lose money on every βaffordableβ unit. (This is why 100% affordable housing buildings need lots of subsidies to be financially feasible.).
Uh-huh. How many of them are affordable?.
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Youβre not supposed to say that part to a reporter.
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We joke, but a parking garage is the tallest structure in many, many American cities' downtowns.
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Smoking crack on the train is not the same as being Black in public but thank you for playing.
@maxdubler We should have those sites. But we don't. And someone "feeling unsafe" is not a justification of. anything, really. After years of Black people being murdered by cops who "felt unsafe" around them, we should know better. If you "feel unsafe" but aren't, that's a you problem.
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Rich people who do not want to change their consumption habits love inventing a theoretical marginalized person who NEEDS whatever wasteful product/service the rich person wants to keep using. We see this across many discourses: DoorDash, fast fashion, congestion pricing, etc.
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Ridge Alkonis was sentenced to 3 years for reckless driving after crashing his car into a restaurant and killing 85yo woman and her son in law. American pundits have been treating this like a grave miscarriage of justice because vehicular manslaughter is effectively legal here.
GREAT AND BREAKING NEWS!. This morning the US parole commission ordered the full parole and immediate release with no supervision of Navy Lt Ridge Alknois . Hereβs a picture of the Alkonis family, reunited!!!
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@SafeStreetRebel It has a zillion sensors that can detect a cyclist in the bike lane; but donβt let that stop you from fighting the local culture war!.
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The people building them will make a lot of money.
Someone please explain to me, like I am a five year old, precisely what the incentive is for the private sector to build houses in such quantities that the amount of money they can charge us for those houses goes down.
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