Max Dubler 🏳️🌈
Posting for California YIMBY about housing, and for myself about skateboarding and cameras. Tradeoffs are real. he/him
- This article is ostensibly about a bike lane; but it's really about housing. Every single person quoted complaining about the bike lane lives in the East Bay and spends hours a day driving to Marin County for work because Marin County refuses to build enough housing to accommodate its workforce.
- I think that affordable senior housing and public green space are a better use of public land than a privately operated, for-profit outdoor antiques showroom.
- A real CEQA exemption for infill housing just moved closer to passage.
- [BILL ALERT] AB 609, which exempts infill housing from additional review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) while preserving CEQA review for planning, has passed out of Assembly Appropriations and is headed to the Assembly floor. Learn more: cayimby.org/legislation/...
- I do not think that we should let incumbent residents use housing policy as a way to pick and choose what kinds of people are allowed to move into their neighborhoods.
- The whole “there are 28 vacant homes for every unhoused person” Thing sort of gestures at profound injustice—how can we have deprivation among such plenty?!—until you think for like 30 seconds about what the ideal ratio of empty homes to homeless people would actually look like.
- Personally I think there should be at least 100,000 vacant homes for every homeless person because we should have lots of homes, including deeply subsidized homes for the poor, and vanishingly few homeless people.
- Nothing but respect for this tactical urbanist king. sfstandard.com/2025/05/10/m...
- I have a long term photo project documenting “cookie cutter” San Francisco homes that are identical to their neighbors. These three are on 16th street. There are a lot more on my website: www.maxdubler.com/cookie-cutte...
- Three victorian style homes are not “cookie cutter” - this is, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tract_h...
- These are 1890s tract homes. Their facade moldings were almost certainly ordered from a catalog and built in an off site factory.
