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Brian Hanlon

@hanlon.bsky.social
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I co-founded @cayimby.bsky.social to make California affordable and accessible for everyone. Support pro-housing candidates: cayimbyvictoryfund.org

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
RAND: Measure ULA blocked 9,000+ new homes and cost LA $452M in forgone revenue. Fewer homes mean higher rents for everyone. Targeted reform could produce 19,000 more homes while preserving 72% of revenue. www.rand.org/pubs/researc...
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Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
"a mix of tendentious, biased research, feeble academic agitprop and jargon-laden nonsense" is my new go-to description for the anti-YIMBY slop coming out of geography departments. www.vanderbilt.edu/principles/s...
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State of Scholarship Report
Introduction We presume that our readers recognize the value of the humanistic disciplines and their central place in the modern research university. The humanities and the social sciences take as the...
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Brad Ewing @bradleyewing.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
California if the legislature didn’t water down every Wiener housing bill
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.
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Saad Asad @realsaadasad.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
San Diego fell from 5th to 12th most expensive rental market by building more multifamily housing per capita than any other California city. This is what happens when you actually build. The lesson isn't complicated. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/13/s...
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The corruption surrounding Trump’s “settlement” with the IRS is breathtaking: Nearly $2B to be disbursed to Trump’s allies, releasing Trump, his families & businesses from all tax liability & immunizing them from audits. There must be severe accountability for this strip-mining of the U.S. Treasury
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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
We have four great pro-housing candidates running for governor. Here's what we like, what concerns us, and questions we still have about Xavier Becerra, Tom Steyer, Katie Porter, and Matt Mahan. By our co-founder and CEO, @hanlon.bsky.social:
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On the Race for California Governor: An Abundance of Pro-Housing Candidates
Ballots have already dropped. The primary is June 2. What follows is what we like, what concerns us, and the specific questions we still want answered by each candidate. We've tried to be honest and t...
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Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Becerra sued a city under the HAA and won. Steyer backed SB 79 when it was costly to. Porter has shown rare willingness to say no to allies. Mahan cut fees and unlocked 2,000 homes in San Jose. 3,300+ word assessment of the candidates, and 3 asks for the winner:🧵 cayimby.org/blog/on-the-...
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On the Race for California Governor: An Abundance of Pro-Housing Candidates
Ballots have already dropped. The primary is June 2. What follows is what we like, what concerns us, and the specific questions we still want answered by each candidate. We've tried to be honest and t...
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Posting is cool, but taking action is even cooler. One of the most impactful thing you can do to advance YIMBYism in California is to team up with other YIMBYs and knock on doors for pro-housing candidates. Join us this Saturday for the first YIMBY Day of Action! linktr.ee/cayimby#5595...
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Armand Domalewski @armanddomalewski.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
most YIMBY skeptical work tends to be bad but this is so absurdly bad I’m amazed the Urban Institute published it
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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
One of the most effective things you can do for housing is help elect people who support it. May 9 & 16, California YIMBY Days of Action make it easy. Find a canvass near you, show up, and help move a competitive primary in the right direction. linktr.ee/cayimby#5595...
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Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Any tall Portlanders have a bike I could borrow from June 19 - 20, or know of a good shop that rents bikes for tall people?
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I've spent my life sticking my neck out for San Francisco. Building housing to bring down costs, protecting our healthcare, and making sure ICE can't hide behind masks. I've got a long neck, and an even longer track record of serving this community. I'd be honored to represent you in Congress.
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Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Philanthropic foundations: please don’t fund a left-right alliance against liberal democracy because you dislike neoliberalism. Fascism is much much worse!
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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Oregon's legislature passed a bill requiring cities to fund affordability mandates for new buildings or scrap them. Portland's unfunded version had driven builders to cap projects at 19 homes to dodge the mandate. www.sightline.org/2026/03/05/o...
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Oregon’s New Path to Inclusionary Housing: Fully Funded and Flexible | Sightline Institute
An environmental justice champion led the push to end counterproductive, unfunded mandates.
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Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Favorite tools for *reliably* and *accurately* extracting text from PDFs?
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Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Despite some reports, California YIMBY is not close to endorsing anyone for Governor. Those who say otherwise are lying. We look forward to hearing from Democratic candidates for Governor at our candidate forum on Friday morning!
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
"The ballot initiative is bad and will destroy local housing production, but the vibes are good so I'm voting for it." Reminds me of how folks in Los Angeles talked about ULA, a blunder that might be ending Mayor Bass' career four years early.
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Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Legalize beauty! Here’s a preview of California YIMBY’s new aesthetic agenda. We can achieve broad-based housing affordability AND build beautiful buildings and neighborhoods.
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Metropolitan Abundance Project @metroabundance.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
What if NYC invested $1B/yr in building transit instead of free-fare buses? 41 miles of new subway, housing, and so much more. @usa.streetsblog.org looks at the Transit Cost Project's new 'expansive and audacious plan' to make the city more affordable.
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 27/01/2026
“San Francisco taxes new housing at about the same rate that it taxes cigarettes.” www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open... by @dbroockman.bsky.social
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If S.F. Mayor Lurie wants affordability, he should stop taxing new homes at the same rate as cigarettes
OPINION: If Mayor Lurie wants to deliver on his promises of affordability, he should San Francisco from putting sin taxes on new homes, David Broockman writes.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
1. Shoot people like dogs 2. Unrest 3. Martial law The plan is that transparent. Don’t let them
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Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
8w / ch isn’t enough. Have an old HiFi integrated or separates? Donate them to California YIMBY!
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Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
💯 We should also honor, and work to embody, the extraordinary discipline of civil rights movement participants to execute their outcome-oriented plans, rather than do what felt righteous.
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Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
2,500 likes for a tweet that misrepresents the argument in the screenshot. Adam Jentleson does not say Dems “should adopt the policy positions of the average MAGA voter.” I agree - Dems shouldn’t do that! Dems do need to persuade some Trump voters to exercise power, however.
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Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Please think harder about what it means that Trump’s goons are killing American moms with impunity, where Trumpism could go, and what it will take to stop him. Most American voters supported Trump. We need to make it easy and OK for Trump’s former supporters to join his longstanding opponents.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 09/01/2026
Extremely cool policy job opening for anyone interested in transportation. Can be fully remote (US only)! www.metroabundance.org/jobs/transpo...
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Transportation Research Associate - Metropolitan Abundance Project
The Organization The Metropolitan Abundance Project (MAP) works to make American cities prosperous, affordable, sustainable, and joyous places to live and raise families. We help advocates and legisla...
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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Want to learn what's in the pipeline in the California Legislature this year to get more & better housing for everyone? RSVP for the Legislative Town Hall in Oakland this Saturday at 10:30am, by @cayimby.bsky.social and co-sponsored by us. actionnetwork.org/forms/2026-o...
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2026 Oakland Legislative Town Hall
The YIMBY Movement took huge strides toward making California housing more affordable and abundant this year – and YOU helped make it happen. That’s why we’re inviting you to the 2026 YIMBY Legislativ...
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Buffy Wicks @buffywicks.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
As we kick off the first hearing of the Select Committee on Housing Construction Innovation, here’s why modernizing construction is essential to building housing faster and more affordably ⬇️
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
This is the smartest thing I've read about the Venezuelan regime change effort.
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Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Is this Census data accurate? Do only 3% of workers in this North Beach census tract take public transit to work?
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 27/12/2025
My pickleball building code strategy is to adopt European window standards so that we can buy and manufacture triple-glazed tilt-and-turn windows at affordable prices that actually keep sound out
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Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Claude Code rules. After hacking a Gibson, I updated Palo Alto's zoning code. Which city should get Manhattanized next?
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Every single report to shareholders from a large REIT includes something about how it's great that market-rate multifamily housing isn't getting built in high-cost coastal cities because the shortage is what allows them to rent gouge.
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Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
SF has atrocious transit for people who value their time. I wish SF transit advocates would stop pretending the transit status quo is acceptable. We look unserious to normies when we praise our third-world transit system.*
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Chirag Lala @cthelala.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
If we believe (rightly) that clean energy technologies have a ton of potential domestically, then there's little downside to O&G permitting concessions and facilitating export alongside big reforms to clean energy interconnection, T&D, and permitting. You either believe clean tech works or don't.
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Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
“Improving the epistemic environment” for decision makers (including voters!) is an underrated philanthropic effort.
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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The most important thing AC Transit can do is to set actual speed, frequency and reliability service goals (vision timetable) for the network. That way ACT, host cities, the public and funders know what discrete improvements are supposed to add up to.
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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
California legislators and committee consultants will tell you that the monthly fee for an ignition interlock device ($12 with the subsidy) is too great a financial burden for low-income who have killed someone with their vehicle.
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Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I unexpectedly have ~2 hours free in DC tonight. Anyone up?
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Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Very upsetting that ACLU is pro-drunk driving. Requiring in-car breathalyzers for people convicted of a DUI is not "a form of racialized wealth extraction." People of all backgrounds are getting killed and maimed by reckless drivers. Let's stop the carnage! calmatters.org/newsletter/c...
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CA leaders look away as road deaths skyrocket
More and more people are dying on California roads, and millions are getting injured. What are lawmakers doing as vehicle deaths increase?
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Brad Ewing @bradleyewing.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The left has a nonprofit industrial complex problem
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Brad Ewing @bradleyewing.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Middle class / professional YIMBYs priced out of their own communities are speaking from their own lived experience, and have more legitimacy than college-educated, white shoe lawyers claiming to speak on behalf of "communities in greatest need of housing affordability."
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 27/11/2025
Still thinking about this article. It’s always been a sore spot in YIMBY circles that so many progressive foundations pour money into NIMBYism, and I’m glad it’s finally being aired in public. Keep talking about it. www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...
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Philanthropy Needs to Pick a Side on the Housing Construction Debate
Despite California’s severe housing shortage, foundations are still funding on the wrong side of the housing fight there, guest author Ned Resnikoff writes.
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Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
"The buildings that single-stair promotes are just more — what’s the word? Nicer. They’re nicer." Love this quote from @edmendoza.bsky.social! calmatters.org/housing/2025...
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One California city’s idea to tackle the housing crisis: Take the stairs
For champions of more housing development, ditching the extra staircase has become a buzzy cause in fighting California's housing crisis.
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Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Georgia also boasts to most metal statue, Kartlis Deda. "She symbolizes the Georgian national character: in her left hand she holds a bowl of wine to greet those who come as friends, and in her right hand is a sword for those who come as enemies"
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Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Just in time for weekend reading: a 110 page PDF of foundations behaving badly. Note these findings represent an undercount of foundation support for anti-housing orgs in CA. YIMBY groups are massively outspent by left-NIMBYs!
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
This piece is based on research showing that since 2018 major foundations have given more than a quarter of a billion dollars to nonprofits that went on to oppose YIMBY legislation in California
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Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Foundations should stop funding groups that advance harmful housing policies. These left-NIMBY nonprofits dwarf the YIMBY movement w/r/t funding and paid staff. Great piece from @resnikoff.bsky.social! www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...
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Philanthropy Needs to Pick a Side on the Housing Construction Debate
Despite California’s severe housing shortage, foundations are still funding on the wrong side of the housing fight there, guest author Ned Resnikoff writes.
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