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Mahdi Rahimi

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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 22/02/2025
DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Delay. Deny. Defend. That’s sadly been your playbook when it comes to homes. It’s such a shame this site never got built.
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Love to see it! Same goes for BART. We should have tall developments right on top of Glen Park, 24th and 16th street stations in SF.
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
I just bought your book simply because I think you have incredible knowledge and insight on housing and architecture. Very curious what evidence you have for this claim of structural market failure for housing. Why markets works for nearly everything but not for homes?
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
They’re entitled under conditions that make them prohibitively expensive to build. Developers are required to pay a hefty tax for “inclusionary zoning” and use labor and materials that cost ~40% higher than the market. Remove these barriers and watch them pencil like they do all over the country.
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
This is disingenuous. Making housing largely illegal and subject to discretionary whims makes all types of housing (including subsidized housing) more expensive to build.
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Ben Passino (MURP) @benpassino.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Curb bulb outs.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
“Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass and metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools have to. That’s the question that needs to be asked.” - Police Chief in Madison, WI
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Profiles in courage!
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I wonder if we can incentivize delivery companies to use these in SF.
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Thank you for your leadership and your service.
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Oh interesting. So 20 feet of crosswalk is measured from the far side of it?
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The legal requirement is 20 ft, this is maybe half of that. Bigger!
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This could be Valencia Street.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
If you want to understand why healthcare pricing is horrific, the first thing to know is that our system puts 100% of the credit risk for deductibles, copays and co-insurance on hospitals and doctors. That's insane. We have turned them into Sub Prime Lenders 🧵
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
We really need to do something about this type of abuse. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/b...
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How One of the World’s Richest Men Is Avoiding $8 Billion in Taxes (Gift Article)
The chief executive of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, has taken advantage of popular loopholes in the federal estate and gift taxes, which have quietly been eviscerated.
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Seb @sebfrost.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The solution to poor driving is rocks Parking on the pavement? Put some big ol' rocks in the way Are cars going too fast? Cover the road in little bumpy rocks Street too wide? Big pile of rocks for cars to go around Need a bike lane? Line of chunky rocks to keep cars away Rocks 👍 🪨🌳🚶🚴‍♂️
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Why don’t we have a state wide permitting office?
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Safe Street Rebel @safestreetrebel.com · 09/12/2024
even better, we should build infrastructure that makes bad driver behavior impossible: car free spaces, concrete protected bike lanes, BOLLARDS!! cheaper and more effective than cops or cameras. please consult the Triangle
A diagram explaining the hierarchy of controls, a concept from industrial engineering trying to reduce the risk of workplace hazards.

The diagram lists strategies from top to bottom going from most effective to least effective. On the right, are those strategies applied to safer streets. In order:
- Elimination (Ban Cars)
- Substitution (Walking, Biking, Transit)
- Engineering (Curbs, Bollards, Barriers)
- Process (Signs, Education, Enforcement)
- PPE (Helmets, Hi-Viz, Shame flags)
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
What’s the solution?
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Regarding insurers, this is basically true, but the problem is this: The stuff that people get mad at them for doing is often stuff that a single public entity with monopsony power would ALSO do. Remember "death panels"? There's no universe where SOMEONE isn't making these decisions.
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
What’s your take on expanding access to medical care and reducing healthcare costs in CA by joining and implementing IMLC?
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I really cannot overemphasize to you enough that any alternative system of insurance would also limit care. There is no world in which you have free unlimited access to whatever health care you want.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 06/12/2024
good piece on how Madrid built out a massive metro expansion for like 1/20th of what it costs in NYC worksinprogress.co/issue/how-ma...
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How Madrid built its metro cheaply - Works in Progress
Madrid tripled the length of its metro system in just 12 years — faster and cheaper than almost any other city in the world. What can its expansion teach other cities?
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
How many people do you think are housed with the salary they make from building those carrier groups? Besides geopolitical and security primary reasons defense spending is also a huge domestic jobs program.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Dear Perro Sanxes, I am 26 year old American Citizen. My people and my country yearn the freedom and justice you enjoy in Spain. please send Eurofighter Typhoons, a collection of spanish wine, and a buch of civil servants who work in metro construction agencies
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YIMBYLAND @yimbyland.com · 06/12/2024
Dallas' minimum parking requirements mandate that bars must have one parking space per 100 square feet of floor area. Literally government-mandated drunk driving.
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
What does it take for @sfmta.bsky.social to be like the Spaniards? worksinprogress.co/issue/how-ma...
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How Madrid built its metro cheaply - Works in Progress
Madrid tripled the length of its metro system in just 12 years — faster and cheaper than almost any other city in the world. What can its expansion teach other cities?
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Do you want to rent a mansion in Sea Cliff or stay at a parking lot in your vehicle in Bayview? Because the latter costs San Francisco taxpayers more in subsidies. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/h...
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After a tumultuous run, San Francisco set to close exorbitantly expensive homeless site
San Francisco's only safe parking site for homeless people living in vehicles will close after three years of legal disputes, code violations and complaints.
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
My parents bought their first home when I was 10. It was the one before this one. 1200 sqft, 3 small bedrooms, 1 bath but split. Third floor walk up. Our neighbor had demolished a SFH to build 3 units, sold 2 and kept 1 for himself.
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I just took them for granted. Nothing special about this one in particular. Everyone I knew lived in something like this. And they were always condos built for purchase. Renters just rented from an individual owner not from the developers who owned the entire building.
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
4 per floor. All corner units effectively. The site was formerly a single family home on a corner lot. This was/is in Tehran. My parents’ unit also had a large porch off the kitchen and a small balcony off one of the bedrooms.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The FTA just released October US transit ridership data, so I want to highlight the results of 3 big recent transit expansions First is the Bay Area's Caltrain, where ridership is up 78% year-on-year in the wake of the line's recent electrification!
a graph of Caltrain ridership, which hovers at about 17M annualized before collapsing during COVID then spiking during recent electrification
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I grew up in a family-sized, 3 bed 2 bath apartment in a 6 story building with a single stairs core and 2 smaller elevators. It’s this magical unicorn dream here!
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Is there an ELI5 explainer for all these PBMs? I keep reading your posts about them but still just don’t understand the basics of what they are and how they work.
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
NIMBYs warned us about dangers of a tsunami and we didn’t listen.
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Ruth Malone, RN, PhD @remalone.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
"Slower is safer. Injury collisions on SF’s 18 Slow Streets decreased 45 percent": Great piece from @thefrisc.bsky.social : thefrisc.com/san-francisc...
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San Francisco’s Upcoming Bike Plan Got Its Backbone During COVID
Slow Streets have cut injury crashes nearly in half. Planners will roll out a new bike network soon. Have they learned that slower is safer?
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 03/12/2024
The thing about YIMBYism is that it actually does work.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
If you've got a housing shortage, you really do just need to make it easier to build housing. Too many Dem politicians think the way forward is to make homebuilding easier in some ways while layering on new requirements to make sure it doesn't get *too* easy.
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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I think we should charge for parking in commercial areas
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Metered parking is great for businesses. SF meters are dynamically priced to make sure some spots are open.
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Valencia St when.
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
This is one of the grossest articles I have read from @sfstandard.com They’re lamenting that killing zero kids from traffic accidents is just too much to ask from speeding drivers. sfstandard.com/2024/11/28/r...
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These San Franciscans blame pedestrians for traffic deaths
San Francisco’s Vision Zero data suggest that in recent years, motorists were at fault in most pedestrian deaths by car. Still, some readers think city safety measures do more to inconvenience drivers...
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Shot. Chaser.
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Of course those externalities matter. But the point here is you can’t tell poor people to freeze in cold because you rightly believe their energy source causes some harm down the line. People don’t care about fracking or coal. They just need cheap energy. Job is to make green energy cheap.
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
100000%. Being a YIMBY is baseline expectation of progressive values in politics in 2024. Like you can’t not be a feminist and then claim any legitimate progressive bona fides.
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The prices are high in this ‘high-end’ market because relatively few homes exist relative to the demand. Abundance of homes means they can no longer rent as easily for $5k or sell for millions anymore because someone else will offer a cheaper one down the block.
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
How would abundance of market rate housing not solve the housing affordability issue? Sure, some people will always make too little money to be able to afford even a cheap rent, but it’s easier to help them where the rent gap to be covered by the state is lower.
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Because something happened in nearly 20 cases! And I refuse to accept defeat. I am quite discouraged about submitting any parking violation tickets because of the very low action rate though.
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Mahdi Rahimi @mahdirahimi.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I’m at 198. Need to step up my game.
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