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Mark Dinan

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East Palo Alto City Councilman

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 16/09/2026
The US Administration is poised to announce a new $100,000 tax on international students who work even briefly after graduation. This is not the H-1B tax, it's new and additional. Today @iza.org released my new estimates of the economic effects of that tax —>
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Taxes on International Students: Demand and Supply Response for Post-Graduation Foreign Workers on Optional Practical Training
The US government has proposed various taxes on high-skill immigration. The effects of such taxes hinge on price elasticities of demand and supply tha...
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Sunset in East Palo Alto Saturday Night
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
East Palo Alto City Council is scheduled to discuss the Inclusionary Housing Ordinance tonight at our meeting on Tuesday, June 9th, 2026. East Palo Alto needs to recognize that we gave Inclusionary Housing a try and it does not work in our community.
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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After almost six months of being stuck, we finally got fire inspection approval today on our 4-unit Lincoln project in East Palo Alto. For a small developer, this is one of those moments that looks… ...
After almost six months of being stuck, we finally got fire inspection approval today on our 4-unit Lincoln project in East Palo Alto. For a small developer, this is one of those moments that looks b...
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
epasun.org/when-green-t... We have built a regulatory climate designed to halt progress rather than move forward with sensible compromise.
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When Green Tape Halts Progress: The Newell Street Bridge Dilemma
On Thursday, May 21st, the City of Palo Alto hosted a celebratory event marking the kickoff for the construction of the Newell Street Bridge. Built way back in 1911, this bridge is finally being repla...
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Renters shouldn't have to hire scouts to find a decent apartment in their price range. When you build a lot of new housing, landlords must compete for tenants—not the other way around. (Indeed, it's the only way that rents ever fall!) www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...
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Fed up with L.A.'s housing market, renters are turning to savvy apartment scouts for help
They're not licensed real estate agents, but property enthusiasts who tour apartments, share videos on social media and work one-on-one with clients to find their dream home.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 05/05/2026
You actually do not have to apologize to the bad faith assholes who apply the maximally uncharitable interpretation to every single thing you say and do, even if those assholes have marginalized identities.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 01/05/2026
Housing is distributed by people’s ability to pay. Refusing to build expensive new homes in your neighborhood does not make the rich people disappear or move elsewhere, it just ensures that they’ll outbid current residents for existing homes and renovate them into luxury housing.
"The idea that housing could 'filter' upmarket due to shortages or downmarket due to abundance is trickle-down economics and absurd pro-developer propaganda," I type from my $4000/mo Lower East Side apartment built 120 years ago as a tenement for penniless
Italian immigrants
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
East Palo Alto has gone two years without a homicide
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
East Palo Alto Mayor Webster Lincoln and Midpen Board Member Karen Holman opened up the new entrance to the Ravenswood Preserve on Rutgers Avenue today.
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Meanwhile in East Palo Alto: epasun.org/carlos-romer... When I ran for City Council running on a platform of “Make our Streets Safe for Kids” I thought I would be advocating for speed humps, roundabouts, & bike lanes NOT dealing with a councilman who wants to free an accused child rapist from jail
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Betrayal of Trust: Councilmember Romero’s Defense of a Predator
Charged with child sex abuse, East Palo Alto employee gets character reference from council memberA former East Palo Alto city employee is accused of repeatedly molesting and supplying drugs to a 13-y...
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CounsellorNYC @counsellornyc.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
So that you know …
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Great seminar at Stanford today on US immigration policy.
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
www.mercurynews.com/2026/01/05/e... East Palo Alto finished 2025 without a single homicide, marking the second murder-free year in three years and reinforcing signs of a lasting departure from the violence that once defined the city.
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East Palo Alto records another murder-free year, signaling shift from violent past
The small Peninsula city hopes to shed its ’90s “murder capital” label
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
King Tide in East Palo Alto today. Photo from the same spot at 9 am and 11:20 am. High Tide was at 11:10 am
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
East Palo Alto had zero murders in 2025!
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Pretty sunset this week in East Palo Alto
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 20/11/2025
East Palo Alto settled a lawsuit challenging its “inclusionary zoning” policy, ruling out — for now — the possibility that a federal court might find it, and similar programs across the country, unconstitutional. bit.ly/4pgJj2k 📝 @frombenc.bsky.social 📸 Mike Blake, Reuters
Construction workers build multifamily housing in San Diego on Jan. 13, 2023. Photo by Mike Blake, Reuters
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Andy Z (Andy Zamenes) @andyskyz.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
🎸✨ This Saturday at EPACENTER ARTS! Join me in East Palo Alto for a free afternoon of family music and fun with James Henry! 📅 This Saturday, Nov 22 🕐 1–4 PM 📍 East Palo Alto Bring the family, and sing along! #AndyZ #EPACENTER #FamilyMusic #KidsMusic #FreeEvent
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Anne Hidalgo @annehidalgo.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Avec de nouveaux arbres, de la nature et plus de place pour les piétons, Paris change ! La rue Charles-Baudelaire dans le 12ᵉ et la rue du Docteur-Magnan dans le 13ᵉ en sont de beaux exemples !
Photo avant/après de la rue Charles Baudelaire avec plus de nature, moins dr voitures et des piétons.Photo avant/après de ́la rue du Docteur Magnan dans le 13e avec plus de nature et des piétons
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Nuestra Casa from East Palo Alto presenting at Thrive’s Climate Summit on water quality in EPA.
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Climate, Ecology, War & More: Dr. Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai @bigearthdata.ai · 07/10/2025
Community for Climate: East Palo Alto Resilience Fair Promotes Sustainability ->M-A Chronicle | #Sustainability #Climate | More from BigEarthData.ai
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Community for Climate: East Palo Alto Resilience Fair Promotes Sustainability
Community members gathered for the second annual East Palo Alto Resilience Fair for a day of food, music, workshops, and family-friendly fun while learning about resources to create a stronger and healthier future at local community center Bloomhouse on Saturday...
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Indivisible Fremont CA (IFCA) @indivisiblefremont.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Introducing our 2nd speaker joining us Sat Oct 11th: Poet and Former East Palo Alto Mayor, Antonio López! Antonio brings incredible knowledge about how to build up our communities and inspire a new generation of leaders! For more info, click the 🔗 below! aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/68c8c...
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
epasun.org/on-the-front... We have a lot of work to do in East Palo Alto to meet the housing shortage caused by a generation of underinvestment in new housing supply. We must pivot away from a failed housing strategy and move towards one that meets the housing needs of today.
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On the Front Lines of East Palo Alto's Housing Crisis
When I was running for office last year, I knocked on doors in every neighborhood of East Palo Alto. One of the most memorable conversations I had was with a Guatemalan woman in the Gardens. Her famil...
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Proper framing. Now do cars.
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Fun with Friends at the Silicon Valley Bike Coalition Summit.
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Nice walk out the door in East Palo Alto with Miguel and Benny doggo tonight.
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
ICE raid in East Palo Alto today.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
It would be a huge step forward for Democrats and for general clarity in political writing if these terms went away. These came mostly from academic hothouses.
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
lu.ma/lqahxjg9?fbc... Wed at noon
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Addressing East Palo Alto's Parking Crisis: A Data-Driven Approach · Zoom · Luma
Join us for a Lunch & Learn with Christopher Kao, an advocate and commissioner from East Palo Alto, CA! He'll share his innovative project using a thermal…
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I serve on East Palo Alto City Council, and here are some of the things we have done this year: .
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Fun housing event last night in East Palo Alto with Jerusalem Demsas and Ben Metcalf of the Turner Center at Berkeley.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
“Inclusionary zoning” is one of those policies that sounds great at first but then when you look at the actual impact it ends up just being a massive tax on new apartments that exempts single family homes, accomplishing the exact opposite of the intended effect
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•@CityPortland's 2024 Housing Report confirms what many feared: raising IZ from 10% to 25% in 2021 didn't spark affordability
— it torched production.
From 900+ units in 2021 to barely a trickle since. Inclusionary zoning with exclusionary results.
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
www.eventbrite.com/e/lets-talk-... Jerusalem Demsas in East Palo Alto on May 29
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Let’s Talk Housing: In Conversation with The Atlantic's Jerusalem Demsas
Join us at Bloomhouse for a conversation with Jerusalem, followed by Q&A with audience members.
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Googlers take Bike to Work Day seriously, as they should. East Palo Alto.
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
epasun.org/lets-open-up... East Palo Alto City Council has long prioritized community health as a goal of the city. As a Member of City Council, I will be proposing a pilot program where we spend ~$1M per year supporting East Palo Alto families by working with the YMCA to expand memberships.
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Let's Open Up the YMCA to EPA Residents
East Palo Alto City Council has long prioritized community health as a goal of the city. We are heading into budgeting season for the city, and I think we should put our money where our mouth is. As a...
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
www.eventbrite.com/e/lets-talk-... East Palo Alto May 29
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
FYI, East Palo Alto has a life expectancy between 75.8 - 81.3 years. I have recently seen people claiming that EPA has a life expectancy of 62 year, 20 years less than other cities in EPA. This data - which is on the city website - is not accurate.
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3underscores.bsky.social @3underscores.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
www.spanishpropertyinsight.com/2025/01/23/b...
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Barcelona housing crisis: 30% social housing mandate throttles new home building
New building has stalled in Barcelona A recent report by the Architects' Association of Catalonia (COAC) sheds light on the detrimental impact of
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Today, the House votes on whether to begin the process of gutting Medicaid, throwing millions off their health care & making it worse for those who remain. Trump says he doesn’t want to cut Medicaid, but he’s letting the GOP push this. As usual, he’s lying. All to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
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Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Who cares if there is a project that can be built with 25% affordable if there are twenty others you've prevented by that preposterous requirement?
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Bella Chu @isabellachu.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Car crashes have been the leading cause of child traumatic injury and death—by far—for decades. The ratio of crash injuries* to gun injuries is ~33:1. Most crash injuries and deaths occur while doing an ordinary thing. * Trips to emergency room. Does not count non ED injuries.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 12/02/2025
Over @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, my new research on the financial feasibility of small-scale apartment buildings. Right now, high land costs & high debt costs combine to make duplexes & triplexes really difficult to build. Cities need to enable 5, 6, 7+ unit buildings if they want more housing.
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Small Apartment Buildings Can Help Address Housing Shortages, but High Land Costs and Interest Rates Are Limiting Construction
Recent zoning reforms intended to encourage more duplexes and triplexes have underperformed because high land costs and interest rates mean single-family homes are often still more profitable.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Donald shoup literally started a movement that gave people the language, evidence, and motivation to push back against a half century of bad parking policy destroying our cities. RIP king. I’ll never stop fighting to eliminate parking mandates 🫡
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
RIP Donald Shoup
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Mark Dinan @markdinan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
@theworldindex.bsky.social East Palo Alto this morning
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 06/02/2025
Conor Dougherty's history of the YIMBY movement if it followed the same naming conventions as the Fast and the Furious movie franchise: Golden Gates 2 Golden 2 Gates Golden Gates: Tokyo Zoning Golden & Gates Golden Five Golden & Gates 6 Gates 7 The Fate of the Gates G9 Golden X
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
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