“but if we add more homes to my neighborhood, where will i park” “in a liberal, free-market democracy, Susan”

Many have speculated on what exactly caused the "sense of decline" that came to American communities, religions, towns, and so on after World War II. But isn't it obvious? We got automobiles en masse, huge highways, car-heavy suburbs, etc -- and everything became a CHOICE. When you live in a dense, walkable area with no car (whether it's an urban neighborhood or a rural village), there is a "vibe" on the street. You see people you know constantly, involuntarily, and get invited to things. You have to go to them, because it's not as if you're going to teleport six towns over for a big concert on Friday night -- you're going to be there, and whatever's going on is what's on offer. At those events -- from Parish suppers to funeral Masses to hockey nights at the pub -- you're going to be engaged in a kind of "theatre" of culture, you'll be a representative of your place, your family, your faith, etc. And as you and all the other neighborhood people coalesce in this fashion, you will be REIFYING your sense of culture, identity, faith, and so on. You'll be proving it to each other, refining it, being a part of something. The minute you add automobiles to this picture, all of that stuff is an "option" -- and it just so happens that culture has ever functioned in the manner we've known because it has been 100% non-optional, in your face, intensely local, etc. Automobiles disrupt this massively, and because of them, local pride, local Parishes, local accents, and basically all things that give us an identity and sense of collective purpose have died back and atrophied.

I’m grateful to receive the endorsement of the Writers Guild of America West. LA can’t remain the world’s creative capital if the writers who tell our stories can’t build stable careers or afford to live here. Together, we’ll work side by side to keep Hollywood jobs here.

“He likes to ride his bike in L.A. and he doesn’t want to die" Kind of the best possible reason for a rich guy to get involved in politics, imo!

Schwarzenegger stumping for Nithya is a sign of glorious things to come. tmz.com/2026/09/25/arnold-sc…

This blockbuster story hit Wednesday. Real Estate developer convos this week … Tuesday: “I am not sure about Nithya -too liberal, DSA affiliation, yah yah yah” Wednesday: “Should I donate to Nithya- direct or IE?

There are many costs of sprawl, and losing ability to sustain a local parish or school community is a terrible one we pay

The people who refuse to pay the cost of the infrastructure they use that underpins there home values have an awful lot of nerve demanding that other people who don't live there yet and will have a *smaller footprint* pay for it for them.

In the Mayor Lurie vs Mayor Mamdani Abundance sweepstakes, there is no contest Mamdani's housing agency is upzoning for Missing Massive to turn its HQ—one building—into half a decade of new SF housing Lurie, meanwhile, is fighting in court to avoid fully implementing SB79

The last think you see before your rent goes up by another 5%

Maybe 2 people under the age of 60 in the audience. People with homes fighting against homes for others.

If you care about housing, you'll find solutions to problems. If you don't care, you'll look for excuses to oppose it.

"Then in August, nine pedestrians or cyclists were killed by hit-and-run drivers, proving once again that, for all the hand-wringing about those lawless e-bikers, it’s the automobiles that pose the greatest danger." nytimes.com/2026/09/21/nyreg…

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Zoning reform 👀

“Local zoning regulations should be altered to make it easier to build more housing” is *+32* among Democrats. Someone should tell local Democrats!

Chuck Marohn, in his dotage, has completely lost it Chain-of-address filtering metastasized into full abandonment in the "Sprawl without Growth" metros that Strong Towns was originally founded to think about That's the whole reason Strong Towns is anti sprawl!

Let's go latimes.com/california/story…

Los Angeles completely fucked up by acting like we could continue to do SFH sprawl forever and ever, even as we have met literal physical boundaries in feasibly doing so Its why even as other states had building booms in the 2000s, LA barely made a ripple in construction