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Just as during his first term, El Cheato is stealing money for military housing to use for his pet projects.
During the first term that pet project was "the wall".
Now it is to give "bonuses" to active military personnel.
In both cases this means reduced, or no, housing for military families - which is what Congress intended when that taxpayer money was appropriated.
"Trump’s $1,776 ‘warrior dividend’ repurposed from military housing aid"…

Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents (The Pew Charitable Trusts)
https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2026/03/18/austins-surge-of-new-housing-construction-drove-down-rents
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p58#a260318p58

Democrat Khanna refloats bill to block investors from buying up homes after Trump proposal
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/18/trump-khanna-housing-investor-ban.html

Trump is pressuring the Hill on voter verification -- but not his own housing plan (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/18/trump-is-pressuring-the-hill-on-voter-verification-but-not-his-own-housing-plan-00833228
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p14#a260318p14

San Francisco's housing market is seeing a big rebound, driven by the AI boom; Apartment List says rents rose 14% YoY in February, the fastest growth in the US (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/san-fr…

Luckily, the "Family Zoning Plan" offers opportunities for creative real estate agents and developers to meet this need. Look at what happened to the 7 unit building at Jackson and Presidio.
More millionaires than mansions: AI-fueled demand meets ‘egregious shortage’ of inventory
https://sfstanda…

More millionaires than mansions: AI-fueled demand meets ‘egregious shortage’ of inventory
No winter break in the housing market as IPO anticipation drives buyers into a frenzy. 

The Senate passed a bill Thursday aimed at boosting the supply of housing and bringing down prices,
marking a rare bipartisan breakthrough on a major issue.
The ✅ "21st Century ROAD to Housing Act",
written by Sens. Tim Scott, R-S.C.,
and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.,
won 89 votes.
Ten senators voted against it.
Scott is the chairman of the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee,
and Warren is the ranking member.

Senate passes major housing affordability bill by Elizabeth Warren and Tim Scott
The Senate passed a bill Thursday aimed at boosting the supply of housing and bringing down prices, marking a rare bipartisan breakthrough on a major issue.

"Open land represents the future in its purest form — after all, every place was no place at some point." 😑 This is such a distilled expression of settler-colonial mindset. No, we do not need "new" cities, we need to fix up the ones we've got.
https://www.

Maybe America Needs Some New Cities
It sounds a bit kooky to promise a whole city from scratch. But it has been done before — and might just help solve the housing crisis.

They're talking about government-mandated #RentControl. The article doesn't mention it, because #jermalisms, but we have it in #Canberra. My

RE: https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/115922230592810749
If you think building public bathrooms is communism, wait till you hear that actual communism means decommodifying everything, housing, healthcare, education, the whole deal. What you’re describing …

Seriously, knowing the dire predicament we are in, we should be busy learning and re-learning how to produce food, clothing and housing on a planet transitioning into a radically different climate. We desperately need a plan how to scale back on technology use, in tandem with the natural decline in resource and energy availability.
https://

Please explain to me why people believe the "market" will solve the housing crisis, if only we removed barriers like zoning. The market certainly doesn't seem to do so well at maintaining existing properties at affordable prices.
‘My bill keeps escalating’: how Toledo, Ohio, became the epicenter of the US housing crisis

"Hey Doug... we bought a bunch of those Stag and Doe tickets so you gotta put a stop on forcing us to build affordable housing..." - Developers who totally didn't buy Ford.
#onpoli #AffordableHousing
https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-hall/ford-government-pause-affordable-housing-rules-new-toronto-buildings-11733993

Remind Angus, it's the Pokémon landlords
Not the mums and dads, not the owner occupiers
#CGT #WellDoneAngus #housing

Newly sworn-in Virginia Governor #Abigail #Spanberger signed
10 executive orders in her first official act at the Virginia State Capitol.
Three of the orders target
✅reducing cost-of-living expenses for Virginia families,
✅bringing down healthcare costs
✅and making it easier to build more…

Money, Education, Immigration: Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger just signed 10 executive orders
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed 10 executive orders on her first day, targeting cost of living, healthcare, housing and education issues.

"A National Audit Office investigation revealed in October last year that a staggering 98% of external insulation fitted under the previous government’s home-improvement schemes was installed so ineptly that it will have to be repaired or replaced."
Surprise, surprise.
Britain's building industry is unbelievably shoddy.

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convert all those empty warehouses into
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community centers, job training centers
or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It's
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Please explain to me why people believe the "market" will solve the housing crisis, if only we removed barriers like zoning. The market certainly doesn't seem to do so well at maintaining existing properties at affordable prices.
‘My bill keeps escalating’: how Toledo, Ohio, became the epicenter of the US housing crisis

This is why I don't fully trust 48hills, even though they're on "my side" in being pro-labor and anti-billionaire. Tim Redmond thinks it's a good thing that a 100% affordable housing development was forced to lop a floor off to preserve views 😫
"The staff reached out to the neighbors,[...]took feedback, and as a result made some changes that lowered the height of the new buildings. That, in a reasonable world, is how this should work" No it's not!!…

Supes approve affordable senior housing project—but discussion raises larger issue - 48 hills
Nonprofit housers are good neighbors. Speculators are not. But Wiener's law treats both the same way

I'm exploring Irish census data to try to understand more about one-off "rural" housing, and have accidentally discovered that the most densely-populated small-area in Ireland is in Limerick's Dock Rd, where 255 people live in apartments with a ground area of 2,500m2.
One-off houses in the country are typically on "half-acre" plots, i.e., 2,000m2.

Capitol agenda: House hard-liner headaches ahead (Mia McCarthy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/03/17/congress/house-conservatives-fisa-housing-save-america-act-elections-00831120
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p31#a260317p31

🏘️ Factory-built housing hasn't taken off in California yet, but this year might be different
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-02-14/factory-built-housing-hasnt-taken-off-in-californ…

Factory-built housing hasn’t taken off in California yet, but this year might be different
This year, state legislators in California believe that with a little state assistance, they want to make 2026 the Year of the Housing Factory.

Even after so many policy changes on housing, that this kind of shit can still happen is very discouraging.
From the article:
Members said they found Malhotra’s plan both inappropriate and undesirable — too tall for the street at six storeys, even while they acknowledged its height would be within regulations under a new law and therefore not subject to their approval.

Top Articles of 2025: The Rental Housing Market Holds Strong
"The U.S. rental housing market remained strong and stable in 2025, with narrowing supply‑demand gaps, rising investment activity, and rent growth in line with pre‑pandemic levels."

Top Articles of 2025: The Rental Housing Market Holds Strong
The U.S. rental housing market remained strong and stable in 2025, spreading through the multifamily and single-family rentals sectors. Here’s a look at this year's top articles from Arbor Realty Trust, in case you missed them.

Rare good news for now, but don't trust the Planning Inspectorate to uphold the rejection.
Scheme to build 2,150 homes in Greater Manchester countryside REJECTED - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/scheme-build…

Scheme to build 2,150 homes in Greater Manchester countryside REJECTED
The controversial housing plan has been a point of contention ever since it was first touted almost a decade ago

Russia strikes ENERGY AND HOUSING: 1,700 DRONES and 69 MISSILES in one week #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/25/russia-strikes-energy-and-housing.html

Trump goes his own way on housing (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/13/trump-goes-his-own-way-on-housing-00829047
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p44#a260314p44

"Green spaces should be the norm for all new housing developments in England, guidelines say"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Houses

"The governor’s proposed 2026–27 budget includes no funding for existing affordable housing. Federal housing programs face deep uncertainty. Locally, San Francisco is staring down a structural deficit... In this context, proposals to eliminate transfer taxes and weaken development impact fees...are deliberate choices that would lock in housing scarcity for years to come."

You Can’t Build Abundance by Defunding Housing
Why cutting housing revenue in a moment of scarcity guarantees failure

On housing for students at Ontario universities.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/ontario-university-housing-survey/article_569933c2-2e92-4732-b7f0-4fc0ddde9e1f.html

Students at these two Ontario universities have lower rents, better commutes and more financial help from Mom and Dad
A report by research firm Studenthaus found national average rent for students this past fall was $1,146, with 66% of renters receiving family help.

The low-hanging fruit just isn't that juicy for the technolatrous UK government.
"The Warm Homes Plan provides an opportunity to change course, but the approach taken by government prioritises heat pumps and solar panels over ensuring that homes reach basic standards of health and energy efficiency."
A Plan for Places: Transforming Housing and Lowering the Cost of Living Through Home Improvement Corporations

A Plan for Places: Transforming Housing and Lowering the Cost of Living Through Home Improvement Corporations
A proven institutional framework for delivering housing retrofit.

Nobody really knows the scale of the U.S. housing crisis
America faces a serious housing shortage, one that Moody’s estimates would take more than 2 million new homes to resolve.

But over at Goldman Sachs, analysts put the number at
3 million.
Zillow’s estimate tops 4 million,
while Brookings projects 5 million,
and McKinsey says 8 million.
Meanwhile, congressional Republicans insist the shortfall is closer to 20 million.

Then there are the …

Why nobody really knows the scale of the U.S. housing crisis
Experts say the U.S. needs an additional 2 million to 20 million homes to fix the shortfall, underscoring the challenge of meeting the nation’s housing needs.

The SDA Housing Podcast
A leading voice in the Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) sector, delivering in-depth discussions, expert insights, and the latest updates related to housing solutions for people with disabilities...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/sda-…

How Craigslist has stayed relevant for users as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds or public profiles (Jennifer Swann/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/is-craigslist-the-last-real-place-on-the-internet/…

Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet?
Millennials are still using Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projects—eschewing other AI- and algorithm-dominated online spaces. “There’s a purity to it.”

Both Amazon & Microsoft cooperatively push for 5 policy changes to address housing crisis in WA state.
▶️ WA must make it easier to build our way out of housing crisis | The Seattle Times
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/wa-mu…

Well that’s not good. Was taking advantage of the mild weather to use the 3” chipper/shredder on a bunch of downed branches on the hill in the back yard.
Not ten minutes in and a 2.5” branch jammed it. I had to disassemble half the housing to clear it. Then it still wouldn’t start, upon which time I noticed that the jam must have pushed the moving blade into the housing with force enough to shear off a piece of the housing.
Obviously not safe to continue. Warranty support initia…

Home Builders Turn to White House for Help on Inventory Glut - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/home-builders-turn-to-white-house-for-help-on-inventory-glut-7e41e708?st=MYUJhb&refli…

This is clearly timed to take the heat off Mahmood after he introduced legislation to slash $100 million a year in funding for affordable housing.
There’s a new streamlining bill or measure every year, and we’re clearly hitting diminishing returns. Meanwhile all over the city thousands of affordable homes are stalled for lack of funding. Want to speed up housing? Fund it.

S.F. supervisor to ‘explore’ ballot measure to speed up housing
Bilal Mahmood wants to address the bottlenecks created by having five separate departments involved in issuing building permits

Senate passes major housing affordability bill by Elizabeth Warren and Tim Scott (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-passes-major-housing-affordability-bill-warren-scott-rcna263046
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p93#a260312p93

You load 16 server racks, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St Peter, don't @ me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Ultramagnetic MC’s:
🎵 Kool Keith Housing Things
#UltramagneticMCs
https://ultimatesoundz.bandcamp.com/track/kool-keith-housing-things
https://open.spotify.com/track/5I7GbWmphoJfZi6VnzUyGZ

Lily Cheng in #Willowdale is again advocating against new housing next to a subway station
According to her, adding 2000 new residents to the neighborhood would be a risk to lose the Costco (???). As if adding new people to the neighborhood would make Costco leave.
Yes some "essential local retail shops" (aka Starbucks) would leave... But there's no shortage i…

Just one more example demonstrating that the "market" and #MayorLurie's "Family Zoning Plan" will not solve even a small part of the affordable housing problem.
But it might make more mansions available.
SFMTA approves slashing 365 units from Mission housing project

S.F. approves slashing 365 units from Potrero Yard housing project
Despite opposition, SFMTA board greenlights reduced plan at Muni bus yard in the Mission

To house the hundreds or thousands of temporary workers needed to build an AI data center, developers are increasingly relying on temporary villages known as "man camps".
This style of camp was popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields.
For example, as a Bitcoin mining facility in rural Dickens County, Texas is converted into a 1.6 gigawatt data center, Bloomberg reports its workers are living in gray housing units with access to a gym, a laundromat, g…

Owner of ICE detention facility sees big opportunity in AI man camps | TechCrunch
AI data center developers are increasingly relying on a style of camp popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields.

How the money spent on Trump's Iran war could have helped Americans (Philip Bump/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-iran-war-11-billion-income-housing
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p71#a260314p71

"Denman Rooke has been selected as the People Before Profit candidate to contest the by-election in Galway West.
He is a long-time activist campaigning on issues of worker’s rights, trade unions, anti-racism, climate action, cost of living, and housing."
https://www.

Denman Rooke Selected As People Before Profit Candidate for Galway West By-Election
Offers radical alternative on housing and the cost of living. Will oppose militarisation and defend neutrality. By-election is opportunity for left cooperation to defeat Fine Gael/Fianna Fáil.

When the government offers to provide rebates or tax credits to low income Canadians, as recently announced by our Federal Government, most welcome the extra cash. But it doesn't address the key issue in affordable food, housing, or utilities. All of that extra government cash, provided by taxpayers BTW, gets sucked up by corporations that continue to rake in record profits. If you want to truly attack the #Affordability problem then implement laws that penalize excess profit taking by corporations. Take key necessities (food, transit, shelter, utilities, etc.) and create public options that are run as cooperatives and have controlled profit margins.
Marit Styles points out the difference between food prices at independent grocers versus the big chains. The policy position from @… on establishing a public grocery option makes sense, as long as we also protect the small independent vendors in our communities.
#CorporateProfiteers
https://youtu.be/Hj-ncCLSaZY

Good evening!
Starlings over Utrecht, at dusk.

🌪️ The housing crisis is forcing Americans to choose between affordability and safety
https://theconversation.com/the-housing-crisis-is-forcing-americans-to-choose-between-affordability-and-safety-266136
<…

The housing crisis is forcing Americans to choose between affordability and safety
Priced out of ‘safe,’ more and more Americans are moving to flood plains and fire zones.

How Craigslist has stayed relevant for users as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds or public profiles (Jennifer Swann/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/is-craigslist-the-last-real-place-on-the-internet/…

Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet?
Millennials are still using Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projects—eschewing other AI- and algorithm-dominated online spaces. “There’s a purity to it.”

That's neat.
#Madison #Housing #YIGBY

I was looking forward to cycling to work in the snow today, but alas, the road salt corroded the rear brake cable housing on my bike over Christmas, so the U8 it is. Just as I cancelled my #Deutschlandticket.

Alright, I'm starting to be kind of impressed by this Mamdani guy.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-zohran-mamdani-new-york-housing-3835daca395dbe46c2f3da2433ec24f4

Mamdani pitches Trump on housing in latest White House visit
President Donald Trump has met with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at the White House to talk about big federal housing investments. Mamdani on Thursday presented Trump with a mock New York Daily News cover that reads “Trump to City: Let’s Build.” His team says the goal is to show Trump the positive headlines a deal could generate. Mamdani’s office did not detail the housing plan, but his spokesperson says Trump responded with enthusiasm. Mamdani also asked Trump to release a detain…

Capitol agenda: House revolt ahead for housing bill (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/03/12/congress/housing-affordability-bill-senate-vote-00824598
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p26#a260312p26

Aramark tells Yosemite workers it's axing most of their housing rights
https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/aramark-yosemite-employee-housing-21307621.php

"Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism"
...
"Trump fans are much angrier about housing assistance when they see an image of a black man
In contrast, Clinton supporters seemed relatively unmoved by racial cues"
https://www.…

Study: Trump fans are much angrier about housing assistance when they see an image of a black man
In contrast, Clinton supporters seemed relatively unmoved by racial cues.

Just one more example demonstrating that the "market" and #MayorLurie's "Family Zoning Plan" will not solve even a small part of the affordable housing problem.
But it might make more mansions available.
SFMTA approves slashing 365 units from Mission housing project

S.F. approves slashing 365 units from Potrero Yard housing project
Despite opposition, SFMTA board greenlights reduced plan at Muni bus yard in the Mission

More evil from the Israeli regime.
Israel escalates West Bank demolitions amid illegal settlement expansion | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/1/israel-es…

Israel escalates West Bank demolitions amid illegal settlement expansion
Bulldozers flatten refugee housing while Israel approves 126 settler housing units and targets UN agencies.

Bronx building Mamdani used to showcase new housing commish's talents has 200 violations -- after favored nonprofit ran it into the ground (Rich Calder/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/01/11/us-news/bronx-building-mamdani-highlighted-to-showcase-nycs-new-housing-commissioners-talents-has-nearly-200-violations/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p67#a260111p67

oooof. this incumbent running for re-election to the SF Bike Coalition board is literally a landlord lawyer.
if you're a member, the voting details are here and there are 10 candidates for 8 seats. https://sfbike.org/news/meet-the-candidat…

Bondi Is Said to Move to Military Housing Because of Threats (Glenn Thrush/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/us/politics/bondi-military-housing-threats.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p150#a260310p150

2019 time capsule: “The successful implementation of a public bank could be a windfall for affordable housing advocates.” By @…. Now, finally, it’s headed for a ballot near you!

A public bank could make affordable housing more affordable
How would a public bank fund affordable housing?

Buhay Australia
Listen to information that will help improve health, housing, employment, visas and citizenship, Australian laws and more...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/buhay-australia/

TIL about "iceberg homes", and wondered why we don't let all the wealthy people live in deep holes and build affordable public housing on top of them. It's a win-win people...
https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2026/02/toronto-figuring-out-controversial-iceberg-homes/

I was at a meeting last night of key decision makers in the two main civic institutions of my village, and no one in the room was under seventy.
There are reasons.
1. House prices are way beyond what people of working age can afford;
2. Limited social housing is (rightly) allocated to the most vulnerable, but they typically don't have the bandwidth to take on civic roles;
3. There are few jobs in the local economy for degree-educated young people;
/Continued…

Trump rebrands Congressionally-approved troop housing subsidy as ‘warrior dividend’ bonus - Defense One
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/12/trump-rebrands-congressionally-approved-troop-housing-subsidy-warrior-dividend-bonus/410250/

SF YIMBY has endorsed Alan Wong, whose whole campaign is about reopening the Great Highway, after previously endorsing Stephen Sherrill who's doing everything he can to block Marina Safeway housing. They are just a mod Dem club. Housing and urbanism are their marketing pitch, not their goal. #sfpol

Sources: the US Senate's crypto market structure bill is likely to be delayed by several weeks as key lawmakers shift focus to potential housing legislation (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-21/…

I'm shocked, shocked, that waiving the transfer tax on downtown office to residential conversions did not result in a single such conversion happening.
Well, not that shocked. (The real point of March 2024 Prop C was the sneaky provision letting the SFBOS reduce the transfer tax altogether without an election. Not to produce housing but to cut downtown landlords' taxes.)

The Oglala Sioux Tribe is seeking answers after
four enrolled members were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis.
Tribal President Frank Star Comes Out said in a statement on Facebook that the men,
who were homeless and living near the Little Earth housing complex in Minneapolis,
home to nearly 1,500 people,
many of whom are Native American.
The men were taken into custody without their names being recorded, the tribe …

ICE Detains and Holds Four Native Americans, Tribal Leader Says
Oglala Sioux Tribe demands action after ICE detains four members in Minneapolis. Tribal attorneys work to confirm identities and secure release.

Portland to remove 100 people from its tiny-house village because they have stayed in the transitional housing too long | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tiny-house-village-eviction-portland-b2896294.html

Zohran Mamdani stands by 'housing justice' appointee Cea Weaver -- as Trump admin warns he 'should be on notice' (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/01/06/us-news/zohran-mamdani-stands-by-housing-justice-appointee-cea-weaver/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p115#a260106p115

"Both candidates agreed that Market Street should be reopened to cars (a few people booed, then some cheered). They also both agreed that new housing developments should include more parking."
No problem for the "urbanists" at SF YIMBY, who just endorsed Sherrill.
https://

S.F. housing is hottest topic in first debate between District 2 supervisor candidates
Appointed supervisor Stephen Sherrill and neighborhood organizer Lori Brooke face off on housing, cars, and public safety

The US Treasury Department, State Department, and federal housing agency are ending use of Anthropic products; State Department says it will switch to OpenAI (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-treasury-ending-all-use-anthropi…

Tying housing costs to homelessness rates, researchers have identified inflection points:
🔸When rents in a community exceed about a third of the median income, homelessness escalates.
🔸“As the share of low-income households with severe rent burdens grows, so does their risk of homelessness,”
said Thomas Byrne of Boston College, an author of the study.
Gregg Colburn, a housing expert at the University of Washington, found that
Seattle and San Francisco, with so…

Trump Says ‘Housing First’ Failed the Homeless. Here’s What the Evidence Says.
The Trump administration has sought to move away from the model, which supporters call “evidence based” but opponents consider overly permissive.

“The case for upzoning is relatively solid but deeply underwhelming as a standalone position. The upshot is that everyone is at least partly right: Upzoning can address the shortfall in supply. But it won’t come close to solving the housing crisis alone. Re-enter: public housing.”
https://

The Solution to the Affordable Housing Problem That No One Wants to Discuss
There are new ideas for fixing this. And one very old one.

Mr. Mamdani, a democratic socialist who ran on an #affordability agenda,
pledged during the campaign to freeze rent on the city’s nearly one million rent-stabilized apartments.
“We know we are fighting for a #rent #freeze…

Mamdani’s First Orders Focus on Housing and Undoing Adams’s Decisions
Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed a flurry of executive orders on his first day as mayor of New York City. They were aimed at protecting tenants and revoking some of ex-Mayor Eric Adams’s past orders.

Trump Moves to Ban Big Investors From Buying Single-Family Homes (Alyssa Lukpat/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/trump-moves-to-ban-investors-from-buying-single-family-homes-13e06f61
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p91#a260107p91

Kind of a cool proposal in terms of squeezing density onto a slim site, but I wish it didn't have 10 parking spaces for 11 units. That much parking shouldn't be allowed so close to BART, inducing more driving trips on Guerrero which is already a traffic sewer.
https://missionlocal…

Mission BUZZ: Housing, a brewery and an owner who stands her ground on cannabis
Los Tigres del Norte received the keys of the city from Mayor Daniel Lurie. Lover's Lane is back for its fifth straight year.

The race for the next mayor of Los Angeles has become even more intense as
Council Member Nithya Raman officially launched her campaign on Saturday.
Her announcement came just hours before the city’s filing deadline.
Nithya Raman said Los Angeles needs a leader who will take full responsibility for the challenges the city faces.
Raman represents District 4, which stretches from parts of the San Fernando Valley to neighborhoods like Los Feliz, the Hollywood Hills, and…

Who Is Nithya Raman? Meet The Latest Candidate In Los Angeles Mayor’s Race
Nithya Raman has officially joined the 2026 Los Angeles mayoral race just before the filing deadline. She brings experience in homelessness, housing, and community planning.

Mamdani heads to White House for meeting with Trump on housing (Chris Sommerfeldt/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/26/mamdani-heads-to-white-house-for-meeting-with-trump-on-housing-00801450
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p74#a260226p74

Here’s a half-block stretch in the Avenues with no trees.
Legislation by Mayor Lurie and Alan Wong made it harder to remove these driveways by allowing them to remain when garages are converted to housing.
Now the Lurie-Wong legislation to let developers not plant trees and limit tree removal appeals is going to Planning Commission tomorrow.
#sfpol

I read something touting a housing policy bill in Minnesota as “bipartisan” and thought: really? in the year of our Lord 2026? fascists liking your reform isn’t a selling point

White House Offers New Details on Its Push to Ban Housing Investors (Rebecca Picciotto/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/white-house-offers-new-details-on-its-push-to-ban-housing-investors-97fb1829?st=FymPTN&reflink=article_imessage_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260219/p114#a260219p114

"Continuum of Care"
is the federal government’s flagship program to support state and local governments and non-profits in funding housing and other services for individuals at risk of or experiencing homelessness.
The program is built on the principle that getting unhoused people housed can get them on a path to address other challenges.
But in the past months, the Trump administration has tried to issue sweeping policy shifts to the program,
some of which…

I couldn't agree more with this essay from Quintin Mecke, director of CCHO, a group of community affordable housing non-profits. When SF "moderate" politicians underfund housing, it's not something they're forced to do. It's not fiscal responsibility. It's a political choice and a disastrous one.

The Fiction of Scarcity: Why San Francisco Must Choose Action Over Austerity in 2026
San Francisco Has the Wealth. It Lacks the Will.

I donated a bit to Gary McCoy's campaign for District 8 supervisor in SF.
I'm hesitant to support merely "progressive" candidates since so many veer rightward after getting elected, like D8's current supe Mandelman, and recently D7 supe Melgar to a lesser degree.
But I really like Gary's platform, emphasizing non-police public safety programs; traffic calming as part of public safety; and pro-housing with emphasis on public investment, not just upzone an…

Priorities | Get Involved Today — Gary McCoy for District 8 Supervisor
Discover Gary McCoy's priorities for affordable housing, economic growth, and community development in District 8. Learn how he plans to support residents and local businesses.

Federal judge temporarily blocks HUD permanent housing cuts for homeless (Cassandra Dumay/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/19/judge-blocks-hud-permanent-housing-cuts-00700477
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p73#a251219p73

The median home buyer is 59 years old.
That may sound like a shocking statistic, but it’s part of a trend.
In 2020, the median home buyer was 47 years old, which at the time was also an all-time high.

Here’s another shocking statistic:
The median down payment on a house in 2025 for first time homebuyers surpassed $40,000
— exceeding the median net worth of Americans under 35.
Americans once went in search of their starter homes in their 20s,
but …

HSAs for housing could fix a generational problem
The model pioneered by Health Savings Accounts can help families attain the dream of home ownership.

Achievement unlocked: Got the SF Chronicle to publish an argument for social housing!
(it's the second in this batch of letters to the editor)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/letterstotheeditor/article/licence-p…

Trump says he wants government to buy $200B in mortgage bonds in a push to bring down mortgage rates (Josh Boak/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-housing-mortgage-rates-79294cf8eac1579b17430b4cd0708fcd
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p132#a260108p132

FACT FOCUS: A look at false and misleading claims made during Trump's first cabinet meeting of 2026 (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-trump-cabinet-economy-housing-energy-health-california-f4b4fb985300724a7e717863626e5506
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p131#a260129p131

Apropos of Denim Dan Lurie's tax break for rich real estate investors... The mayor's brother is a luxury real estate agent, and he told the Chronicle in October that the problem with SF housing was a "mansion shortage."
https://www.sfchronicle.com/reale…

Trump says U.S. to ban large investors from buying homes (Yun Li/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/07/trump-housing-affordability.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p94#a260107p94

I’m helping put together a campaign for municipal #socialHousing here in San Francisco. If you’re already familiar with social housing, how would you define it? If you’re newer to the idea, what’s a question you have about social housing, or something you hope it can achieve?

The Trump 'Affordability' Pivot That Never Came (Catherine Rampell/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-trump-affordability-pivot-that-never-came-state-of-the-union-inflation-housing-stock-market
http://www.memeorandum.com/260225/p127#a260225p127

"Declining property values and home prices are understood as a sign of impending doom, rather than a cause for celebration, and so the system aims to keep prices on an upward slope."
Housing can't be a good investment and affordable
https://jewishcurrents.org/zohran-mamd

Zohran Mamdani Vs. the Real Estate State
Can the mayor-elect overcome the snares being set for his affordable housing agenda?

Trump is on his way to Davos, where his quest to own Greenland could overshadow his other goals (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-davos-housing-greenland-gaza-a2f3f4c18ba321c8025a3e208fc0ddf6
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p106#a260121p106

Here’s a perfect encapsulation of why #YIMBY hopes for new market-rate housing to lower rents are in vain. San Francisco has the highest rents in the country, but still not high enough for developers to build. It “could really help” if our extreme rents got even higher, though!

This week: SF rents hit No. 1 — but developers say they need more
Developers still struggle to raise equity

Fun little double-header at City Hall. I commented at the SFMTA Board asking them not to approve a version of the Potrero Yard project that eliminates the possibility of 360 affordable homes, for want of $70 million. Then I asked the SFBOS not to repeal the transfer tax on high-valued real estate, which would take $100m a year out of the budget that was intended to fund affordable housing. #sfpol