How Austin’s stunning drop in rents explains housing in America We finally have some good news about housing affordability.

Austin built 120,000 homes in a decade, rents dropped 6%, more than any other large US city.

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EFF's Deputy Legal Director/Free Speech and Transparency Litigation Director, @aaronmackey.bsky.social, gave testimony to the CA Assembly, urging the Judiciary Committee to vote 'no' on AB 1709. This attack on the First Amendment rights of young people and adult users must be stopped.

Gov. JB Pritzker’s ambitious housing plan for Illinois: More four-flats, looser rules A cornerstone initiative from Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker would loosen zoning restrictions for multiunit buildings, drawing excitement from housing advocates but concerns from local officials.

The housing crisis is echoing across the nation.

Our BUILD plan is one of the most comprehensive to tackle it — making it easier, faster, and more effective to build homes here.

i think folks might be unfamiliar with "the pharisees", so let's make it clear: he's saying the jews run the press, and that they are conspiring to undermine the military. it's not just antisemitism, it's indistinguishable from nazism.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Reporting for duty 🫡

We’re getting the housing supply up so your costs come down. By partnering with the Ontario government, we’ll cut development charges by up to 50%, lower taxes on new homes, and build new transit infrastructure.

The skyscrapers that NIMBYs and zoning couldn't stop : Planet Money LIVE SHOW TOUR INFO HERE. New stories, live tapings, special guests, book signings and more. What would you build on a piece of land when all the normal rules go out the window?On today’s show, how th...

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There were more traffic deaths than homicides in 2025. I’m running to make LA streets safer for everyone!

Think Twice Before Buying or Using Meta’s Ray-Bans Over the last decade or so, the tech industry has tried, and mostly failed, to make “smart glasses”—tech-infused glasses with cameras, AI, maps, displays, and more—a thing. But over the past year,

Cameras embedded in glasses introduce all sorts of new privacy problems. Here's a framework for thinking about them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. The online advertising industry has built a massive surveillance machine, and the government can co-opt it to spy on us.

Targeted advertising gives your location to the government—just ask CBP. eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Screenshot of an X post by Senator Tom Cotton saying Iran has been an imminent threat to the United States for 47 years and that the president was right to act. Below is a Fox News segment with Cotton speaking while footage labeled “U.S. Central Command – Unclassified” shows a strike.

“Imminent.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Ridiculous! Friendly reminder that this bad take is just from the local Loma Prieta chapter of the national organization. I voted in the recent chapter election for new leadership that supports building new homes, but sadly a majority of local members stuck with old leadership that opposes.

It should become California's rallying cry, that we will build up our cities so anyone can find safe refuge here.

Ring’s Founder Knows You Hated That Super Bowl Ad

Part of the myth of Ring is that this is MY camera on MY door--but when you see a map and realize that there are a hundred in your neighborhood and they're all connected by a corporation that serves the police, the illusion dissolves.

Governor Pritzker convenes a roundtable on housing in Illinois.

Just unveiled the Building Up IL Developments (BUILD) plan and gathered a group to talk about housing in our state.

The consensus? We need to build more and fast.

Looking forward to getting it out to communities across Illinois.

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

Now more than ever, people have seen the real-world risk of invasive face recognition technology. We won’t lose focus. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

‘Rental market is largely frozen’: San Diego rent prices fall in national rankings National rents are down 2% annually but Zumper said Southern California is seeing more of a slowdown because of increased supply.

San Diego rents fall 5.5%—proof that building housing works.

Add 6,000 apartments, prices drop.

This eases pressure on voucher programs, helps low-income renters, makes the city more accessible.

Want sustained affordability? Keep building.

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A lot of residential only zoning in California traces back to anti Chinese laundry services and general anti saloon politics.

The Legal Case Against Ring’s Face Recognition Feature Many biometric privacy laws across the country are clear: Companies need your affirmative consent before running face recognition on you.

With minor tweaks, Amazon Ring’s tool to search for lost dogs could be used to track people www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

ICE OUT NOW

Yes to the “ICE Out of My Face Act” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have descended into utter lawlessness, most recently in Minnesota. The violence is shocking. So are the intrusions on

ICE and CBP face-scanned 100,000 people last year. So EFF is proud to support Senator Markey’s “ICE Out of My Face Act,” which will stop these agencies’ biometric surveillance. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

There is exactly *one* big city mayor in the Bay Area who supported SB79, the holy grail of YIMBY housing reforms. It was Barbara Lee. No other big city mayor in the Bay Area chose to do so.

Do with that information what you will.

This is a lot of the Bay Area's urban core.

Promotional image of "Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance" by Cindy Cohn.

In "Privacy's Defender," @eff.org Director Cindy Cohn chronicles her career protecting our right to digital privacy through 3 key legal battles, weaving her story with the history of Crypto Wars, FBI gag orders, and the post-9/11 surveillance state.

Out March 10th: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205124...

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

Thanks to @xianleonard.bsky.social for covering our new research on local impact fees charged to new subsidized affordable housing developments in California.

I've been feeling blue about the world, so to cheer me up, my friend and I did some DIY benching. There are new & improved community AC Transit bus benches at:
6 : Telegraph & Wesbter @ Whole Foods
6 : Telegraph & Woolsey @ Smokehouse
12 : MLK & University @ Trader Joes
27 : Ashby & Shattuck

Omg this is literally the best thing ever!