New study: Families who leave California are much more likely to have financial problems than those who stay. But seven years later, those who leave are much more likely to be homeowners than those who stay. Revive the California Dream: build more housing!
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I often value my time seated over the time saved by hoofing it, since my MS leaves me able to walk a shorter distance before I start stumbling these days than before, and I want to save as much of my walking capacity for getting from the train to my destination.
198 days until the midterm elections! days.to/election-day...
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then up a flight and a half, then walk a ways further, then down several flights.
I ride the A Line most, because I live right next to one of its stations. When I have to transfer to the B or D, I usually just stay on the A until 7th Metro, since to transfer there is just walking down one flight of stairs. At Union Station, it’s down a flight, then walk a fraction of a mile,
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I’ve started replacing some of the salt in my kitchen with potassium chloride mixed with the regular sodium chloride. Turns out, my blood levels tested too low for both potassium and chloride ions, but too high for sodium.
So in the place of a well-executed public website, we get links to at least half a dozen shitty commercial ones that look like they were made in 1994 (at least the one I used). Absolutely nasty. WTF.
Any law with sharp cutoffs for anything rather than some sort of sliding scale will result in a graph that looks like that to some degree. Anytime a raw number is written in a statute or policy.
At least there will be an elevator to the basement. I keep dealing with existing multifamily buildings here that have basement laundry rooms, but no way to get to them other than stairs.
I remember when I was light designing his senior thesis in college. The tickets for his shows there were free of course, but there were long lines!
I’m still upset about choosing a Hawthorne alignment over the ROW that Metro already owned for the K Line extension to Torrance, for close to a billion dollars of added cost and untold years of added delay. Way to look out for all 10MM residents of LA County, Metro Board!
If you live in LA County and care about transit, call in!
For my Pasadena YIMBY friends: this is the link to the Zoom of the special hearing of the Pasadena Design Commission where they’re discussing the proposed 100% Affordable apartment buildings at 600 N Rosemead.
So many NIMBYs were going to show up that they had to switch to a larger venue.
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A silver lining of the Iran war?
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It is a very well done video. Here’s the link, in case anyone hasn’t watched it yet:
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As I just told my friend from high school, whose ancestors are Hungarian, and from whom I first heard the term “Magyar,” we are all Hungarian today!
The first results are starting to come in!
I never thought I’d be interested enough in Hungarian election results to seek out information on election night, but I’m watching this live stream on YouTube right now:
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Polls there close in 25 minutes. I hope it’s an unquestionably decisive result. Never thought I’d care so much about a Hungarian election!
The ICC-related bits of this presentation really hit home:
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With the Brady Bunch house, it was only the outside that they used for the TV show, of course. So the interior was later made to look like the sound-stage set for the show by the owner.
My orange cat has been stepping on my keyboard a lot recently
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FWIW, most developers and operators of LIHTC projects have long been for profit. There are some nonprofit developers out there, but they’re greatly outnumbered.
Much better would be raised crosswalks or streets with sparse- and low-speed-enough traffic (or none at all) that sidewalks are unnecessary. (End)
it doesn’t require proactive replacement. So maybe when our great-grandchildren are using wheelchairs, they’ll be guided to the same sidewalk on the other side of the street rather than straight into the path of buses and dump trucks and speeding cars. (4/
After decades, the final version of PROWAG (Public Right of Way Accessibility Guidelines) has been finalized. But it hasn’t yet been adopted nationwide by the DOJ or DOT. Even if a state or municipality adopted it as binding before then, while it does require what I want, (3/