Max Dubler, AICP 🏳️🌈
@maxdubler.com
Certified urban planner posting for California YIMBY about housing, and for myself about skateboarding and cameras. Tradeoffs are real. he/him
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Max Dubler, AICP 🏳️🌈
@maxdubler.com
· Dec 2
Salesperson: and as you can see, the jacket has this wonderful red lining
Me, an urban planner, eyes narrowing: it has WHAT
Me, an urban planner, eyes narrowing: it has WHAT
You cannot redistribute your way out of a shortage.
what about housing redistribution?
January 16, 2026 at 7:38 PM
You cannot redistribute your way out of a shortage.
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this is very much not the core of the issue. we tolerate all sorts of biological advantages and disadvantages in sports. the real fundamental question here is: why is this one different than the others?
January 16, 2026 at 6:06 PM
this is very much not the core of the issue. we tolerate all sorts of biological advantages and disadvantages in sports. the real fundamental question here is: why is this one different than the others?
If you are recently returning from X, I recommend using this “for you” feed that will show you posts you’re likely interested in.
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The more people use it -> the more feedback we get -> the better we can make it for you.
The more people use it -> the more feedback we get -> the better we can make it for you.
January 16, 2026 at 6:23 PM
If you are recently returning from X, I recommend using this “for you” feed that will show you posts you’re likely interested in.
There are only 2 real policy responses to a housing shortage. You can either get to work building enough housing for everyone or start making a list of the types of people you want to exclude. I know which side I’m on.
HUD Secretary Scott Turner: "100% of rental demand in California and New York is because of illegal immigration"
January 16, 2026 at 5:57 PM
There are only 2 real policy responses to a housing shortage. You can either get to work building enough housing for everyone or start making a list of the types of people you want to exclude. I know which side I’m on.
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a cataclysmic day for algebra
X has stopped working
X has stopped working
www.independent.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 4:04 PM
a cataclysmic day for algebra
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Gotta love a system where the rich, housed, and almost dead decide whether anyone else gets to have housing
January 16, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Gotta love a system where the rich, housed, and almost dead decide whether anyone else gets to have housing
I am incandescent with rage.
One of the stories that makes me the saddest out of this ICE invasion is one out of the Minnesota Star Tribune today about ICE agents eating at a little Mexican restaurant in the small town of Willmar, Minn, —and then, when they were done, arresting some of the workers.
January 16, 2026 at 2:15 AM
I am incandescent with rage.
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"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car"
"His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."
"His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."
January 15, 2026 at 8:22 PM
"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car"
"His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."
"His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."
The photography accompanying this article really tells a story.
Steamrolling is the new MO for Bay Area cities, who consider locals as a nuisance. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
‘Blindsided’: Residents of this Bay Area city say officials hid plan to build tiny cabins for homeless
Bay Area residents have accused city officials of deliberately hiding plans for a tiny cabin community for homeless people from neighbors and steamrolling ahead without involving community input.
www.sfchronicle.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:23 PM
The photography accompanying this article really tells a story.
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The deck is stacked in about 10 different ways to give extra power and money to rural areas, but it's never enough. Right wing propaganda continues to tell them they are out upon victims powerless against the mighty cities.
Stage 5 pundit-brain is watching an innocent woman being killed by agents of the state and going, "hmm this says a lot about the urban-rural divide in America."
January 15, 2026 at 3:14 PM
The deck is stacked in about 10 different ways to give extra power and money to rural areas, but it's never enough. Right wing propaganda continues to tell them they are out upon victims powerless against the mighty cities.
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This is the dynamic across most of America: Liberal cities generate revenue, which state governments then transfer to benefit conservative rural areas, whose residents despite city-dwellers and consistently vote to harm them. But politicians endlessly pander to rural voters and demonize cities.
Another critical piece of missing context in this story: tax dollars flow from the MSP metro to rural Minnesota. People in the city subsidize the lifestyles of people living in the country minnesotareformer.com/2023/12/04/t...
January 15, 2026 at 3:48 PM
This is the dynamic across most of America: Liberal cities generate revenue, which state governments then transfer to benefit conservative rural areas, whose residents despite city-dwellers and consistently vote to harm them. But politicians endlessly pander to rural voters and demonize cities.
Need a “Brainerd mentioned” meme with Chuck Marohn.
NYTimes has truly outdone itself with this latest in its "ask white guys in diner" genre. Thank goodness we get a perspective on what's happening in Minneapolis from people in **Nisswa** who probably mean Brainerd when they say they "prefer not to go the city anymore" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
One State, Two Very Different Views of Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Need a “Brainerd mentioned” meme with Chuck Marohn.
State legislature: cities have to plan for housing growth but we will let them decide where it goes.
Local gov’t: ok we will rezone some land that we know will never actually get redeveloped.
State: alright we will directly preempt your zoning.
Local: why are you taking away our local control???
Local gov’t: ok we will rezone some land that we know will never actually get redeveloped.
State: alright we will directly preempt your zoning.
Local: why are you taking away our local control???
Marblehead will attempt to use a 32-acre portion of Tedesco Country Club to satisfy the entirety of their MBTA Communities multi-family zoning requirements. The 120-year old club has no plans to end operations and recently completed a brand new multi-million dollar clubhouse.
January 15, 2026 at 4:08 PM
State legislature: cities have to plan for housing growth but we will let them decide where it goes.
Local gov’t: ok we will rezone some land that we know will never actually get redeveloped.
State: alright we will directly preempt your zoning.
Local: why are you taking away our local control???
Local gov’t: ok we will rezone some land that we know will never actually get redeveloped.
State: alright we will directly preempt your zoning.
Local: why are you taking away our local control???
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Used Honda fit masculinity: rejecting a commercialized vision of masculinity rooted in insecurity used to sell excessively sized SUVs and Trucks and Retvrning to classical masculine values like emotional stability, practicality, and independence but driving a used Honda fit
is a honda fit a technical
January 14, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Used Honda fit masculinity: rejecting a commercialized vision of masculinity rooted in insecurity used to sell excessively sized SUVs and Trucks and Retvrning to classical masculine values like emotional stability, practicality, and independence but driving a used Honda fit
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Bitcoin was invented 16 years ago. If crypto provided any utility beyond buying drugs online, creating a new form of gambling or indulging Libertarian anti-state fantasies, it would have broken into the mainstream by now.
Fed Kashkari still hating on crypto: "It's still basically useless for consumers. I mean, there's, there's nothing you can do with Bitcoin or a stablecoin that you can't already do with Venmo or with your traditional banking products, other than circumventing banking regulation."
January 14, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Bitcoin was invented 16 years ago. If crypto provided any utility beyond buying drugs online, creating a new form of gambling or indulging Libertarian anti-state fantasies, it would have broken into the mainstream by now.
This machine stops fascists.
January 14, 2026 at 6:58 PM
This machine stops fascists.
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Idk who made this but so I can’t give credit
January 14, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Idk who made this but so I can’t give credit
Despite my deep political disagreements with Scott Adams, I truly appreciate his commitment to memorializing the character that made him rich in the architecture of his homes.
January 13, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Despite my deep political disagreements with Scott Adams, I truly appreciate his commitment to memorializing the character that made him rich in the architecture of his homes.
Massachusetts-born landscape architect who moved to Vancouver at age 42: “this New Jersey-born state legislator who moved to San Francisco 28 years ago at age 27 is a carpetbagger.”
January 13, 2026 at 3:51 AM
Massachusetts-born landscape architect who moved to Vancouver at age 42: “this New Jersey-born state legislator who moved to San Francisco 28 years ago at age 27 is a carpetbagger.”
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Blocking new housing doesn't stop rich people from moving in. Instead, it means unleashing them on the existing housing stock.
In SF, increased demand from the tech boom was not met with new supply, so landlords withdrew their rentals to sell to tech workers.
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In SF, increased demand from the tech boom was not met with new supply, so landlords withdrew their rentals to sell to tech workers.
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January 12, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Blocking new housing doesn't stop rich people from moving in. Instead, it means unleashing them on the existing housing stock.
In SF, increased demand from the tech boom was not met with new supply, so landlords withdrew their rentals to sell to tech workers.
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In SF, increased demand from the tech boom was not met with new supply, so landlords withdrew their rentals to sell to tech workers.
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A very odd part of the housing debate is that the people who oppose replacing old run-down buildings with big new buildings because the old buildings are affordable are also the people who deny that "filtering" causes new buildings to get less expensive as they age.
Culture flourishes in places with abundant and inexpensive floor space.
If you want cool bars, restaurants, art galleries, nightclubs, and theaters, you need (a) lots of cheap housing for workers, and (b) lots of commercial spaces where people can open a small business on a shoestring budget.
If you want cool bars, restaurants, art galleries, nightclubs, and theaters, you need (a) lots of cheap housing for workers, and (b) lots of commercial spaces where people can open a small business on a shoestring budget.
It's funny how every big city in North America has that one otherwise totally unremarkable strip mall way out in the suburbs that has been taken over by Asian restaurateurs and is now an internationally recognized foodie destination.
January 12, 2026 at 8:39 PM
A very odd part of the housing debate is that the people who oppose replacing old run-down buildings with big new buildings because the old buildings are affordable are also the people who deny that "filtering" causes new buildings to get less expensive as they age.
Culture flourishes in places with abundant and inexpensive floor space.
If you want cool bars, restaurants, art galleries, nightclubs, and theaters, you need (a) lots of cheap housing for workers, and (b) lots of commercial spaces where people can open a small business on a shoestring budget.
If you want cool bars, restaurants, art galleries, nightclubs, and theaters, you need (a) lots of cheap housing for workers, and (b) lots of commercial spaces where people can open a small business on a shoestring budget.
It's funny how every big city in North America has that one otherwise totally unremarkable strip mall way out in the suburbs that has been taken over by Asian restaurateurs and is now an internationally recognized foodie destination.
January 12, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Culture flourishes in places with abundant and inexpensive floor space.
If you want cool bars, restaurants, art galleries, nightclubs, and theaters, you need (a) lots of cheap housing for workers, and (b) lots of commercial spaces where people can open a small business on a shoestring budget.
If you want cool bars, restaurants, art galleries, nightclubs, and theaters, you need (a) lots of cheap housing for workers, and (b) lots of commercial spaces where people can open a small business on a shoestring budget.
Another extremely cool and influential transportation job opening, this time based in Sacramento: www.assembly.ca.gov/system/files...
www.assembly.ca.gov
January 12, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Another extremely cool and influential transportation job opening, this time based in Sacramento: www.assembly.ca.gov/system/files...
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NIMBYism is the last true bastion of bipartisanship (extremely derogatory) in this country
January 12, 2026 at 3:41 PM
NIMBYism is the last true bastion of bipartisanship (extremely derogatory) in this country