Christian Leonard
@xianleonard.bsky.social
Data reporter at @sfchronicle.com. Big fan of d20s, birds and em dashes. Not on here as often as the site FKA Twitter but prepared to jump ship.
This is a pretty notably shift from about five years ago, when state Sen. Scott Wiener tried to get a more expansion version of this bill (SB 50) passed. That bill fell short by three votes.
June 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This is a pretty notably shift from about five years ago, when state Sen. Scott Wiener tried to get a more expansion version of this bill (SB 50) passed. That bill fell short by three votes.
As an added bonus here's a recreation of my past several days of reporting
May 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
As an added bonus here's a recreation of my past several days of reporting
As an aside, one of the first state housing policy stories I wrote (for the Burbank Leader) was an explainer article on SB 9. There was a *ton* of controversy over the bill at the time in SoCal, even though experts were saying even then that it wouldn't build as much as advertised.
February 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
As an aside, one of the first state housing policy stories I wrote (for the Burbank Leader) was an explainer article on SB 9. There was a *ton* of controversy over the bill at the time in SoCal, even though experts were saying even then that it wouldn't build as much as advertised.