Toby Muresianu

youtube.comCan Nithya Win Over Developers? with Andrew SlocumThe Mayor's race is in the final stretch, and two groups that are typically allies - housing advocates and housing builders - aren't aligned. Developer and housing advocate Andrew Slocum joins the…

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Can Nithya win over developers? Housing advocate and developer Andrew Slocum joins the latest episode of "In Search of a City: The LA Housing Podcast" to discuss with hosts @jessezwick.bsky.social @leslieridings.bsky.social Jonny Hale and o Sunwoo! Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Wz...

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Measure ULA reform actually is on LA's ballot this election--but Measure TE wasn't all reform advocates had in mind.

LA is basically run by a "good old chuds" network. Incumbent officials who have run the city into the ground playing petty-tyrant machine politics are furious that Nithya might actually follow laws and professionalize operation of the city. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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Good mayors have one thing in common: they're great cheerleaders for their cities, explains author of "The Reluctant Metropolis" Bill Fulton. Full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmSB...

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Did you know LA has a citywide height limit in its charter? Measure PL would give that power back to the city council - and eliminate a number of planning commissions. @jessezwick.bsky.social explains on our latest podcast. Full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmSB...

Boomers: haha vote for everyone to subsidize me machine goes brrrr

What counts as a successful season in baseball? Only one team wins the World Series and everyone else loses at some point.

I wonder what happened to that Ocean Spray guy.

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The first SB79 proposals in the LA area were all in Santa Monica. Host (and Santa Monica City Council Member) Jesse Zwick explains why--and shows what they look like.

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It isn't a matter of either building new homes or reusing old ones: LA should be doing both given the sheer amount of empty office it has, explains architect Karin Liljegren.

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youtube.comMayor of the Reluctant Metropolis w/Bill FultonYouTube video by In Search of a City: The LA Housing Podcast

30 years ago the hugely influential LA history "The Reluctant Metropolis" was released. We spoke with author Bill Fulton (@futureofwhere.bsky.social) on the LA Mayor's Race, housing, and more on our new episode! Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmSB...

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LA has at least 56 million square feet of empty offices--and many actually can be converted into homes. Veteran reuse architect Karin Liljegren joined us on "In Search of a City: The LA Housing Podcast" to explain how other cities are doing it. Here's the keys 🧵

The child sex abuse at UCLA's daycare occurred while our kids were there (thankfully in different classrooms). UCLA cops and administrators knew of the predator years in advance and bungled the response over and over. This reporting is a critical piece. There is more. 🧵

Want to help fight for accountability, safety, and quality childcare in California? Sign our petition: c.org/qKcm5jjrJC Join our protest:

Tagging our reps: @senbenallen.bsky.social @asmrickzbur.bsky.social @lindseyhorvath.bsky.social @katyyaroslavsky.bsky.social @isaacgbryan.bsky.social cc: @latimes.com @laist.com @ladailynews.bsky.social @marvistavoice.bsky.social

latimes.comBlow to Westside child care: UCLA to close infant and toddler centers charging $3,000 a monthUCLA will close its remaining child-care centers in June, leaving hundreds of families scrambling to find new care amid an acute countywide shortage.

Childcare shortages affect the whole region, as public policy changes like Universal TK have, despite real benefits, disrupted the financial sustainability of childcare across California. As they close, more will not necessarily be able to replace them. www.latimes.com/california/...

UCLA's failures reflect a system present in other UCs and California institutions. Changes need to be made to ensure accountability in public institutions across the state, rather than offenders and bureaucrats evading responsibility and taxpayers having to pay settlements.

4. It does not hold anyone accountable. The administrators and police who have failed are all just in other positions of responsibility. 5. Instead, teachers will lose their jobs, many of whom were critical both as family support and in bringing Rodriguez to justice.

Regents meet this week to consider both a settlement and the closures. If they fail to hold UCLA accountable, the responsibility falls to our elected officials. In any case, state and local officials will need to be involved as the impacts to the public go beyond UCLA.

laist.comUCLA is closing its on-campus childcare centers. Now parents are scrambling in a bleak marketProfessors and students who use the subsidized programs will now have to compete in a tough, competitive market.

UCLA has now moved to close all campus childcare, which it says is unrelated and for financial reasons. laist.com/news/educat... This is not what families want and continues to hurt them: 1. It strands families without childcare in an area where programs have 2-year waitlists.

2. It doesn't eliminate risk for families, who will be lucky to find any childcare and must simply hope it is better run. 3. It does not rid UCLA of risk--they still are running multiple K-12 schools with a system that has failed once and has not been reformed.

dailybruin.comECE parents say UCLA isn’t updating them on ex-teacher convicted of sexual abuse - Daily BruinThis post was updated March 11 at 9:45 p.m. When a UCLA Early Care and Education teacher was arrested for child sexual abuse in 2024, the families of his former students expected the university to keep them informed about the case.

Despite signs, he was only caught after teachers witnessed and reported him. Administrators sought to downplay it, even pushing both whistleblowers out of the school. Then he was arrested, convicted and has now skipped bail and is at large. dailybruin.com/2026/03/10/...

dailybruin.comLaw firm files suit against UC alleging negligence in Christopher Rodriguez case - Daily BruinThis post was updated Sept. 28 at 9:18 p.m. Editor’s note: This article contains mentions of child sexual abuse that may be disturbing to some readers.

Families have fought for years for transparency, reform and accountability. UCLA administrators and police continue to pass the buck and evade basic questions. UCLA may settle a lawsuit over it. But avoiding deeper reform fails families past and future. dailybruin.com/2025/09/28/...

dailybruin.comUCPD received notice of suspected child sex abuse years before childcare teacher's arrest - Daily BruinThis post was updated Sept. 10 at 7:58 a.m. A 4-year-old student at a UCLA childcare center was reported to child protective services for exhibiting symptoms of sexual abuse in May 2018.

Christopher Rodriguez was a teacher who received a waiver for a prior criminal record to be hired. He was flagged by a family for potential abuse in 2018. UCLA Police apparently closed the case without investigating. Admins moved him to another school. dailybruin.com/2026/09/09/...

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13 Sept

Did not realize there was a hit Australian song about someone psychotic over street parking www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PTv...

11 Sept

The AI Whistleblower reminds me of an old bit I did: Maybe there's no aliens because ones that develop technology kill themselves.

10 Sept

Republicans in power: "Well, they didn't give us the $5000 the last two times they said they would, but maybe the third time is the charm." Democrats in power: "They only gave us $2700!" (when it was way more!)

10 Sept

Trump said we'd get $5000 checks from the tariffs. Then it was $5000 from DOGE. He literally stiffed every single American and he's promising to do it again.

2 Sept

LA Mayoral Election

2 Sept

Year 1 in politics: it’s not either/or. We can walk and chew gum at the same time Year 10 in politics: serious reforms are needed before we can either walk or chew gum

1 Sept

Absolutely appalling move by @asmrickzbur.bsky.social (my rep) He's trying to kill a long-planned road safety improvement where someone just died by inserting a last minute poison pill into the state budget (!) at the behest of lobbyists for cemeteries (!!) laist.com/news/transpo...

mailchi.mpSacramento's midnight attack on street safety threatens Forest Lawn

1 Sept

Still a tiny bit of time to help push back--contact your reps here! mailchi.mp/streetsforal...

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1 Sept

Zbur apparently worked with Durazo on this. Gives the lie to any claims they have to be for “local control” or for “community processes." If those interminable, expensive processes ever yield a result rich special interests don’t like, they are simply vetoed in a backroom - process be damned.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑

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26 Aug

🚨 It's go time, YIMBYs. 🚨 Years in the making, AB 1903 could make big progress on fixing frivolous litigation that has it made so hard to build condominiums in California, but it's facing stiff opposition. Now is the time to CALL and EMAIL your assemblymember and senator.

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Hakeem Jefferson

Because of the group chat, I’m watching this and my god, everything my colleagues have said about wealthy homeowners having particularized politics that are regressive and bad for public policy is on great view here. Wild stuff.

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Can't believe one chud HOA with a duct-taped sign is hosting *two* mayoral debates in America's second largest city

Can't believe one chud HOA with a duct-taped sign is hosting *two* mayoral debates in America's second largest city

At the last debate, the moderator put participants on the spot and asked them to promise to participate in another debate hosted by them. Worked in the moment, but these shameless tactics should disqualify them from every hosting an important public debate again.

nytimes.comOpinion | How Homeowners’ Associations Get Their Way in California (Published 2021)The lasting power of neighborhood organizing.

More on the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association's long history of screwing over the city for its own benefit: www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/o...

Can't believe one chud HOA with a duct-taped sign is hosting *two* mayoral debates in America's second largest city

The Sherman Oaks HOA, despite inflating their own wealth for generations blocking homes for others, declined to spring for a full version of Zoom--so many were blocked from joining. bsky.app/profile/esot...

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The Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association didn't spring for a professional Zoom account, so sorry, you can't watch the Mayoral debate if you're just logging in now. www.shermanoakshomeownersassociation.com Seriously, what is this amateur hour foolishness? The City has a television channel.

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California YIMBY

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5 Aug

CA stopped building condos, depriving Californians of homeownership. Condos are 3% of CA apartments, vs 40% in Canada. A 2002 law lets HOA lawyers sue builders instead of repairing defects, spiking insurance costs and building risk. AB 1903 would help fix. via @tobyhardtospell.bsky.social

5 Aug

My latest op-ed in the LA Daily News explains why a key to restoring affordable homeownership in California is passing #AB1903 by @buffywicks.bsky.social. Read: www.dailynews.com/2026/08/04/d...

22 July

8 July

Feels crazy connecting every problem to housing, but if you literally shot yourself in the foot, a lot of your problems would come back to having shot yourself in the foot

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dailynews.comHenry Mantel: Single-family zoning is the anchor dragging Los Angeles downThe only way to make LA more affordable is to roll back single-family zoning so that we can finally build enough housing to solve this housing crisis once and for all.

1 June

Thank you to the @ladailynews.bsky.social for publishing my op-ed on how single-family zoning is keeping Los Angeles down! Making LA a more affordable, livable city will require making it legal to build housing in more of the city and that's what I'm running to do. www.dailynews.com/2026/05/27/h...

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31 May

California's ballot is insanely long--but there's a shortcut!

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27 May

UCLA rents are too damn high. Here's why.

20 May

Spencer Pratt stans are like "Sure, he's reality tv scam artist pathological lying know-nothing conspiracy theorist registered Republican that voted for Trump...but he is NOT MAGA"

20 May

You know who Spencer Pratt reminds me of? Amy McGrath. Someone who soaks up money and attention from out of state donors excited over social media videos and completely ignoring the fundamentals of the race.

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