Michael Lane @michaeldlane
State Policy Director @SPUR_Urbanist | SPUR = Ideas + Action for a Better City | Capital of Silicon Valley | *The Valley of Heart's Delight 🇺🇸🇲🇽 spur.org San Jose, CA Joined June 2011-
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“If stopping market rate housing were effective in keeping neighborhoods affordable, San Francisco would be an affordability oasis. But our city’s history shows that the driving force behind gentrification is not building housing.”
“If stopping market rate housing were effective in keeping neighborhoods affordable, San Francisco would be an affordability oasis. But our city’s history shows that the driving force behind gentrification is not building housing.”
Our country’s biggest economic hubs are turning into retirement homes because entrenched homeowners have done everything possible to stop our cities from growing, at the expense of younger generations.
My column in today’s @sfchronicle print edition 📰🗞️
Excellent podcast co-hosted by @ArmandDoma with legislative titans @BuffyWicks and @Scott_Wiener. #1 takeaway - actual substantive environmental standards are essential, but CEQA is about “leverage, control, fear and extraction”. youtube.com/watch?v=MEMGYg…
Really enjoyed this podcast, going deep into CEQA and abundance - kudos to @Scott_Wiener for recommending @MarcDunkelman's insightful "Why Nothing Works" and @BuffyWicks for suggesting folks follow the brilliant @CSElmendorf! Congrats @ArmandDoma and cohosts for a great episode.
Really enjoyed this podcast, going deep into CEQA and abundance - kudos to @Scott_Wiener for recommending @MarcDunkelman's insightful "Why Nothing Works" and @BuffyWicks for suggesting folks follow the brilliant @CSElmendorf! Congrats @ArmandDoma and cohosts for a great episode.
This is the future YIMBYs want.
If inclusionary zoning has to be, this is the way to do it. Flexibility and multiple options. Tons of credit to @jessezwick for spearheading this initiative to unlock SM’s entitled but unpermitted and currently stalled housing pipeline therealdeal.com/la/2025/08/29/…
The pro-growth interior of California bears the brunt of NIMBYism on the California coast. SB 79 would target the 0.2% (!) of those high-cost coastal parts of the state where the shortage is most acute. Some say this is radical—I say it's common sense.
The pro-growth interior of California bears the brunt of NIMBYism on the California coast. SB 79 would target the 0.2% (!) of those high-cost coastal parts of the state where the shortage is most acute. Some say this is radical—I say it's common sense.
This is what NIMBYs want to deprive from the next generation, and they're winning. The only metro area with an older homeowner average age than San Diego is LA.
Degrowth is alive and well among many Californian enviros. I've heard board members of @CenterForBioDiv and @PCLeague call for population reduction, including helping move " excess population" from CA to "water-rich" places.
Degrowth is alive and well among many Californian enviros. I've heard board members of @CenterForBioDiv and @PCLeague call for population reduction, including helping move " excess population" from CA to "water-rich" places.
As affordability takes center stage in California's cap-and-trade talks, here's how @ASM_Irwin and @SenJoshBecker are proposing to change the California Climate Credit kqed.org/news/12053867/…
Most Californians — especially young Californians — can’t currently afford to buy a home in our state. And if people can’t afford to live and build a life here, then nothing else we do to build a thriving economy will matter.
SB 79, out of appropriations! Survive and advance!
Modesto CM Chris Ricci endorses SB 79 as a solution to Central Valley sprawl and super-commuting "When one region’s housing failures force over 100,000 people into extreme commutes, that’s no longer a local problem—it’s a statewide crisis that demands statewide solutions."
🚆💡 Calling all transit nerds, map lovers, and daily riders! Kick off #TransitMonth with Transit Trivia Night at the SPUR Urban Center — hosted by Jeff Wood of the Talking Headways podcast! 🗺️ Prizes, snacks & bragging rights await. spur.org/events/2025-09…
SB 79 passes Assembly Appropriations! Next stop: floor vote. California can build an affordable, dynamic, and prosperous state for everyone. First, we need to legalize it!
[BILL ALERT] SB 79, which broadly legalizes more homes near high quality transit stops, has passed the Assembly appropriations committee! The bill now goes to an Assembly floor vote, then back to the Senate for concurrence.
Delivering Abundance from the Ground Up: the book by @ezraklein and Derek Thompson is a blockbuster; with federal chaos, states, cities and private/civic players will need to get their act together — my latest w @michaelsaadine and Colin Higgins thenewlocalism.com/newsletter/del…
Violating state housing law comes at a price. In the case of this Beverly Hills BR project the math worked kinda like this. 19 story project illegally delayed by 1 + year in litigation (millions in fees and costs) = 36 story revised project. beverlyhillscourier.com/2025/08/28/pro…
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