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Jun 10, 2021 • 30 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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wrote a picture book on California housing - "Rhena the House Makes New Friends" read it in the thread or at the link! sites.google.com/view/alfredtwu… 1/ Rhena the House Makes New Friends - A California Housing Sto
For those who believe that our best days are still to come...

...and that wherever the country is headed,
California will get there first.
2/ Story and Art by Alfred Twu Published by Alfred Twu in Berk
3/ Our story begins many years ago, in a small town near the ci
4/ The first people to live in Rhena the House was a young fami
5/ The families living next door in Alex and Bob also had kids,
6/ As the years passed, the Kid grew older, went to high school
7/ Before long all the kids on the street had grown up and move
8/ One day, Rhena saw a familiar face walk by. It was The Kid
9/ Meanwhile, the people who didn’t want to pay property taxe
10/ Finally, the Mayor had an idea. If the people living in the
11/ The people working at the computer company also needed place
12/ Luckily for Rhena, before the bulldozers got to her, a group
13/ It did not. On the other side of the highway, more business
14/ “Two million and a half!” shouted a third person. “Tw
15/ Of course, the rich man did not move in himself. He already
16/ A couple years later, Rhena saw a van park on the street. A
17/ The family in the house next door remembered meeting the Gra
18/ The neighbors loved the cottage. “It’s so cute and cozy
19/ The backyard behind Rhena the House was empty. “If I boug
20/ As the two argued on, the town’s housing crisis got worse
21/ Finally the town decided that something had to be done about
22/ After a few more years of debate, the town finally allowed a
23/ Across the highway from the backyard houses, big apartment b
24/ a street with residential buildings of different shapes and
25/ While California has long been an expensive place to live,
To learn more, I recommend reading “California’s High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences” by the Legislative Analyst’s Office.
lao.ca.gov/Publications/D…
Learn more about Senate Bill 9 (#SB9), a proposed state law to allow lot splits and duplexes. cayimby.org/sb-9/
Learn about Portland, Oregon's Residential Infill Project, a 2020 city law to allow more homes in neighborhoods. sightline.org/2020/08/11/on-…
PDF of "Rhena the House Makes New Friends" drive.google.com/file/d/1VyeUKd…
shareable webpage with the book as a slideshow, links to the pdf, links to order a copy ($8.27 each) sites.google.com/view/alfredtwu…

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Jul 5
List is final: 10 California Propositions for 2024:
2🏫School bond
3🏳️‍🌈Marriage Equality
4🌎Climate bond
5🏗️Easier to pass local bonds
6⚖️Ends Slavery
32💵$18 min wage
33🏠Rent Control
34🚫Limits AHF political activities
35🏥Medi-Cal funding
36🚨Increased drug & theft penalties
1/
Several other Props were removed from the ballot or postponed by the courts or the Legislature.

Details of the ten November 2024 Propositions, including link to text, support/opposition, etc at
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
Prop 2 school bond is a $10 billion bond for school facilities, provided as matching funds to school districts. $1.5 billion of the $10B total is set aside for Community Colleges.

It's supported by the Building Trades, 100+ school/college districts, though some districts oppose
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Dec 15, 2022
Five shapes of apartment buildings, each with 60 homes. Top left, a wide block with doors off a long hallway, is the most common type built today in the US.

Top center is common in Europe. Today we'll also look at a few other styles.

Which do you prefer?
1/ 3D views of five types of a...
In the last few decades, as codes in the US have allowed large wood buildings, the hotel-style floorplan has become standard for 4-8 story apartments.

It's the most efficient plan that meets code requirements of 2 stairs. Downsides: most people only get windows on one side.
2/ a five story apartment buil...
In places where code allows a single stair, the layout often looks like this: a long building might actually be several connected buildings, each with its own stair and elevator.

Advantage: cross ventilation, two views, also can put bedrooms on quiet side.
3/ an 8 story perimeter block,...
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Dec 7, 2022
Thoughts on what AI means for artists: AI art often has a sci-fi / fantasy style to it as it's one of the last big industries for illustrators. In 1960s-70s, color photos took over most work depicting things that exist, but artists were still needed to draw things that didn't. 1/
The style of a lot of AI art - realism with high contrast and bold colors - is similar to that used in video, card, and board games, which often have sci-fi or fantasy settings. It's likely the AI was trained on images from websites such as DeviantArt or ArtStation. 2/
A physical game will have a couple hundred pieces of "card art" - standalone images to represent a character, object, event, or place. Video games have even more. This is likely one of the first things that AI images would replace. 3/
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Dec 7, 2022
Hello from #pinolemtg !
#VisitPinole 🍐 A meeting in Pinole city hall
Most of tonight's meeting is ceremonial but we do have some public comments, including one about the need to act now to improve pedestrian safety at a downtown crosswalk #pinolemtg 🐦
And it's official! @MaliaCohen swears in the new Mayor of #Pinole, @DevinMurphyDTM ! 🎉🎉🎉🍐🐦 City council meeting at Pin...
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Dec 6, 2022
I don't think I've seen a city council meeting go this late before, 2:59 am might be some kind of record.

San Mateo has a five person council but there is one vacant seat, so they are stuck at 2-2 on both filling the vacancy and appointing a mayor (who could break the tie)
Like most cities where members of the city council take turns being the mayor, the process in San Mateo is supposed to be just a formality, until now
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Nov 28, 2022
The growing protests in China reminds me of the research that revolutions are most likely when the standard of living rises but then goes in reverse, causing anger due to unmet expectations.

China's last 20 years have got to be one of the most extreme versions of this.
1/
China's economy today is several times larger than it was in 2000, but the lifestyle changes are more than just about a number, the two decades saw an even bigger change in mobility: high speed trains, car ownership, international travel.

With lockdowns, mobility went to zero
2/
During the first couple years of the pandemic relatively few places were locked down in China, and at the same time, people in other parts of the world were also staying home.

2022 is different. People are out and about everywhere else, while China has had more lockdowns
3/
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