@dillonliam

Covering housing in Los Angeles and California @politico. DMs open; https://xitter.cf/t.co/L88aHkveAi

 Los Angeles, CA
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Joined April 2009
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POLITICO
@politicoOct 18
“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?” Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century. politico.com/news/magazine/2…

Do You Really Own Your Home? A Tax Revolt Says No.

The argument that property taxes make Americans renters in their own houses has fueled the biggest anti-tax uprising in half a century, and local governments are scrambling.

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Sally Goldenberg@SallyGoldOct 12
"Asked about her reputation as a radical, Weaver interjected: 'Other people think I’m kind of a sellout.' Asked whether she’s moderated over the course of her career, she laughed." Great story by @janakichadha on @ceaweaver, housing adviser to @NYCMayor: politico.com/news/2026/10/11…

The tenant activist at the center of Mamdani’s housing gamble

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Dasha Burns
@DashaBurnsSep 19
President Trump’s move to ban CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO from the White House caught much of his own team by surprise. @playbookdc called more than a dozen current and former Trump WH officials to figure out why this happened and why now. Here’s what we learned 🧵
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Ben Mullin@BenMullinSep 18
NEW — Statement from Politico on White House press ban: "POLITICO will continue to fairly report on this White House and future ones. We will vigorously defend our First Amendment rights against any attempt to restrict them. The claims that POLITICO received government subsidies are false and have been thoroughly debunked."
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Evan Soltas@esoltasSep 10
Where in America can new homes get permitted and built fastest? And are we getting faster or slower over time? In a new paper with @leonardo_damico and Audrey Wang, we show cities like Raleigh typically *finish* construction before cities like San Francisco even approve it.
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Dan Bloom@danbloom1Sep 1
Interesting piece by @e_casalicchio and @dillonliam on how Labour is looking at California — which is letting people build homes in their back yard (literally!) — as a way of solving the housing crisis politico.eu/article/labour-a…

Labour’s new housing model comes from California’s backyards

A quarter of all homes approved in California in 2025 were so-called granny flats, according to analysis.

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Luke Metro
@luke_metroAug 28
Normal real estate cycle: some bullshit about interest rates Rincon Hill real estate cycle: $2 trillion dollar company pops up a 15min walk away
Rohin Dhar
@rohindharAug 28
Two virtually identical unit sales in downtown San Francisco less than two years apart 2024 vs 2026
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There’s a strong “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this” element to large US tech companies discovering that the modern information environment is chaotic, low trust, driven by whim, does not reward truth-finding, is not self-correcting, given to faddish obsessions, etc
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Aziz Sunderji
@AzizSunderjiAug 20
LA rents—my visualization using 54,000 rental listings from Parcl Labs (link to their data below)...
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Scoop: Paradise vice mayor says he was "duped" and "conned" into appearing in a TV ad paid for by the 'Wildfire Victims First Coalition' The group is funded by PG&E and supports Newsom's proposal that aims to cap fire liability costs for utilities subscriber.politicopro.com/a…

POLITICO Pro: Paradise leader says utility group ‘duped’ him to appear in wildfire ad

The group Wildfire Victims First Coalition, funded by utility companies, is urging state lawmakers to quickly pass Gov. Gavin Newsom’s wildfire liability proposal.

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Melanie Mason@melmasonAug 17
“Polling has a credibility problem. Ours is the fix: no partisan clients, no campaign or party money, numbers that go wherever the data takes them even when it’s inconvenient. Trustworthy polling, rebuilt” Welp.
Noah Goldberg@Noah__GoldbergAug 17
NEW: I reached out repeatedly last week to Median Strategies, asking to speak with their head of polling. After reaching out repeatedly, they told me they were discontinuing their polling operation, then they admitted their poll was fake. latimes.com/california/story…

Poll showing Bass leading Raman by double digits was bogus, company says

The bogus poll — which the company claimed was a social media experiment — also showed Bass picking up support from most voters who supported Spencer Pratt in the mayoral primary.

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Dan Diamond
@ddiamondAug 13
Fascinating story from @AnnaLissRoy on how lawmakers are increasingly relying on Claude, Grok, ChatGPT and other AI tools to shape legislation and inform their thinking.
Anna Liss-Roy@AnnaLissRoyAug 13
Replying to @AnnaLissRoy
GIFT LINK: wapo.st/4guUhja

Chatbots are doing the work of Congress with little oversight

From writing speeches to sorting constituent mail, AI is spreading through Congress faster than the rules governing its use.

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The average California homeowner has *$627,000* in equity. 🤯🤯🤯
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Austin Hughes
@austinh___Jul 23
house hunting in SF is going great
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Daniel Miller
@DanielNMillerJul 13
The town's worst-kept secret: Many people know that Paramount CEO David Ellison has been quietly working on a bipartisan bill to create a federal film tax incentive program. Coincidentally, while Rob Bonta was delivering his press conference today, Ellison was en route to D.C. with chief legal officer Makan Delrahim for a long-planned dinner with 13 members of the House Ways and Means Committee to discuss advancing the legislation. The dinner, I am told, is being hosted by committee chair Jason Smith as I type this.
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Ruben Vives@LATvivesJun 12
Unfounded claims of homeless voter fraud roil L.A. We went to Skid Row for answers latimes.com/california/story…

Unfounded claims of homeless voter fraud roil L.A. We went to Skid Row for answers

Spencer Pratt supporters are spreading stories of vote fraud involving homeless people in the L.A. mayoral race with little or no evidence of wrongdoing.

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Daniel Miller
@DanielNMillerJun 9
SCOOP: Paramount has accused Netflix of launching a "scorched-earth campaign" against its Warner Bros. purchase in a letter to DOJ obtained by @politico. Paramount is claiming that Netflix is trying to "poison regulators" against the deal. My latest: politico.com/news/2026/06/09…

Paramount blasts Netflix, pushes back on Teamsters’ warnings about Warner Bros. deal

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L.A. Material@LAMaterialNewsJun 8
This is the late-night text message Mayor Karen Bass sent Nithya Raman the night before Raman filed to run for mayor. Obtained via a public records request.
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Richard Winton
@LAcrimesJun 8
Nithya Raman surges past Spencer Pratt in L.A. mayor’s race, closing in on runoff with Karen Bass latimes.com/california/story…

Nithya Raman surges past Spencer Pratt in L.A. mayor’s race, closing in on runoff with Karen Bass

Nithya Raman pulled ahead of Spencer Pratt in the race to get into the Nov. 3 mayoral runoff on Sunday, five days after the vote counting began.

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Kevin Rector@kevrectorJun 6
NEW: There was NOT a batch of L.A. mayor votes with zero votes for Pratt. But there was a "lag in an automated update" to @AP vote tallies that split the batch and updated Bass & Raman's votes about a minute before updating Pratt's. Read me @latimes: latimes.com/politics/story/2…

How a misreading of data fueled false claims about L.A. mayoral vote count

An update of votes for Los Angeles mayor, reported by media outlets, led some observers to believe there was a large batch of votes counted that included zero votes for candidate Spencer Pratt. There...

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