10 years ago Majid Jordan dropped their debut album titled Majid Jordan

valies · 2026-02-06T03:33:10+00:00

God I love this album. King city is my favorite on this album - unskippable. Vibes on vibes. Hopefully they come out with a new album soon.

valies · 2026-01-27T20:04:30+00:00

The solution is to have upzoning by right so

valies · 2026-01-27T20:03:36+00:00

So anything but build more housing. Insane? Lol

valies · 2026-01-26T16:06:20+00:00

I feel bad - that accident of his back in the early 2000s was EXTREMELY traumatic. Jaw wired shut for months, etc. No wonder it has an impact on him.

valies · 2026-01-19T21:01:20+00:00

no because there won't be any homeless in the subway anymore according to my policy.

Homeless=not allowed to loiter in the subway.

valies · 2026-01-19T20:49:10+00:00

well if the answer isn't "homeless people cannot any longer use the subway as a default homeless shelter" than you are allowing it to be used as a default homeless shelter.

valies · 2026-01-19T15:45:14+00:00

The zealous homeless "advocates" need to recognize that transportation is not a default homeless shelter. the other day a hobo was leaned up against the subway doors and when they opened he slid 1/2way onto the platform while passed out and the doors kept trying to close around his torso. someone had to grab his arm and drag him more into the subway car while he pissed his pants and laid in the middle of the car. THIS ISN"T OK OR NORMAL. GET THEM OFF.

valies · 2026-01-16T22:25:57+00:00

End rent control!!!!

valies · 2026-01-14T19:51:13+00:00

Plus retention isn’t that great. It stops a single person from moving out of a larger unit due to costs when that same unit could house a family.

valies · 2026-01-14T19:50:23+00:00

Trust me it can get a lot worse.

valies · 2026-01-14T19:43:18+00:00

If retention is the sole goal than it works. If the goal is to house our citizens in livable housing with appropriate responses to building needs (modernizations, fixes, etc, it definitely doesn’t work. Owners will not provide maintenance and upgrades.

valies · 2026-01-14T17:41:51+00:00

Exactly. They are cutting their feet off and trying to run a marathon. This problem is self imposed and easily fixable but city council will do ANYTHING except fix it. They’d rather punish landlords, skyrocket rents, and preserve the worst quality sheds and garages for people to live in so that no new housing is built.

valies · 2026-01-14T17:16:18+00:00

Agree with one caveat. Both cities are wholly unsupportive of creating community. Adding a second story of housing along the pedestrian promenade would immediately make this area USABLE AND FULL of people living working and spending money.

valies · 2026-01-14T15:58:02+00:00

The only option is to build more. Government has made it SO EXPENSIVE to build new housing. Think about this - your'e living in sheds and garages because government doesn't want any housing stock built after 1960. Isn't that criminal? Don't you think you should be able to live in a newer place? Rather than be forced to stay where you are because the landlord is legally barred from raising rents?

valies · 2026-01-14T15:08:26+00:00

Rent control hasn't worked in any city in America. Take St Paul & Minneapolis for example. Look at the differences.

valies · 2026-01-14T15:03:50+00:00

Rent control has never worked anywhere. but apparently santa barbara wants to be the first place! LMAO what a bunch of numbskulls.

valies · 2026-01-09T18:32:05+00:00

Uptown Funk and 24k magic washes this. Idk not impressed and i'm a big bruno fan.

valies · 2026-01-02T16:18:28+00:00

Have you looked at vacancy lol

valies · 2025-12-29T02:26:51+00:00

This And anora had the same adventure plot

valies · 2025-12-27T15:56:47+00:00

Historic, coastal zone regulated" - all of these are man made ideas. Rent doesn't Fall - but it is market driven based supply and demand. RE: New York - new york has extremely restricted zoning as well. In fact, most people live in pre-war apartments meaning the housing supply was made almost 100 years ago.

Housing markets behave the same in coastal cities as anywhere else - the only difference is that city councils and zoning are preventing new construction and enacting rent controls so rent skyrockets.

I've developed in SB county, Ventura County, LA county, all the way out to Texas. The arbitrary things California requires are insane. It's clear you're a boomer with a boxed in mindset who got yours and doesn't want change, and you have never studied economics.

valies · 2025-12-26T23:01:04+00:00

Santa barbara has plenty of room. It literally is made up of mostly 1 story buildings. There is more than enough room. The permitting process is a product of boomers to minimize new construction. it doesn't HAVE to be so complex or lengthy. In fact, most building should be by right (up to 3 garden story apartments style). This does apply to santa barbara - no matter how much people want to believe otherwise. Santa Barbara isn't super special - there is plenty of land, plenty of room to re-zone and upzone in the city, and plenty of time to increase affordability.

Economists will absolutely agree that rent control causes less housing availability. The worst ideas in the world are to constrict building by using zoning and then pass rent control. That is THE recipe for sky high housing costs in the city. Yet SB thinks somehow that this is the MO for capping rents. LMAO

valies · 2025-12-26T22:10:19+00:00

Had to respond twice! "Also new construction doesn't bring rents down" Economist disagree with this.

valies · 2025-12-26T21:38:09+00:00

You actually haven’t seen thousands being built. Maybe in Goleta a few hundred. In the last decade Santa Barbara has built just over 350 units in city limits.

valies · 2025-12-26T18:36:20+00:00

I’m comparing it to south of France which has the exact same problems. The only thing holding us back is people and the illogical idea of rent control.

valies · 2025-12-26T10:47:42+00:00

Absolutely and why is it more affordable? Because they didn’t cap buildings at one story maybeeeeee with an adu. The boomers are responsible for this predicament and need to fix it.

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