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Personal page of Eric Munsing- all opinions my own. For more about me, you can check out: Ecomunsing - professional website SummitForDays– A blog about my outdoor pursuits and van life LinkedIn – Want to hire me? Github – (a tiny part of) my codebase StackOverflow – I try to be helpful.
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SF's rent is through the roof- but not relative to pre-pandemic? Comparison of rent costs across cities and time.
I just spent some time diving into the market rate historical rental price data on Apartmentlist, and the portrait it paints of different cities is incredible: Despite continued population increases and 30% inflation during the same period, Austin saw its
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A Guy's Crash-Course in Feminism
This is a quick list of some of my favorite feminist and gender theory texts which have shaped how I think about the impact that the patriarchy has on me (and the impact which I can have on it). The core idea for guys to grok: The two books below explore
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SB-79 and the Family Zoning Plan
I've heard a lot of confusing misinformation about how the SB-79 transit-oriented development bill will interact with the current Family Zoning rezoning proposal, and did a lot of close reading of the proposed SB-79 legislation. The summary: SB-79 will no
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California, you screwed up: Carbon Capture is cheaper than Electric Vehicles?
When my girlfriend was shopping for a new car in late 2024, I advocated getting an Electric Vehicle- until I realized that the effective carbon abatement cost would be $1,200 / tonne CO2-e abated, more than twice the cost of carbon capture and sequestrati
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SF Housing Week Debrief- Same Facts, Different Outlooks
In trying to understand how preservationist, tenants-rights, and pro-development political factions fit together, I keep coming back to the core facts of the SF housing market, as the different factions have very different interpretations or explanations
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Manny's Housing Week
I spent my evenings last week on-stage at Manny's Community Event Space moderating talks about SF housing for the first "Understanding SF Housing" week at Manny's. We had a packed schedule: Night 1: The Future of Housing in SF: Debate with Laura Foote (Yi
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Exploring SF's Housing Market Vacancies
During SF Housing Week at Manny's, and throughout the SF Housing Element, a common refrain I heard was that "SF has a lot of vacant units- why do we need to build more units when we already have a lot of extra capacity?" I want to dig into this and the un
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Abundant wishes, few ideas
In a few weeks Ezra Klein will release his new book, "Abundance." As a card-carrying member of the Abundance Movement, I'm concerned that the book might be full of hand-wringing and short of solutions. Klein's recent NYTimes article paints the picture of
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Making Friends as an Adult is: Easy
In a generation where community is prized but community spaces are disappearing, I hear many of my generation lamenting the difficulty of making good friends and finding community. The good news? Community is all around you, and fascinating people and goo
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