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Oct 5, 2020

November 2020 Voter Guide

NEW: I’ve moved my blog. Find this and more at https://www.sbuss.dev/post/november-2020-voter-guide/ I’m doing something a bit different this election… I teamed up with an incredible group of techies to launch the Tech Worker Voter Guide! We did candidate outreach and performed deep research into every ballot prop. If you live in San Francisco and work in tech, then check out https://techworkers.vote!

Politics

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November 2020 Voter Guide
November 2020 Voter Guide
Politics

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November 2020 Voter Guide

NEW: I’ve moved my blog. Find this and more at https://www.sbuss.dev/post/november-2020-voter-guide/

I’m doing something a bit different this election… I teamed up with an incredible group of techies to launch the Tech Worker Voter Guide!

We did candidate outreach and performed deep research into every ballot prop. If you live in San Francisco and work in tech, then check out https://techworkers.vote!

We are pro-tech, pro-jobs, pro-immigrant, pro-growth, and pro-progress.

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May 4, 2020

It’s time to legalize building

If you want to build the future, then we first have to rebuild our institutions. — NEW: I’ve moved my blog. Find this and more at https://www.sbuss.dev/post/its-time-to-legalize-building/ Marc Andreessen is right: it’s time to build. The majority of us really want to live in a society with adequate housing, incredible medical technology, beautiful high rises and clean, fast, and reliable transit systems. So why don’t we…

Yimby

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It’s time to legalize building
It’s time to legalize building
Yimby

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Feb 7, 2020

Pissed off at the Pissed Off Voter Guide

NEW: Looking for my latest San Francisco Voting Guide by Steven Buss? Check out the Tech Worker Voter Guide, which I helped create! NEW: I’ve moved my blog. Find this and more at https://www.sbuss.dev/post/pissed-off-at-the-pissed-off-voter-guide/ If they are so pissed off with the state of the city, then why did they…

Politics

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Pissed off at the Pissed Off Voter Guide
Pissed off at the Pissed Off Voter Guide
Politics

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Feb 6, 2020

March 2020 San Francisco Election Guide

NEW: I’ve moved my blog. Find this and more at https://www.sbuss.dev/post/march-2020-san-francisco-election-guide/ NEW: Looking for my latest San Francisco Voting Guide by Steven Buss? Check out the Tech Worker Voter Guide, which I helped create! Here’s how I’m voting in the March, 2020 San Francisco election. San Francisco DCCC AD17 Vote for all: Austin Hunter Bivett Brackett Kristen…

San Francisco

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March 2020 San Francisco Election Guide
March 2020 San Francisco Election Guide
San Francisco

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Nov 4, 2019

San Francisco Supervisors are eating the golden goose

Tired of innumerate elected officials mismanaging the city? Support my campaign for Democratic County Central Committee. NEW: I’ve moved my blog. Find this and more at https://www.sbuss.dev/post/san-francisco-supervisors-are-eating-the-golden-goose/ San Francisco just passed an increase to the fees on new office construction and it’s being sold as “$400 million for affordable housing.”…

San Francisco

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San Francisco Supervisors are eating the golden goose
San Francisco Supervisors are eating the golden goose
San Francisco

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Oct 22, 2019

November 2019 San Francisco Voting Guide

NEW: I’ve moved my blog. Find this and more at https://www.sbuss.dev/post/november-2019-san-francisco-voting-guide/ I will use my San Francisco Voting Framework to give you recommendations for the November 2019 election. The numbers in (parenthesis) are the voting principles I’m applying to my endorsement. If you think we need this kind of rigorous…

San Francisco

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November 2019 San Francisco Voting Guide
November 2019 San Francisco Voting Guide
San Francisco

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Oct 17, 2019

San Francisco Voting Framework

NEW: I’ve moved my blog. Find this and more at https://www.sbuss.dev/post/san-francisco-voter-framework/ I have a general voting framework for ballot props which works most of the time. I’ve developed this framework over several elections and it is now fairly stable: Prefer to vote for new taxes, preferably without a set-aside Vote…

San Francisco

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San Francisco Voter Framework
San Francisco Voter Framework
San Francisco

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Aug 22, 2019

Explaining the Broken Housing Politics of San Francisco

NEW: I’ve moved my blog. Find this and more at https://www.sbuss.dev/post/explaining-the-broken-housing-politics-of-san-francisco/ Have you ever wondered why old buildings look like the building on the left, but new buildings look like the one on the right?

San Francisco

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Explaining the Broken Housing Politics of San Francisco
Explaining the Broken Housing Politics of San Francisco
San Francisco

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Published in YIMBY Neoliberal

·Aug 22, 2019

Software was eating the world — now landlords are eating everything

NEW: Looking for my latest San Francisco Voting Guide by Steven Buss? Check out the Tech Worker Voter Guide, which I helped create! NEW: I’ve moved my blog. Find this and more at https://www.sbuss.dev/post/software-was-eating-the-world-now-landlords-are-eating-everything/ tl;dr: Landlords are taking $1 of every $8 in venture capital investments due to well-organized NIMBYism…

Housing

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Software was eating the world — now landlords are eating everything
Software was eating the world — now landlords are eating everything
Housing

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Oct 9, 2018

November 2018 General Election Voting Guide

NEW: I’ve moved my blog. Find this and more at https://www.sbuss.dev/post/2018-november-general-election-voting-guide/ This is my longest-ever voter guide. Not only do I justify my positions on propositions using my voting framework, I explain those choices in depth. Every ballot prop position is justified by some of my 10 voting principles, eg…

San Francisco

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2018 November General Election Voting Guide
2018 November General Election Voting Guide
San Francisco

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Steven Buss

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GrowSF, Software Engineer, In love with San Francisco

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