It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

This would be so popular at the national level if centrist Democrats let us use those words in that order

Thanks, @glengower.ca

Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Here's the info for the Ottawa screening! I'm looking forward to this event, especially since @cwhitzman.bsky.social & I will talk housing as part of the Q&A discussion after the film! The event is free & all are welcome

It’s been a while since I’ve seen an all white male panel like this (not shown: 2 online panelists, 1 moderator - also pale male) but worship of Ed Glaeser is a must as well

This is really important. The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.

What the federal budget means for cities this Thursday noon ET - moderated by @canurb.bsky.social featuring @fcm.ca @thehubcanada.bsky.social & @uoftcities.bsky.social (me) us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Nov. 9: Join Carolyn Whitzman Senior Housing Researcher, for a talk at Koffler Arts about artist Tracey Snelling’s Intergalactic Planetary exhibition and how they both explore the ways that marginalized communities navigate and shape urban spaces https://ow.ly/ucnx50Xl6mB

We'll be discussing @cwhitzman.bsky.social's book Home Truths on November 23rd, 2pm, downtown Kitchener. DM us for the address if you'd like to join this book club!

This is a great article - great visuals & great summary of why we need 4 storey apartments with single egress everywhere in North American cities.

Yikes. www.environicsinstitute.org/docs/default...

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

Bravo. Toronto - and Canada - need this. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...

Toronto recently allowed more 6 storey apartments on Major Streets but what would it take to make "courtyard" apartment blocks? * 4-6 storey permissions on adjacent streets * front yard setbacks of 2 m or less * single stair and European elevator standards * modest garbage room in the basement

The solutions proposed for New Zealand's (and virtually every other country's) problems are always like: "We need to make people work for more years" "We have to cut back on services, I'm sorry, there is just no other way" "We have to cut benefits for young people" never: "We need to tax the rich"

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

This is why we need bus lands on Bank Street. We don’t need extensive consultations or debates or both side-ism to find a “balance;” we need bold action, bold leadership to design public space in the public interest and just do it. @strongtownsottawa.ca

The underlying assumptions of 4 competing federal housing need assessments betray different visions of ‘housing 4all’. Featuring my rights-based work for @housinglogement.bsky.social spacing.ca/vancouver/20...

@cwhitzman.bsky.social co-authored this report, funded by Maytree, as the culmination of a project working with non-market developers to find a model that Build Canada Homes could employ to unlock affordability in innovative, scalable, sustainable ways schoolofcities.utoro...

For those of you who missed the CUI/Maytree Citytalk last week on scaling up government-built housing with @tylermeredith.bsky.social & Graeme Hussey, the recording is up! citytalkcanada.ca/discussions/...

CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while worker pay is up just 26%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Great episode, as always. Canada would be well-advised to accommodate EU elevators codes (and other elements of the building code). Especially in today’s age where we are looking to diversify trade relations and tying ourselves exclusively to the US market has become particularly problematic.

Single-stair stacked-flats, next to the park. 33' lots. Each floor plate is 24' x 56' and can have one "family size" 3Br flat, or two small units.

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

If you're interested in how the Canadian federal government can build affordable housing at scale now, please join us next Thursday, September 25 at noon ET for a great webinar: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The often ignored word ‘universal’ is key to human rights www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c31f2f5...

TODAY: How nonmarket developers and providers can work together more effectively in a portfolio approach - register to watch live or receive a link to the recording! schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/bundling-ass...:

The approach - govt land for nonmarket hsg, definition of affordability, designated funds to address homelessness thru supportive hsg, including acquisition of apts, supporting construction innovation - is right. Now we need targets, timelines, action. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Gonna be a big day for housing announcements here in Canada. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

For anyone who cares to pay attention, the fact that major developers are lining up behind the NIMBY mayoral candidate tells you a lot about real-world housing politics and who the real shills tend to be in local YIMBY/NIMBY fights. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n...

please enjoy this mass timber social housing where midrise development and trees are co-exist. 2-story wood aufstockung (vertical addition) w/ infill point access block in courtyard. number of homes *doubled* www.archdaily.com/1033635/timb...

A great new report, says the author :-)

Canada was a leader in UN peacekeeping -bring back global moral leadership, argues @lindamcquaig.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

'Don't take shit' is a lesson I learned from my mother and grandmother. From a great series on mid-life 'lane changes' by Celia Chandler! www.celiachandler.com/blog/lanecha...

When evictions are part of business plans, it’s time for more nonmarket housing & better renter protections www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

Quick question, is it bad when the dictator gets to decide who is a Jew? I’m not familiar with history, how does that usually work out for us?

“I don’t care how much you love working people. They can’t afford a house because all the rules in your state make it prohibitive to build. And zoning prevents multifamily structures because of NIMBY,” ... “I don’t want to know your ideology, because you can’t build anything. It does not matter.” 🔥👀

very excited to announce I have been featured in Liberal Currents, writing about what Zohran’s pro-housing policy should look like! here’s the TL;DR: 1) upzone, upzone, upzone 2) address hard costs & permitting 3) leverage the public sector 4) appoint the right people 5) sell the vision

This is the way instead of forcing workers back to the office. Downtown Edmonton office tower converting into more housing | Urbanized share.google/YVUbTbwnoGuh...

I want the record to show that PM Trudeau was instrumental in getting domestic manufacturing of vaccines in Canada. You know who shut down scientific research & drug manufacturing in Canada? Harper. When we talk about building Canada & being self-reliant, conservatives are all talk & no action.

In a recent op-ed for @thestar.com, SofC Senior Housing Researcher @cwhitzman.bsky.social outlines why it is so important that home ownership not be the only goal in housing availability – not least because it will remain unattainable to so many for so long www.thestar.com/opin...

Now with an exclamation point!

Umm the good kind of nimbyism???

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Strong argument by @cwhitzman.bsky.social for why we need stronger rent control and tenant protection - so people don't buy just for security of tenure.

I also appreciate @cwhitzman.bsky.social's criticism of the CMHC study. I had read it and had similar questions. The author brushes off rent control, but briefly admits it works just fine in Quebec. Why not say, rent control presents challenges but these can be addressed when designed properly?

Homeownership should be a choice, not a necessity to obtain secure tenure. My latest (paywalled, sorry) www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...