So true! This is why the Urbanist Coalition put forward our proposal to rethink IZ in Portland, ME. www.urbanistportland.me/policy/a-bet...

what a wonderful day to argue with people about housing on the internet 😌

One of the misconceptions I hear a lot is that new housing improves affordability because it gets old and cheap eventually. Sure, but that’s not really it. New housing slows rent growth right away by creating new housing options so landlords risk losing tenants if they raise rents.

Portland can't be worse than San Francisco on housing... we need to remove IZ entirely, not just go back an unfunded mandate for 10% of units.

ICE should gfto of my city and stop terrorizing innocent people. www.pressherald.com/2026/05/11/i...

I'm hopeful that tenant organizers will support reworking IZ—the status quo is driving up rents. www.urbanistportland.me/blog/iz-is-b...

These "requirements to build affordable housing" are a demand that home builders rent or sell a percentage of brand new homes at a loss. This is a tax on new housing that has worsened the housing shortage and increased rents in every city where it was implemented. Policymakers should reject them.

critics are giving this haircut rave reviews: "looks sharp" "very nice" "keep your haircut person" ...was it that bad before?

I was NOT prepared for the nimby -> romance subplot in Devil Wears Prada 2. completely stunlocked in the theater

Unfunded IZ presupposes a permenant housing shortage: the moment rents fall too low to cross-subsidize the unfunded mandate, development stops until rents rise again. It's housing policy pseudoscience.

being slightly sleep deprived (6.5 hours) makes a workday so much more fun! definitely no negative consequences lurking...

Billy, this is a Georgist land tax. It targets economic rent from land. It’s Pareto-efficient and non-distortionary. Its defect is that it is political suicide.

Really good explanation of why so much from Warren lately is in the "Hate to See It" category. unfortunate, as a former fan

love being in my mid-late 20s. This shit rocks

the ultimate reason of why I do not support free transit is that transit funding has tradeoffs, and using the money to improve service is almost always going to be more valuable enabling people to go from car ownership to transit is always going to be more valuable than cutting their fares

to the little gnome in my computer that keeps turning off the num lock key: please stop.

love catching the bus home at night. if only there were more of them!

The folk morality around housing type and tenure in American cities:

“Multifamily housing is for young renters and the poor while single family homes are for established adults with children” is a really pernicious folk theory about how housing markets should work that I think is foundational to so much bad housing policy at all levels of government.

best part of overnight snowfall is waking up with the whole block to dig ourselves out in the morning

great sky today

riding the bus after a snowstorm >>> driving

Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.

Opsec culture in activism legitimately needs to die

energy of the future

the world looks so beautiful after 8.5 hours of sleep. joyous!

I promise I will eventually stop posting about speeding but it’s so rare that an opportunity exists to argue a position that is as controversial as it is irrefutable. It’s like walking in to a dog torturer convention and saying you think it’s wrong to torture dogs

forgot about the pleasure of a 9-10pm grocery shop. Truly unbeatable

So-called “inclusionary zoning” is a tax on new housing that reduces the amount of housing that gets built, worsening the housing shortage and driving up rent. It is bad, counterproductive policy and we should stop doing it.

A single person making $82,000 a year should not need a subsidized apartment. A family making $117,000 should be able to buy a home. We need to build more homes until median rent is less than 30% of median monthly income and median home prices are less than 4x median annual income.

I love work life balance. Gotta be one of my favorite things.

it's 5pm! time to turn on all the lights in the house!

first picking Lamar Jackson in the office fantasy football league looking worse and worse every week

remember that dood. remember that dood who looked like a raisin

"dress code: professional business casual" 🤔🤔🤔

fall has frung!

bus filled up with 1Ls! heartwarming ❤️

Immigration is very very good and we should let ~everyone who wants to come to America come, Ellis Island style.

Shenna Bellows is a strong contender for governor because she bravely did the constitutional and moral thing of enforcing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. That courage is more important now than ever!

We should copy this in Maine. Very straightforward.

literally told the bus driver that "I like paying for the bus" when he told me not to worry about the app, wtf is wrong with me

air quality bad today... I can feel it just by walking uphill

all dressed up to type on the computer

yeah i love waymo, way mo immigrants coming to my city

“Inclusionary zoning” is one of those policies that sounds great at first but then when you look at the actual impact it ends up just being a massive tax on new apartments that exempts single family homes, accomplishing the exact opposite of the intended effect

So-called “inclusionary zoning” is bad policy and we should stop doing it.

nothing like taking the pc apart and putting it back together to unwind after a long workday 😮‍💨