We should tax the FUCK out of big black SUVs. These are status symbols of wealth and power clogging our city. Part of the display of wealth is the obscene cost of operating this crap, so let's make that the case

i can't be the only person who thinks we can solve this with a late-night sober cafe/community center + queer free library that gets in trouble on Instagram for not paying its workers and closes after eight months

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Your two options in American politics are the "let's raise taxes and give rural America subsidies" party and the "let's cut taxes and give it all to billionaires" party. I think it would be neat if there were a "raise taxes and invest in urban areas" option!

What people think SEPA is: Erin Brockovich codified into state law What SEPA actually is: is this new hospital spoiling the view from a different neighborhood

part of the reason i am a lefty-YIMBY is because density is both good for the environment compared to the suburbs, better for growth, and makes the issue of "how many immigrants can come based on infra" a non-issue

DOT is looking for feedback on the proposed Bergen/Dean bike boulevards. Please submit via the portal. Folks are already freaking out and going to extremes about them, so we need cooler heads to offer support and constructive input so we can make 2 of the busiest streets for bikes in the city safer.

I very rarely think it matters what's in someone's heart

When I brought my ex boyfriend from NYC to a gay bar in my midwest hometown, he was so stunned to see a bunch of husky dudes in Bengals jerseys and cargo shorts. They may be gay, but like Pete, they are still very much midwestern men.

I see we're once again doing gun ownership-but-leftishly, and I am once again begging people to look at the numbers on this. Owning a gun increases your risk for suicide by 8x if you're a man and ***35x*** if you're a woman.

Slopulism is demanding a cheap burrito taxi and also a ban on delivery robots.

The mass intelligentsia are the revolutionary class.

"The research also found that the US has more new pediatric asthma cases attributable to vehicle pollution annually than any other country. In 2024, US children accounted for one in 10 new pediatric asthma cases attributable to vehicle pollution globally."

This is the sort of post that people with OCD will bring up to their therapist for 15 years.

Embodied carbon ("Building material production") is really insignificant compared to other emissions. It is not worth adding cost to densification to drive these numbers down – concrete and steel are nothing compared to the energy required to heat/cool suburban houses and fuel cars to access them.

There’s this pervasive notion that any apartment dweller with kids is just a temporarily embarrassed single-family home owner, but I am not alone in preferring to raise my kid in a walkable area and a home where I don’t have to deal with yard work or basement flooding.

DSA sweeping new york on the same day the road to housing act passes congress without the poison pills makes this a great day for the dozen left-yimby sickos on here

Politicians who believe in a social safety net are getting elected by Dem voters, in many cases by large margins, so other Dems should join with the fascists to stop it. Incredible take from a TWU official. Embarrassing Albany gives these guys the time of day. That anti-OPTO should’ve been DOA.

a lot of this makes sense when you realize the base of the left in NYC are renters, who a lot of machine centrists view as intruders

I would encourage my friends in the urban policy space to think twice before signal boosting anything from the Manhattan Institute or its house publication City Journal.

Looks like Ford's comms department has appropriated the language of the anti traffic enforcement crowd.

Very interesting paper finds that when South Korea suspended its “low-skilled” guest worker program, the result was not a rise in wages for native Koreans doing those jobs, it was the opposite; current employees got reassigned to those jobs and took pay cuts and firms went under.

No! No effective coalition-building here! Ironic detachment will carry the day.

I encourage anyone who needs exposure therapy to this reality to get into parking reform

The point of this observation is that even in the best of times, concentrated wealth represents a threat to political order. At any moment, the robber barons can turn to the dark side and democratic institutions will always already be several steps behind in meeting the threat.

I also think both Mamdani and Janeese’s victories illustrate how trashing big-city “transplants” is an electoral dead end. In both DC and NYC, newer arrivals and longtime residents were on the same page. It was the wealthier white people who tried to divide this coalition that proved out of touch.

Clairemont Mesa residents have developed custom signs to bully renters in ADUs s/o Wes Morgan:

Overall, the nation's housing supply continues to move into the sunbelt—outside of California. Big northern metro areas, like New York & Chicago, increased their housing supply by only ~3% from 2020 to 2025. But the Austin metro area increased its housing stock by a shocking 24% over that period.

One of the top reasons why short form video is so dangerous is that most people are simply too stupid and gullible to handle a video of an attractive person telling them/doing something regardless of truth value.

Recently saw an nypd cop driving in the protected bike lane in Williamsburg so I asked him why, and he said, "Nunya fuckin business!" Made me feel so protected and so served :)

Seems hypocritical for people living on these environmentally catastrophic two-acre lots cosplaying as farms that have disfigured the countryside in suburban subdivisions 20+ miles from downtown Atlanta to now be complaining about infrastructure development www.nytimes.com/video/techno...

I attended an urban infrastructure panel where a UC Berkeley professor argued that libraries were gentrification. I am really struggling to see how this is different from a Republican position of denying knowledge, tools, and technology to low income, disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Ok let’s go tear down the BQE

Now we’re posting!! It’s laptop class and HR to not speed

It’s interesting how some version of this map replicates itself in every city election in America. Traditional redlined burbs: the conservative candidate Professional class renter neighborhoods: the progressive reformer Traditional Black/ Hispanic neighborhoods: the establishment Dem

Every nimby homeowner in California dreams of this.

The point of American zoning is to put the most people in the worst places for residential, so they don't inconvenience the people rich enough to live in the best places for residential.

New Yorkers need affordable homes. New Yorkers need great public libraries. So we're building both. Today, we took the next step toward creating a brand-new library and more than 200 affordable homes at the New Utrecht Library site in Brooklyn. Because public land should serve the public.

people will make any excuse to stay and there isn’t a single good one left.

Any coward can hate the health insurers, do you have the courage to hate the doctor’s guild?

my mayor muslim my bagel jewish he won't always be alive knicks in five

this is the way

looool it is definitely a new level to hear a guy at the bodega reply to “Assalam alaikum” from behind the counter with “Alaikum salaam, Knicks in four.”

Democratic legislators are letting transit agencies starve so that highway departments may continue to feast.

good things are possible

The people who are still doing gentrification settlers discourse in 2026 have developed race science about who can become a New Yorker based on what state they’re from. They’re like species isolated on islands or deep in caves, where they develop fascinating adaptations suited only to their niche.

Let’s discuss an org called Firefighter Air Coalition (FAC) and how it reflects a contrived safety-need-to-profitable-monopoly pipeline common in fire code. fFAC’s address? PyroChem, a Johnson Controls subsidiary. JCI happens to make the very expensive FARS system this "nonprofit" advocates for.

not to make one of my hobbyhorses bigger than it is but one of the side reasons I want YIMBYism to succeed is to help blunt all of the stupid cultural ideas that are downstream of “new residents ruin a neighborhood”

i really do think they believe that because they're "good" on policy that they don't owe people anything on a human level, and if you're a woman who believes in the same policies but also understands the capacity even "good" men have to be cruel then you're weak