> Leaders of the Heartwood Center next door, fried about the Popeyes plan, fought the proposal for months until the franchisee pulled out. Ok well someone had fun writing this

The implicit shade here

45% of microplastics polluting waterways comes from tire wear. Photo totally unrelated

They towed all the cars on Stockton and my 151 flew through there. They should permanently turn the parking into bus lanes.

CAFHA Shriver Center on Poverty Law are the other groups I’m thinking of They made this awesome report in 2018 that quantified the exclusionary use of the power to block housing in their A City Fragmented report www.povertylaw.org/article/a-ci...

I’m still so glad that another group has ending the exclusionary use of ward based zoning and aldermanic prerogative on their platform chicagodsa.org/cdsa-platform/

My girlfriend is having to do a suburb commute for work today and is saving 40 minutes by bringing her scooter on Metra vs waiting for a pace bus (the time savings is pretty much entirely skipping the wait)

Adding a new one to the, "People Who Are So Close To Getting It" file

Real fuckin mystery here

Love to be riding down Clark and seeing replacement rail service buses. Always a good omen

Do you think CTA has ever had to put out a bulletin like "ATTENTION DRIVERS: THE ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT GIVING UP YOUR SEAT FOR ELDERLY AND DISABLED PEOPLE DOES **NOT** APPLY TO YOU"

ACTION ALERT - THOUSANDS OF HOMES IN THE BALANCE Please sign a Proponent witness slip RIGHT NOW for legislation that will allow up to 6 stories of affordable housing to be built by religious congregations across Illinois. Automatic entitlement for LIHTC, Chicago ARO! ilga.gov/Senate/heari...

this classic turns 10 today

Sigh, what happened to this and other prepaid boarding pilots? Anyone know?

We need to switch off gas and building lots of new housing will help get it done.

We need to equip every bus with an automated "ATTENTION CUSTOMERS: WE ARE STANDING MOMENTARILY WAITING FOR SIGNAL CLEARANCE. TO REMEDY THIS, PLEASE SCAN THE QR CODE AT THE FRONT OF THE BUS TO SIGN A PETITION FOR BUS LANES AND TRANSIT SIGNAL PRIORITY."

Yesterday I signed a bill to return 3,400 acres of land to the Fon du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa - a joint effort between the Tribe, the state, and the University of Minnesota.

What the fuck are we doing

Look at the bidding wars happening on the northside of Chicago right now. Holy shit. www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/2...

Anyway, me and my partner are signing a lease at a market rate apartment today, that was built in the last 5 years, and is currently being rented at rents affordable to 60% AMI. Tenant advocates have really inflicted untold suffering on Californian renters it’s unreal.

THEY LITERALLY JUST CHASED A WHOLE SQUAD OF COPS OFF LMAOOOO www.instagram.com/reel/DY2KY8T...

NEW: For the last 7 months, I've been digging into how Evanston police responded to federal immigration enforcement. I found EPD's behavior — as one activist put it — to be "distressing." Read my full investigation, "Out of Bounds," in our web interactive: apps.dailynorthwestern.com/outofbounds/

this is incredible

Mamdani released his housing plan. Some really good stuff in here. Huge upzoning, build code reform (smaller elevators, plastic piping, and more), major permitting reform www.nyc.gov/content/dam/...

I think they blocked me for pointing out the guy was a landscape architect

One thing I think people too often forget in the housing conversation: we are losing housing stock constantly. Old abandoned house torn down Fire, flood, etc. Two flat goes single family Four flat goes single family Single room occupancy goes big condo If we don’t build constantly, we lose

Do not go for the Jucy Lucy

NEW REPORT: After Chicago shut down ShotSpotter in Sept. 2024, CPD response times to priority 1 calls improved by an average of 4.2 minutes. Read more here: uchicago-justice-project.github.io/chicago_crim...

I am going to miss hearing my wife (the red line) gently roll by one block over every 3-10 minutes

600 new apartments on the shores of Lake Michigan? WE ARE SO BACK

I love techno because the big breakaway artists recently have been like: - construction worker with brain tumor told he had 6 months to live so he said fuck it, went into DJing, then beat the brain tumor - grandma who got bored and picked up modular synths

Shout out to my Muslim brothers and sisters on this Eid for achieving a level of street takeover I never even considered: just lighting off a buncha fireworks in the middle of Western and Devon.

i love her make her president

Poor little guys can't possibly be expected to maintain their properties, they only get like $4000 for a 2br 😭😭😭😭

> argue with someone > They do a supply denialism > Assume it's just a garden variety NIMBY, ask if they've ever read anything relevant ever > "Actually I'm a long time tenants advocate and I've read a lot. YOU need to read more" > They link a book > Open link > Author is a landscape architect 🫡

Folks, hop like bunnies and slip as a PROPONENT before 4PM CST today!

Steak ‘n Shake now has a Bitcoin-flavored milkshake. They are desperately trying to survive by becoming the #1 fast food chain for RFK-worshipping idiots with a heart-disease related death wish.

Mayor Mamdani has announced the Affordable & Efficient Code Reform task force, to convene later this year. The housing plan says that among other things, elevator and plumbing reform will be considered. www.nyc.gov/content/dam/... (pgs. 98-99)

We need to pass BUILD otherwise cities will keep voting themselves into austerity via bone headed land use decisions that they somehow completely fail to realize are also tax base decisions

We need to widen the north channel trail.

Good news guys! On a holiday where folks will presumably be riding much more than usual (except during the rushes) we are running a low service schedule with all the senior operators on vacation!

NYC has Chicago beat on the transit mosaic game, I'm not gonna lie

Sure, the data keeps piling up that Complete Streets are safer for everyone while neutral at worst to the local economy, but has anyone considered the *real* victims here (motorists who need an extra 90 seconds to drive two miles)?

The US is just strangling its neighbour and seemingly no one cares.

The fact that small scale real estate investors who flip $500k starter homes into $2 million McMansions are NOT required to provide subsidized housing for poor people but the investors who flip the same homes into ten $650,000 townhomes ARE is such an indictment of California housing policy.

This is my second victory 🏆 take pictures (and video) of EVERY rideshare driver that blocks bike lanes and report them to 311!! 👏🏽👏🏽 #BikeChi

Life hack: put some cream and salt in a bag and take the 151. You'll have fresh butter when you get to your destination! No more being embarrassed for showing up without your butter

Beginning to question this bot's math

Chat, is this good?

San Francisco is moving in the right direction on inclusionary zoning. It will reduce its IZ requirement to 5 percent of units, and to compensate, will double its housing trust fund, which is mostly funded from property taxes. Property tax is a much better way to fund rent-restricted housing!