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American Fietser
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How to identify American fascists as stated by our own US government in March of 1945.
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John Lansing
3 days ago
Operation Breakthrough, a HUD project in the 1960s, produced some significant advances in prefabricated building construction methods and also exposed the need for building code reform.
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How an American Dream of Housing Became a Reality in Sweden (Published 2024)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/08/headway/how-an-american-dream-of-housing-became-a-reality-in-sweden.html
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10 days ago
Wow - again, if you build separated, protected bike lanes, people will use them. The better and more connected the routes are, the more ridership increases.
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Alex Baumhardt
12 days ago
A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
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Michael Andersen
20 days ago
The Americas see about 3% of global elevator installations as of 2020. The U.S. & Canada: even less. But we've stuck with our own unique set of elevator codes, as if elevator companies still have no choice but to beat a path to our door. Nope! "Everywhere else" is a bigger common market now.
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Terrible Maps
23 days ago
Countries that have adopted the International Building Code
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Patrick Siegman
27 days ago
In many advanced nations that have better fire safety records than the United States and Canada, construction costs per square foot do NOT increase as density increases. If US planners want to make housing more affordable, they should fix our mediocre building codes.
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Max Dubler, AICP đłïžâđ
28 days ago
*staring directly into the camera*
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Shane Phillips
about 1 month ago
This week UCLA Housing Voice is joined by
@muhammadspeaks.bsky.social
to talk about construction defect liability, a consumer protection law that can create big barriers to condo development, taking one of the most affordable ownership options off the market.
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/12/17/1...
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Episode 104: Why We Don't Build Condos with Muhammad Alameldin (Incentives Series pt. 7) - UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
Why do many U.S. states build so few condos? Muhammad Alameldin explains the role of construction defect liability laws â and how to fix them.
https://www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/12/17/104-why-we-dont-build-condos-with-muhammad-alameldin-incentives-series-pt-7/
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Mike Eliason
about 1 month ago
the compactness of point access blocks means that even on tiny sites, you can fit affordable family-sized homes with daylight on multiple sides and ability to cross ventilate.
www.espazium.ch/de/aktuelles...
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Ein Neubau nach altem Muster | Espazium
Das Wohnhaus «deux chevaux» von kollektive architekt im Basler LysbĂŒchel-Quartier beschrĂ€nkt sich auf das Wesentliche: Kompakte Wohnungen, vielseitiges Raumprogramm und gemeinschaftliche FlĂ€chen schaf...
https://www.espazium.ch/de/aktuelles/basel-lysbuechel-volta-kollektive-architekt-deux-chevaux
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Parker âAustin Needs Approval Votingâ Welch
about 1 month ago
You can look at all the finalists for the National Single-Stair Competition's Austin Award here:
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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Austin Award 45x135' - Google Drive
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UaJa-rmy44QQxsMde-9KYaJg2WXeBsGT?usp=drive_link
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Tara Goddard
about 2 months ago
I'm so fucking tired of so many people being killed in traffic crashes. I'm so fucking tired but I'm also so, so fucking angry. I use obscene language because what is obscene is over 40,000 people/year dying in preventable crashes in the US, 7,000 or so who are merely walking, and society just đ€·đ»ââïž
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Stephen Jacob Smith
about 2 months ago
âIn medical research, thereâs a practice of ending a study early when the results are too striking to ignoreâŠWhen an intervention works this clearly, you change what you do.â
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
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Kevin Erdmann
about 2 months ago
Really thorough history. Why the West was downzoned
www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-the-wo...
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Why the West was downzoned
In the space of a few decades, nearly every city in the Western world banned densification. What happened?
https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-the-world-downzoned-itself?r=2pxsw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Max Dubler, AICP đłïžâđ
about 2 months ago
âBetween 2010 and 2022, structural fires in Berkeley injured an average of 2 people per year, while between just 2017 and 2022, traffic accidents injured or killed an average of 694 people annually.â
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Mike Eliason
about 2 months ago
new south wales (sydney) govenment's pattern handbook - which fast tracks permitting applications - features 4-7 story single stair buildings
shop-pattern-book.planning.nsw.gov.au/collections/...
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Corner Lot Apartments 01 by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer
Corner Lot Apartments 01 by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer is a 4 - 6 storey shop-top housing or residential flat building. The design places dwellings above a flexible ground floor, which can be used for comm...
https://shop-pattern-book.planning.nsw.gov.au/collections/mid-rise/products/corner-lot-apartments-01-by-tonkin-zulaikha-greer
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David Broockman
about 2 months ago
NEW PAPER w/
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@jkalla.bsky.social
: An under-appreciated reason why voters oppose dense new housing, especially in less-dense neighborhoods: they think it looks ugly and want to prevent that, even in other neighborhoods. Some of what we think is NIMBYism might not be!
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Jenny Schuetz
about 2 months ago
Relegalize SROs. Relegalize single stair buildings to enable larger, family sized homes. Legalize townhomes everywhere. Legalize ADUs everywhere. Legalize apartment buildings in more places. Yes to all the homes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
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The âNewâ Solution for the N.Y.C. Housing Crisis: Single-Room Apartments
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/nyregion/sro-apartments-nyc.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Mike Eliason
3 months ago
in q&a, the kelsey's allie cannington mentions they are excited about single stair and elevator reform - and mention how it can help get elevators into smaller projects. wow. cc
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@stephenjacobsmith.com
@markasaurus.bsky.social
thekelsey.org/learn-center...
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Single-Stair Reform and People with Disabilities - The Kelsey
Single-stair reform can increase housing supply, reduce construction costs, and improve accessibility for people with disabilities. Learn why cities across the U.S. are adopting this approach to creat...
https://thekelsey.org/learn-center/single-stair-reform-people-with-disabilities/
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Mike Eliason
3 months ago
our solar costs are significantly higher our infrastructure costs are significantly higher our elevator costs are significantly higher our healthcare costs are significantly higher our housing costs are significantly higher (for far lower quality) i wonder if we'll ever address this
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Abigail Larson
3 months ago
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
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Mike Eliason
3 months ago
the 3-bedroom apartments in this 46-home project w/ a kindergarten and 5 commercial spaces rent for $2,200 in zuerich no windowless bedrooms. dual aspect - can cross ventilate, daylight on multiple sides. kitchen separated from living. balconies. shading.
www.nimbusarch.ch/portfolio/ne...
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Stephen Jacob Smith
4 months ago
Pew finds something that everybody in codes and standards knows but few will say out loud: we apply far stricter fire safety standards to apartments than to houses.
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett
4 months ago
The wait is FINALLY over! Our new book âWomen Changing Cities: Global Stories of Urban Transformationâ is NOW AVAILABLE worldwide through RIBA Publishing wherever fine books are sold. From Paris to Bogota, from Manila to Montrealâwhen women lead, cities thrive:
www.modacitylife.com/women-changi...
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Oren Hadar
4 months ago
I was shocked when I heard Scott Wiener say LA City Council's divided SB 79 vote helped convince state reps to vote yes on the bill. So I mapped it - sure looks like he's telling the truth! The only state reps from LA who voted for SB 79 overlap with city councilmembers who supported the bill. A đ§”:
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Oops! City Council helped pass SB 79
...and in the process showed both our ugly segregationist past and our promising prohousing future.
https://futureis.la/p/oops-city-council-helped-pass-sb-79
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4 months ago
The world is divided between supply skeptics who believe high hard costs are an intractable problem and those that have looked at US codes and buildings in other developed countries.
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Muhammad Alameldin
4 months ago
SB 79 now stands as the largest pro-housing land-use legislation in this nationâs modern history.
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Katie Cardie
about 1 year ago
A uni in Aus did a study that showed that over 50% of drivers see âcyclistsâ as less than human. We use âpeople on bikesâ to try and help humanise them. Thereâs a fair way to go!
www.monash.edu/news/article...
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Face off - Cyclists not human enough for drivers: study
A new study by Monash University and QUT has found that more than half of car drivers think cyclists are not completely human.
https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/face-off-cyclists-not-human-enough-for-drivers-study
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Mott Smith
4 months ago
The coalition behind Measure ULA just released a report attacking UCLA research on the tax. Theyâre claiming it âdebunksâ the research. It doesnât even come close. đ§”
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Mike Eliason
5 months ago
'more homes were purchased last year by the Silent Generation (aged 79 to 99) than by Gen Z' also i hate that the rent image is an apartment - when the 'buy' image could be too.
www.newsweek.com/gen-z-rentin...
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Gen Z is renting, not buyingâHere's what it means for the country's future
Gen Z is reshaping the American dream, as they increasingly look at renting as a smarter financial option than buying a home.
https://www.newsweek.com/gen-z-renting-not-buying-what-means-country-future-2120726
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Senator Scott Wiener
5 months ago
Not building housing screws young people, pushes them out & tanks future economic success. We need to make it easier & faster to build the homes we need for a bright future. Our current vetocracy need to change & weâre working to change it.
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Joe Cohen
5 months ago
Jon Lovettâs face when LA City Councilmember Imelda Padilla said she forced an affordable housing project to go down from six stories to three stories and add in EV charging spaces
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Riding the K line is so upsetting, why do we have to wait AT EVERY SINGLE INTERSECTION LIGHT - this is a brand new line that is supposed to connect LAX to the rest of the city!!!!
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Brent Toderian
5 months ago
Why do we need a lot more protected bike-lanes in cities? Because biking in protected
#bikelanes
poses just 1/10th the risk of biking on major streets with parking. Via
@momentummag.bsky.social
. Plus they mean a LOT more people choosing biking, which has all sorts of health and cost saving benefits.
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Stephen Judkins
5 months ago
Paving over a memorial for a hate crime mass shooting that killed 50 people is some vile, low shit
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M. Nolan Gray đ„
5 months ago
Reasonable people can disagree on policy. But in virtually every conversation I have with legislators, staff, and lobbyists, I find folks are operating on misinformation spread by bill opponents. Learn the facts about SB 79, key to ending the California housing crisis:
cayimby.org/sb-79-explai...
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SB 79 Explained: More Homes Near Transit
Why Californians Need SB 79: Californiaâs housing affordability crisis is the result of its severe housing shortage. The state needs to plan for 2.5 million new homes by 2030, but is currently far off...
https://cayimby.org/sb-79-explained-more-homes-near-transit/
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier
5 months ago
LA city government remains one big HOA, more concerned with protecting wealthy elites from apartments than solving homelessness, overcrowding, and rent burden. Glad to (mostly) see socialists in office vote against the city's opposition to SB 79 and support apartments near transit.
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Emily Hamilton
5 months ago
Love this piece by
@edmendoza.bsky.social
,
@muhammadspeaks.bsky.social
, and Valerie Wilke on LA's double duplex, which is bringing back a "reserve your bed now" option for city living:
www.mercatus.org/research/pol...
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The Double Duplex: One Response to Los Angelesâs Overcrowding Crisis
Introduction  Even before the January 2025 fires, Los Angeles (LA) was suffering from an acute housing shortage, which resulted in high housing costs and overcrowding.[1] According to 2023 census data...
https://www.mercatus.org/research/policy-briefs/double-duplex-one-response-los-angeless-overcrowding-crisis
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Mike Eliason
6 months ago
we are going to build so many passivhaus + single stair homes
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M. Nolan Gray đ„
6 months ago
Los Angeles' insane zoning code accidentally produced the modern SRO.
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Oren Hadar
6 months ago
Double duplexes are a super popular and weird kind of LA housing that youâve probably never heard of. Originally built as co-living buildings for USC students, they are now getting snapped up by homeless service agencies to give unhoused people a home. Guess who hates them? LA politicians!
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The new missing middle
Developers accidentally discovered a solution for homelessness. Will the city kill it?
https://futureis.la/p/the-new-missing-middle
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Henry Grabar
6 months ago
I wrote about LAâs 23-bedroom apartments, which are legal, profitable, and spreading like crazy
slate.com/business/202...
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The Double Duplex Is Weird, Overstuffed, and Exactly What L.A. Needs Right Now
City officials tried to rein in McMansions. They got these Frankenstein apartments instead.
https://slate.com/business/2025/07/double-duplex-los-angeles-housing-crisis.html
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Stephen Jacob Smith
6 months ago
@edmendoza.bsky.social
is running a national single-stair competition, and Iâm one of the judges! The deadlineâs been extended to Aug. 31, more info here:
www.singlestair.com
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2025 National Single Stair Architectural Design Competition
https://www.singlestair.com/
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This is why single stair reform is badly needed in LA. We are already doing it, we should expand it for more unit types.
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Joe Cohen
9 months ago
How quickly does a neighborhood change? Exposition Park has been ground zero for double duplex development in LA, with more development happening here than anywhere else in LA. This image illustrates development that occurred in the two square mile section immediately West of USC:
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Stephen Jacob Smith
9 months ago
The new ones are four-story, single-stair SROs (legal because theyâre built as two-family houses with tons of bedrooms, and then rented out by the room). Theyâre around $1,000-1,400/mo. for a furnished bedroom with en-suite bath, plus a common living room/kitchen
www.moohousing.com/los-angeles-...
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