We need to build homes, everywhere, for all kinds of people. That's how you solve a housing crisis.

Legalizing small apartment buildings, in part by allowing single-staircase designs, increases fire safety

It's clear from the article that ICE is *miserable* here. They're freezing their asses off and being harassed everywhere they go. Property managers aren't allowing them access to rental properties and people know their rights and aren't letting them in. KEEP IT UP.

The recommendations to make single egress buildings as safe or safer than current code compliant dual stair buildings are ones that would improve fire safety in all buildings. #SingleStair #Single Egress #MNleg

Single egress rules allow you to have buildings that look more like trees than warehouses

There's a Department of Labor and Industry meeting at 1pm, but the Single Egress Report is now live! dli.mn.gov/sites/defaul... #SingleStair #SingleEgress #BuildingCode #MNleg

FREE BABY DRAGONS FOR CHRISTMAS!!!!! Also we're going to do a painting party and a bunch of other fun stuff but apparently my parents' septic tank...isn't there...anymore (???) so have to go sort that out asap and will write more on this later. #comic #comics #webcomic #webcomics #free

East Bay for Everyone, as co-host with Livable Communities Initiative, is proud to announce the winners of the National Single Stair Design Competition: www.singlestair.com

One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back. Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance. Be a housing fan.

📣 This week, ISAIAH leaders showed up with allies at MSP Airport to say: End deportation flights. #DeICEFlights Pastor Jane McBride is right. Jesus himself was a refugee. Our faith traditions teach us to offer shelter, not inflict suffering. 👏

The magazine that brought you "FAQ: The Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defense" and "It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers" bring you Isaac Chotiner's interview with Santa and it is OUTSTANDING. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

Holy shit San Francisco! 60% of the city rezoned, most places exceeding (!!) SB 79. The most restrictive of these allows attached 4–8 story apt buildings with no cap on the # of homes inside, no parking mandates, and by-right streamlined approval. Movement racking up the municipal wins today 🏆🏆🏆

📣 Support 13 new homes in the Linden Hills neighborhood! Minneapolis has a housing shortage, and we need your help to make sure every neighborhood welcomes new neighbors. Please let City Council know you support more homes by taking action by Monday, December 1! actionnetwork.org/letters/acti...

I apparently am allergic to PolyEthylene Glycol. Glad I figured that out today and not day of colonoscopy prep. Jeez. #mcas

CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Batteries for E-Bikes from Rad Power Bikes Due to Fire Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...

Climate change may seem like a distant, future issue, but it's an: - affordability - housing - homelessness issue, TODAY. The more we push off climate mitigation and resilience actions, the more expensive in $, health, & quality of life it will be for all. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Great piece on how density restrictions in zoning are essentially BS.

There’s also Tuesday evening in Kingfield and next Saturday in St Paul monarcamn.org/training

And remember, the main thing the profit motive gets you is…

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so at tonight's single stair and code talk, @stephenjacobsmith.com brought the good stuff. people were floored. 'architects don't design buildings, codes do'

authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

Twin cities folks can connect with @mspwhistles.bsky.social if you want to be a menace to the kidnappers.

I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them. I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.

The Midwest yearns for more train

I moved to Minnesota in June 2023 during a day when the air smelled like a campfire. When I’ve asked longtime Minnesotans about the increasingly severe smoke during our summers, they all say it was never a problem until a few years ago. And wow, this graph has got the receipts.

We should build a lot more of the safest types of homes.

Basic human needs are basic human rights. Public transportation. Public homes, means we need to legalize building more homes. A Universal Basic Income for the costs of living like food, shelter, communication (your phone bill), etc. Universal Healthcare, now. We can live in a better world.

Sex ed should be mandatory and all students regardless of gender should study periods, childbirth, PCOS, and endometriosis.

MINNEAPOLIS GO GO NOW! #northernlights #photos

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

MY FELLOW AMERICANS: Watch how modular in-street recycling/trash collection works. Common across Europe, it is a great solution for urban areas.

And we wonder why there are municipal governance problems

Join us for DRAG BINGO at Roxy's Cabaret on Tuesday, November 11th! 🚪 Doors at 6 PM 🎱 Bingo starts at 7 PM 👑 Hosted by queens who serve LOOKS and NUMBERS 🏆 Prizes, raffle, and supporting your favorite org What's not to love? See you there! actionnetwork.org/events/novem...

Bringing this map over from the bad place

Planners should listen to maps like this more than testimony at public meetings. The red areas are actually crying out for more homes.

Every single corner and every place two different materials meet is another potential leak

This is why i hate "exercise" and going for a walk or ride without a purpose. The thing itself is just not fun, and therefore not sustainable.

We want to hear YOUR housing story! Whether it's been a struggle to find affordable housing, a success story about your neighborhood, or how a lack of options has impacted you, your story could be the difference in passing bills to create more housing. Share it here: forms.gle/MiVwzteaHC1j...

This is the big thing! It's actually really bad that congressional salaries are just $174,000 for the demands on their time and the amounts of travel they have to do. The mayor of Minneapolis makes $140,000. State legislators in MN make 51,000, significantly below market for the metro.

If you're a taxpayer in Minneapolis without kids, you can still do this too.

What better way to go on a 17 mile bike tour of Minneapolis than joining all 6 pickets with our incredible public school educators My heart is full 💙 but unfortunately so are these classes! Can you email the school board and tell them what our students, our educators, and our city deserves?

Left NIMBYs claim developers will stop building housing before it lowers rents, but in reality over-exuberant developers will definitely over-build if you give them half a chance. When that happens brand new buildings can become subsidized housing with shockingly little hassle.

This will include an auction that will have jewelry pieces made by me! Here's a couple of them: #art

The RCV diagrams and data are up vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data...

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Can we finally put to bed the idea that we should be meek and "safe" and run to the middle?? Universal (or at the very least, affordable) childcare and healthcare. Housing that fits our families and our budgets. Trans rights. Repro rights. Free and fair elections. And oh yeah, hope and joy.

Because Frey didn't get more than 50% of the first round votes, no winner was declared yet and won't be until tomorrow at the earliest.

Just a little #CrowTime fan art for @secondlina.com

The University of Minnesota just announced the "Meal-A-Day Program" which will provide one meal a day for SNAP benefit recipients while the SNAP program is limited or unavailable. This makes me very happy. A lot of students, faculty, and staff at the U need this, unfortunately.