the ideal outcome of a strike threat is no strike

Taking public transit to Monster Jam because I am an urbanist who contains multitudes.

If you were reading a history of the Gilded Age and encountered a tycoon who kept pushing insane conspiracy theories about declining white birth rates and who used his vast influence to kill off nearly a million people in Africa, you'd very easily conclude that person was a white supremacist.

one thing I think about every time we have a false hope of It Happening, and we are inevitably let down after getting our hopes up, is that one day it really is going to be real and it will be spectacular

Building all kinds of things in cities should be easy. The planning profession does not believe this and they need to be stopped.

Perfect no notes

the rise of the incel and the rise of the strongman are two connected and mutually reinforcing responses to the evils of modernity. new post

Juicy Love Dion looks like a glamorous chicken nugget.

guys, bluesky is dying. if we don't start getting more likes, a greedy developer will bulldoze the site to put up a parking garage. the only thing that can save it is for a ragtag crew of misfits to put on one last big concert at the community center.

I will not be participating in short form vertical video.

“The government should simply cap prices during this shortage” is an incredibly irresponsible policy proposal that I think plausibly ends your nation on the road to fascism

Toured the Marin Civic Center with @edmendoza.bsky.social.

had to go see the landback skyscrapers for myself

There’s conversations to be had about biases in tax assessments that disproportionately affect Black property owners but in a country where the racial wealth gap is almost entirely due to white people having more home equity, the claim “Property Taxes are anti Black” is laughably wrong.

The exterior Montreal staircases really give up the game about building codes – they are obsessed with their very narrow conception of fire safety to the exclusion of all else. They’ll let you break your neck on an icy stairway before they’ll let you to live in a three-unit single-stair building.

It's this little gem and it's not up for debate

“The Color of Law” on the table in the foreground is a nice Easter egg.

Let’s lower the rent! As mayor, I will triple housing production by cutting red tape, lowering costs, and eliminating pointless bureaucracy.

A population study tracking 30 years of housing moves found that by the third round of a moving chain, new market-rate homes free up units for households earning 60% of average income. Without new construction, old homes don't filter down — they get renovated up. cayimby.org/blog/movin-o...

John Elberling dead at 79.

I think the framing of “unintended consequences” is partially flawed. You tax stuff you want to see less of. For example, congestion pricing in NYC is to reduce driving. If you tax real estate transactions, you’ll have less development. I think ULA proponents wanted less market rate housing

folks like this want to go back to brunch

Urbanization is anti fascism

“Sure all those people would still be alive, but have you considered how I would have felt bad about myself for filling the little bubble on the private ballot next to the person who I find imperfect”

We should cultivate a culture on the broad left where constantly bashing the democrats is seen as unproductive and pathetic and essentially a self-ejection from the coalition.

HELLO SIR, IF YOU WANT TO IMPROVE HOUSING AFFORDABILITY, IT DOESN’T HELP TO BAN RENTAL HOUSING

Wild how you can just smell AI prose.

We are proud to announce our 2026 bill package to make our communities more walkable, bikeable, and transit-oriented. Here’s what we’ve got going on in Sacramento this year:

The two best housing tweets were Affordable Burger King and White Ways Of Knowing And Being.

“The choices are not between market reforms and housing justice, but between an all-of-the-above strategy and one that rejects the best available evidence on housing supply and affordability out of hand.” - @resnikoff.bsky.social

The notion that because someone has a lot of followers, they are obligated to just sit there and take it, is outright *deranged*. And the uwu smol bean shit when they get hit back is just the worst crybully shit.

Yeah I’m honestly pretty irritated by people who act like internet harassment has zero impact on the people being harassed. It changes you. I’m a different person after years of constant harassment.

Renters are people too, and efforts to expand homeownership access shouldn't come at the cost of restricting rental options. publiccomment.blog/p/against-ho...

"well, the framers of the constitution and the authors of the 14th amendment had no concept of 'illegal immigration'" maybe is a bit of a double-edged sword for the conservatives if you think about it for like 30 seconds.

Some people here act like small accounts are akin to juveniles in a court of law, that it's unfair to treat them the same way as larger accounts, that they just can't be held accountable for any insults or harm they've brought to others. Sorry, no. We're all (presumably) adults here.

Relatedly, and I know how this codes, have you ever noticed that they *all* have some pinned post/bio text asking for money? Like it’s not 100% but it’s pretty damn close

I hate the ballroom and this is clearly the correct result. With that said, it’s a perfect example of how fucking broken this country is that he was able to tear down the East Wing without interference from anyone or anything but he can’t build anything in its place due to a court order.

that's right

Please don't run really smart guys like Mark off the platform because you can't read or are addicted to getting mad online

these people are just so pathetically cruel

We’re making progress!

Research actually shows the institutional ownership of single-family homes reduces rents somewhat

Give this guy the key to YIMBYtown

Call me old fashioned but I think that if you are going to claim that corporations are monopolizing regional housing markets and raising rents then your evidence should be stronger than “three companies own 0.01% of the homes in Atlanta, where rents are roughly in line with the national average.”

The current 6-day Jeopardy champion works at a housing tax credit agency in New Jersey and for his banter with Ken he just looked directly at the camera and said "New York, California, shame on you, build more housing" and folks when I say heroes walk among us

get in loser. we're building housing.

The key to understanding Trump II is that it’s an administration predicated on doing a national murder-suicide for the crime of embarrassing Trump in 2020

"Stopping big money from constructing rental homes goes a step further; it reflects a peculiar type of American populism that combines a right-wing fetish for suburbia’s homeowner society with a left-wing distrust of investment capital." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...