One of the lesser known bills in the 2023 Montana Miracle housing package preempts local design requirements that are not related to health and safety. We all know that there can be some road to travel between statewide law and local implementation...

"You know what the difference is between the Biden family business and the Trump family business? You’d have to add two digits to the sum of Biden abuses of power, foreign entanglements, and corruption alleged in the report to get near what Trump has raked in just from the UAE."

Lindsey Vonn gave me hope as a fellow middle aged survivor of a knee blow out, but alas for our gold medal

Meg White plays the drums like Animal (laudatory)

I’ve become a victim of slop. For the record, I have no affiliation with IWF and even if I did, I would not be a big fan of CLTs.

It looks like Homan is saying here that ICE and BPD will be able to leave Minneapolis once the people show they can be nice to the feds? WTF?

What share of the people who think the Epstein story is a nothingburger oppose no fault divorce? 100%?

Man’s dominion over the snow, hell yeah

The way to increase construction productivity is to have a long pipeline of small, repetitive projects where crews become efficient by constructing the same building over and over and over. This requires by-right approval and small scopes. The canonical example: Houston townhouses.

I must question the collective wisdom of Open Table

I’m assuming this caption is leftover from an illiberal left Smithsonian, but it could also be from the illiberal right’s takeover

The people who are saying shit like "well it's either this or the borders are totally open" are doing their best to convince America that we should have completely open borders.

These blind box toys are for only children. Bringing blind boxes into a house with siblings locked in a struggle to maximize resources is ☠️

2026 is sure to be remembered as the year Euclid turned 100

Congrats to @bobbyfijan.bsky.social and @yimbyland.com on this exciting launch! Just one question, why aren't there floorplans on the website? I was expecting a trove of floorplans open.substack.com/pub/matthewy...

Randy 👏 Clarke 👏 Randy 👏 Clarke 👏 www.axios.com/local/washin...

We've done it. Refinements and corrections will certainly come. There are still areas where we want to push the envelope further. But our understaffed team, working on a tight timeline, has delivered what is very likely one of the most aggressively pro-housing zoning reforms in the country.

Two great job opportunities: 1) Applications are open for the next cohort of Emerging Scholars at Mercatus. I would love to see people who work on housing or transportation policy or related issues, like insurance, in this program! www.mercatus.org/emerging-sch...

I’d say 80% of Arlington’s Orange Line sidewalks are in reasonable shape, but it doesn’t look like it’s going to be viable to push a stroller out here anytime soon.

There are so many win-wins for affordability and energy efficiency in codes and standards, it is frustrating that neither side has tried to prioritize them. Rightsizing electrical and plumbing requirements, permitting R-290 refrigerant, accepting global window standards in place of NFRC…

Yeah, I'm woke W lOyal to the principles of K LibEral democracy

In Virginia Postrel’s framework of The Future and Its Enemies, Virginia Lee Burton is The Enemy

From earlier this month, in my latest Governing column I explain why I think short-term rentals and investor-owned single-family properties are mostly bogeymen in the housing affordability conversation www.governing.com/urban/puttin...

From @jerusalem.bsky.social: “The problem for elites who wish to silo their politics in the realm of pure economics is that it is not actually possible to cleave the “rule of law when it comes to dealing with protesters” away from the “rule of law that enforces contracts.”

From earlier this month, in my latest Governing column I explain why I think short-term rentals and investor-owned single-family properties are mostly bogeymen in the housing affordability conversation www.governing.com/urban/puttin...

Federal and local planners in Washington have long sought to raze a derelict federal office district in DC. The area is enormous: some 230 acres, or 42 city blocks' worth of distressed government buildings. This is where Trump's wrecking ball could swing next: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Older federal buildings in Fedlandia can be saved. Offices that pre-date air conditioning have shallow floor plates and lots of windows for ventilation: ideal for conversion. I toured one such project, a former USDA cotton annex now clocking luxury rents in SW. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

*too much* national focus on standardization may not be a good sign for human rights

There’s this paper that often gets cited in the “why aren’t people having more kids” conversation that finds that car seat laws are an important factor in leading people to stop at two rather than three kids papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Talking with my husband about our division of the mental load, and he reminds me that he handles our family’s worrying about infectious disease

The second quote that Weigel highlights is what Bernie fundamentally doesn't understand, and it's an incredibly serious error that leads him to a deeply immoral conclusion. When people immigrate to the US, we're importing demand as well as labor supply! You absolute maroon.

Your family can have two dolls, a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a corn tortilla, and one other thing

For every one American killed in a fire, more than 10 are killed in motor vehicle crashes. New homes built in auto-dependent suburbs have less fire risk, but expose occupants to far more traffic danger than old homes in walkable places. Keep that in mind when you read this thoughtful thread…

Fabulous @stephenjacobsmith.com post on the scarcity of groceries in NYC: www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/nyc...

One of the main things I appreciate about LA is that going anywhere, at any time, in any way, is a horrifying ordeal

Planning to reduce the risk of urban conflagration generally relies on at least one of two strategies: 1) building-level fire risk reduction, which can be achieved with either non-combustible materials or light wood combined with sprinklers and other safety features...

Florida's Starter Homes Act would prevent localities from adopting a floor area ratio of less than 3 for lots with access to sewer and water: www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill.... There's a new rule now: if we're talking about missing middle reforms, we're talking about allowing FAR of at least 3.

Very rarely in the building codes/ standards world will you see a map with this stark of a contrast.

Just to say, it seems voters care a heck of a lot about nominal prices

@kevinerdmann.bsky.social has a great series here on the "scarcity premium" that U.S. policymakers have introduced in housing markets. They've lowered living standards, especially for the bottom half of the income distribution: kevinerdmann.substack.com/p/we-are-not...

Zootopia 2 is way too complicated for the audience. Why is there an intellectual property plot line is this film?

If you’re going to talk politics on a podcast, the first thing you must do is learn how to pronounce cosplay

Mamdani is seeking delay of a bankruptcy sale of 5,500 rent regulated apartments. Apparently including an argument that there is no supportable business given the low rent allowances. This, IMHO, is an admission that NYC rent control is an unconstitutional takings.

We preserve some stupid Victorian houses but fail to protect our most critical historic resources. Gone, smashed to dust, never to return: the McDonald's PlaySpace, 1971-2025.

I don't think this is getting the attention it deserves in broader North American Bsky discourse. Edmonton is doing incredible things and has some of the most ambitious zoning reforms on the continent!

We continued to see the fruits of the big 2024 land use legislative reforms. One change- more cities completely eliminating parking mandates that drive up housing costs and greenhouse gas pollution. (18/n) boulderreportinglab.org/2025/06/26/b...

The one Arlington McDonald's with a PlayPlace has been "modernized" to not have a PlayPlace

I love GPT's positive self talk

I've read two great, plainly-stated truths that should be obvious to more people in power today