This is a great video that puts a human face and personal story to the incredible quantitative research on moving chains done by Evan Mast and others. I think it's going to have a big impact. youtube.com/watch?si=pm9t2HI0WtzV1zMp&v=QQYMUMTI7fk&feature=youtu.be

Nice Brian Potter post breaking down the build to rent housing market here: www.construction-physics.com/p/the-rise-o... Once you realize some of these developments are basically detached apartments, the slopulist approach of banning """investor-owned housing""" really makes no sense.

Analysis by Aaron Shroyer and coauthors finds that USPS land could accommodate 237,000 residential units through mixed-use post offices. Many people are saying this is some of the best-positioned federal land for reducing housing undersupply @zaiac.bsky.social @mnolangray.bsky.social

This is a refreshingly honest conversation among socialists about the failures of central planning. That said, I see a lot of people on here saying that this is an admission that they lost the calculation debate. I think this is subtly different than that. 🧵

[Two year old goes wild with markers on the wall] Four year old: Who taught you that?!!

There are a couple of Biergartens in McLean where you can have a little slice of Europe right off the silver line—parents take a load off while the kids run wild. The food and beverage may be mediocre, but the concept is top notch.

Jacobin enters the socialist calculation debate with some calculation skepticism marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

btw you can either do fertility dooming or you can do China dooming but I don’t think you can do both at once

From this episode: "Once having children feels like a social or cultural choice, then that rules in other questions, such as can we afford children? Like clearly people were having 7-8 kids when it was difficult to afford a house, right?"

And they’re mad that there aren’t . . . clear blue skies . . . in the odyssey???

Nicely-sliced data here on the types of households living in housing units with different bedroom counts in cities:

It's interesting how BIG Live Local Act projects are. The average Live Local proposal is a 300-unit building: flhousingc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboa...

Excellent report out from Pew today on preapproved residential building plans. Preapproved plan catalogs allow entrepreneurial localities to cut development costs by a few percentage points and provide developers with significant time savings in delivering new housing. 1/

Follow these six simple steps to turn Chicago into San Francisco:

Dust Bunny has All Time Top 5 Movie Interiors

“We are the luckiest bastards alive,” he says of living in Marblehead. “We can’t also be the most self-interested bastards alive. They can’t be the same thing.” www.marbleheadindependent.com/he-asked-if-...

Great article by @ebwhamilton.bsky.social, and I can’t wait to see how Connecticut’s residential reforms impact home building once they take effect on July 1st. ✅ No requirements 16 units and under ✅ over 16 you can “right size” by doing a parking study and consider local lots, fee in lieu, etc

Oops, we eliminated due process for federal building code requirements outside the HUD code www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1...

Spot on point in Andres Duany’s foreword to this fun book

Parking reform lowers the cost of housing. Minneapolis: rents up 1% vs. 14% statewide. Austin: built at nearly triple the national rate. NYC and Chicago still require parking in their most walkable neighborhoods. Time to catch up. @ebwhamilton.bsky.social @parkingreform.org

Reading these case studies of manufactured housing subdivisions from JCHS and seeing that future projects like these will directly benefit from Virginia's new law requiring that localities allow manufactured housing to be allowed wherever site-built is allowed 🌈 www.jchs.harvard.edu/research-are...

What an elevator for a housing abundance event

The way everyone’s always talking about “My Workflow” these days makes me feel like I missed an assignment

Support for small lot homes and missing middle housing is huge in Salt Lake City: “Nearly three-quarters of those surveyed said they backed allowing homes to be built on smaller lots, while 63% support allowing duplexes, triplexes and four-plexes in all residential neighborhoods.”

Anti-trust is perhaps the area of public policy that could benefit the most from more Econ 101 thinking: “Persistent monopolization is extremely difficult in the absence of regulatory barriers to entry, which are the main thing to talk about if you’re fired-up about competition.”

I feel like I don’t see a lot of new shows that fail the Bechdel Test, but so far Land Man does

New from me: www.governing.com/urban/parkin... We’ve seen more progress on parking reform than I ever imagined. And yet, some of the places that could benefit from it the most (eh hem, NYC) are still hanging on to parking mandates.

“Anselmi Auramo, 28, is a student in Helsinki. He's engaged to be married, and plans to become a father one day, but says he's not sure when he'll be financially ready. He believes financial concerns cause many young people to think twice about having children.“

Lots of things about Finland make it seem like an idyllic place to have kids, so why aren't the Finns having any? www.nuffieldfoundation.org/sites/defaul...

Thank you @stephhmurray.bsky.social for stating the blindingly obvious clearly. For kids to have independence to go places independently, you need a certain density of destinations that doesn't come from being sure that single-family neighborhoods have sidewalks: thedispatch.com/article/heli...

Since I’m preaching to the urbanist choir and we’re all anti-unfunded IZ, I’ll take this a step forward: funded IZ does too, it just changes the consequence – instead of destroying production, it destroys your city budget. We got a hint of this with NYC’s CityFHEPS voucher program

Works in Progress ships from Twinsburg 🤯 I opened this expecting a formal invitations to Twins Day, but this is good too @worksinprogress.bsky.social

The weather is A+, so of course the house is full of the sweet sounds of “SHUT THE DOOR!!”

Just a couple of bucketheads at the NOFX documentary screening. See if there's one near you that hasn't sold out yet! www.40yearsoffuckinup.com

I mostly agree with this @mattyglesias.bsky.social take that U.S. YIMBYs should stay the course on working to make land use decisions (and probably also building code decisions) at larger geographic scales.

The “girlboss” who also has a bullshit DEI job does not exist www.cartoonshateher.com/p/who-exactl...

The problem with immigrants is that they allow women to get jobs outside their homes and that they take men's jobs 🧐

In other words, when supply is fixed (due to the strait being closed), tax cuts are less likely to be passed onto consumers. Gas stations are *more likely to raise their own prices to compensate*. If they set prices too low, you will literally get shortages.

I love a good slop bowl for a workday lunch, and I’d argue that they are healthier and tastier than plenty of convenient workday lunches that were on offer pre-slop bowl.

@ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social and I are celebrating double 40th birthdays and a 10th anniversary with overnight childcare and a trip to Philadelphia. Please hit me with your favorite special occasion restaurant recommendations

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Project Hail Mary is as good as they say

Me: Was the new girl in your swim class crying? Four year old: Yeah, she was afraid her head was going to go all the way under the water. (Little does she know you can go to a 21st century swim class for nine months without your head ever going all the way under the water)

Of course, to improve overall life safety, reducing traffic deaths (by, for example, reforming US fire code standards that demand overly-wide streets) is the place to really focus.

If you were doing a comparative analysis of *how building codes are created and enforced* across the U.S. and other countries, which countries would you choose? I'm not looking at specific code requirements across countries. English-speaking countries get major bonus points.

*This* is who they think should be upset about this?!

What is the greatest success of voluntary standards setting of all time and why is it ⚓️ shipping containers ⚓️

Really enjoyed talking about the landscape of housing reform with Seth Floyd on the Housing Heroes podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/3fEJ...

That building is totally value-engineered (laudatory)

Am I the only adult who think Spidey and His Amazing Friends and Iron Man and His Awesome Friends have some real pop punk bangers? Just over here putting Webs Ahoy on a Yoto card for… the children