Murdering people is bad.

Prior to five minutes ago, I had seen absolutely nothing about the protests on Twitter. I'm sure the brain worms currently occupying Elon's brain had nothing to do with that.

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West Philadelphians appear to be worried that an apartment building is gonna gentrify this neighborhood of $600k homes.

Land value tax would (have) solve(d) this

Local homeowners and "left" NIMBYs have successfully killed the 48th/Chester "poop building". Congratulations to "Protect Squirrel Hill" on blocking a mixed-income, mid-sized apartment building, including 15 affordable units, in favor of a set of luxury homes.

Greetings, new followers

I would simply do a Red Vienna, and I would do it without residency requirements, means testing, cross-subsidy, raising anyone's property taxes, replacing any existing buildings, imposing unwanted noise or density, exacerbating parking or traffic problems, casting any shadows,

The year is 2030. Zoning overlays have made it illegal to build apartments in West Philadelphia. The median home price tops $1 million. UPenn professor Valerie Ross leads a successful campaign to prevent Clark Park from adding a public bathroom, for fear that it might gentrify the neighborhood

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in many American cities.

Feels wild that the centrist neoliberal trickle-down YIMBYs are the ones who want to build affordable housing with taxpayer money whereas the radical revolutionary Marxists are the ones who favor messy neoliberal kludges like inclusionary zoning mandates

Housing Twitter is people who are left of 95% of the electorate and people who are left of 98% of the electorate calling each other fascists

loving the blue skies, but this made me realize how badly I’m missing urbanist twitter over here. can’t wait to get my mass transit / pedestrian / bicyclist infrastructure gang on here.

In lieu of "tpot" I propose the term "eigenrobot cinematic universe"

The socialism we need: Capitalism has failed to build badly needed housing The socialism we have: Capitalism has built enough housing

People will argue that "gender is just chromosomes" but also ardently insist that God, a spiritual entity who does not have any DNA, is male

This building is still in litigation hell, because of course it is

Accurate

This is how I'm handing out invites

go ahead. post another "take". no, seriously, do it, there is a severe lack of takes on this site

We're so back

Finding all your old Twitter follows here is very fun, like it's Final Fantasy 6 and you have to go around getting your friends back together because the old world got destroyed by a sociopath with bad jokes

Many such cases.

Land value tax would solve this