your strategy of building yuppie containment towers pales in comparison to mine, erecting internal borders or shaming yuppies into not moving to my city

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

"The City of Castlegar has more parking spaces than it needs according to a recent report commissioned by the city.... Occupancy surveys done in May, August, and November 2025 found overall downtown parking utilization at 42%." Same old story! Minimum parking mandates lead to unused asphalt.

Hannah Arendt did not mince words, did she? 'Totalitarianism replaces all first-rate talents with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.' From "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951)

Massively expanding demand without doing anything on supply would only turbocharge housing crisis. A handful of incumbents owners would win big, many other incumbent owners would see property taxes rise, and few new homeowners would be created. www.wccsradio.com/2026/01/27/t...

Apartment floor plate comparison. Standard double-loaded corridor with single-aspect units on the left. Seattle single-stair project, with triple-aspect units on the right.

I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one. It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.

🌡️Heat pumps convert 1 kilowatt hour into 3-5 kilowatt hours of heating / cooling power. 🏗️ Plant-based building materials absorb almost 4 kg of CO2 from the atmosphere per 1 kg of carbon, stored useful as buildings. 🪙 1 Euro invested in climate protection yields a return of ~ 5 Euros. Invest.

This person is right, but it reminds me of how Republicans associated with January 6th clearly thought that they would go to jail for what they did, and then didn't because Democrats by and large chose not to pursue it to that extent.

HELL NO. This is a clear violation of the Constitution and a chilling look into the Administration’s plans to terrorize our communities. Kristi Noem has to go. Now.

In #Detroit, “The ordinance would allow for more types of multi-family housing, accessory dwelling units and apartments in commercial corridors, loosen requirements on how far homes must sit from property lines and decrease minimum parking requirements.“

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

"what if the next administration will be democratic and they cut all the contracts with us?" maybe a something all these corporations that decided to throw themselves whole-hog into trumpism should have thought about!

HOW IT WORKS IN MOVIES: 1. Government lies 2. Brave heroes release video showing the truth 3. Press says “the government is lying!” HOW IT APPARENTLY WORKS IN REAL LIFE 1. Brave heroes release video showing the truth 2. Government lies 3. Press says “Oh no, what now? So confusing! So hard!”

"Upzoning is destroying LA neighborhoods" Oh yea? Here's the 1930 zoning map for this lot. It was zoned "B" aka "R4" What did R4 allow in 1930? Any residential use "without limitation on the height or area" This area has actually been DOWNZONED

This is superb analysis of facts.

They had to make every single square inch of the facade of this modular affordable apartment building in Marin County different, just to make sure to not recognize too many efficiencies or cost savings from building it modularly sfyimby.com/2026/01/modu...

You read things like this and you can only hope that when the time comes, if it comes, when it is your community's turn to be tested, that you acquit yourselves half as well.

👏 Yesterday on @citycastpgh.bsky.social -- Mayor O'Connor discussed building off of Pittsburgh's #VisionZero efforts pittsburgh.citycast.fm/podcasts/may...

i don't want to jump down anyone's throat but there's a reason everyone should read HOW THE WORLD BECAME RICH afterwards, you will understand why "how the fuck did we lift ourselves out of the primordial mud" is the central question of economic history and "law" is one of the going answers!

Imagine! How could wind and solar ever compete with fossil fuel electricity across an entire year, across an entire block of 450 million people!?😉

Secret police keep their identities secret, and they operate by secret procedures that override ordinary law. This is a secret police force.

Absolutely massive turnout at the ICE Rapid Response training in Pittsburgh tonight, hosted by Frontline Dignity. Over 500 people showed up, including dozens from out of county & out of state.

I know it's not the full story but part of what keeps me going is knowing that enabling people to move to cities is key to removing prejudices

Good lord. If Trump seizes Greenland, he will have launched an unprovoked attack on a treaty ally, a true knife in the back of an old friend who bled for us in Afghanistan. THAT, not healthcare, not anything else, is the story. Trump proposes to rob and murder our old friends, are we to let him?

land value tax would solve this

If it takes mayoral intervention to get a single-stair building with three stories and six units approved in Toronto despite all these safety features (few of which are required even in the US) even after years of warming them up in various forums, current Toronto building and fire staff needs to go

90% of populist housing discourse is just this

Shattering NATO by seizing Greenland is almost impossibly stupid, and Americans know it. Conservatives and Liberals.

Operation Breakthrough, a HUD project in the 1960s, produced some significant advances in prefabricated building construction methods and also exposed the need for building code reform.

As the guy who's been shouting into the wind against immigration restriction for 10 years, my new fantasy is to be an anti version of Steve Miller. I convince a president to send gov't employees into neighborhoods to set up welcome centers with language/employment services.

There are only 2 real policy responses to a housing shortage. You can either get to work building enough housing for everyone or start making a list of the types of people you want to exclude. I know which side I’m on.

These goons are flabby weaklings and cowards, the loser servants of a loser president whose policy of domestic authoritarian 'raids' has been defeated at every turn by plucky, mobilized, civic-minded citizens who banded together to protect their neighbors. That's the good narrative, in my view.

terrific conversation with @whstancil.bsky.social about what's going on in his home minneapolis right now. at the end he puts it very bluntly: ICE is not an immigration agency that just needs some technocratic reforms. ICE is a terror agency operating under the fig leaf of immigration.

He really is doing all of it.

Walking should not be a death sentence. Our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Harry J. Thomas, 62, who was killed by the driver of a Ford pickup truck while walking on Greensburg Rd in Lower Burrell yesterday morning. triblive.com/local/valley...

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

we should want to make it undeniable that there is no choice but to end ICE, prosecute its officers for lawbreaking, and fundamentally rethink immigration enforcement.

4 male ICE agents tackle a woman U.S. citizen—lift her off ground with no concern over groping her breast or exposing her midriff. "Help me! Help me!" she cries out. "Check my ID!" Agents shove her into back of SUV hitting her head—literally run away from scene of crime. St. Paul, Minnesota.

Detroit is starting a full court press on zoning liberalization, legalizing triplexes, fourplex, and ADUs and reducing parking requirements, among other changes. outliermedia.org/detroit-zoni...

this is a very good sign

This video about why elevators are so much more expensive to install and maintain in North America than the rest of the developed world is fantastic. (Hint: it's a solvable policy problem!) youtu.be/Or1_qVdekYM?...

I discovered America's decline in elevators after visiting my sibling in Paris and realizing most small apartments had a cage-like elevator of some kind. Smaller, more compact. Meanwhile, we're building 4-story social housing in Berkeley with no elevators because they're too large and expensive.

The share of single-family starts in the US that are attached has risen to nearly 20% in the year up to Q3 2025, highest share on record. Though in absolutes, Q3 2025’s 46,000 townhouse starts are still below the 50,000-60,000+ per quarter achieved in the mid-2010s eyeonhousing.org/2026/01/town...

Do lesbians face discrimination in the United States? On the one hand, Renée Good was murdered. On the other hand, I am highly paid to relativize such crimes. by Bari Weiss

If Jerome Powell has million fans, then I'm one of them. If Jerome Powell has one fan, then I'm THAT ONE. If Jerome Powell has no fans, that means I'm dead. If the world is against Jerome Powell I’m against the entire world

NEW from me: Job growth has been functionally zero over the last five months, as the US sinks from a “low hire, low fire” labor market to a “no hire” one. That slowdown is hitting young & low income workers the hardest 🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/the-no-hir...

East Palo Alto tried to impose an illegal $54,891 "affordable housing fee (no, this is not a parody) on an ADU, immediately got sued, and dropped the fee. Unfunded "inclusionary" zoning is the is the housing policy equivalent of applying leeches to a sick patient. pacificlegal.org/case/east-pa...

i will never get over this rebecca tiffany quote: the goal of yimbyism is a world where "every trans eighteen-year-old who is stuck living with unsupportive family [is] able to afford an apartment in a vibrant urban space with transit on a minimum wage job." www.liberalcurrents.com/feminism-wit...