Interested in more housing a short walk from the subway? Mid-rise apartments off of arterial roads? Wonder what's up with the low-rise areas around the Danforth? Consider attending a meeting to support the Major Transit Station Areas policy implementation. www.moreneighbours.ca/news/getting...

from @jacobdawang.com: "Clearly, there is a huge number of people who would prefer to rent a townhome in a mature, central neighbourhood than be forced into a single-detached home in a new suburb." #yeg #yegcc #housing #missingmiddle https://www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2026/zbr-two-year-review/

A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.

Three Days at City Hall, One Big Question: Who Can Move Safely in Edmonton? This week, #yegcc committees will make decisions that sound technical but have real-world impacts on safety, accessibility, and mobility, especially in winter. Here’s what’s happening: buff.ly/aXlmrRG #yegbike #yeg

Some of these don't look bad at all! They resemble a McMansion that would typically replace these smaller ranch homes. And look at all the folks that can live there! I wouldn't mind a couple in my Pittsburgh neighborhood, provided they don't block my skyline views (lol)

I'm excited for @ericlombardi.bsky.social if he decides to run for OLP leader. Ontario needs future-focus, competence, and a grow the pie mindset. Eric stands for ushering in a new era of prosperity in Ontario and I'm all for it. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

A great housing success story. Turns out folks like living in established neighbourhoods and near transit if you give them the choice. Bonus: some good graphs in here

row housing for the win. Now how about we see some of those in #vancouver #vanpoli #vanre

Edmonton is Canada's best kept urbanist secret. When I moved here, I was pleasantly surprised about the state of housing, bike lanes, and transit. But, even more so by the number of people who care and advocate for transforming our city for the better.

In the latest episode of their video program 'Oh The Urbanity!', @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social call out Edmonton's city admin and councilors for signaling that they may compromise their densification plan in an upcoming vote in February that would cap infill residences to six units.

Zoning is the idea that you can build a huge house with no questions asked but have to fight city hall and the neighbours to build a small apartment building

An incredibly important video on the huge benefits of upzoning a North American city, and the risks that present afterwards: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVQ6...

North America’s Best Housing Reform is Under Attack

Make sure to add your voice in support of housing. Administration is collecting feedback until January 29. bsky.app/profile/grow...

Edmonton's housing policy is among the best in the US and Canada and the results have been outstanding. Thanks to @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social for featuring Edmonton in their new video!

Generations of Canadians are being crushed by housing prices so that older generations, and lucky young people can live without too many other humans polluting their cities. If you have a NIMBY family member, or someone moaning about their homes value atm, I hope you give them grief!

Our piece on single stair: a crucial change that is slowly coming to Canadian cities By me and @johnlorinc.bsky.social

Good weekend reading that I have missed when it came out. Edmonton has been a clear success story when it comes to housing in Canada and the rest of the country should pay close attention.

$10 million withheld from Toronto's Housing Accelerator Funds. Congratulations to all of the councillors who confidently assured their colleagues that this wouldn't happen when they refused to allow sixplexes in their wards. www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/media-newsro...

This could be us, Edmonton! Our snow clearing pain is a policy choice!

Confirming this. It snowed today and my residential street was plowed at least twice over the course of the day. No “X hours/days *after* the snow ends”. Snow clearing is one really clear example where density results in better quality municipal services.

Montreal already charges owners of big SUVs more to park. It’s a very sensible policy.

You know I think it's good that we don't overuse salt in Edmonton but maybe we should use some salt.

Zoning in theory: You can’t build housing next to the pollution source 😊 Zoning in reality: You can only build housing next to the pollution source, also daycares are illegal

To underline the point that a lot of Americans have a cartoon understanding of dictatorships, consider that even Hitler had to worry about public opinion and in fact one of the key functions of the gestapo was assessing the mood of the country.

If you want to know why students complain about housing, read this piece

One frustrating thing about governments now saying "Housing isn't our fault. Developers just aren't building!" is that, years ago, I met with multiple politicians who assured me that it was fine to add requirements and costs, saying "Do you really think developers are just going to stop building?"

Imagining what Canada’s mid-sized cities would look like if we could build transit more affordably. You know, like France, Spain, or Korea. We’d have much better light rail coverage. Maybe even some metros? Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Quebec City, Hamilton, etc.

We cannot agree more with today's @theglobeandmail.com editorial. "Edmonton would be shooting itself in the foot if it were to roll back its zoning reforms. The city found a policy that is working – councillors should not abandon that success." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

Thanks to @theglobeandmail.com for featuring Edmonton and my data! The magic of density is amazing in just how many homes can be built with few properties. #yeg #yegcc www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

Love to see my good friend and incredible housing activist @jacobdawang.com given a well deserved shout out in the @theglobeandmail.com today, for providing evidence of the success of Edmonton’s recent housing reforms. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

Not enough money to pay for snow clearing is the result of too many roads and not enough people. We can achieve better snow clearing if we welcome more neighbours into our core communities!

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

ICMYI - take 2 minutes to protect our housing progress!

Blocking new housing doesn't stop rich people from moving in. Instead, it means unleashing them on the existing housing stock. In SF, increased demand from the tech boom was not met with new supply, so landlords withdrew their rentals to sell to tech workers. 1/

One of the things that progressives/liberals have a tendency to forget is that authoritarian regimes tend to actually believe the weird conspiracist beliefs they promulgate. They are rarely purely cynical. Hitler really believed that the Jews controlled FDR. 1/

Don't mess with success!

If you or anyone you know lives in Edmonton, pass this along.

Let's keep #yeg a leader in housing affordability! 🏗️ #YIMBY #yegcc www.edmonton.ca/residential_...

Fill out the survey for Motion 1, and keep it simple: ✅ NO to cutting units (keep the limit at 8). ✅ NO to increasing site area (keep it at 75m²). ✅ NO to height reductions (maintain 10.5m). Here's a sample response you can use as a starting point: sharetext.io/8d4423a7

🚨 Action Alert 🚨 Don’t let Edmonton backslide on housing! 🏘️ A new Administration report proposes cutting the maximum number of homes per lot from 8 to 6, and adding punitive lot size requirements. We need more homes, not less! Take 2 mins to say NO to these cuts 👇 www.edmonton.ca/residential_...

NEW VIDEO: North America’s Elevator’s Problem Elevators are absolutely essential to modern cities..... and it turns out North America kind of sucks at them. We partnered with @sightline.org to look into the many issues plaguing our elevator industry, and what it might take to fix it.

It's odd that the basis for Toronto's budget isn't what actually happened last year but what staff predicted would happen. We already know that, 2 years ago, predictions were off by billions. I don't expect perfect agreement in unpredictable times but surely we should use the best info as a start.

Half the discussions of zoning reform start off with “don’t fall asleep, I know zoning sounds boring”. I always think: this is literally about what kinds of buildings and uses are allowed to exist in our cities! And by extension, what kinds of people can live there. It doesn’t sound boring at all.

If you’re not already subscribed Urban Motion is a good Edmonton focused YouTube channel. They seem to mainly cover construction updates but also discuss urbanist/transit topics.

“We can’t be a country with a paramilitary secret police because then we would be a nation with a paramilitary secret police” is something my brain genuinely says to me. I need my brain to change as fast as my world and that’s not easy.

Edmonton Neighbourhoods United says the city’s recent zoning reform harms adjacent property values on one page (“$34,022 Lost per Home”). While on another age saying it “drives up land values—leading to more luxury builds”. “There’s no evidence that supports blanket upzoning lowers housing prices.”

Boy it sure would be embarrassing if these projections in briefing note 11 of the Toronto budget were off by billions of dollars in the opposite direction. Would really undermine public trust in the budget documents wouldn't it?

📢 Calling all Calgarians 📢 If you don’t want to see Calgary’s housing strategy get rolled back, join us on January 24th! RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/save-the-h... #yyc #yyccc #housing