it’s been clear for a while that Netanyahu himself is the biggest threat to the safety Jews around the world

The Bridge. Creative developed with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

time to boycott hilton

Opinion | "We built a transportation system that requires everyone to drive everywhere for everything. And now, our endless-lane model is collapsing under the weight of its own inefficiency. " https://www.westword.com/opinion/opinion-no-more-highway-lanes-for-colorado-40825034/

Second major fire in a low-rise wood-frame building within a block of here this year. We need to stop treating new apartment buildings like they’ve got the fire risk profile of a nuclear facility and focus on the real problem, which is old, low-rise, wood-frame buildings.

Kinda funny how everybody with an HGTV show is either homophobically Christian, or gay.

Seen in West Wash Park.

Denver is forecasted to be hotter than parts of Arizona on December 25. https://www.westword.com/news/denver-could-break-temperature-record-christmas-40822179/

For example, DOTI would mint money if it put this bike-riding bear on a t-shirt.

Consultants contracted by Minnesota found that an eight-story single-stair building with 6,000 sq. ft. per floor (building 4) has dramatically lower fire risk than a same-height code-compliant two-stair building with a larger floor plate (building 1) www.dli.mn.gov/sites/defaul...

Get you a city council member that doesn't take bullshit when it comes to street safety, or about Anschutz corruption. I literally knocked doors for her opponent a couple of years ago, but love how hard she's come out swinging. Lucky District 7 indeed. A 🧵 of ⛓️:

I’m running for the U.S. Senate so the people who built Colorado can take back control of our healthcare, our homes, and our futures. Working people built Colorado, we deserve a government that finally works for us. Join our campaign: julieforcolorado.com

Denver scaled back a street safety project after pushback from the family of Colorado's wealthiest man. While the city told the public that construction was the hold up, @spencersoicher.bsky.social obtained internal city emails showing the issue was "high level" community concerns.

Oh man. I wanted to be an architect but was raised to be an engineer, then left college to see the world, worked restaurants+EMS, became a property manager by accident, learned about buildings and the housing shortage, and now I'm a self-taught building scientist designing missing middle housing.

YIMBY: We Can Make Your Landlord Cry Yimbydenver.org

When future historians look back, they won’t call Republicans strategic masterminds. They’ll say Democrats were so incompetent and so corrupt that they kept losing to the craziest people in America rather than give up their grift and actually fight for the working class.

Fire marshals have no idea how to price their rules or account for anything other than fire risk, example #241 www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

We should have a minimum income (UBI) of ~$15k/year, a maximum income of $1.5M/yr (100% tax above that), and a maximum wealth limit of $45M/person (100% wealth tax above that). Profit motives are good, but nobody needs a personal Gulfstream, and everyone should be able to afford food and an SRO.

Semi-regular reminder to absolutely politicize my death when I’m killed by a reckless driver. I trust you all to take that opportunity and make the most of it, whether to advocate for more public transit, Vision Zero, or bike lanes

Just feed people, my god

In Seattle. Does anyone know of a single stair building where I can take a tour?

Donald Trump needs to issue an executive order legalizing R290 refrigerants to turn his failing presidency around

"we should retire the word 'gentrification' altogether and speak plainly about what actually matters: affordability and displacement.... The better question, morally, isn’t how to bar newcomers but how to absorb them without harming those already there." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...

My health insurance premium doubled

HEY NERDS: QUIT PLAYING CITY: SKYLINES AND GO TO CITY: COUNCIL

"we can't compare things because we have no actual definition of success or safety" does sound less compelling…

This is some of the coolest work I've seen done on CLT's potential through changes to the construction process. The end, where they put concrete onto and INTO the CLT to secure it with no fasteners, could be a game-changer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uBz...

From the report: "Among the roughly 8.3 million Americans who lived in apartments built since 2010, just four died in a residential fire in 2023. Far more people—at least 20—died in homelessness-related fires than in fires in apartments built since 2010."

We believe healthcare is a right for every American. But starting today, millions of people will be notified that they are being priced out of their insurance thanks to Republican policies. Enough is enough. The GOP may shut down the government, but we will stand tall for YOU.

Older people should definitely upgrade to induction stoves

Newer apartments are SIX TIMES safer from fire deaths than older housing, and FOUR TIMES safer from fire than even new detached houses. www.pew.org/en/research-...

Nobody ever refers to a detached single family house with a garage and a yard as “luxury,” despite it being an order of magnitude more luxurious than ~98% of apartments.

Posting about my Colorado-based CLT plex-building company again www.woodhaus-co.com

listen, if this is what it takes for the left to stop treating labor like it’s a movement of saints, and not real people with the capacity to do harm out of irrational self-interest, then good.

They are not against political violence, they are against political violence by their opponents.

the biggest barrier to abundance isn’t DSA or online leftists. it’s wealthy boomer homeowners who don’t want anything to change, ever

By my napkin math, since rents have dropped $71 on average this year, and since there are 409,684 occupied rental units in metro Denver, then the recent drop in rents means that 71*409,684*12= Denver-area renters saved roughly $350,000,000 just this year.

When like 40% of the general population believes that apartment owners purposefully leave units vacant It would be a really good idea to have accurate data to disprove them

Gonna keep beating this dead horse but as a Yimby it pisses me off to see this group try to co-opt a progressive movement that I believe deeply in. This lady's family shot at me and Bureau of Land Management staff and now shes an invited speaker. I want cities and trains and these people do not

I think our blue state leaders need to begin preparing for this, in part by making it much easier to build less expensive homes in our blue state cities because we cannot provide refuge to people fleeing red state oppression at scale while appeasing every objection to new housing.

In other words, their socialism is better than ours, but *their capitalism is also better than ours*. What we have is a shit mixed system that does both parts badly & serves no one but the wealthy.

My friend JUST got hit by a bike in front of STK. Luckily, they're okay since it was a low-speed collision (the driver was turning into the parking garage), but removing the posts was a terrible move. @denverbicyclelobby.bsky.social @westword.com @denverite.bsky.social @yimbydenver.bsky.social

It's similar in Denver. In my last building, 80AMI units were originally ~10% less than MR units. Within two years, the MR units were under the 80AMI prices, but the affordable ones still required extra paperwork. 30-50AMI rentals make sense, along with 60-80AMI for sale. MR should handle the rest.

New post about how bulk transit passes are incredibly affordable and pair nicely with new parking reform and TOD laws. New tools in SB25-161 expand this program - let's use them! Written with James Flattum from @greatdentransit.bsky.social

I genuinely think one thing that trips up folks on the left is that they can't imagine not sharing certain core values. Lemme explain. Here's an intuition pump: Say you're in negotiations with counterparty X. And there are two possible deals on the table ...

Thinking of smuggling a shipping container of Chinese solar panels, inverters, and R290 heat pumps into America like a 1920s bootlegger

Great post on how to get better urbanism buildingoptimism.substack.com/p/the-one-th...