Left-NIMBYs think that blocking new apartments stops gentrification. What actually happens: new demand is redirected to the existing housing stock. Instead of living in new apartments, rich newcomers buy up old homes and displace renters.

it’s simple. Dems need to 1. prepare retaliatory gerrymanders in every blue state now that the VRA has been overturned 2. pack the court (and prosecute Thomas/alito) in 2029 I will only even *consider* primary candidates who support both of the above going forward

One of the things that stuck with me from one of the many UBI pilots is how people started talking with each other more in person in the community, and the reason was because people felt they would no longer be asked for money. And so UBI increased social cohesion by making sure everyone had money.

Disney World employs about twice as many people as the entire coal industry. Lighting the climate on fire, ruining the environment, and making people sick so that 39,000 Manly Men can stay employed in a dying industry is so dumb.

10/ The reason most people don't want to attend public meetings isn't because they can't secure childcare, or they can't make it to the meeting venue, or whatever. The overwhelming, biggest-by-far reason is that they simply don't want to go. They have better things to do--and that's fine.

Is making public transport free “effective?” “…the relatively small difference between Victoria and NSW suggests price is not the main constraint on mode shift. Access, travel time, service reliability and the ability to make specific trips appear to matter more.” Via @theconversation.com

We certainly have to reckon with *The Car* as a dangerous machine that needs to be regulated, but a bigger problem is that cars have been over-deployed as a mobility tool, especially in places where other tools such as transit, cycling, and walking make more sense.

If the Democratic Party was smart, and theyre not, they would be flooding airwaves and feeds on Asian and Hispanic centric forums, feeds, algos, radios etc that Trump is trying to take away their citizenship by race.

“Every $1,300 New York City invested in building bike lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to one additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a new economic assessment.” That’s a better return on investment than some direct health treatments…”

So the idea that "developers make very large homes because they make more money that way" really means "developers make homes for Gen X and Boomers, rather than for Millennials and Gen Z, because they make more money that way."

the ironic thing about California’s insanely strict fire codes is that they make it significantly harder to build multifamily housing, resulting in more exurban sprawl into fire zones. on net, the overly strict fire codes result in more fire deaths

The two periods of life when Americans are happiest: 1. College 2. On vacation without their cars 🤔

here’s a crazy fact: more Americans have been killed in disputes over parking spots than on the NYC subway this year

Great video for anyone who cares about the intersection of history, building design, and building science. youtu.be/-zP4zwvttxA?...

Sometimes I use AI to help write prefab housing jokes

This is beyond problematic. www.denverpost.com/2026/03/04/b...

1946: Freedom is being able to drive anywhere. 2026: Freedom is not having to drive everywhere. (above text suggested to us by @harrisongibbons.bsky.social)

Rep. Ansari Statement on United States Attack on Iran.

seeing firefighters oppose safe, international best practice building codes purely out of misplaced inertia and resistance to change has made me appreciate that many urban issues have unexpected villains and you should be skeptical of anyone trying to blame it all on private equity or whatever

Another awesome urban planning video from @justineunderhill.bsky.social this time about Avatar/Legend of Kora www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1_X...

@robertagreer.bsky.social and I wrote a ballot measure to bring more European-style buildings to Denver through zoning changes near Transit and Parks. Read about it here: archive.is/YNspf

A California lawmaker has proposed allowing projects up to 10 units be constructed under the residential code. That's 5x more than the current IBC limit of 2 units. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTe...

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

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The nazi's doing the killings were both U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), not folks employed by ICE. What we're seeing now is people who signed up to hurt immigrants on our southern border operating in our cities. ICE is bad, but CBP is the true enemy.

Walz needs to deploy the national guard and expel ICE at the end of a rifle if needed, there's simply no other solution here

This is my politics.

My takeaway here is that new housing is just way safer than older housing for so many reasons. If your number one concern in housing policy is fire safety, you should be way more concerned about getting people out of old housing than about making marginal fire safety improvements to future housing.

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/

Just an annoying reminder that the unquenchable American thirst for oil, and the conquest and subjugation of other nations in futile attempts to satiate it, is brought to you in large part by our land-use patterns

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.