The idea that there are talented and gifted 4 and 5 year olds is bonkers. Nothing makes people crazier than becoming parents.

Justice Kavanaugh: “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.”

There is a real conversation to be had about YIMBYism and race and it's not that "the vibes are off." It's that it's taken YIMBYs a minute to connect their work to the racial justice movement that understood exclusionary zoning as a problem 75 years ago, decades before YIMBYs came to it.

"The capacity of government to deliver is really important for all the flavors of abundance." Stephanie Pollack speaking to @yimbytown.bsky.social

The good news here is that the governor knows there's a crisis and is laser-focused on getting a housing bill passed that will start to take on some of these systemic issues. right? Homelessness rises in CT as federal funding remains in flux ctmirror.org/2025/09/11/c...

Unexpectedly, North Dakota Gov Kelly Armstrong just told @yimbytown.bsky.social to advocate for forming state banks to finance affordable housing.

Yep, I am in a standing only room, at a session on building codes, @yimbytown.bsky.social. No one call the fire marshal, please.

Love hearing from @billmckibben.bsky.social talking to @yimbytown.bsky.social about how it takes months to install solar panels in the US rather than days in Europe, Australia...15,000 America. municipalities, each with its own regulations and inspectors... sounds familiar!

Like 150 people just booed and hissed Ned Lamont, pretty sure most of them had no idea who he was six hours ago. Totally well deserved. @yimbytown.bsky.social #yimbytown

Zoning receivership is a phrase I have never heard before. Like it. @yimbytown.bsky.social #yimbytown

Hearing from a Montana community land trust, originally focused on low and moderate-income households, that got YIMBY-pilled when they started getting pressure to build subsidized housing for families at 200% of median income. Sounds very familiar here in CT. #yimbytown @yimbytown.bsky.social

Monday!!

"One of the major reasons why housing is so expensive in New York City is because so little housing is being built in its suburbs...To the extent that housing costs have moderated in Austin, it’s the result of the sum of urban and suburban production, not Austin’s growth alone."

Connecticut's sortof prominent here. Not a good thing.

The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...

When the thing that makes you angry is the affordable housing plan, rather than the affordable housing crisis, you should be finding time to meet with your therapist, not screaming your head off at a planning and zoning hearing.

For anyone who cares to pay attention, the fact that major developers are lining up behind the NIMBY mayoral candidate tells you a lot about real-world housing politics and who the real shills tend to be in local YIMBY/NIMBY fights. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n...

Yes. "I would encourage municipal leaders to take time to review CCM's advocacy role and compare the benefits of membership with its messaging efforts opposing policies that could help them. The results could be striking." www.ctinsider.com/politics/art...

"While anti-housing politics can win in public meetings where land-use decisions are made by a small group of similarly minded people, state-level policymakers who reform this system have maintained & gained popularity by representing a broader... constituency." www.governing.com/urban/what-m...

LMAO - straight villainy “I grew up here and …. I don’t want to have 1,000 more people in town but at the same time, I do want affordable housing” - From a person who serves on Ridgefield's P&Z For context: 1,000 more people would be a 4% population increase www.newstimes.com/news/article...

Nihilism unconvincingly disguised as religion.

More people are coming to #YIMBYtown than there are residents in Connecticut's smallest town. h/t @charlescgardner.bsky.social

I am very excited to see many of you at YIMBYtown here in the #gscia in a few weeks...if you haven't yet registered, do so now. There has been so much interest and excitement that registration will close this coming Sunday at midnight.

Maybe worry less about your neighborhood's character and more about your own?

If you watched Your Friends and Neighbors and saw Jon Hamm and Amanda Peet worry about what people thought about them at their ritzy country club, you don't need to bother reading this Mirror article about Ned and Annie Lamont fretting over a few emails, same vibe. ctmirror.org/2025/08/18/c...

CT needs 150k new homes and here's just one reason why it's pure fantasy to think that the "easy" solution is to put most of them in our existing urban centers.

Proud to be part of a united front here, Connecticut needs to act on housing. 5002 would have been an important step forward but the fight doesn't end with the Governor's misguided veto.

This one slipped by me, Stratford CT rejected a zoning proposal for 126 homes (not the site plan, the zoning) in part because "the property lacks the necessary access to fire trucks" DESPITE THE FACT IT IS LITERALLY ADJACENT TO A FIRE DEPARTMENT 🚒🔥🧨😧🧟☠️ "Local Control" is a joke

At his press conference today Gov. Lamont, when asked who needed to come on board for him to sign a housing bill, said "Democratic First Selectmen" and the fact that in his book Democratic Mayors don't count tells you everything you need to know about who he thinks matters in this State.

I do wish that someone, anyone, given a spot at the podium had had the nerve and moral clarity to call out the governor's hypocrisy here. While they ignored the elephant in the room, others named it: ctnewsjunkie.com/2025/08/04/c...

I would devour an essay on HOAs as a gateway drug for full blown fascism.

New Haven, CT proving they were the right choice to host YIMBYTown 2025.

it's crazy that you can be a writer for the new york times and not know who the current mayor of new york city is or the current budget of the NYPD, who despite a constant presence in the area failed to intercept a man walking around with a GIANT FUCKING LONG GUN

"This neighborhood was built on certain principles, and it’s extremely important to maintain those principles and also not say them out loud where they could be used in court."

I finally had time to digest it, and the big bipartisan housing package looks impressive. A little of everything, from zoning and NEPA to mortgages and vouchers. Lots of smart sensible tweaks, but also a sea change getting the feds in the game on zoning reform www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/min...

Let's talk about NIMBYs and how they work to create a housing crisis shall we? This is David, David lives in an 11k sq foot mansion and has seen his house value increase by one million dollars over the past 8 years. David wants to block 68 families from having a home

Car traffic in my neighborhood is a little messy on Saturday mornings. Farmers' market two blocks east and food pantry two blocks west. And I think about that every time a suburbanite tells me a location is bad for affordable housing because there's no nearby transit.

I do enjoy Between Two Rocks when he occassionally blogs about New Haven. "But don’t worry. None of these changes will happen without more meetings. And meetings about the meetings. Maybe a few pre-meetings." www.betweentworocks.com/new-haven-ne...

Took my youngest to a skateboarding clinic in a skatepark that the world's dumbest NIMBYs tried to NIMBY a few years back so that felt like a small win in dark times.

If you want to donate to a PBS station in a state that needs it the most, I made a list of all of the donation pages and a legend with how much of their budget relies on federal funding docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I'm hiring a Director of Housing!! Come help us develop creative approaches to increase housing supply. In my completely unbiased opinion, we're doing really exciting & impactful work on one of the most critical policy issues of our time. Join our team! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

The best part of the free fare debate is that virtually everyone at least claims to agree that fast, reliable, and frequent transit is necessary! That’s an awesome starting point for getting bus lanes, transit signal priority, & better stops implemented. And we need so much of that all over the US.

I am super excited about the inevitable parodies of the Adams campaign's promised billionaire-funded digital media featuring "social-media influencers" in Montauk (which the WSJ helpfully points out is on Long Island).

2050 is closer than 2000 is, my 12 year old told me twice this weekend so now you have to hear it, too.

The academic’s mid-summer crisis is a mid-life crisis in miniature: You realize summer is half gone, & not only that: you see that the longest & least burdened days came early, & they are well past. You compare all you thought you’d do against the days remaining & grieve for what never will be

"We have an affordable housing crisis. Tell me, who can live in a parking space? People need a roof over their head.” onlyinbridgeport.com/wordpress/zo...

Best bit of court decision telling New Canaan where to shove a denial of 102 units: "Comments made by individual commission members in what little discussion there was that night are confusing and demonstrate, at best, a lack of understanding of what evidence was appropriate or how to consider it."

Stumbles is a nice way to say it. Throwing ourselves headfirst into a muddy ditch is more accurate.

Governor Greenwich stuttered out a series of lies when he vetoed 5002 today. Rep. Kavros DeGraw straightens him out here.