Minimum parking requirements create financially insolvent land use patterns. The two apartment buildings on the right generate six times more in property taxes than the big box store on the left, while occupying almost half the space! #BlackFridayParking

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”

Urban #research shows that expanded #SNAP work requirements could lead to 2.7 million #families—and 5.4 million people—losing some or all of their monthly SNAP benefits. On average, affected families would see a monthly loss of $254 in food assistance. Learn more. https://urbn.is/4hMj2Xj

TONIGHT! I’m biking over!

@adanisanchez.bsky.social was in from out of town to take in the experience

Octavia Butler predicted our dystopian present. What can a futurist learn from her chilling accuracy?

August YIMBY Happy Hour Wednesday 8/13 @ 6pm Quality, 110 N Neil St, Champaign August is @YIMBYAction Membership month! This year the membership theme is parking reform! If you join YIMBY, that boosts the funding for CUrbanism Club and shows the national group that we're serious!

Hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov: actions speak louder than words! It’s time for you to get legislators back to Springfield for a special session to fund public transit NOW!

With spending cuts poised to hit medical providers, Medicaid recipients and Affordable Care Act enrollees, here's how the bill will affect health care access for millions in the U.S.

“Homeowners can use free, pre-approved plans for these units, making the process faster and more affordable.” www.kitsapsun.com/story/news/2...

Last night the Champaign City Council gave staff the go-ahead to bring ordinances to eliminate parking requirements and to allow missing middle housing in most of the city! Yay team!!!

Have national Dems, who claim to want to "win back" the working class, said anything yet about ICE injuring and arresting the head of the SEIU of California? truthout.org/articles/ice...

Join us on Tuesday, June 10 at 7pm at the Champaign City Council chambers to encourage Council to vote YES on the special use permit for 919 W Hill to keep it a fourplex (as it has been for over a century). If you can't make it in person, you can send an email to [email protected]

We are extremely disappointed that the Illinois General Assembly adjourned without passing pro-housing legislation to allow ADUs and missing middle housing statewide. Our housing crisis will continue to worsen due to a lack of urgency from our elected officials.

Tell the IL General Assembly to move on ADUs and Missing Middle Housing! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

We’re at the @rideillinois.bsky.social IL Bike and Walk Summit! Excited to hear from some great speakers!

Berkeley has a registry that tracks rents in all apartments built before 1995. For years rents shot up but since the housing boom of 2017 new leases have flatlined at $2,200 (not inflation adjusted) even as inflation, population & incomes skyrocketted www.berkeleyside.org/2025/05/01/b...

please, no April Fool's pranks tomorrow, I beg

A little pig named Porker Posey. That’s it. That’s all I’ve got for you today.

This afternoon, the IL House’s Housing Committee moved forward bills that would legalize ADUs statewide and missing middle housing statewide! 🏘️ 🥳 Abundant Housing IL endorsed both of these bills, and our members sent over 1,500 letters of support to Chair Jimenez and Speaker Welch #HB1813 #HB1814

ACTION ALERT The People Over Parking Act has been assigned to the house Executive Committee for a hearing TODAY. Please sign a “proponent” witness slip. For “Firm/Business” I put “Abundant Housing Illinois” my.ilga.gov/WitnessSlip/...

🚨 HOUSING ALERT 🚨 Today, the IL House's Housing Committee didn't give our ADU and Missing Middle bills a hearing 😱 If they aren't given a hearing before Friday, these bills could be dead for the year 😨 Tell Chair Jimenez and Speaker Welch to advance these bills! actionnetwork.org/letters/we-n...

🏘️ The Missing Middle Housing Act will be heard in the Housing committee tomorrow Please fill out a witness slip • Firm/Business or Agency = (Whatever org you are with, or 'Self') • Representation = Self • Position = Proponent • Testimony = Record of Appearance Only is.gd/TGwfVF

I DONT HAVE GOOD TASTE - dashare.zone ADMIN

Born to hurkle-durkle the mubble-fubbles away, forced to spuddle my way into one foofaraw after another

If only there was some sort of municipal program that would ensure we can all get to where we need to go safely in the winter… #PlowTheSidewalks

Do you ever visit downtown Champaign? You should fill out this survey!! engagechampaign.org/downtown-plan

I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge. We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style Here’s the details 🧵

Loved @iankarmel.bsky.social ‘s special! Please teach us how to tell hilarious stories, I’m ready to sign up!

Medicaid keeps healthcare going. Yet Congress wants to rush reckless spending cuts that would endanger care for millions of working families. TAKE ACTION NOW using our direct call line to tell your Representative #HandsOffOurMedicaid! act.afscme.org/forms/medica...

Families USA and our partners have a message for Congress: Hands. Off. Medicaid. Join us today for a day of action to make our collective voices heard! Call Congress at 866-426-2631 or send a letter at: familiesusa.org/DefendMedicaid, and use #HandsOffMedicaid & #HandsOffOurMedicaid on social.

I probably don't say this enough but the urbanism community really needs to place a larger emphasis on improving cities from the bottom up. Who is most affected by car-dependency? Emissions? Zoning? Busted transit? Housing? How do we better meet these needs? I think we'll see a shift in priorities

Abundant Housing IL Co-Lead Ben (@steelwolfwc.bsky.social) gave a great interview to the Evanston RoundTable on the state housing bills we are supporting! evanstonroundtable.com/2025/02/03/n...

Our work at Smile Politely is a testament to how deeply we care about our community. As it turns out, that’s where all of us as community members can have the biggest impact.

When I say I want a walkable city. This is what I'm talking about.

Today and in the coming days, remember

spotify wrapped 916 BC you listened to that one guy with a lyre in the marketplace 403 times. honestly he's pretty weirded out. don't you have barley to thresh

Would you rather live in a city where walking is a pleasant part of daily life, or one where people drive to the gym to walk on a treadmill?

I know I should quit eating Thanksgiving leftovers… But I can't quit cold turkey.

Beautiful sight. Toronto residents protesting Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s recently-passed Bill 212 that aims to spend millions of taxpayer dollars to rip out bike lanes across the city and the province. Time to fight back. #ONpoli #TOpoli #BikeTO

body: we're going to sleep now brain: WE…..aren't doing anything

Sometimes I’ll be like “I wonder what time it is” then spend 6 hours playing on my phone before looking up in the corner of the screen like “oh it’s 10:37”

Somebody give the Illini athletic band a raise! This women’s basketball team is doing amazing and I think it has something to do with the band’s chaotic defense!!

It was the Busta Rhymes It was the Wusta Rhymes

Your regular reminder that housing policy is climate policy. ⚡

Should I watch Dune Prophecy?