the discussion

A population study tracking 30 years of housing moves found that by the third round of a moving chain, new market-rate homes free up units for households earning 60% of average income. Without new construction, old homes don't filter down — they get renovated up. cayimby.org/blog/movin-o...

What a game!!! www.hoganstand.com/Article/Inde...

Feast of the seven tacos, part 1.

Merry Christmas ya filthy animals youtu.be/a2MZyKvNMBg?...

Anyway every housing policy fight is a proxy battle over who gets to live in your neighborhood and what lifestyles are acceptable.

Bostonians Wanted More Bike Lanes: Now They Have Them, and Traffic Is Down www.goodnewsnetwork.org/bostonians-w...

I simply am never going to believe that being someone who already has a home gives you the privilege to deny others homes

Following the adoption of strict rent control in 2022, St. Paul saw an immediate 79% drop in new rental permits, while Minneapolis (without rent control) saw new permits increase 300%. Over the next two years, rent growth was lower in Minneapolis (0.7%) than St. Paul (1.8%).

Happy Thanksgiving

it’s pretty simple: you can either induce demand for things that suck and people hate (traffic), or you can do it for things that are good (bikes, the McRib)

It's that time of year when Americans set up quaint, walkable Christmas villages in their living rooms, dreaming of living in such a cozy place. ​Meanwhile, they'll show up to city council meetings to fiercely oppose any plan that would actually build that kind of car-lite community in real life.

The song we didn’t write This is what it sounds like When doves cry

tired: defensive walking wired: offensive walking

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned. Thought you'd enjoy this.

here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road

Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:

$120k/year to afford the average car. Gov’t: We will do everything in our power to require families to have 2 cars! Also Gov’t: you only have to pay people $7.25/hour

‘We NeEd SiNgLe FaMiLy ZoNiNg So FaMiLiEs WoN’t GeT pRiCeD oUt!’

Sam Maguire is coming home! Go on the Kingdom!!! www.rte.ie/sport/footba...

Let’s go Murphys! clap, clap, clapclapclap

Trump connection in plane sight

Used cars are cheap because of new cars. Day-old bread it half price because of fresh bread. This has been a housing policy post.

Phanatic > Gritty.

“Powerful boomers don’t understand that it isn’t 1987 anymore” is at the root of a lot of our problems.

The cause of the housing crisis in MA is really that the people who already have houses don't want anybody else to have one, especially not where they have a house.

We fight so hard to protect the neighborhoods we could never build today. This 4-unit, mixed-use, building in historic Old Town Marblehead sits on a 3,900sf lot (45 units/acre). Modern zoning requires a dozen "exterior" parking spots & a 20,000sf minimum lot size to build today.

I grew up in NYC when crime was much worse, and I never knew anyone who had been hurt on the subway. Then I moved to Maine & became car-dependent. After just 8 years there, I needed both hands to count the number of people I knew who had been badly injured or had lost family members in car crashes.

“Still punk as fuck” I whisper as I stir the flax seed into my oatmeal.

LOL… Milton commonwealthbeacon.org/housing/mbta...

Protected bike lanes have a near-magical ability to produce cyclists. This new study of 28 US cities finds that census block groups w/protected bike lanes expanded bike commuting almost 2x faster than those w/standard bike lanes & >4x faster than those w/o new lanes. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Show me the lie

“Have the empathy to do what’s right for the generations to come” - Ipswich “If people can’t afford to live here, why can’t they just do what I did in 1980; save money by eating mac’n’cheese and borrow a few grand from my parents” - Reading

The full poll results are posted on our website: www.massincpolling.com/our-work/new...

the fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done

It always comes back to parking,

When we make it easier to build housing, we make it easier to house people.

DONATIONS NEEDED! The planning for Reading's FIFTH annual Pride Parade and Celebration is ramping up! Please venmo me @laura-wilson-29 if you are able. Thank you! We are looking for drivers and volunteers, too!

You can’t spell ‘more affordable housing’ without ‘more housing’

Lincoln Square Road Closure and Accompanying Comments From The Local Facebook Page (April 2025)

Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social

Flashing is gender affirming care.

Does the average person not realize how parking like this impacts other people (& that it’s illegal)? Or do they know but just not care? As someone who is very concerned with how my actions may negatively impact other people, I would be SO uncomfortable parking like this for even a minute.

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

Laptops are… gender affirming care?

Not.Funny.At.All

We need induced demand for walking, biking and transit. If people feel safe. If lanes are wide, protected and connected, people will walk and ride to their destination.

More affordable housing requires more housing.