Vote Steyer. Knock out Hilton.

background: New housing slows rent growth most for older, more affordable units www.pew.org/en/research-...

The pro-housing designation is an absolute joke. LA should never have received it, not after their illegal denial of vested ed1 projects. Not after their abysmal RHNA progress. Not after ULA.

Weaponizing environmental concerns to prevent people from living in our urban environments isn’t new. It’s deployed by people with resources to restrict access to high opportunity areas. It’s nimbyism. In order to reach our housing goals, our land use processes must stop enabling this behavior.

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Prioritize Ballard to Westlake and Provide a Status Quo Timeline. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/may2...

California YIMBY (@cayimby.bsky.social) is proud to be a co-sponsor alongside a great coalition—learn more about the bill here: cayimby.org/legislation/...

American politics is bananas. I can’t believe there is a whole generation growing up to think that it’s normal for known criminals to win party nominations and public office.

BUILD plan fact of the day: lower income households benefit from new, market rate housing, even if they don’t live in that housing. New middle housing of the types that the plan would unban lowers housing costs for people who don’t live in that housing. 📑 pencillingout.substack.com/p/can-new-st...

The fact that small scale real estate investors who flip $500k starter homes into $2 million McMansions are NOT required to provide subsidized housing for poor people but the investors who flip the same homes into ten $650,000 townhomes ARE is such an indictment of California housing policy.

To get specific, I don’t know any child who has learned to read well from Portland Public Schools (as opposed to their parents). Our performance is the country’s worst and the state and district show little urgency to change this. This is very bad! www.wweek.com/news/2025/12...

Yup. Saikat can fill my mailbox with flyers, but he can’t match the way that Scott Wiener has worked thoughtfully and effectively to solve problems I care about, like improving traffic, safety, for many years.

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Prioritize Ballard to Westlake and Provide a Status Quo Timeline. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/may2...

I also enjoy having a left wing mayor who is effective, pragmatic, and pro-housing. All of which Nithya is and Rae is not. You think Rae is zohran but in reality she is Paperboy Prince. And voting for her over Nithya, the actual candidate most comparable to Zohran/Lander, is insane

the Rae Huang supporters are now insulting my physical appearance because I told them that their preferred candidate has zero chance of winning and they should instead support the progressive candidate who could actually keep Spencer Pratt out of the runoff

Him only.

I complain a lot about left NIMBYs. I complain a lot about right NIMBYs. but do you know which NIMBYs actually frustrate me the most? boomer faux-environmentalist NIMBYs like @joannesimonbk52.bsky.social. she’s literally killing homes for over 10,000 people because apartments are scary.

New construction is expensive. Someone alert the “but is this affordable?” brigade that opposes all new housing

We need more housing to lower the cost of living and solve homelessness. I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Your Senators: Vote YES on the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

This is a great video that puts a human face and personal story to the incredible quantitative research on moving chains done by Evan Mast and others. I think it's going to have a big impact. youtube.com/watch?si=pm9t2HI0WtzV1zMp&v=QQYMUMTI7fk&feature=youtu.be

Pew has a new 3-minute video spotlighting the story of a real person who was able to move into an affordable home because of the vacancy chain created by the construction of an expensive new, market-rate apartment building. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQYM...

Want to win over lazy guys to urbanism? Explain how we can change policy so that they can have enough square footage in a walkable neighbourhood where they can live a mostly frictionless life where they either just walk to things or hop on reliable transit (or, yes, rideshare). Convenience is good!

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Your Representative: Vote YES on the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Why is Futurewise always talking about stacked flats? A 🧵 (1/5)

Friendly reminder that a vote for Spencer Pratt or Rae Huang is a vote for Karen Bass. If you live in LA, cast your primary ballot for Nithya Raman as your city’s next mayor.

speaking of handouts i bet their home value has never increased dramatically

There’s an analogy here to anti-”greedy developers” housing slopulism, where a populist campaign against the elites of one industry just ends up enriching other wealthy elites (in the housing case, rentiers) at the expense of everyone else.

Get this man headline billing at YIMBYTown 2026.

Seattle perfected the stacked flat over a century ago. Why is OPCD still fiddling around with FAR, setbacks, pitched roofs, materials, etc.?

Unfunded inclusionary zoning—requiring homebuilders to rent some of their new units at a loss to low-income tenants as a condition of permit approval—is a tax on new housing construction that worsens the housing shortage. It's bad, counterproductive policy that should be ended everywhere, for good.

Imagine trying to implement other social programs like this! Like replacing taxpayer-funded food stamps with an unfunded mandate that grocery stores sell 30% of their food at a loss.

Great idea! Will Mayor Wilson listen? @mayorofseattle.bsky.social

Tag the mayor [at]mayorofseattle.bsky.social

Contact the mayor! seattlegov.powerappsportals.us/contact-mayor/

Mayor Wilson: fund MHA or kill it.

please, god, I’ve never wanted anything more than this

Now legal in Missoula: ADUs, over-garage homes, apartments, small-scale multiplexes. Mixed use on every parcel. Costly off-street parking mandates gone. The new code doesn't just lead Montana... it shows up almost every similarly sized city in the US. @dannytenenbaum.bsky.social

My money is on unsustainable public sector pensions.

Some sort of soft landing is a good idea. But endless subsidies seems to be what is on order.

Exactly. Pandering to voters.

We're nowhere near sufficiently freaked out by converging crises of 1) aging boomer population that is 2) most suburban cohort in human history while 3) living in areas at highest risk of climate disaster and 4) fighting all efforts at infill housing/transit. It's worse than you think it is, folks.

The United States has spent decades failing to reckon with the fact that it is, fundamentally, a naval power and to be a naval power, a country must, y'know, invest in their navy.

Join us to celebrate new affordable homes opening in Phinney Ridge! We're partnering with Homestead to showcase their homes & welcome new residents to an exclusive neighborhood. April 30, 6:00pm 5819 Phinney Ave. RSVP at the link below. See you there! actionnetwork.org/events/welco...

Completely agree with this. MHA is strangling housing production in Seattle. Even worse, the fees aren’t properly recalibrated each year to ensure the density bonus aligns. MFTE and housing levy funds are more effective for delivering affordable housing. Just get rid of it already.

It’s as if the Iran war was fought to sustain the Russian economy. Lifting sanctions for Russians does nothing for Americans. It just makes it easier for Russia to continue its war in Ukraine.

NEW OP-ED// Op-Ed: Seattle Must Fund MHA Inclusionary Zoning or Axe It By Seattle YIMBY (Guest Contributor) via @theurbanist.org

Yes!

@sarahmatthews1.bsky.social on Trump considering giving Iran $20B: "All those who berated the JCPOA, I'm eager to hear your assessments of Trump's potential deal...because it would be utterly tragic if after all this pain and suffering...we end up with a similar or worse deal than the JCPOA."

Seattle’s Sound Transit “could save at least $15 billion by adopting international best practices and building automated light rail from Ballard to West Seattle. This reform would allow rail to get to Ballard by 2039, rather than decades later.” [showing Vancouver’s skytrain] AUTOMATED light rail.

I just took action with @ashevilleforall.org: Downtown Asheville Is for ALL Kinds of Working People and Families. Take action here: ashevilleforall.org/coxe-ave-apa...