the concept of a mayor that bikes, knows the city's routes and has personal experience with real road conditions completely blows my mind

I’m happy California has settled this! What an important case! What’s next? Bike racks?

Two days after becoming mayor, Mamdani has vowed to implement a high-profile bike lane/pedestrianization project in Brooklyn that Eric Adams had quashed. An extremely encouraging move.

There’s a Big Horseshoe thing going on with both anti rental single family homes and anti transplants.

Wow, huge day for The War on Cars.

At some point in the last week LA became Middle Earth.

Nina Turner is currently arguing that California taxes unrealized gains on housing.

This video was fantastic. And the perfect length for making kids waffles watch. I really like how Bouie addresses the nostalgia of the 70s that really leaks into general housing discourse.

this is exactly why corridor zoning is destined for failure these are not the places amenable to walking... to lingering... to running several errands in short succession. or even of offering a decent quality of life. limiting density to toxic stroads is such a horrific urban planning policy

These are the heated intellectual debates that make housing rhetoric on Nextdoor so poignant.

The race against Hugo for LA’s CD13 is a choose your adventure in Nimbyland.

We did some TOA, Transit Oriented Adventure, today, putting those LAUSD tap cards to work. We took the bus-> E line -> Natural History Museum. Thankfully , our transfers were all smooth & well timed. It can be so stressful waiting for a bus along a dangerous stroad with 2 hyperactive kids.

LA pols blocking housing then having to spend all their time and resources on homelessness.

It really sucks how bad the LA left is in housing. We just want to build some housing near trains. What is she talking about?

Delinquency??? This must be some mistake. Where’s the chart on multi-family tax writeoffs soaring through the roof?

La Cañada denied an AB 130 CEQA exempt project that is zoned in their housing element. These rich NIMBYs must have a getting sued kink. outlooknewspapers.com/lacanadaoutl...

It's unquestionable that young people today are richer than their 1960s counterparts, but the big difference in precarity. A good job requires living in a metro area with a housing shortage. A child requires an even more expensive home in a functional school district. A college degree requires debt.

Beautiful day for a bike ride in Griffith Park.

Ambulance emissions!! Ok, this is one of the most ridiculous ones I’ve heard.

Nimby bad things like drive through and freeway Expansion.

MORE HOMES MONTANAAAA!!! Bozeman just UNANIMOUSLY legalized capacity for THOUSANDS of new homes citywide by eliminating minimum lot sizes and improving rules for subdividing lots! Big wins for big sky country all the way down!! 💯

Developers in Glendale are proposing a 40 unit building. even though it’s eligible for AB2097, they are going with 73 parking spaces. I’m sure this will appease the NIMBYs. Lets check in to Nextdoor and…

This was a very good listen. It took me like a week of dishes to get through it, it’s dense!

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Canadian housing permits jumped 14% in data released today, hitting the 4th-highest level in modern history as multifamily permits hit the 3rd-highest ever Canada is now on track to allow roughly 300k housing units this year

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...

After NYC installed 2,000 speed cameras, crashes fell 30% and injuries 16%. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

I first started riding a bike in LA out of deep loathing of traffic. But it was the invasion of Iraq that made it a political action for me. I was determined to be free from the chains of Big Oil. I didn’t want to be apart of anymore wars for oil. Too bad it wasnt a while movement like this.

It's time once again for my annual #treebybike post. This is the 12/19/42 cover of @newyorker.com, so one full year after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This would be the first real Christmas alone, or without a family member, for millions in the US. Gas and tire rationing had begun earlier that year.🗃️

We have woke fonts now?

I was rereading Matt Bruenig’s piece on Abundance, because I remembered it as the best of the bunch (it is). But his criticism of NIMBYs is pretty funny, clearly from someone who hasn‘t dealt with them much. He just guessing and filtering it through his own political lens.

I dropped out of physics, but I think this is bad.

It’s pretty great to ride home in 70 degree weather at 5pm in December but I also really, really want to do this.

When cameras are installed, they issue many violations in the first month, followed by a steep decline in the second month. This suggests that the cameras effectively deter speeding by changing underlying driver behavior rather than relying on sustained revenue extraction.

This is a great article. Seattle Is getting a mayor who really knows what it’s like to bike and bus in their city. I’m jealous but hopeful. I’m cheering for her to succeed from just a little south down the 5.

There are 3 actual positions on housing: 1. Build nothing new, so only people who can buy an existing home can move in. 2. Build new homes, but only if they're for the right kind of people. (This only works if you want to exclude the poor.) 3. Build every kind of housing and welcome everyone.

What is the left nimby answer to this? A lottery system?

Feel like this should be big news? StreetsLA is proposing to basically stop repaving our streets next year and instead do 1000 "large asphalt repairs", a term that sounds like it was made up by lawyers to get around ADA requirements. See p.154 here:

I read this story while preparing a recent talk examining what robotaxis mean for biking. Really puts the "AVs are bicyclists' best friends" claims in perspective. www.jalopnik.com/1895643/cycl...

A candidate for LA city attorney is claiming that building the Gondola down Alameda avenue is the equivalent of tearing down neighborhoods to build freeways. I can't.

When Gavin Newsom was elected in 2018, he said he would oversee construction of 3.5 million homes by now. Then he stuck his tail between his legs while segregationists and their left-NIMBY interns blocked major reforms until getting serious this year. This dude has no stones to fight Republicans.

Anyone who tells you that mass deportations are a solution to the housing crisis is lying to you.

One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back. Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance. Be a housing fan.

It’s really hard to find parking at the soccer games No problem:

I’m pro gondola becuse I’d really like to see the parking lot developed. Currently, there’s no bus line in Elysian park or even bike lanes, getting housing and retail here would change the game. I think it is pretty silly we have to a Rube Goldberg Gondola to get a giant slab of asphalt developed.

we would have put this guy in a home by now if he hadn’t blocked it from being built

What happens when you downzone? Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago. Findings: —Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas; —Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.

Learning that Annemarie Gray (no relation) of Open New York, NYC's YIMBY group, has been appointed to Mayor-elect Mamdani's housing transition team. This is FANTASTIC news!

Don’t want to @ the person and get into it but I’ve been thinking about the “Housing may be expensive in a lot of places but it’s not a national crisis” argument. It’s a bit like saying we don’t have a national opioid crisis because there are a lot of places where it’s not that much of a problem.

I just listened to a quick news report on this on KCRW. Housing posting to policy In action!