It's time to remember the people we've seen forced out of their homes because of the high cost of living here. This Monday, the 6th, at 6pm, at Bevel Brewing. Let's pour one out for those who have been forced to move away. #yimby #bendoregon

Pew finds something that everybody in codes and standards knows but few will say out loud: we apply far stricter fire safety standards to apartments than to houses. www.pew.org/en/research-...

It has been a minor source of irritation not being able to get all the Bend YIMBY materials to our meetups on my eBike. I think I have something figured out now! Join us this (24th) evening: Wildwood @ The Box Factor (upstairs) @ 5:30 PM onwards. @jheylin.bsky.social and Ian will talk YIMBYTown

Our latest news roundup from Bend, Oregon and elsewhere, including details about our latest meetup tomorrow (Wednesday) bendyimby.substack.com/p/bend-yimby...

Check out chapter lead Ian on KTVZ! ktvz.com/news/bend/20... Speaking in support of an ADU design library

Kristin from @landwatch.bsky.social has done the heavy lifting with this one - it's great to work together!

Next meetup: Ian and @jheylin.bsky.social just got back from @yimbytown.bsky.social in New Haven, and are going to lead a discussion about what they learned, who they met and what's happening in other places. Should be really interesting! September 24, 5:30 PM on, Wildwood Bar and Grill

Zero. Nowhere to go but up.

Zoning broke our brains, and legalizing healthy infrastructure is the first step in the path to recovery. www.urbanismspeakeasy.com/p/zoning-bro...

Fittingly, the YIMBYtown express* leaves DC passing through NoMa, the YIMBYest neighborhood in the US. * not really, but that should be are train.

What happens in the California housing market doesn't stay there, so in Oregon we're really grateful for this effort from our friends in California

This is not true. Blackstone owns 0.06% of the single family homes in America. There is no market where they own more than 1% of the homes. Nobody has a monopoly on housing. 2/3 of American households own their homes and rental housing is a VERY diversified and competitive industry.

Sorry couldn’t resist after reading Newport Market’s messsge today

Our former rep lives in Arizona? Who knew?

And one of our own will be a presenter! @jheylin.bsky.social

I think it's going to be great! One reason I have much higher hopes for YIMBYtown than Abundance Conference is I'll actually be moderating a panel at the former about how left-YIMBYs should respond to incipient fascism.

New from me, a summary of Montana's recent housing policy wins, which are nearly as impressive as the 2023 Montana Miracle: www.governing.com/urban/what-m...

Single stair code reform is on our doorstep. The expected pushback is coming from the fire bureau. What’s your best response to their argument?

I do think showing up to City Council meetings with those photos and saying "the French figured out how to do this and you're telling me you can't?" Would work in a lot places tbqh

Great piece that explains so much public investment behavior right now. We posit that part of the problem is that the markets are only now starting to feel the impacts of the bizarre economic demands of the administration and the first major impacts will be obscured by false data.

An absurdly backwards way of funding the system. EV owners already pay a significantly higher registration fee that disincentivizes lower VMT. Why not dump the gas tax and charge all vehicles a weight/mile fee like we’ve long done for freight? Drive a heavy vehicle lots of miles pay more $.

Guess which age group is the fastest growing homeless segment?

How about a place of worship attached to Bruno’s? Although here it probably should be next to Deschutes.

What's wild about the 85th percentile is that lots of US states use it to set all speed limits, but the original idea (from the 1930s) was to let observed driver speeds shape speed limits on **rural roads**. It was never intended for urban areas w/pedestrians & cyclists!

LVT to the rescue

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.” -Dom Helder Camera

Amsterdam 50 years ago

When teachers can't afford housing, the response should be to fix the broken market, not try and fix things for only one category

Getting real tired of all the cool people I like being around having to move out of Bend.

People will be like "I would do anything for my kids!" right up until you suggest creating a walkable, bike-able community where kids can safely get around on their own

Electrifying news! New York is the first state to adopt an all-electric building code prohibiting fossil fuels in new construction. A federal district court judge recently upheld the law requiring the standard, slamming a prior judgement on gas bans. My latest: www.canarymedia.com/articles/car...

More Bruno’s please

This really is on Uncle Bentz

I'm quite proud of what is happening with housing in Oregon. "Oregon has picked a strategy to fix its housing shortage and is relentlessly pursuing it"

Passed by the other day and there were hoards of tourist teens in the parking lot . . . is VHS making a comeback?

This July, we launched Oregon’s Housing Accountability and Production Office (HAPO) to help local governments and builders work together to meet housing goals and build more affordable homes. This is a step forward in solving our housing crisis.

Bond street anyone?

I think of the housing shortage as a giant, billion-dollar, industrial scale machine that produces homeless faster than the people trying to help can get people out of homelessness

Supportive anecdata: since I got my new e-bike three months ago, I've put nearly 900 miles on it and roughly 25 miles on our car.

And said drivers are more often than not driving their kids to school.

Swimming in the waters of U.S. NIMBYism it’s like omg the NIMBYism couldn’t possibly be worse. But then you look at land use policy in all the other Anglosphere countries and it’s mostly a lot worse!

On the west coast, this is a housing problem, not a desirability problem. Guess which states will pick up votes in the electoral college?

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We thinks we all are when smoke season starts

We need to do this here!

Great to see but locally we still seem to have a divide where many elected officials continue to blame the issues on the people forced out rather than the policies we created that made housing so unobtainable in the first place.

Bruno’s comes to mind

The source for this, the problem of believing perceptions rather than facts, is fascinating and depressing. Certainly plays into our issues of housing and homelessness.

In 2020, Portland adopted the Residential Infill Project (RIP) allowing middle housing on most residential lots. Since then, 1,400 middle housing units have been built, with each averaging about $300,000 less than a typical single-family home in the same neighborhood.