Folks, I'm closing up shop here for a while. My focus is going to be hyperlocal while we expect to welcome two new kiddos earthside in the coming days. Take care of each other, and leave your spaces better than you found them. ✌️

that is gorgeous… every home has light on two sides

🤩🤩 my goodness he is so good at this

I've spent a lot of time in countries where graft and grifting are the norm and I assure you it is worth a truly immense cost to prevent that from taking hold in our society. You do not want to live in that kind of society.

Oregonians need to be prepared for secession, and Oregon's leaders need to be recruiting other blue states to leave with us. The Heritage Foundation, which published Project 2025, says Oregon should be denied federal representation, based on bad-faith arguments about our mail-based voting system.

The Left-NIMBYs have infiltrated the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies and it's a real shame

A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge. “They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”

Sooo… who’s gonna go nuclear on Mayor Wilson? This guy is getting so much leeway despite one terrible decision after another

narrative violation alert!

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

My THREE year-old just looked at me and said, "Okay, old man," with a mischievous grin on his face. THREE. Interesting move for someone who's getting not one but two competitors for title of favorite child next week.

New study: Families who leave California are much more likely to have financial problems than those who stay. But seven years later, those who leave are much more likely to be homeowners than those who stay. Revive the California Dream: build more housing! www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

this is why we're building passivhaus social housing in seatle. as i wrote in my book Building For People, no other building standard comes close to protecting residents from effects of wildfire smoke which are going to get increasingly worse due to climate change

I have a hard time imagining what it would feel like to lose sight of earth

This is my Roman Empire

The @oregonian.com covered our rally and the unanimous IE4A resolution: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

A lot of posts today re-re-rediscovering things that have been obvious for a decade: National political media won’t think critically. They’re stunted by access. Republicans invented “originalism” to give them the power to remake the country. When will we stop discovering and start countering?

walkable cities strongly encourage a feeling of imagined community that helps make you a good citizen. if you experience the city only in slices it's easier to see large swathes of it as fundamentally alien or hostile.

It's important for Portlanders to see what @counciloravalos.bsky.social said during the Council meeting on Wednesday night about taking a system-based approach to equity. It was truly an extraordinary statement (complimentary): www.youtube.com/live/4J-Kh2h...

And! Let’s do it in conjunction with social housing, elevator reform, accessibility requirements, single stair, and social housing to make sure that the Inner Eastside is truly for ALL!

As Inner Eastside for All moves forward we have to fight hard to make sure we don’t allow neighborhood carve outs, apartments restricted only to corridors, or building heights that make real density impossible. Upzoning works but you have to go big!

A Lean Six Sigma black belt that can’t think in systems to save his life. Cool cool cool.

CHECK OUT THE BIG BRAIN ON PETE!

big tent big tent big tent www.kgw.com/article/news...

Chicago has introduced building code reform to allow scissor stairs in multifamily by right up to 15 floors/150 feet: chicityclerkelms.chicago.gov/Matter/?matt...

Routle - TriMet 04/16/2026 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ www.routle.city/trimet

Some MAGA acolytes can't imagine people of different creeds, backgrounds, and cultures living peacefully side-by-side. The project to create a cosmopolitan society must be a dark conspiracy. IMO, the central issue of our time is this regressive idea of ethnic absolutism.

My Inner Eastside For All resolution passes 12-1, this was a huge day for housing in Portland. I am so grateful for the efforts and research from advocates, and for my team, who worked tirelessly to get both passed. Big things are possible!

The Keep Portland Housed amendment to the TAO (technical adjustment ordinance) passed!! Portland has a historic social housing and revolving loan fund!! Thank you to my cosponsors @councilorgreen.bsky.social @counciloravalos.bsky.social and @councilordunphy.bsky.social 💓

City Council was spicy tonight. Despite the interpersonal fireworks, this night will ultimately be remembered as a turning point in Portland’s housing crisis: 12-0 passage of Inner Eastside for All resolution and creation of the Social Housing fund.

Huge news: Portland City Council Unanimously Advances Resolution to Build More Homes in Inner Eastside. Thanks so, so much to everyone who testified, to all who showed up at our rally, and our champions on the city council. portlandneighborswelcome.org/ie4a-resolut...

It feels so damn good to be at Portland City Hall tonight for the Inner Eastside for All Resolution rally and Council hearing. The first @pnwelcome.bsky.social annual gathering that I attended was the 2022 event where we voted to pursue Inner Eastside for All as our next big housing campaign.

life in angelita morillo’s district 3 after we combine broad upzoning with fiscally efficient public housing construction funding

Today we have two big housing policies coming before Council! The first is a Technical Adjustment Ordinance with an amendment that creates a historic Social Housing fund (brought to you by yours truly, along with Councilors Green, Dunphy, and Avalos) and my Inner East Side For All Resolution.

Today’s the day! See you at 5pm for a rally at city hall. Wear green! 💚🏘️‼️ portlandneighborswelcome.org/ie4a-resolut...

Every time I see that smug juiceless dweeb JD speaking, I get so mad at how the Dem consultants ruined Walz to the point that he lost the VP debate to someone so unlikable

Montana and Idaho are now ahead of us on single-stair. C’mon Oregon, let’s get it together.

We should be turning these into refreshment stands in our parks or something

Many challenging things we need to do to build a city and a society where we’re fulfilling our obligation to house each other. Re-legalizing building apartments is the simplest thing on that list. It costs $0, will increase revenue, and makes everything else we need to do easier. Let’s get it done.

I don't think there's anything wrong with talking about the state of the housing market as a "market failure" but if you are a skeptical of well functioning markets, as many of us are, here's an alternative: the housing market is working as designed, and we should design it to work differently

I really wish pinned chats in iMessage were in the same form as the others, with previews of the last message in the conversation, and the only difference being that they stay at the top of the list of chats

Routle - TriMet 04/13/2026 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ www.routle.city/trimet Gonna be a good week

That’s too long, and that’s why we’re rallying this week to support a resolution that would ask the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability to accelerate the planning process to complete in 2027 instead of 2028: bsky.app/profile/pnwe... /8

Our first win in the Inner Eastside for All campaign came when the city incorporated Inner Eastside upzoning into the 2024 Housing Production Strategy. But the current plan calls for a multi-year implementation timeline for the project that wouldn’t result in zoning changes until 2028. /7

We concluded that undoing Portland’s housing crisis and building great neighborhoods will require an even bigger step than the residential infill project. We need to allow four floors and corner stores on every lot in the Inner Eastside, which is still zoned almost entirely for low density homes /6

Portland’s first zoning code in 1924, also allowed apartments in much of the Inner Eastside, without even limiting the height of buildings on many lots. Portland’s “streetcar suburbs” were all built under these rules, and didn’t change until the 1940s, literally at the suggestion of Robert Moses /5

We also found ourselves asking: what zoning rules created the great Portland neighborhoods that exist today? Northwest Portland allows apartments on almost every lot in the neighborhood, and it’s one of the most desirable neighborhoods in the city. /4

Since RIP it’s become apparent that Portland is not seeing middle housing development in expensive Inner Eastside neighborhoods. Because Inner Eastside land is expensive, it doesn’t make financial sense to develop a lot there if you can only build four new units. 3/