🚨 I have a new paper in @pnas.org! Big cities provide huge opportunities for workers to climb up the income ladder through their large number and diversity of jobs. Big cities also have higher racial wage inequality, which is getting worse over time. #geosky #econsky www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1/

A common refrain of progressive urban politics is that “new, ‘luxury’ housing will not help solve the housing shortage,” Henry Grabar writes. But, according to a new study, “more housing supply of all kinds leads to lower prices in general terms”:

VA needs housing that works for working families. I support: • Faith in Housing (HB 1279 & SB 388) • ADU Reform (SB 531) • Parking Reform (HB 888) Let’s lower costs, build homes, and strengthen communities. Urge your Delegates & Senators to support statewide housing reform.

Reform advocates in North Carolina are going after parking mandates and stromwater regulations carolinaforward.org/blog/growth-...

Have you wondered why exactly it is that single-family zoning leads to racial segregation? I wrote this little article to figure it out. I use an agent based model to show it is a combination of race-based wealth inequality, homophily, & clustering of housing types in zoning maps.

“#Parking lots, Bucknum said, are one of the clearest examples of how excess pavement has become accepted, even as it makes everyday life worse for residents.” www.latimes.com/environment/...

Loved getting to talk about the new messaging guidance on parking reform with these two expert communicators! Some toplines: 1️⃣ PSA: Problem-Solution-Action 2️⃣ Make trade-offs clear 3️⃣ Use local stories! They’re out there!

Some good housing and parking reforms being proposed by the #Idaho state legislature. Here's one: "This legislation also would prevent cities from requiring off-street parking or guest parking for any ADUs..."

Jayapal asks Epstein survivors in hearing room to stand and raise hands if they still haven't been able to meet with Bondi's DOJ. Every single one of them doe. Jayapal then gives Bondi an opportunity to apologize. She responds by trying to attack Jayapal and Merrick Garland but doesn't apologize.

Missoula — join us Feb. 19 at Free Cycles to talk transpo with @nondriver.bsky.social! 🚲🚌👩‍🦽More info: www.sightline.org/when-driving...

The United States has the fewest elevators in the rich world, with Canada only a bit ahead. We teamed up with @uytaelee.bsky.social of About Here Videos to investigate why, exactly, North America sucks at elevators.

Hey, my dear housing affordability and stop-the-sprawl peeps, have a listen!! ⬇️

"The snow does not obey minimum parking requirements."

Today @cato.org published our report providing the first look at the fiscal effects of the wave of legal & illegal immigration over the last 3 decades. It shows immigrants created surpluses every year, by a combined $14.5 trillion, even as deficits grew www.cato.org/white-paper/...

"Laflamme said the biggest takeaway in the 28-page report was that #Chicago 'grossly' overbuilt parking relative to demand. It examined 40 residential buildings throughout the city and found one-third of the parking spaces were left unused during peak occupancy."

🔥 @bobduffct.sky.social: “You’re seeing [parking reform] across the country on a bipartisan basis. Frankly, you’re seeing housing reform on a bipartisan basis. In some ways, Republicans in red states have been far more aggressive than Democrats in blue states on this issue.”

Missoula, Montana has just: - Eliminated single family zoning - Eliminated parking requirements citywide - Allows 100-125' of height in many of its mixed-use zones with no limits on density or FAR Why is Missoula so much more progressive than Los Angeles?

This goes to my longstanding soapbox: everything is a disability policy from housing to health care to urban planning to mass transit.

If you agree that retail spaces on the ground floor of apartment buildings should be optional, not mandated, here's something you can do: Take pics of vacant storefronts in you neighborhood and post them as a reply here, with info about where they are. And please share this post, thank you!!!

There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.

Once again, opposing housing near you is a fundamentally conservative proposition, and a lot of people on the broader left who share the thoughts in this video need to take some inventory of themselves.

Congrats, Missoula! 🥳

Great opinion piece in the paper today - “This legislative session in Richmond, the Commonwealth Housing Coalition is prioritizing four bills designed to take significant steps to address Virginia’s housing shortage:” dailyprogress.com/opinion/colu...

2) The Niskanen Center is looking for a new deputy director for their Housing and Transportation team: jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...

ICYMI (gift link for the first few clickers): How ‘single exit stairway’ buildings could make cities better and safer

Eight local housing plans have been put under review by the Washington State Department of Commerce for compliance with the 2025 Housing Accountability Act. That could lead to first implementation of a "builder's remedy” in some of those communities. Story: www.theurbanist.org/2026/01/22/w...

The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article. Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

As I've been saying, there's a lot the party out of power can do. I just didn't think they'd be doing it on behalf of the party in power.

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

Frost: For so long, the right wing has held up patriotism as a vibe, as an aesthetic. But patriotism is more than bald eagles and flags and beer. Patriotism is about loving the people who live in the damn country — every single one of them.

Please send a note to your legislators TODAY urging them to *OPPOSE* this dangerous bill that will make homeowners’ insurance more expensive and cause insurers to leave the state. We cannot make it more difficult for insurers to use wildfire risk as an input in the creation of new policies!

Murphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America

‼️ It’s easy to send a quick message or register your opinion through the link below. ✍️

if you put this in a script even erin brockovitch would be like “too on the nose, dial it back”

Frey: "You cannot drag pregnant women through the snow. You're not allowed to take teenagers out of their car and detain them when they are in fact American citizens. That is against the law in every state. That is against our US Constitution."

Why #elevators matter! New video!

Congestion pricing has improved commute times, bus speeds, noise levels, traffic safety, and businesses and restaurants have seen more profits. A runway success by any measure. And a model for other cities too. Gift 🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Immigrants play a key role in the supply of homebuilding and remodeling labor and the recent slowdown in immigration could worsen chronic labor shortages and constrain the ability to build and remodel housing, writes @rickriordan.bsky.social. www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/homebui...

I generally don't like to post screenshots of text, but someone posted this in our local Strong Towns group and it was too good not to share here.

Always good!!! 🎄

Seattle city planners hired a consultant to analyze feasibility of downtown housing typologies & given the sky high fees to build, hard costs & parking costs, every model was rated “infeasible” Highrise Res: $605k/unit Mixed use: $710k/unit Mass timber: $605k/unit Office to Res: $640k/unit

The Trump administration says it will dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a cornerstone for American climate and weather science. I went on NPR today to explain what this could mean for climate research. Listen here:

"WA’s climate ambitions hang on poles and wires. Electric transmission lines make it possible to carry cheap, efficient, reliable power from solar fields in CA or wind farms in MT to the people in Washington who rely on it every day" #WALeg @Sightline.org www.sightline.org/2025/12/18/h...

Above & beyond in Seattle tonight 🚀 The city is EXCEEDING state mandates (!!): expanding density bonuses & making mid-rise affordable housing feasible in more neighborhoods. PLUS: removing parking mandates near frequent transit & allowing neighborhood-scale businesses on ALL lots! 🏆🏆🏆

Worth a read: Pete Hegseth Is Doing Something Even Worse Than Breaking the Law www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...

Single stair 🤝 parking reform Connecticut’s now a national leader in parking flexibility, if the upcoming single stair codes are modernized we’ll have a recipe for infill housing on those hard-to-build lots in our towns and cities

Exciting!

Sluggish transmission projects inflate electricity bills and strand renewable energy. @Sightline.org www.sightline.org/2025/11/20/t...