A step in the right direction. By investing in shelter units, we place more homeless individuals in a safe, protected environment. Adding housing availability will give Washingtonians more accessibility to resources and services to move their lives forward economically, socially, and physically.

I'm so excited to be hosting a screening of Changing Lanes on Monday 4/20 at the Laemmle Monica Film Center with filmmaker Ben Wolf and Santa Monica Mayor Caroline Torosis as part of Torched's 2nd birthday festivities. Get your tickets here: www.laemmle.com/theater/moni...

And there is a solution to noise canceling headphones and bikes: youtube.com/shorts/Hwn3g...

Legacy Challenge Top 8 decklists for Saturday morning, April 11 (32 players) #mtg #mtgLegacy Esper Vial with the win! 🧪🏆 Eldrazi Aggro gets 2nd 👾 Oops! in 3rd 🤭 Azorius Blink finished 4th and 5th 💫💫

California cities: progress toward RHNA... San Diego: 29% ... highest vacancy rate in 15 years, rents falling Los Angeles: 18% ... San Francisco: 5% ... rock bottom vacancy rate, fastest rising rents in the country www.costar.com/article/5467...

Great work @freddieoconnell.bsky.social!

In 2025, Urban launched the American Affordability Tracker to show how #affordability pressures are shifting and where they are hitting hardest. Explore how Urban’s #research is helping translate fast-moving economic conditions into clear, accessible indicators.

Paris metropolis: Striking reductions in car use due to proactive efforts to encourage bike, walking, transit: —Less car ownership: From 0.5 cars/HH in Paris to 0.36, 1999–2022. Outside of Paris: 0.88➡️0.8 —35% less gas sold 2005–24 —15% fewer gas stations between 2019–24 www.apur.org/sites/defaul...

Wild that allowing more homes disallowed a garage to ADU conversion.

Cities always say they can't possibly do it. Paris just went ahead and did it. In ten years. #LiveableCities #ActiveTransportation www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Artemis ii

Nowhere tees are back in the shop creativebyrovelo.com/shop

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Detroit graduates largest single class of bus drivers after (livable) wage hike

Every ten years, Somerville reviews our "multi member bodies" (committees, commissions, working groups, and the like). I'm on the committee that's doing the review this year (thanks @mayorjakewilson.bsky.social!) If you have thoughts on that topic, please shoot me a DM. 1/?

Mayor’s Municipal Madness Championship voting is open. Vote to pick which repair I’ll handle myself. nyc.gov/madness

I submitted a 311 ticket for bike racks to be installed about a month ago and they were installed today! 🚲😀👍 #yycBike #Calgary

Japan has more than fifty of these Underground Automated Bicycle Parking Systems installed. They are mostly in the cities of Osaka and Tokyo.

Have you heard of “The Populist Playbook?” A few years ago, I posted what I still consider one of my most important messages. It was about “The Populist Playbook” that I’ve watched play out often over my 33+ years of city planning. Since then, it’s only gotten worse. Do the steps sound familiar?

I'm really excited to learn more about @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social's ideas on how to reintroduce predictability to LA's housing market -- particularly for Missing Middle housing. youtu.be/FdXUibYcXGk?...

Meanwhile bike fuel prices have not changed at Costco.

to me they are the same

The @metrolosangelesbot.bsky.social staff recommendation for the K-Line extension is out: drive.google.com/file/d/1qj7z...

24 social housing apartments in Barcelona by MBM Arquitectes and 4RQ Arquitectura The kind of housing we should be building everywhere!

oh wow they hardened most of it!

Two classes of Dutch schoolchildren on their way for a 4-day camp, some 15 kilometers from school. 3 teachers 👨‍🏫👩🏼‍🏫🧑‍🏫 4 parents 👩‍🦰👨👩🧔🏼‍♂️ 40 very happy kids 🙋🏼‍♂️🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏻🧏‍♂️🧏‍♀️🧏 47 bicycles 🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲 (and some cars 🚘🚙🚗 for all the luggage) The journey is as much fun as the destination!

I didn't know this until looking up stuff for Spring Break, but Chattanooga redesigned a major commercial thoroughfare after horrifying fatalities. They reduced car lanes and added a cycle track (that definitely needs more protection). Still, it's something. I look forward to checking it out.

I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language? Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries. So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together. zenodot.app

Pedestrian crossing at Trinity and Lischey got some flex posts recently. Small move in the direction of overall safer streets. Thanks @nashvilledot.bsky.social

Yesterday was International Women’s Day! Women are more likely to be injured in crashes — in part because vehicle safety was long designed around male bodies. New research & the Safe System approach help change that. Learn more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=21Xx...

On March 25, YIMBY Action is hosting a virtual event featuring Phil Levin, founder of Live Near Friends!

Denisse and her daughter Jamie once faced homelessness. Today, they have a safe home at Corazon Del Valle in Los Angeles County, thanks to support from the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities program, jointly administered by HCD and California Strategic Growth Council #HousingForAll

Last week, a judge ruled that the city of Los Angeles cannot move forward with their implementation of AB 630, a bill that allows the county to dismantle and remove more recreational vehicles that serve as a last refuge for OR that shelter unhoused LA residents. Read: laist.com/news/housing...

Fun trend.

Love the visuals here.

Think sales tax: "A single curbside parking space, roughly 20 feet long, can support 2 dining tables seating about 8 people total. If each diner spends a modest $30 and tables turn twice per evening, that space generates roughly $480 per night, or about $144,000 per year in gross restaurant revenue"

Rates of Change-- adapted from Stewart Brand's How Cities Learn.

Auckland has double-decker city buses It’s polite in Auckland to thank your driver And I dig the occupancy data on the bus arrivals board

With the purchase of LA's "Graffiti Towers" -- did you ever wonder how a skyscraper is removed? Check out this 7m doc from Bluebeam: youtu.be/b-H7E-KQgHQ?...

Limiting parking through parking maximums provides development opportunities via direct displacement in higher and better uses, AND opportunities -- particularly under Prop 13 -- for increased tax generation. Paving Over How Much Paradise? w/ Mike Manville: youtu.be/GC0v12Ld03g?...

Nashville's structured parking costs $52,000 while underground parking costs $73,000. Less parking means more room for housing. From @ellenschwartz.bsky.social www.its.ucla.edu/publication/...

Legacy Challenge Top 8 decklists for Saturday night, Feb 21 (38 players) #mtg #mtgLegacy Oops! takes it down!🤭🏆 Doomsday in 2nd ⏳ Izzet Prowess gets 3rd 🥋 Dimir Midrange finished 4th 🥷

Going with @metrolosangelesbot.bsky.social

Can we call this concept hermit crab housing now? Gift article: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Last summer, Vic Blends launched the first barbering program inside a California prison, giving incarcerated folks real skills for life after release. The new San Quentin Learning Center stands for the same values: education, rehabilitation, and earned second chances.

Ivory affordable Missing Middle Housing project by Union Design in Providence:

Donald Terner, architect of Inclusionary Zoning on IZ:: "Local gov. offers the developer incentives to make [IZ] economically feasible. Without greater density, government loans, land write downs or parking regulation waivers, inclusionary zoning was "well-intended nonsense." — SF Examiner, 1986

Excellent framing from @mattmahansj.bsky.social on going beyond zoning reform: "we need to reduce housing codes that increase costs without making us safer." And "we need to reduce unfunded inclusionary zoning mandates," citing 20-30% of total dev costs are in impact fees.

In Santa Monica, a parking lot becomes a dog park @dogppl.bsky.social.

In 1989 there was buzz behind creating a "Bicycle Freeway" in Westwood that even Mayor Bradley endorsed. It proposed 17-foot-high elevated "veloways" crossing Wilshire & the 405 into Brentwood & Sawtelle. Cost: $7 million. LADOT said it would infringe on street/fwy improvements.