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“Making it easier to build housing is the same thing as Robert Moses tearing down housing to build highways”
the city council is going full dril lol
New York City Council@council.nyc.gov
Robert Moses used unequally concentrated power to displace Black and Latino communities. Decades later, they're still struggling to recover. Council Members Shekar Krishnan and Sandy Nurse explain why Ballot Proposals 2-4 make NYC vulnerable to repeating this history. www.amny.com/opinion/sile...
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In the 2000s, a proto-YIMBY bill would have prevented Texas localities from mandating HOAs in new subdivisions.
From Beyond Privateopia
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Dan Rather’s daughter hates a tax to fund homeless housing in Austin and blames YIMBYs for the tax
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the sales tax on constructing just one 650sf 1BR apartment in seattle today is over $30k, and the MHA fee can be almost as high depending on neighborhood. at $22/sf that would add another $14k.
it's also insane we don't exempt affordable housing from sales tax on construction
@linforseattle.bsky.social
Really interesting article and important history to remember. I also find it interesting that we found a way to cut sales taxes to spur the construction of offices for tech, but we haven’t yet eliminated sales taxes for the construction of housing. www.seattletimes.com/business/tec...
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Looking at recent months of Berkeley rent registry data, one thing I want to highlight is the stability of these rents in August. For this cohort of studio and 1-bed apartments, the rents in August have been about $2400/mo for a decade...
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#Berkeley tenants: In rent controlled housing in Berkeley, landlords can't raise the rent for the rest of the year in which the tenancy started, and for 1 additional calendar year.
For example, if you're a student whose lease started in August 2025, your rent cannot be increased until 2027.
Rent Board Commissioner Alfred Twu@alfredtwu.net
Know your rights: If you moved into rent controlled housing in Berkeley in 2025, your landlord cannot raise the rent until 2027. 了解你的權利: 如果你在 2025 年搬進在柏克萊的租金管制住房，你的房東在 2027 年之前不能提高租金。 Details 詳情 rentboard.berkeleyca.gov/rights-respo...
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high quality very livable family-sized homes - with elevators serving on average just 12 units (in the US we'd see 1, maybe 2 elevators in a building with this many homes)
and it is 100% illegal in every part of the US
Mike Eliason@holz-bau.bsky.social
luca selva w/ (2) 6-story buildings w/ (8) single stair conditions the buildings are incredibly thin, allowing for open space, trees, privacy 99 homes from 1-3 bedrooms private outdoor space nearly all units dual or corner aspect, allowing cross ventilate schoen divisare.com/projects/327...
divisare.com
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social housing w/ 67 homes in a single loaded corridor high rise in BCN.
this building is incredibly thin. units have daylight on 2-3 sides and i like the interstitial wintergarden as entry space
www.archdaily.com/1035150….
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67-Unit Social Housing Building in Illa Glòries / Vivas Arquitectos + Pau Vidal
Completed in 2024 in Barcelona, Spain. Images by José Hevia. The Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes occupies a strategic position in the urban fabric of Barcelona, acting as a convergence point for three...
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The council member makes their opinion clear before the vote, and the applicant pulls the application if it’s not going to pass, so they don’t waste money on lawyers. Do the authors know this is a BS stat? Or maybe worse, they don’t and don’t realize how much housing they’re killing…?
New York City Council@council.nyc.gov
Robert Moses used unequally concentrated power to displace Black and Latino communities. Decades later, they're still struggling to recover. Council Members Shekar Krishnan and Sandy Nurse explain why Ballot Proposals 2-4 make NYC vulnerable to repeating this history. www.amny.com/opinion/sile...
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One of the world’s largest industrial heat pumps is coming to Boston.
A 35MW system will use energy from the Charles River and deliver steam to heat more than 70 million square feet of buildings across Boston and Cambridge — hospitals, schools, homes, and businesses alike.
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I was today years old when I found out that forty percent of *New York City* is zoned for SFH or two family homes. Wild.
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luca selva w/ (2) 6-story buildings w/ (8) single stair conditions
the buildings are incredibly thin, allowing for open space, trees, privacy
99 homes
from 1-3 bedrooms
private outdoor space
nearly all units dual or corner aspect, allowing cross ventilate
schoen
divisare.com/projects/327...
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Luca Selva Architekten, Ruedi Walti · Densa
99 Apartments for Basel-Nord
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Planners want to grow jobs but not homes. They don’t want the city’s population to grow. Its why new single family homes have the fastest permitting timeline and townhomes and apartments take 4x longer
@linforseattle.bsky.social
Really interesting article and important history to remember. I also find it interesting that we found a way to cut sales taxes to spur the construction of offices for tech, but we haven’t yet eliminated sales taxes for the construction of housing. www.seattletimes.com/business/tec...
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This seems like a little bit of progress but the timeline shows how fruitless the "builder's remedy" is. If you have to be in court for years and years arguing about whether Redondo Beach has a valid housing element or not, there is no real remedy.
M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray.bsky.social
The whole RHNA framework depended on everyone politely pretending to comply, and now a court has very politely pointed out that the emperor has no clothes. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/emil...
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Here's the decision.
The CA housing quota system (aka RHNA) assumes that cities will try to build more housing in good faith. But the city rezoning plans were largely bad faith junk.
What happens when people call bullshit? Well... we're about to find out.
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sometimes you think the seattle metro is massive, and then you run into an elected you've interacted with on housing/transpo policy who's also at the game.
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why do US planners & politicians talk about neighborhood on left - auto-centric w/ dense affordable housing limited to broad, toxic arterials. poor walkability & public realm...
like vienna one on right - density bounded by arterials, good walkability, high density of retail, parks, quality of life
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The economic fallacy every planner struggles with. New clothes, new cars, new phones all cost more than used ones. But with housing, for some insane reason, planners demand the opposite or you won’t get upzones for more housing. Imagine what iPhones would cost if we couldn’t make new ones?
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com
Academics’ and planners’ single-minded focus on making *brand new* homes affordable to the poorest people has been a disaster for poor people’s’ ability to afford housing.
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Academics’ and planners’ single-minded focus on making *brand new* homes affordable to the poorest people has been a disaster for poor people’s’ ability to afford housing.
@dereksagehorn.bsky.social
Real grim stuff from a nonprofit staff attorney and former UCSD urban studies lecturer
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Happy Middle Housing Day in Berkeley. As of today, multifamily housing up to 3 stories at 70 units per acre is byright and ministerial on all Berkeley lots in the flatlands and foothills for the first time in history, stretching from Kensington to Oakland.
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Urbanists believe building more housing reduces homelessness. There could be many mechanisms:
- At the margin, lower rents help some people make rent.
- More vacancy means landlords are more forgiving on late rent.
- Lower asking rents mean subsidies go further
Has anyone quantified any of this?
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your Sunday AM ☕️ and urbanism thread.
want family sized homes that don't suck?
want density and room for trees and open space
want walkable neighborhoods?
gonna need midrise single stair buildings
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Mike Eliason@holz-bau.bsky.social
you know how i keep saying single stair buildings are workhorse of walkable urbanism the world over? here are 174 homes on a 2.2 acre block in seattle. (16) 4-5 story single stair buildings. what do you think FAR is? what about lot coverage? unit distribution?
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This exact brand and quantity of kiwis is $5.99 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Wegman’s, and $9.99 at my local grocery store (C-Town at Graham and Metropolitan). Once these housing ballot measures pass, we need some for grocery stores, because City Council is killing us with their grocery stores NIMBYism
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Imagine if the cut in Seattle had dense housing on it instead of rusty boat docks
Christof Spieler@christofspieler.bsky.social
The Empire Builder crosses the Menomonee River on a 1904 swing bridge as it pulls into Milwaukee.
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