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Nice post demanding better governance in blue states by @erikloomis.bsky.social www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/05/poor...

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I would be more sympathetic to anti-gentrification arguments against new market rate housing if blocking new apartments actually stopped rich people from moving into neighborhoods; but it doesn't. There is no home that is too shitty for a rich person to buy and renovate into luxury housing!

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

NYC seems to love congestion pricing. Let's bring it to Seattle!

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Everyone with money on the line understands that new housing supply reduces rents in existing buildings. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

One detail I want to highlight on the kiosk proposal: the city council is being asked to approve the (30 year) term permit before the city signs the revenue sharing agreement with DSA. Currently the vote is set to happen before we even know how much $ the city will get back from the kiosks.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Unbelievable

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

living in freiburg opened my eyes to the power of trams. quick. affordable. you see things while you travel (as opposed to being underground). of course dedicated tramways instead of mixed traffic is the way to go (freiburg's altstadt is a mostly car-free downtown prioritizing trams, bikes, feet)

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Yes! Density and parks!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

If Seattle elected leaders and city planners don’t want to see more townhomes and want homes that are cheaper to build, then we need to double the stacked flat bonus and remove the lot minimum requirements. Without that, you’re locked in for townhomes.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

0.6 FAR bonus would be even better and would equal OPCD’s original 1.8 FAR for stacked flats near transit

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

This is what a housing crisis looks like.

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

“If we were still a serious country, Trump’s crypto corruption would lead to his immediate impeachment and removal from office.”🔥 @pkrugman.bsky.social Krugman ▶️ no matter what “cosmetic changes” Republicans make to the dumb GENIUS Act - Sen Dems should block it. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Great article! Let's make stacked flats as affordable to build as town homes. Email the SBCC ([email protected]) and tell them to reject the WABO amendments and support Markus Johnson’s amendments citing the desires of the state law and ability to lower the cost of housing. [details in article]

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Write your City Council members

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I don't keep up with education matters much but looks like Mississippi and some other red states are getting impressive results. Maybe it is not just blue vs red housing policies we should look at. open.substack.com/pub/timdaly/...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

7 of 10 states with highest young homeownership are Republican-leaning, while 7 of 10 states with lowest rates are Democratic-leaning.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Just asked a California transit manager if the state's Zero Emission Bus mandate is causing them to run less service than they otherwise would. He said: "Yes, definitely." A diesel bus only has to get 4 ppl out of cars to be better for the planet than an electric bus. Hmm.

submitted 8 days ago • 46 comments

Washington state has to work overtime to counteract Seattle

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

A year later and middle housing’s future in Seattle is still murky: www.djc.com/news/ae/1216...

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NEW STORY // Seattle Commission Warns Of Adding ‘Poison Pills’ to Middle Housing Changes www.theurbanist.org/2025/05/05/s...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Council is set this week to propose amendments to the Mayor’s interim middle housing legislation—could be good, like Stacked Flat and affordable housing bonuses or could be poison pills, like MHA and additional design limits. www.theurbanist.org/2025/05/05/s...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

This is very good. hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/what-left-...

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Housing is the brown M&M's test for anyone claiming they want to change the world. If you can't grasp "more house where people want house" then how are you going to deal with far more complex problems like health care, trade policy or national defense?

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

US policy uncertainty right now is off the charts -- worse than during covid, 2008 financial crisis, debt limit showdowns, after 9/11, you name it. www.policyuncertainty.com

submitted 10 days ago • 58 comments

Something has got to be done here to protect state laws. It is just too much whack-a-mole fighting the relentless NIMBYism of “local control” that caused the housing crisis to begin with. Attn @jessdbateman.bsky.social @staterepjuliareed.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

The three floor townhouses currently being built are not suitable for those who cannot climb stairs. The city and Council would need to change zoning and regulations to make all-on-one-level stacked flats feasible

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The City of Issaquah is set to waive a requirement that a five-story building include a building step back just for one specific affordable housing project, where it would add $1.2 million to the building's cost. Is that requirement worth adding $1.2 million to other projects?

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Well, this is breaking news to some. For instance, some Seattle council members and Seattle homeowners on NextDoor

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

We need to elect more people who are not SF homeowners

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

What a concept

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People like Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr. and Elizabeth Cady Stanton who were instrumental in creating a better nation made constant reference to the ideals of our founding. They did so because "everything sucks" cynicism will only build you a movement of impotent mental patients.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Fortunately, Wyden is my Senator so I don't have to call him. You should call yours, though

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Our kids deserve better.

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social

submitted 16 days ago • 31 comments

Response From OSE!!! The City has planted 22,700 trees in the last two years. This is fantastic, and far in excess of the 1800 we lose, so we should see a growing tree canopy!! We can have more trees and more housing and it helps that the city is planting thousands of public trees!!!

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Monday's Most Read # 3 - A Bold Move to Help Fix the Housing Crisis Just Happened in an Unexpected Place link.theoverheadwire.com/ryc9t @henrygrabar.bsky.social @slate.com

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

www.thenation.com/article/soci... "Much of the class conflict in housing politics takes place not between Big Real Estate and local communities but within communities: Affluent homeowners, particularly when they are organized into neighborhood associations, form powerful anti-housing blocs."

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I look at transit improvements by the "80/20 rule". We can easily and quickly solve virtually all transportation needs for 80% of people with existing, known, operating transit solutions right now. The remaining 20% maybe can't use transit at all or still need a car at home. Most of us don't.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Tax incentives often explain a lot

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The median red state GOP legislator is like "it's really cool when people want to move here, we should build homes for them and create good blue collar jobs," the median blue state Dem legislator is like "fuck off, we're full," and inter alia this could easily swing the 2032 presidential election

submitted 19 days ago • 17 comments