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Posting for California YIMBY about housing, and for myself about skateboarding and cameras. Tradeoffs are real. he/him
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Not the point here but it is INSANE that these ticky tacky 60s tract houses with very low property tax bills are worth like three million dollars.

submitted 54 minutes ago • 3 comments

This story about the high cost of building new publicly subsidized housing in Washington DC points to the need to reform how we permit and finance these projects. We have some thoughts and policy recommendations.

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

submitted 1 day ago • 312 comments

A publicly funded affordable housing project with 100 one-bedroom apartments came in at $800,000 per unit. The same developer built a mostly market rate building NEXT DOOR for $350,000/unit. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Funding for affordable housing is limited and we should carefully consider the wisdom of spending it on the frivolous amenities, bureaucratic complexity, and well-intentioned but expensive contracting requirements that drive per-unit costs north of $1 million. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

I’m glad Wes Anderson’s latest finally addresses the downsides of complicated capital stacks and construction escalation on large infrastructure projects. Too many films avoid this.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Personally I think that having some of the most powerful institutions in American life publicly identify themselves as supporters of LGBT equality was (and is) a good thing, and that their retreat from that is quite bad.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Possibly the biggest slam dunk for an environmental exemption - housing where there's already housing.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I know America can build things quickly and efficiently because we do it for cars all the time. The slow, arduous permitting and construction processes we have for public transit, bike infrastructure, green energy, and housing are a policy choice that we are free to stop making whenever we want.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

"The mere threat of a CEQA lawsuit is enough to stifle new housing developments since such suits can add substantial time, cost and risk for builders who already face daunting construction costs."

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Here’s the next iteration of putting up a Bernie Sanders lawn sign while simultaneously opposing housing in the neighborhood: Standing up for your immigrant neighbors against ICE while simultaneously fighting housing in the neighborhood. Opposing new homes isn’t progressive. Full stop.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Does it make sense to talk about “gentrifying” a neighborhood where all the houses burned to the ground in a massive wildfire? www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

The lack of urgency around land use and vehicle miles traveled — a major contributor to emissions — continues to stun me. In California, the nominally progressive head of the Senate housing committee is opposed to denser housing construction because she's worried about parking!

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

It's impossible to make sense of American zoning, historically or today, without understanding that it has almost nothing to do with separating residential and classic nuisance. It's a mechanism of segregation, that's it.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Thousands of duplex, triplex, fourplex, & cottage homes have been built in Oregon since its 2019 statewide upzone - but they’re unevenly distributed. Let's dive into two things: 1. What we can learn from the places it's working 2. Why @govtinakotek.bsky.social's follow-up bill would help

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

this story is just a great illustration of NIMBY nihilism. at core, these people have no vision for anything. they simply oppose change for the sake of opposition. (i also think there is an element of death denial here — if i can prevent all physical changes i can deny the reality of my mortality)

submitted 3 days ago • 129 comments

If you don't think there's a leftist/NIMBY alliance, may I present to you the leftists of Los Angeles voting in unison with the Republicans of Orange County/IE against building apartments near mass transit yesterday evening.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments