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One of the reasons I don't like messaging on the high costs of affordable housing development is that I think it lets private market supply skeptics off the hook. They already think we can solve the housing crisis through social housing. So the high cost just look like an administrative obstacle.

submitted 20 minutes ago • 1 comment

Really hope Musk doesn't create a right-wing third party that competes against Republican candidates in close districts. What if, against all odds they actually get 80 percent of the electorate? I'd be extremely owned if Musk tries.

submitted 1 hour ago • 4 comments

A huge win for the rule of law. Not the end of the road, but keep fighting for a system of laws and not of tyrants. It works.

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

This is tremendous content but it’s also bad from an economic institutions perspective that “your CEO is now beefing with the president” can knock ~15% off your market cap

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

A honestly hilarious play leads to a tie game.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

This is a huge, positive development. It's absolutely critical because all the south king county frequencies are constrained by this. But also, I will believe it when I see it. Success depends entirely on service reliability and that's been a massive problem.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Next Friday, June 13, Sound Transit will test out how 4 minute peak Link service will operate once the 2 Line opens next year, by running a single-car train in between active trains between Lynnwood and Stadium Stations from 5am to 9am. Riders won't be able to board the test trains.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Removing stations could be an acceptable but "consolidating" is the completely wrong approach. Build the system so it can be expanded in the future, when you have more money. But of course that's not how this will go because quality of service is near the bottom of the priority list.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

"I bought the US government fair and square" is literally the argument he is making in public.

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

At the Seattle Council's Comp Plan committee right now, Cathy Moore is very mad at OPCD staff for trimming boundaries on a bunch of neighborhood & urban centers but NOT in Maple Leaf. She's arguing that "drainage" & the existence of a neighborhood greenway mean the city should have scaled it back.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This is true, but another example we cite in the book Gov. Josh Shapiro's response to the I-95 collapse in Philly. A fix was supposed to take months, but he declared an emergency, got all hands on deck and reopened it with a temp lanes after just 12 days.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

"We cannot build bananas in America" is an all timer

submitted 1 day ago • 274 comments

We can't fix the housing crisis without legalizing apartments in the city's most exclusive neighborhoods. There's lots of zoned capacity in South Seattle. But weak demand means not much building. Expensive areas have high demand. Exempting them directly exacerbates the housing crisis.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Pretty clear example of how Dems have power to drive advantageous media cycles.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

If YIMBY includes people that work with community councils to and freight interests to block bus and bike lanes, what are we even doing?

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

it is absolutely true that lincoln tried not to get too far afield of public opinion on slavery, calibrating his positions and actions according to what he thought was the mainstream. but it is important to note that at no point did lincoln ever disavow or deny his *sincerely held antislavery views*

submitted 1 day ago • 144 comments

Interesting thought experiment... how would the chamber respond to a truly ambitious rezone? A rezone that would bring down rents, including commercial rents, bring down hotel rates and put midrise apartments on Lake Washington. Is the chamber gonna support a plan to lower commercial rents?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

15 years later and we're still relitigating all the basic facts on MHA discourse. You love to see it.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

aaaaand that's why we have a housing crisis

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment