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After taking a quick break after session I’m starting to think about housing policy for next session. What’s on your pro-housing wishlist? 📋✅

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Parking is the "dark matter" of urban land use. Learn about how it saps communities of vitality & raises costs -- and how Washington state recently reformed it. Juicy stuff.

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What a great conversation! "These rules are arbitrary everywhere. They're causing problems everywhere. You just need the right collection of people with the right messengers to make this politically possible." - Catie Gould

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Breaking News: A judge said the government should release Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist employed by Harvard University, saying U.S. customs had “no factual or legal basis” for revoking her visa.

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Today on Volts: parking is the "dark matter" of land use, invisibly making everything worse, but most municipalities continue to mandate minimum levels of it. WA state just passed some awesome parking reform & I dig into it with @citizen-cate.bsky.social & Alan Durning of @sightline.org.

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Was so much fun to dive into Washington's parking reform with @volts.wtf! www.volts.wtf/p/parking-re...

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CT's omnibus housing bill, HB 5002, should be up for a vote on Tuesday. There's a lot in the bill, but one key element that's survived (so far): residential parking reform. While we wait to see what happens (it's a lonnnng way from a done deal), a thread on how we got here re: parking reform/

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Public pressure works! Keep it going.

submitted 4 days ago • 368 comments

Every weekend should be 3 days

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Re-legalizing apartments wil depend on state & regional governments. No city can end a shortage alone, therefore no city has enough of an incentive to try.

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A major escalation of the ongoing weaponization of the federal government against institutions that are deemed insufficiently obedient. This isn't about Harvard, specifically: This is an authoritarian regime weaponizing the state to force civil society institutions into submission.

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments

Just recorded a pod on parking reform. Such awesome stuff. Can't wait to get this one out.

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.

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Eighty thousand trans Americans have moved from transphobic states

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This is extraordinary. The Secretary of Homeland Security doesn’t know what the right of habeas corpus is (the ancient right to go to court to challenge government detention) and offers an incoherent definition which suggests she thinks it’s a presidential power to deport people?

submitted 9 days ago • 92 comments

You love to see it!

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Congratulations to Bremerton! Opposition to parking reform is a mile wide but an inch deep.

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Cities with under 50,000 people will have three full years to implement parking reforms under Washington's new state law...Lynnwood is proposing to go ahead and do it now.

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“Any way you slice it, whether you’re approaching it from a left or right perspective, you arrive at the same conclusion that we need to build more homes.” 📍 Montana www.governing.com/urban/montan...

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Washington’s new parking reform act shows what bold leadership (shoutout to @jessdbateman.bsky.social @davina425.bsky.social) and strong storytelling can do. @citizen-cate.bsky.social outlines the strategies for advocates elsewhere. #WAleg

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"The vast majority of apartments built anywhere in Washington will have full parking flexibility." Neighborhood retail, too. I am so proud of my work bestie @citizen-cate.bsky.social for designing the country's strongest law to reduce costly parking mandates. www.sightline.org/2025/05/16/h...

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One big reason Washington now leads the pack on statewide housing abundance legislation is that it just passed the nation's strongest parking reform bill. Here's what made that possible: www.sightline.org/2025/05/16/h...

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Dallas City Council voted 14-1 to approve major reforms to the City's off-street parking requirements. 🏙️eliminated in Downtown & within 1/2 mile of transit 🛍️eliminated for office & most retail 🏛️eliminated for historic buildings 🚗reduced for other residential uses 📍Dallas

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@newrepublic.com has been one of my favorite news sources lately. This headline is a masterclass in letting the facts speak for themselves.

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Since Seattle has a 30 day minimum on houseboat rentals, I'm just going to casually let the universe know that I'm planning to be in town for a couple weeks in June before performing in the solstice parade & also love pets. 🙏

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This is the most tragically American thing I’ve ever read www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

submitted 17 days ago • 23 comments

Sorry to spoil your day, but everyone needs to hear this.

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If kidnapped, what would you post that would alarm your followers without the kidnappers knowing you're asking for help? "This project needs more car parking."

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

We need to all be prepared to enter the streets, en masse, and refuse to do anything else, if he goes forward with this insane idea.

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

NEW STORY // The Deck is Stacked Against Stacked Flats in Seattle www.theurbanist.org/2025/05/09/t...

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So far, I like him! “God loves us, all of us, evil will not prevail” 🕊️ www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

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The population of Chiclayo, Peru, the seat of Pope Leo XIV's bishopric, grew from a population of 60,000 to more than 600,000 since the 1950s. It sustains a population growth rate of 1.3 percent, more than double California's growth rate... You're hearing it here first folks: Pope YIMBY...

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We passed parking reform & it’s been signed into law by the Governor! Less parking = more housing.

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A $415K parking spot at a ski resort is wild, but it reveals an important truth: 'Free' parking isn’t free. We pay for it in higher rents, lost common spaces, and hidden subsidies. www.denverpost.com/2025/04/17/s...

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A thousand yeses to this from Cole Arthur Riley.

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Governor Bob Ferguson just signed SB 5184, the Parking Reform and Modernization Act, into law. People>Parking.

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If the APA could officially condemn the practice of setting minimum parking requirements that would be a great help!

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

1) This piece from @resnikoff.bsky.social is the absolute hottest fire. 2) Our message testing with @sightline.org showed that the balance of power between landlords & tenants / homesellers & homebuyers is the #1 best way to frame the stakes of housing abundance vs. scarcity for voters.

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And that's a wrap on the 2025 Washington legislative session. We're adjourned sine die.

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A headline from Hell. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

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Montana giving Washington a run for its money on leading the nation on statewide reforms to boost housing. One of those states has a red trifecta, while the other has a blue trifecta. It's almost as if people of every political stripe need homes to live in. www.sightline.org/2025/04/25/m...

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Last week, Montana voted to: - legalize 6-story apartments on most commercial land - sharply cut multifamily parking mandates - limit excess impact fees - cut condo defect liability - require equal treatment for manufactured homes - legalize single-stair buildings up to 6 stories statewide

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“We are hopeful other states considering similar actions step up and join in pushing Trump and El Salvador to follow the law. We need more voices to sound the alarm and apply pressure.” www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

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