I think a *lot* of people in this country would like to live in or near a suburban downtown that looks like these pictures of Redmond. There is absolutely zero reason why all suburbs have to continue to be what we think of as "suburban."

So humid out this morning that there's a film of combined pollen and condensation on the window. You do not love to see it.

Even though we're months away from Halloween, I still talked about ghost dwellings with Shane Phillips and Michael Manville on the UCLA Housing Voice podcast.lewis.ucla.edu/2022/01/19/epi…

Best journalistic treatment of "valid petitions" in Austin I've yet seen. With some great big-picture quotes from @ConnollyJoao and @DanKeshet bloomberg.com/news/features/…

I spent years being frustrated at how hard it was to safely cross Lamar from the Triangle. And now it's been fixed! Dozens of small changes like this plus the explosion of e-bikes could transform how people get around Austin.

Rigid bollards in Edmonton, Alberta. A simple way of keeping people on foot from getting crushed to death by errant cars on a busy road. Why exactly don't we do this in Austin?!