Bugs Bunny was a #YIMBY.

"We should make missing middle housing easier to build... It is also simply the right thing to do—everyone needs to do their fair share to build a sustainable, equitable, and healthy future." INDY Week OP-Ed by NC State College of Design professor Thomas Barrie indyweek.com/news/opinions/…

Removing the words “single-family” from your zoning code does not, in fact, make zoning any less exclusionary. You actually have to *allow* other types of homes.

I ♥️#Durham

The very fact that there are “housing advocates” or “YIMBYs” is a symptom of a very deep problem. Something so universal and basic should not require this level of advocacy or particular identification. That, at bottom, is our housing problem.

It's so frickin' easy to design a decent urban building. An equitable Durham would produce TEN of these every year. In the last century-, we've built close to ZERO. bizjournals.com/birmingham/new…

If you want to make sure no child ever walks to school, you can simply codify it!

Put that in your Safety Pipe and smoke it...

Two separate regulatory regimes have eliminated the American front porch: 1) zoning regimes punish owners with setbacks that discourage front porches (Durham partially fixed this in 2020), and 2) appraisers consistantly undervalue porches, discouraging their construction.

The Triangle Apartment Association recently recommended ways to make multifamily housing more affordable. Find out what they shared with the City Council on #BullCityToday.

Listen to Henry Grabar explain The Parking Theory of Everything.

The triangleblogblog liveblog of Chapel HIll's #housing debate is pretty interesting: There seems to be fewer young people. So many of the comments are "I want my kids to be able to afford to live here", which is not a pro-housing testimony you hear a lot. triangleblogblog.com/2023/05/24/liv…

fun fact the “International” Building Code is hardly that. it was devised by american architects arrogantly assuming everyone globally would adopt it they took one look and said no thanks. thats why europe builds great apartments and we don’t more dragging of the IBC!

“The biggest challenge we face as a city is NIMBYism. We need to grow our YIMBYism” —David Noguera, Director, Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization City of Dallas Love empowering staff to call it as it is! Axios Housing Conference

Standing room only at Raleigh’s ADU PITCHFEST!