I am on my way home from the 1517 Fund's LP conference and annual "Santarchy" ball in Austin. They invited all sorts of radicals to the ball and encouraged participants to give a <7 min talk on the contrarian topic of their choosing. I had been feeling a bit dismayed by what I

I could keep going. Tl;dr: the owner has a very, very crucial role to play in a project. If you're not able to do that role, you either need to learn how, to delegate to someone who can, or...don't do a project. Said with love!

A staggering 51 firearms have been stolen from vehicles this year, and 45 of them were taken from unlocked cars. Don’t make it easy for criminals. Always lock your vehicle, and never leave a firearm or valuables inside!

Tensions flare as meeting on Tallahassee growth plan draws packed crowd tallahassee.com/story/news/loc… via @tdonline

The largest lobbyist group in a city are homeowners. Developers make money from production. Incumbent owners benefit from scarcity and rent-seeking off of that scarcity. Only one group votes in local elections. Congratulations, you now understand the housing crisis.

The truth is freeing: affordable housing does not threaten communities - it redeems them.

Brent Toderian Public engagement processes are not designed to garner input from the general public.

We should be making our cities as dense as we possibly can so that we can save our farms and natural land from suburban sprawl. Land conservation legit one of the biggest reasons why I’m a YIMBY.

Housing cost is the # 1 issue in the country. Zoning controls housing supply and creates more traffic every single day that we continue to make single family housing sacrosanct. Duplex should be by right. If someone wants to split house into a duplex she should be able to BY

Much stronger argument for cities to increase subsidies for public bathrooms like this one than setting up public supermarkets. That's because while the market is pretty decent at selling people food, local governments have made it literally illegal to sell bathroom access!

Montana's winning housing reform strategy… Make it easier to build here... to protect there. We should protect America's vast natural resources while ensuring that our existing communities can 'scale up' to the next versions of themselves and provide the housing we need. 🇺🇸

This is the future of office spaces!!! Hortus by Herzog de Meuron has a timber frame with rammed earth floors (yes, floors!). These floors have 10% the embodied carbon of a typical concrete slab.

“I just wish the grandkids lived closer” she thought as she hung up the phone with her daughter, before getting to work on mobilizing the neighborhood against yet another set of greedy developer-driven zoning changes for smaller lots, reduced setbacks & weird pocket neighborhoods

Instant inductee into the You-Can't-Make-It-Up Hall of Fame: the new Dallas permit authority building was partially evacuated bc it lacked the proper permits, thus slowing permits for other local construction projects.

Peter Norton Many agencies have resisted drawing the scenarios to show the consequence of massive service cuts on peoples lives. It's understandable not to want to think about it. But that has to be done now, in detail and rigorously enough to be defended. 11/

“Anthropologist Daniel Miller has observed that an alien visiting Earth might well suppose that 4-wheeled creatures run the planet. These rulers, he notes, are ‘served by a host of slaves who walk on legs and spend their whole lives serving them.’” scientificamerican.com/article/changi…

10. We all have an opportunity to learn to love where we live. You may already love it, but you can learn more about it. You can take time to get to know the places that make Tallahassee unique. Many people/places are “known of”, but how many people/places do you truly know?

Shouldn’t we give our grandkids the housing market the boomers were given ?? #BackTo3

When an adult hasn't used a bicycle for transportation, they can't imagine a scenario in which rolling through stop signs is safer than waiting around for the cars behind them to catch up.

They call it “lunch shaming.” I call it cruelty. For 38 years, I watched it happen from my history classroom. Then, one Tuesday, I decided to become a quiet criminal. My name is Arthur Harrison. For nearly four decades, my world has been cinder block walls, the smell of old