I'm very proud release a project I've been working on for 18months: the *first* rigorous study on floorplans & families. ~10K person survey & 40pg paper on: Do floorplans matter to families, or people who want a baby? Turns out, YES! And having an *extra* bedroom matters MOST

First, here's a link to the entire paper. I'll go through a few key points. I won't get to everything (and frankly there's a lot since it's pretty in depth) Don't worry if you don't catch everything ... I'm gonna spam the s*** out of this for YEARS ifstudies.org/report-brief/h…

If we want more families and children, we should be incentivizing more 2 and 3 bedroom apartments. The cool thing about this study is that size doesn’t even matter! People literally just need bedrooms!

There’s such an obvious gap in the market for building apartments for families that want to continue living in the neighborhoods that they’ve occupied pre-kids. Especially as more and more millennials are trying to start families. Someone is going to make a killing doing this 👀

Blessed are the peacemakers

WE DID IT!!!

SB 79 Party tonight at 8:30pm at Westwood Rancho Park station

There’s a lot to love about the plan for California Forever. It has the foundations for a world-class city. Here’s what I see as a few of the highlights: Simple but crucial, California Forever sits at the intersection of key passageways: road, rail, and waterways. A foundational

A photo from Dave Berke new book The Need to Lead. The caption reads: “One of my favorite pictures from my ground deployment to Iraq. Someone caught Jocko (right) and me sleeping on a rooftop after roughly forty-eight straight hours of operations pushing our teams into the

Over 2,000 Irish pubs have closed down since the year 2005, almost 25% of the total number of pubs in Ireland. If we lose the pubs, we lose the culture. This is worth protecting.

email I DIDN'T send (but really wanted to) to the water dept today when they demanded remote sub-meters in every unit of my recently completed apartment building so tenants could "monitor their water consumption": Ok. So the solution is “builder must spend thousands of $ on

So nice 🌹🌹🌹

The International Code Council probably impacts your daily life more than 99% of the US Government. Let that sink in. An unelected, non-profit, industry cabal, literally tells you how, where, and in what manner you are allowed to live. Insanity.

🐖“Honor the PIGNESS OF THE PIG” The wisdom of Joel Salatin: 50 hogs, fresh pasture every few days, no smell, no machines or fuel to turn soil—just pigs being pigs. Rooting. Healing soil. Awakening life in the land. It’s not just farming. It’s respect. For the pig. For the

New desire revealed: Build an arcology

The average impact fee on a multifamily unit in California is $21,703, nearly triple the national average of $8,034. cayimby.org/reports/the-im…

We built this home in 45 days, faster than LADWP took to connect power. If a utility delays service beyond a month, it should pay the carrying cost of the building it’s holding hostage. The only reason they get away with it is monopoly.

Luxury isn’t added. It’s distilled. Proportion, light, and detail, executed with precision in the field, are what make great architecture timeless.

Prince on bass in the studio — absolute madness in real time.

Baby Maybe Housing: a housing type that is large enough and low cost enough such that a couple is *willing* to "pull the goalie." Somewhere you could bring your baby home from the hospital.