🚨 Two steps toward housing affordability 🚨 - Senator Tim Scott's ROAD to Housing bill removes steel chassis mandate, cutting $5K-$10K in costs - HUD’s new rules raise the cap on manufactured homes from 3 to 4 units Details from @Aarmlovi and Andrew Justus👷🏼‍♂️🏘🏙🏗: buff.ly/4ffuybg

These numbers are insane... automated enforcement basically wipes away racial differences in police stops. Without enforcement, on roads where half the drivers are Black, they make up about 70% of police stops! Drops to 54% when automatic cameras are in use.

Me: the walk of doom from the light rail to the airport stinks. why are you spending $80M to widen the highway instead of incentivizing transit? Port of Seattle - ⚓️ bring a coat!

As a resident of District 1, I am appalled that spending $2 million to remove traffic calming measures by a school on Delridge is my councilmember's NUMBER ONE budget priority. What are we doing? Why would anyone think this is okay?

CM Saka is proposing to invest more funding to get rid of the barrier that stops left turns by his kids' preschool than the city is planning to invest in tenant services, including renter education, organizing, and legal services/eviction defense, combined

Don't want to "trunk or treat"? Dozens of streets throughout Seattle are closed to traffic and OPEN for trick-or-treating this evening. Want to see where? Check out our interactive map: bit.ly/Trick-Or-Stree…

Instead, this treatment of the event ties judgments about its importance directly to the noise level that Republicans can drum up around it. The story itself also gives away how this game works. It admits the comments were muddled, but says Trump "sought to amplify" them. 5/

The important story here is that market-rate rentals can be affordable if enough new housing is getting built to meet demand. The couple got a market-rate 1-bed for $1,500/month, which is cheaper than the 60% AMI housing provided by MHA. seattletimes.com/business/real-…

Why 'single lot'? 1. you don't have to compel adjacent owners to sell by offering much higher land prices vs what you might pay for a single lot 2. existing owners can develop with existing lower land cost 3. You get a mix of building types and ages 4. Change is incremental

I hate how income-restricted housing, where you pay 30% of your income in rent, requires you to be nearly cost burdened. Even back when I could qualify I wouldn't have been able to afford the subsidized rent bc of my loan debt - so I rented cheaper private market housing.

Incremental small-scale infill gets by blood pumping! Complexity, variety and order! Enable the city to be the complex adaptive system it is meant to be! Decentralize decision-making! De-couple from wall street (somewhat)! Seize unique niche opportunities! Experiment and learn!

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I know it's a tough competition but I'm not sure we'll see anything dumber than "I'm voting for Trump because I want competence" in our lifetimes.

Incredible: AI can predict the winner of the 2024 election. Looks like there will be a few surprises; for example, there's a good chance that Iowa will win Texas.

Just carrying this energy for the next few days.