You Need More Neighbors D Magazine dmagazine.com/publications/d…

Super important context for those who worry that upzoning alone won't fully solve affordability: That's true. But downzoning (which cities have done a lot!) makes affordability much, much worse. And keeping status quo zoning when housing demand increases is also problematic.

Naomi Wolf, 2019: learns on live radio that 'Death recorded' in records doesn't mean gay people were killed, shattering the premise of her book

Naomi Wolf, 2020: successfully rebrands as a conservative intellectual

what an ecosystem

a flour tortilla the size of a pillowcase

'When politicians, businesses and other organizations go around us, are they doing it to get the truth to you by a shorter path?'
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Live Now: Breaking Down the Housing Policy Blitz in Ontario twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

NEW: Paul Calandra is trailing a 'Team Ontario' plan to get a portion of 5 billion federal housing dollars, saying he'll work with municipalities. But the feds continue to suggest that fourplexes are a red line. #onpoli
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BREAKING: The Ontario Provincial Police has arrested former Thunder Bay Police Service chief Sylvie Hauth.

Hauth faces two charges of obstruction of justice, one charge of obstructing a public officer, and a charge of breach of trust by a public official.

QC using development charges almost not at all drives me a little batty if I dwell on it too long

ON policymakers (both muni and prov) will intone 'growth pays for growth' like it's a law of the universe or a commandment and... it's just a choice, and a dubious one at that

'When was the last time the House of Borgia ruled a state?' would be an insane trick question

Last month Roku TVs held a bunch of people hostage, disabling TVs unless they accepted a ToS agreement. I wrote about how we are in a golden age of user hostile consumer products and the pervasive sense that the quality of the things we buy is decaying (GIFT LINK)…

AMERICA HAS AN ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS CRISIS

Tracy Alloway and I talked to Chris Hatch / NNN Income about the ongoing scarcity of switchgears and transformers, and how you have virtually complete buildings going empty because they can't get one critical missing part.

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