When they go low, we build high.

some of the ppl who want trans ppl banned from bathrooms and are like oh we can always tell are the same ones who accused michelle obama of being trans, lol lmao even, if it wasn’t so dangerous

We've built entire metro areas where losing your car means you lose access to: -Your job -All groceries & retail -The doctor -All friends & family beyond your cul-de-sac This makes enforcing traffic law & insurance for the deadly high-speed metal boxes a high-stakes issue

And that thing…. Is usually some shit like this:

My Trumper family won't even look at me, let alone attend Thanksgiving at their house. Conservatives invented cutting off family. Many, many LGBT people are unable to go home because they're no longer welcome unless they decide they aren't LGBT.

Armand Domalewski If you ask him whether his house should have been built, crickets

When a commercial space is both big and expensive, the tenants tend to be deep-pocketed corporations. So instead of an independent perfumer, you get Sephora. Instead of an brand selling niche workwear, you get J. Crew. This leads to homogenization in fashion (and culture).

Before I worked in housing policy, I was a downhill skateboarding photographer in LA. I went to grad school for urban planning in large part bc rising rents had priced most skaters out of California and the dh scene had kinda died. Cheap rent is necessary for cultural vibrancy!

oh no it's the consequences of my inaction

Happy Thanksgiving.

Fun fact! Ferrari intentionally limits production to a few thousand cars a year (Toyota does 10M) in order to keep prices high. If Ferrari made as many cars as Toyota they’d be a lot cheaper.

🚨TUES: Council will vote on where new affordable housing can be built. For too long, affordable housing has been restricted to the same multi-family areas.  We must allow more housing where there is the highest demand & least impact to vulnerable tenants bit.ly/lacontroller-c…

The reason the average American voter is apathetic to public transit is that they’ve never seen it work well. We see transit as a welfare program and not something that can actually move a lot of people quickly and conveniently.

If Assad can be defeated in Syria, Putin can be defeated in Ukraine. Iran can be free, Lebanon can be free, Sudan can be free, Belarus can be free, Georgia can be free and Myanmar can be free. Dictators need not run the world and the world’s long arc and still be toward freedom

Montana's winning housing reform strategy… Make it easier to build here... to protect there.

Classic NIMBY strategy: 1) build low-density neighborhoods with high per-unit infrastructure costs 2) over time, neglect maintenance 3) when population growth requires denser housing, foist your infrastructure upgrades on new developments ("growth pays for growth")

In America we strictly limit building heights in most places; so we get shorter, wider buildings with less green space and more paved-over space. Here’s a typical apartment neighborhood in Los Angeles:

Los Angeles officials are facing a fast-approaching deadline to rezone the city for more housing. Today, the city council rejected a plan that would have allowed new apartments in some areas zoned for single-family homes. Read my LAist piece for details: laist.com/news/housing-h…