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Expansion @VeoMobility Founder @UrbanTechNews. @USCMarshall MBA. @NewhouseSU Alumni. Typos likely. RTs + ❤️ not endorsements. DMs open

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Patrick T. Brown (@ptbwrites) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Joining Judge Glock and Conor Dougherty in making the (to me, obvious) point that solving our housing crisis requires both building up *and* building out. Thing is - suburbs don't have to be lifeless and exclusively car-dependent! You really can get the best of both worlds

Ben Bear (@benwbear) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Charlie Munger has a famous quote: "Show me the incentives, and I'll show you the outcome." Both political parties have made homeownership a key priority while decrying the rise of build to rent communities funded by Wall Street. One big driver is that the tax code is nearly

Charlie Munger has a famous quote: "Show me the incentives, and I'll show you the outcome." 

Both political parties have made homeownership a key priority while decrying the rise of build to rent communities funded by Wall Street. One big driver is that the tax code is nearly
Los Angeles Dept. of Transformation (@la_dotr) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New bike lanes are good, but paint on the street and some floppy plastic sticks are NOT protection. Without hard barriers of some kind in place, these will draw few new riders.

Evan Armstrong 📧 (@itsurboyevan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Big personal news: I walked away from my cushy writing job at Every 📧 to launch my own startup today. The Leverage is my big swing. Starting a company while parenting a newborn feels a little insane, but I couldn't keep this idea inside me anymore. It has to exist. Tech

Big personal news: I walked away from my cushy writing job at <a href="/every/">Every 📧</a> to launch my own startup today.  

The Leverage is my big swing. Starting a company while parenting a newborn feels a little insane, but I couldn't keep this idea inside me anymore. It has to exist.  

Tech
Emilie Cole (@emiliecole) 's Twitter Profile Photo

👀 Tomorrow Startup Grind I’m diving into the truth about AI & startup journalism w Alex Konrad (Upstarts Media), Kylie Robison (WIRED), and Charles Rollet (TechCrunch). It’s quite literally going to be a front-row seat to writing AI history while the ink is still drying...

Jordan Grimes (on Bluesky @cafedujord) (@cafedujord) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Something that would've been unthinkable just a few years ago: tonight, Santa Monica City Council voted 6-1 to *support* #SB79, Scott Wiener's bill to upzone around & legalize new housing in areas near transit stations!

Something that would've been unthinkable just a few years ago: tonight, Santa Monica City Council voted 6-1 to *support* #SB79, Scott Wiener's bill to upzone around &amp; legalize new housing in areas near transit stations!
Arpit Gupta (@arpitrage) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I didn’t realize that a basic reason affordable housing costs so much is that the actual cost carries such a low weight in winning the bid

I didn’t realize that a basic reason affordable housing costs so much is that the actual cost carries such a low weight in winning the bid
M. Nolan Gray 🥑 (@mnolangray) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What's happening now is we have until the session adjourns tonight to get the votes. Take a deep breath and TAG NON-VOTERS ON SOCIAL MEDIA!

Jane Coaston 🏔️ (@janecoaston) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Now living in Los Angeles I realize now that a major media issue for understanding anything that takes place in LA is that LA is really, really, really fucking big.

Laura Fingal-Surma 🫶 urbanist moonshots (@urbanistvc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Human Driving Era: - 30% to 60% of urban land is used for roads and parking spaces - Average daily commute about 1 hour - Cars are parked about 95% of the time - 15% of cities are reserved for parking - 30% of traffic is people finding parking - Families spend $10k/year for

The Human Driving Era:
- 30% to 60% of urban land is used for roads and parking spaces
- Average daily commute about 1 hour
- Cars are parked about 95% of the time
- 15% of cities are reserved for parking
- 30% of traffic is people finding parking
- Families spend $10k/year for