I haven't thought about it too hard but I don't think it will work that well. Members only get one ranked vote, so if the top candidates eat up the slate votes there won't be many left downballot. Maybe with only 4 total nominees it works better if you can get many many 4th or later votes?
A busy intersection in Utrecht: a daily reminder that when cycling is safe and convenient, it becomes a natural part of how a city moves.
Mega Man Gains Ability To Rap After Defeating Method Man
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the skytrain network if it was actually good
YIMBY Edmonton councillor reading landlord Facebook groups about the effect of new housing supply on the housing market:
“I don’t think anyone expected this many units to hit the market at the same time”, “tenants have options”, “you have to be realistic about pricing”, “free months of rent”.
NIMBY protest in San Francisco with a variety of signs, including "The Marina Is For Everybody" and "Boycott Greedy Safeway"
The Marina Is For Everybody is an incredible sign in its own right, but especially so when deployed in opposition to a new housing project in a census tract where the median household income is ~$250k/yr, and average home values are $2,000,000+
A “long tradition” of banning people who are Asian, Black or less wealthy.
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Apartments are real homes. Renters are real neighbors. Don’t limit other people’s choices. And always read @resnikoff.bsky.social.
Tired of noisy hot rods and motorcycles revving up at 3 a.m. in our neighborhoods? We are too!
How to tell when zoning is *not* a binding constraint: when you upzone one more parcel, its land value stays the same (ie. 'land lift' =0).
So if upzoning a parcel does increase its land value, then you know zoning is a constraint on housing supply.
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in the last decade there has been a lot of positive response to the call for more infill housing from planners and politicians but all too often the response has been to try and run the machine faster
"we need more housing, so we have to plan harder'
Basic fallacy in this Groundwork report: it treats profitability and zoning as separate constraints on new housing.
But zoning constrains supply *precisely by* making projects unprofitable! Strict zoning -> scarce apartment-zoned land -> expensive apartment-zoned land -> lower profits.
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"The panic now visible in British Columbia is not evidence that reconciliation has gone too far. It is evidence that reconciliation has begun to have material consequences." @khelsilem.bsky.social in @macleans.bsky.social: macleans.ca/politics/can...
The opposition is wrong. Schools can and should be redeveloped into new buildings that combine schools with housing.
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Time to break out the fuel crisis clothing Leather outfit and metal mask from mad max
Time to break out the fuel crisis clothing
If developers always build up to the maximum (density, height, etc.) that’s allowed in your city, that’s a sign that your zoning rules are substantially restricting housing supply.
My favourite blocks have a mix of styles and some houses that are weird and ugly.
It’s so much better than Prozac Urbanism where the lows are raised up, the highs are rounded down, and everything is pleasantly and boringly un-offensive.
The thesis of Patrick Condon's next book, probably
The first year of congestion pricing in New York saw straphangers take more than 90 million additional subway rides than in the previous year, a new report from the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA (PCAC) found. According to the rider advocacy group's analysis, which it released on Tuesday, ridership on the city's rails grew from 1.21 billion to 1.3 billion between 2024 and 2025. The bump marked a 7.7% rise - double the increase in ridership between 2023 and 2024.
here’s a crazy fact: under congestion pricing, NYC subway ridership grew by more than the *total* number of riders on BART last year
"It is possible that these coming updates will be of greater scope than in past years, given recent and rapidly evolving changes to government policies regarding international migration," reads a release.
I'm not saying BC's population hasn't shrunk at all, but I'm skeptical they can really doubt the changes happening in real time all that well. Certainly the drop won't last.
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Sun March 29, 2 pm
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From the amalgamation of Vancouver in 1929 to the Broadway Plan, this area can teach us a lot about the roots of the housing crisis..and what we can do about it!
New research from Pew quantifies the extent of the success of YIMBYism in Austin: after a huge run up in prices over the 2010s, the city dramatically liberalized and kicked off a building boom. Now rents are falling. www.pew.org/en/research-...
They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨
London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.
Completed Minesweeper game in the shape of the strait of Hormuz
You're welcome
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Vancouver Sun: "B.C.'s construction and real estate sectors lose thousands of jobs"
"He pointed out the sector had an increase of 10,400 jobs year-over-year in February."
Many, many headlines should just be "Monthly data is noisy."
Do it Vancouver (especially: Photo Enforced)
Yes it has.
www.pew.org/en/research-...
The data also showed that most drivers — 64% — only triggered a warning once. But a smaller group of repeat offenders accounted for nearly two-thirds of all violations during the pilot period. About 30% of warned drivers were caught two to five times, and 4% received six to 10 warnings. A handful of drivers pushed the numbers even further: 11 motorists racked up more than 30 warnings each during the five-week pilot. “Who are those 11 people and why are they driving?” Rowan said. Over one-third of Oakland speed warnings went to repeat offenders Distribution of warnings by unique license plate during the pilot program from Jan. 14 to Feb. 21, 2026).
For 5 weeks, Oakland's new speed cameras have been issuing warnings. Starting March 15th, tickets will be mailed to people exceeding the speed limit by at > 10 mph.
So far the 18 locations have seen 140k instances of speeding.
Most people were sent one warning. 11 people have been sent 30+.
The condo was America's last affordable path to homeownership.
We've spent 15 years systematically destroying it at the state and federal levels.
@mnolangray.bsky.social and I's new piece in @theatlantic.com on why — and how to fix it.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Looking forward to what you have to say on the other side of the mic. Good luck in the nomination race!
