Have questions about single-stair apartment buildings? @alexhrwtz.bsky.social & I will be presenting on this on May 14 at #CNU34. Come ask us!
Alex co-authored The Pew Charitable Trusts groundbreaking research on the safety of single-stair buildings in the US. Here's the session description:🧵
Many govts hope capturing carbon from power plants burning wood will cause "negative emissions." New Nature Sust. paper today finds this likely increases emissions for decades, generates no negative emissions within 150 years, and increase electricity costs ~3.5-fold.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In France, if you want to build a home above a certain size, you’re legally required to use a licensed architect.
Can you guess what that size is
my bad lol
Yeah, it was a lie
No
Likely thing for you to say 😂
The last time my team put out a big, data-intensive project, we included this in the acknowledgments, and it's something I want to continue to do going forward. Time to sing these heroes.
the median American thinks it’s boring, even if the mean does not
If the Pope is soft on crime explain this
The SMBC comics guy is a YIMBY?!? Be still my beating heart
I really have no idea what you’re talking about but for the record I am a child of impoverished refugees
the people who collect data for government statistics like the unemployment rate, the census, etc, have boring, tedious, thankless jobs that they overwhelmingly do with integrity and honesty.
🎶 we didn’t start the fiiiiirre 🎶
Want to get involved in IRL housing advocacy and make a real difference in passing great bills? California YIMBY lobby day is next month, and we will help you get to Sacramento!
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Buying fire engines that fit the city you want is cheaper than building your entire city to fit the fire engines you have. This is true even after taking staffing costs into account.
The triple lock is almost as insane as the UK's housing policy. Benchmarking welfare benefits to economic stats is fine. Benchmarking them so that they strictly grow faster than the economy is a recipe for eventual bankruptcy and the sudden loss of welfare benefits.
Or their plumbers!
The UK is a formerly rich country rapidly circling the economic drain but its voters are deeply opposed to any of the major reforms (housing, energy, triple lock) you’d need to turn things around and its politicians too chickenshit to do a thing about it
If we somehow end up with a Republican Governor, they get impeached like Day One, right? Both of them aren’t even Schwarzenegger style moderate Republicans, they’re straight MAGA
I mean, no, it’s absolutely not a circle. You’re twisting yourself into knots to justify slandering me because you don’t like me. Lots of people don’t like me, I don’t like me, but this isn’t fair. Again, I’m sorry for what I said during your dispute with that guy, but this really isn’t fair
That is a fucking lie. I was never kicked out of EBYD and I never harassed anyone or was accused of harassing anyone
Tom is the most progressive candidate in the race, despite being a billionaire!
the correct way to understand the protest opsec stuff is that its a shibboleth for guys who attend left wing protests regularly that lets them exert status over recruits. i would regard it as pretty benign if these people werent actively discouraging people from getting involved.
No it’s real
Jeffrey Epstein was banned from XBox Live in 2013
We're proud to present A Better Billion: how New York should be spending an extra $1b a year on subway expansion, in lieu of Zohran Mamdani's free bus proposal. transitcosts.com/a-better-bil...
See gift article for a New York Times writeup here:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/n...
laughing at all the people who said Trump was a YIMBY
Neither Golden nor MGP are particularly abundance oriented. Jake Auchincloss and Josh Harder are more so. Golden is super pro tariff!
Just an amazing image of @ilhanmn.bsky.social