Reading it to my daughter years ago... it always seemed to me that Pa was a grifter... just one step ahead of the law...

Jesus god. We've been over this.

It's gonna be different for Harrison Design just like it was different for McCrery...

We as architects need to stop taking this work and stop enabling bullyboy edifices.

#housing #citybuilding

Then if you truly, earnestly want to innovate in a #housing affordability environment you need to figure out how to raise wages so everyone can afford housing that is brought to at cost.

People need more money to afford the housing we are able to build without subsidies. How's that get solved?

We can innovate all we want on the construction systems & still not see significant per unit cost reductions.

The proven way to reduce per unit costs is building conventionally & repetitively at scale - exactly the same way we did it the last time...

More units. Higher density.

#housing

And sure, let's 3D print some houses. But, that's not a silver bullet either. Nor is it innovative. But it is unproven at scale and because of that will be harder get approved for construction by a municipality & more difficult to get a mortgage underwritten by a bank.

Cities can significantly & positively affect development timelines by simplifying their policies & speeding up their processes.

As always with #housing, there is no one solution so we should be working on everything at once. But our cities should be focused on their contributions and solutions: drastically liberalizing zoning ordinances and reforming permitting and building inspection processed.

Detroit to get innovative in goal for new-build housing City leaders are exploring avenues to make it easier and more affordable to build new homes.

Detroit to get innovative in goal for new-build housing www.axios.com/local/detroi...

"The costs have to go down, and the timelines have to come down, as well, for this to be feasible, and we're all laser-focused on that, per the mayor's directive,"

This is supply & wages not costs...

#FTW

There's always a good reason to drink the champagne, Doctor. Enjoy.

“Archival finds document Moses’s built legacy as it crumbles around us, all too slowly.”

Hallie Ayres bookkeeps the Power Broker in NYRA no. 49.

nyra.nyc/articles/raster-builder

New UCLA Report Looks into the High Cost to Build Parking - Streetsblog Los Angeles For new apartments, the research found that building required parking adds roughly $50,000 to $100,000 per unit, and disproportionately increases the cost to build smaller apartments

We can't afford #parking...

#housing #citybuilding

New UCLA Report Looks into the High Cost to Build Parking - la.streetsblog.org/2026/03/02/n...

The Transformative Power of the White ‘Race Traitor’

"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

Bless you all Minnesotans great and small.

I said a year ago Trump was not choosing political martyrs wisely and not accounting for what tools defendants are accorded.

I want to triple down on that. I think we're about to see revenge of the defendants--starting with Marimar Martinez.

Marimar is a Montessori teacher. And holy hell, a hero!

definition of Peverse Incentive...

Rock on good Doctor.

This is a post about animal excrement and the English language.

bull$#!% = nonsense/lies
chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly
horse$#!% = nonsense/lies
dog$#!%= low quality
ape$#!% = wild
bat$#!%= crazy

Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).

As god is my witness…

This image is strikingly similar to the famous photo of a young Dilma Rousseff in front of a Brazilian military court also too cowardly to show their faces.

Godspeed. #veryverymetal

"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done."

final written words of abolitionist John Brown - Dec 2nd, 1859

“If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer… And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind…And with such a people you can then do what you please.”

Hannah Arendt

Don’t let this housing crisis go to waste Overly restrictive zoning, cautious lending and anti-development politics created a long freeze in housing production.

New year, new op-ed from me and Vincent Reina on the need for aggressive multifaceted action to address the housing affordability crisis:

It’s not simply a zoning story!

thehill.com/opinion/fina...

The Power Broker

Many Americans Are Open to Car-Free Living — Human Transit Is Americans a “car culture” or are they “car dependent”?  Do they drive because they love driving, or are they in an unhealthy relationship with a substance it would be happy to do without?  Obviousl...

An astonishing percentage of Americans are open to car-free living.

The problem isn't attitudes. The problem is the failure to invest in viable options.

humantransit.org/2025/12/many...

#comfortnazi

Defending slavery, however, required invasive uses of power, such as banning antislavery literature and returning escaped Black people to bondage. Many white Americans in the 19th century began to understand that the “Slave Power” curtailed their freedoms as well. And this is what many people forget: Systems of domination rarely spread their blessings widely. The Redemption-era revocation of Black freedoms didn’t result in prosperity for white people writ large, but a Gilded Age in which the upper classes gained unfathomable wealth and economic crises left millions destitute. The nation may have held on to white supremacy, but it also got low wages, a threadbare welfare state, and a society dominated by the rich. Everyone else was too divided by race and class to challenge them.

Read @adamserwer.bsky.social on the Roberts' court's attempts to "to turn the guarantees of the Civil War amendments back into what James Madison called "parchment barriers.'"

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...