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Seth Goodman @goodmanseth.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
One could argue that IBC and NFPA have been “vibe coding” for decades, but this is next level.
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Seth Goodman @goodmanseth.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Wild. Disturbing.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The fight for Election Day Registration in MA is 18 years old now, meaning that it is now old enough to be shut out from voting on Election Day due to a clerical error that could be fixed with Election Day Registration.
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Seth Goodman @goodmanseth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It’s primary day in Massachusetts! It’s also the day that ~70% of leases in Boston are up, meaning a huge number of people are moving today. @massdems.bsky.social schedule this on purpose to disenfranchise people of lower economic classes and younger adults.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
"Low-emission zones," where car traffic is restricted, save lives -- especially the lives of children. The empirical evidence is unambiguous. But every attempt to create a new one is met by hysterical opposition filled with lies, because our societies are collectively poisoned by car-brain.
theguardian.com
London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air?
Similar initiatives have been launched from Barcelona to Bogotá, but they have misinformation, political pressure and vested interests stacked against them
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 05/08/2026
Camberville finally has some trail-oriented retail… and no trail. @cornhundred.bsky.social tipped us off to Art’s Creamery (so good!), open for two months next to the Community Path which has been closed for nine-ish months. Stop by and support them during what must be a tough opening season.
An ice cream shop on the right, closed trail on the left
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Seth Goodman @goodmanseth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Fare-free public transit is a poison pill for anything other than lifeline service. The scariest thing is that I think the Democrats proposing it might understand and want that.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/07/2026
GM CEO Mary Barra is introducing Trump at his rally. Something to keep in mind if you're in the market for a vehicle anytime soon.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Simple message, really. Thanks for the bluntness, @nondriver.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth
“3/4 of disabled people don’t drive. Stop using us as an excuse for car dependency.“ Via Anna Zivarts. The tagline at the bottom says “mobility freedom comes from mobility choices.“ Via the Urban Truth Collective in  collaboration with Anna Zivarts.
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Seth Goodman @goodmanseth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This is a horrifying indictment of our cities, streets and the institutions that built them like this, not a feel good story.
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Seth Goodman @goodmanseth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
It’s almost like California has a moral imperative to build more housing so that people aren’t forced to move to places like Texas…
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Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
No. This thinking needs to change. Apartments are homes and should not be thought of merely as buffers between busy roads and 'real' neighbourhoods. Just stop. www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
Text: This follows a public meeting where neighbourhood critics told city council that denser housing does not belong near their detached houses, but should be directed instead to busier roads, closer to transit and closer to other buildings that are taller.
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Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🚨Governor Josh Stein has signed legislation eliminating minimum parking requirements for most uses across nearly all of North Carolina. “An Act To Restrict Local Governments From Regulating Certain Aspects of Off-Street Parking Spaces,” passed the Senate 44–1 & House 111–2.
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Joe Cohen @cohenhouse.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Under LA's new "Objective Design Standards" for historic districts, the building on the left would be prohibited, and the building on the right would be encouraged
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Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
🚨 North Carolina's HB 162, “An Act To Restrict Local Governments From Regulating Certain Aspects of Off-Street Parking Spaces,” has been sent to the Governor after passing the Senate 44–1 & House 111–2. The bill eliminates minimum parking requirements in most of North Carolina.
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Patrick Siegman @siegman.biz · 23/06/2026
Worcester's "city manager also called for the removal of parking minimums — a mandate that requires a certain number of parking spaces to be built alongside new developments. The city’s housing production plan states that parking minimums are directly linked to limitations on land development."
masslive.com
Worcester manager foreshadows big housing changes in state of city speech
Worcester City Manager Eric Batista spoke about housing, homelessness, potholes and internet access in his annual State of the City address. Here's what he said.
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Welcoming Neighbors Network @welcomingneighbors.us · 23/06/2026
🚨 MAJOR news for parking reform in North Carolina 🚨 The Senate just passed HB 162, removing parking mandates for ALL uses except in coastal counties 🎉 BIG shoutout to Catawba River Keepers & partners for the hard work to get here!  House vote next, then the Governor's desk. Let's bring it home! 🏁
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Vice Mayor Burhan Azeem @burhanazeem.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The opposition put forth this website to track the negative impacts of our zoning This is just a blighted property with no units being replaced with 43 including 9 forever affordable
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Damien Moule @damienmoule.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Realizing that the stacked townhouses built in Ontario since the mid-80s (like my home) are basically a housing category invented as a way to avoid the cost cliff imposed by going from 3 to 4 storeys in the Ontario Building Code has been an unpleasant eye opening experience.
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Seth Goodman @goodmanseth.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
You absolutely love to see it.
A snip from OilPrice.com that reads, “the writing is on the wall: we are officially leaving the petro-era”
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Wonder why EU, US, Asia are fighting so desperately over cars? As the largest chunk of cross-border traded goods, the car *is* globalization In @thepolycrisis.bsky.social we ask the essential questions: Who makes them? Who feeds them? www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/cas...
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Seth Goodman @goodmanseth.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Basically every city in Massachusetts makes people with mobility challenges wait endlessly for accessible apartments by blocking them indefinitely with their zoning codes. I appreciate the AG for this move, but the big challenge is that elevator buildings are made illegal by our local politicians.
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Patrick Siegman @siegman.biz · 07/05/2026
"Kansas City Council voted to eliminate...minimum parking requirements across much of the city. The old rules drove up construction costs, kept storefronts empty & made it harder to build affordable housing. This is how we build a more walkable, more affordable Kansas City" – Mayor Quinton D. Lucas
An aerial photo of a barren, treeless, and largely empty parking lot on a corner parcel. The caption reads "Since 1951, KC has required every new building to include a minimum amount of parking. That rule made it harder to open small businesses and drove up housing costs. Yesterday, the City Council changed that."
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Seth Goodman @goodmanseth.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
This has been true for many decades. Traffic “predictions” destroyed American cities.
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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
30% of the disabled community cannot drive due to their disability. Compared to less than 2% of all driver aged population being unable to drive
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
WATCH: “Every once in a while you just have to remind yourself the president of the United States is a sociopath,” says Chris Hayes.
youtube.com
‘Flat-out sociopath’ Trump is leading a war with no end in sight, says Hayes
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Sightline Institute @sightline.org · 19/03/2026
Washington just leveled up. Small elevators = more elevators, more homes, and more accessible cities. @danbertolet.bsky.social
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Washington State Leads on Elevator Reform | Sightline Institute
SB 5156 opens the door to lower-cost, smaller elevators in new apartment and condo buildings—and more accessibility for residents.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”— @nondriver.bsky.social Don’t use accessibility “as a political football.”
motherjones.com
Do car-free zones hurt disabled people? We asked experts.
City planners and advocates are seeing "accessibility used as a political football."
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Seth Goodman @goodmanseth.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Complete replacement of existing neighborhoods with buildings like this will radically transform life for people with disabilities. I can (maybe) visit 10% of homes in the Boston area safely. I want a neighborhood character where I can accept a dinner party invitation without a second thought.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 08/03/2026
Read our analysis of the video showing a US Tomahawk missile strike next to Girls’ School in Iran on February 28 here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
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Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran - bellingcat
New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footag...
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Patrick Siegman @siegman.biz · 07/03/2026
America’s peculiar approach to building codes has delivered bad results. Influence-peddling is part of the problem, but that’s just one of many problems with the mediocre process used to develop US codes.
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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 24/09/2025
NEW STORY // King County Metro Delays Planned Electrification Work, Pushing Out Fiscal Cliff www.theurbanist.org/2025/09/24/k...
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King County Metro Delays Planned Electrification Work, Pushing Out Fiscal Cliff » The Urbanist
# Pivoting away from full-scale bus base retrofits that go all-in on battery electric buses means that Metro won't face a fiscal cliff until the early 2030s, according to budget writers. Metro's Gener...
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Seth Goodman @goodmanseth.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Some of my friends who drive think I judge them for driving out of some sense of superiority. In reality I just love them and want everyone to live.
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Peter Cheung @bostonaruban.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Protest against Bike Lanes on Washington Street Pilot in Newton, Mass being organized on Tuesday Sept 2, "planning being kept quiet to avoid a counter-protest by the biking community" From r/bikeboston
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Seth Goodman @goodmanseth.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Any architects or designers out there interested in working for a transit agency? We’re hiring someone to help us plan facilities! Come help design a better T! www.governmentjobs.com/careers/mbta...
governmentjobs.com
Project Manager, Planning
The Project Manager will manage the development of facilities projects and initiatives from inception through conceptual design for the purpose of evaluating potential project purpose and need and fin...
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Seth Goodman @goodmanseth.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Good! Galvin pursuing ballot question on same-day voter registration  commonwealthbeacon.org/politics/gal...
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Galvin pursuing ballot question on same-day voter registration  - CommonWealth Beacon
Galvin understands the ideal often put forth that lawmaking is best done through the give and take of legislative deliberation. But he also knows the difference between thoughtful deliberation and bil...
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Seth Goodman @goodmanseth.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
4 units is the threshold at which the most basic Fair Housing Act protections for disabled people kick in. Why are cities and towns using zoning to ban the Fair Housing Act?
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Jim Aloisi @jimaloisi.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
ICYMI: my caution against ill-advised electric bus mandates This is the wrong time to be forcing US transit agencies into a monopoly marketplace. commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/why-...
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Why the MBTA's electric bus mandate is a bad idea - CommonWealth Beacon
Massachusetts would do substantially more to reduce carbon emissions if it invested in an electric regional rail system with 15-30 minute frequencies that enabled more people to take the train rather ...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/07/2025
Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident theonion.com/conscie...
Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident
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Seth Goodman @goodmanseth.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
This is why Massachusetts Dems hold local primaries right around moving day and insist on the annual voter purge disguised as a census.
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Seth Goodman @goodmanseth.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The people have spoken, and what we demand is an end to costly parking mandates.
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Seth Goodman @goodmanseth.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Imagine thinking Trump and Musk’s lovers’ quarrel has anything to do with “holding billionaires accountable”. 🤡
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Nathan J. Williams @nathanjw.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Not a Somerville thing. The MA plumbing board disapproved of them in Oct 2023. Cambridge hasn't installed any new ones since then either. www.mass.gov/doc/pl-minut...
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 21/04/2025
The price of housing is set by supply and demand; and we can observe the balance between supply and demand by looking at vacancy rates. Low vacancy rates give landlords power to jack up rents. Housing abundance empowers tenants to demand cheaper rents. Everyone with money on the line knows this!
San Antonio Apartment
Surplus Spawns Generous
ConcessionsSan Antonio apartment owners are brawling with a glut of units. When that happens, concessions are not far behind. According to MRI ApartmentData, San Antonio delivered 14,500 units in the past year, only absorbing
7,630. That means, besides lower rents, concessions are de rigueur.
MR's latest survey shows occupancy in San Antonio was 86.3%. The San Antonio Business
Journal reports that while that rate is at its highest since March 2024, it's still well below the 90% threshold needed to balance the market between renters and landlords.In fact, the city hasn't seen occupancy rates above 90% since September 2022. That has forced 72% of Class A apartments - typically newly built, highly amenitized properties in desirable neighborhoods - to offer an average 10.2% rental discount, equivalent to more than one month's rent.
Occupancy woes have also led to a 3.1% decline in rental rates over the past year, which MRI's data shows typically coincide with increases in occupancy.
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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
This is important research by Jablonsky, Ast & Partners in Canada Keep tall building form simple, and you can save huge amounts of embodied carbon Vital for planners, architects and engineers alike
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Those of you who aren't San Diego Politics freaks probably don't know that Trump crony and tariff mastermind Peter Navarro is a former Democrat and arch-NIMBY. Before tariffs, his big idea was a "housing development moratorium" in San Diego. A huge dumbass across two parties
axios.com
Peter Navarro's first war was over San Diego housing
Before he was Trump's point man on tariffs and trade, the UC Irvine economics professor was a five-time loser in San Diego political races who defined an era of anti-housing politics.
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Welcoming Neighbors Network @welcomingneighbors.us · 10/04/2025
Single stair has landed in Austin, with a 10-1 vote no less! Huge win for abundance in the Texas capital. 🏆 Who’s next? 👀
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Catie Gould @citizen-cate.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I assumed this article was about zoning, because that is the most common legal tool used to block projects people in power don't like. The zoning code in Selah, WA requires 2x as many parking spaces for mosques as any other religious building. This is totally legal and many people approved it. 😵‍💫
Mosques require 17 parking spaces per 1,000 square feet, compared to churches, synagogues, and temples which only require 8 spots per 1,000 square feet.
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Seth Goodman @goodmanseth.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Building new buildings is the only way to create the inclusive world imagined by the ADA and Fair Housing Act amendments, but now it’s progressive to oppose changing the world because it’s just more “stuff”.
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