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Matt Moss

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City planner in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Mamdani is a charismatic guy but I promise you anyone can replicate this. 1) Unapologetically use the government to help ordinary people; and 2) Tell them about it
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Cross-laminated Tinder @nickhasthoughts.com · 19/08/2026
sure this might work in a good-weather city like Montreal but find me when this works in a city with real winter smh
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...
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jtzero.bsky.social @jtzero.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Cleveland Council must enact the proposed Parking Benefits Fund: Opinion – The Land
"Mobility improvements that would be delivered through the Parking Benefits Fund are numerous, practical and high-impact. They can be delivered quickly and equitably across the city, and they have bro...
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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Portland's 2020 inclusionary zoning expansion promised affordable units from developer profits, but the city's own data show it produced just 43 completed units while stalling market-rate projects. Public funding built the rest. www.pressherald.com/2026/06/13/i...
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Inclusionary zoning trends in Portland should concern all | Opinion
Only a fraction of the affordable housing built in the city over the last five years can be credited to the policy.
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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Avant / Après sur le terre-plein de la fin du Boulevard Péreire dans le 17ème arrondissement de Paris. Le parking automobile a été supprimé pour prolonger la piétonnisation jusqu'à la nouvelle Porte Maillot. Le chantier a été terminé en 2026 peu avant les élections.
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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Avant (2008) / Après (2019) Rue de Noisy-le-sec dans le 20ème, au milieu de l'image on est au-dessus du périphérique. Un cas où certains diront que c'est plus vert après, et d'autres diront qu'un arbre a été coupé !
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Matt Moss @matthewmoss.net · 07/07/2026
Unbelievably excited for this opportunity and the impact it will have in these Cleveland neighborhoods. www.ideastream.org/environment-...
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Cleveland gets $10 million from Bezos fund to clean up vacant East Side lots
Western Reserve Land Conservancy will spend the $10 million over three years to clean up 600 publicly-owned parcels across roughly 60 acres in the St. Clair-Superior and Hough neighborhoods.
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Matt Moss @matthewmoss.net · 10/06/2026
Cleveland: we can't charge for parking evenings and weekends. Meanwhile, real cities:
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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Avant / Après la rue aux écoles Rue Prisse d'Avennes dans le 14ème arrondissement. D'abord la rue a été mise en impasse autour de 2022, puis en ce début d'année elle a été végétalisée.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
woot www.thestranger.com/news/seattle...
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Seattle Social Housing Developer Buys First Building - The Stranger
The Seattle Social Housing Developer (SSHD) has announced its first acquisition, a 150-unit apartment building in the heart of downtown. It plans to turn half of these units into affordable housing. T...
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Guy Oron @guyoron.net · 22/05/2026
BREAKING: The Seattle Social Housing Developer has announced its first acquisition, a 150-unit apartment building near Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle, for the cost of $60.9 million. It plans to convert half the units to be affordable for low and middle-income tenants.
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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Avant / Après la récente nouvelle rue aux écoles Rue Paul Baudry dans le 8ème arrondissement de Paris.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Free public parking is bad
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 27/03/2026
Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi. The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.
The DC Metro
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City of Cleveland @cityofcleveland.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
We’re continuing to upgrade the parking experience across Cleveland, including the introduction of dynamic rates in Downtown Areas. When demand is lower in these areas, drivers can now park beyond the standard 4-hour limit at base hourly rates ($1.50/hr) for each additional hour.
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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Before (2022) / After (2026) the removal of car parking spaces and the greening in Rue Jules Dumien in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. The works were done in 2024.
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Matt Moss @matthewmoss.net · 14/03/2026
Paris is seriously unreal with the progress they are making.
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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Before (2022) / After (2026) the recent pedestrianization and greening of Rue de Gravelle in the 12th arrondissement of Paris
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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Avant / Après la piétonnisation et la végétalisation de la Rue de Gravelle dans le 12ème arrondissement de Paris
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City of Cleveland @cityofcleveland.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
A great opportunity for local artists! ⬇️
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
36% of DC households don't have a car—the highest rate of any major county outside NYC Those car-free households are concentrated near metro stops, especially between Dupont, Foggy Bottom, & McPherson. Green line stops like Columbia Heights, Navy Yard, & Anacostia also stand out
a map of the share of car free households in the DC area
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/01/2026
i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.
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City of Cleveland @cityofcleveland.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Statement Regarding Reported ICE Sightings in Cleveland.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Incredible we built a society where tens of thousands of people are forced to live in this misery just because the wealthiest people in America want more parking and because left-NIMBY cranks still won't let go of their housing Lysenkoism which insists that new housing causes gentrification.
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In L.A., $750 a Month to Live in a Backyard Storage Unit
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/12/2025
to quote myself on this
In truth, neither Congress nor the executive can claim to represent the undivided will of the American people. It is arguable whether such a thing even exists in the American system, as the public is not a single entity but an ever-shifting set of groups and interests. Congress represents the American people in their diverse and fractious unity, and the president represents a will of some of the people, briefly assembled for a fleeting purpose, to dissipate until it forms anew in the next election.

It is simply a conceptual error to think of democratic legitimacy as a grant embedded in a single person. It’s better to see it as a relationship between our political institutions and the publics they serve, each responsive to the other as they work together to do the business of government.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
@stevevance.net was roaming around nordhavn in copehagen today, and walked by henning larsen nordo building as this building turns the corner, it becomes much more variable in height, and opens up to the canal and sky henninglarsen.com/projects/nor...
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Nordø and Porten | Henning Larsen
With a focus on community and concentrated city living, Nordø (North Island) in Copenhagen’s developing Nordhavn district will be a symbiotic space that puts shared resources first.
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Emmett Initiative @emmett.click · 27/11/2025
I’ve played a lot of simcity but I didn’t know you could go pro

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• Books.
• FIFA 2003 and SimCity 3000
computer games.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 26/11/2025
What happens when you downzone? Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago. Findings: —Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas; —Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.
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Downzoning Chicago: How Local Land Use Policy Has Reduced Housing Construction and Reinforced Segregation | Published in Findings
By Yonah Freemark, George Kisiel. Downzonings were used by US cities in the postwar period to preserve neighborhood character. These land-use policies were associated with lower housing supply, higher...
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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Avant / Après la métamorphose en deux temps de la Rue Damrémont dans le 18ème. Vers 2010: la largeur fut réduite pour insérer une piste cyclable protégée à contre-sens à droite du stationnement. 2025: en plus les deux rangées de stationnement ont disparu pour de la végétation et une bande cyclable.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
Who is Wilson? She does not own a car. She lives in a rented 600-square-foot apartment with her husband and two-year-old daughter. By her own account, she depends on checks from her parents back east to cover expenses. To let them off the hook, she seeks to force residents of Seattle to pay for “free” child care and other goodies.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 17/11/2025
Major announcement in just-posted board documents: DC's Metro is moving fast toward automation. Over 15 years, Metro plans full automation & platform screen doors, which the agency says will improve safety, reliability, & travel times—at reduced costs. www.wmata.com/about/board/...
Building blocks of modernization and automationModernization allows Metro to deliver more service at lower costRoadmap to modernize MetroHow rail modernization increases capacity
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
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Ben S @bensh3.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
yeah Canno Design cracked the brick code here and now they sail through design review www.cannodesign.com
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Mayor Justin M. Bibb @clemayorsoffice.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
We're announcing a 30-day moratorium on utility disconnections. The federal shutdown and cuts to SNAP benefits have placed an unfair and unexpected burden on households. No one should have to choose between keeping the lights on and putting food on the table.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/11/2025
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
He is proposing five municipal grocery stores
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
All YIMBY ballot measures are currently winning in NYC by 10-point margins at least
a screenshot of NYC charter amendment election results
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/10/2025
honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)
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Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
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Sightline Institute @sightline.org · 28/10/2025
Neighborhood-scale apartment buildings like these in Fairview have been all but illegal to build in #VancouverBC for nearly a century.
Three-story red, yellow, and blue 1920s-vintage apartment buildings in Fairview (Daniel Oleksiuk, 2025).
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Between the tariffs, the immigration crackdown, and cuts to SNAP, Trump is creating a mass crisis in U.S. farming. And a lot of this stuff can't be walked back. Chinese markets for Argentine soybeans won't just switch back when Trump TACOs again. Bankrupt farmers can't just bounce back next year.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. How corrosive it is that public figures are--more and more shamelessly--ripping the copper wiring out of the walls. Integrity is for suckers. Abusing power is fun. Caring about anything bigger than yourself is lame. An elite class of evil toddlers
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
SNAP runs out in a couple of weeks
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Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
This is almost literally what the English Civil War was fought over.
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 16/10/2025
An Austrian adaptation of the Barcelona Superblock, Vienna is putting the finishing touches on its first Supergrätzl ("Super neighbourhood") in the tenth district, where through traffic is filtered out to regenerate an intersection into a liveable, climate-adapted, pedestrian-friendly public space.🧵
Photos of the first Supergrätzl project in Vienna: an intersection reclaimed into a public plaza, that contains bike lanes, traffic filters, trees, shrubs, flowers, benches, and water features.Photos of the first Supergrätzl project in Vienna: an intersection reclaimed into a public plaza, that contains bike lanes, traffic filters, trees, shrubs, flowers, benches, and water features.Photos of the first Supergrätzl project in Vienna: an intersection reclaimed into a public plaza, that contains bike lanes, traffic filters, trees, shrubs, flowers, benches, and water features.Photos of the first Supergrätzl project in Vienna: an intersection reclaimed into a public plaza, that contains bike lanes, traffic filters, trees, shrubs, flowers, benches, and water features.
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