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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Does anyone have recommendations for things to see/do in Montreal or Quebec City?

Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

We don't have the full 2025 stats yet because of the government shutdown, but as of August 2025 Detroit was on track for another banger year of housing permitting housingdata.app/places/MI/De...

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Trying to understand how expensive providing low-income IZ units is in California under SDBL/SB79. If I did the math right (HUD low-income limit * 0.6/0.8*0.3/12, since HUD low-income limit is 80% of AMI but California low-income per HSC 50053 is 60% of AMI), this doesn't seem very onerous?

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I imagine there will be a divide at YIMBYtown this year where people from most states want to learn things while the Californians, Oregonians, Washingtonians, and Texans just want to party

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The new CA State Assembly website (www.assembly.ca.gov) is so much worse than the old one (web.archive.org/web/20250825...). Bring back 2000s high density web design!

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

SB840 bans FAR limits in all multifamily zones and requires all multifamily zones in a city have the same height and density limit. Since all of Austin now has missing middle zoning, does that mean all residential lots in Austin now have basically no density, FAR, or height limits?? Just setbacks?

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

In response to SB840, Plano added multifamily residential as an allowed use in all commercial zones, and also updated all multifamily zones to: - Remove density, FAR, lot coverage limits - Increase height limit to 45 ft - Reduce front yard requirement to 25 ft - Reduce parking requirement to 1/unit

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

wtf, Dumbo Market is owned by Key Foods?? 🤯

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I was today years old when I realized this album cover is a reference to suicide

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Housing crisis in Unincorporated LA County (and other cities with similarly lax SFH development standards) will be solved in 24 days

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Republicans killed Plano Tomorrow and then 4 years later applied Plano Tomorrow to the whole state

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

This article is actually pretty great? It's way more detailed and precise than a typical article about a bill in Congress There should be more articles with Wikipedia-style lists of facts presented neutrally

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

In 2024, Detroit permitted more housing per capita than San Francisco, Los Angeles, Manhattan, Boston, Washington DC, and Philadelphia

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Would be cool if Google uses this as an opportunity to update Street View pictures of Market St that haven't been updated in years (some parts in 2019, some in 2022). Might be hard to fit Street View cameras on top of a Waymo without interfering with the LIDAR though www.sf.gov/news-mayor-l...

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Mayor Lurie Welcomes Autonomous Vehicles To Market Street As Part of Revitalization of Downtown San Francisco | SF.gov

Continues City’s History of Innovation While Expanding Access to Local Businesses Downtown; Builds on Mayor Lurie’s Plan to Support Small Businesses Downtown and across San Francisco by Creating Five ...

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Supposedly Newsom told both the CA Senate and Assembly leaders to read Abundance... youtu.be/Bt_LQNS7hmU?... (at 33:55)

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And, This is Ezra Klein | This is Gavin Newsom

YouTube video by This is Gavin Newsom

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

California spent years debating social housing, while Oregon just... did it?

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

What's the latest on Berkeley's missing middle ordinance?

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Does anyone know what Urban Kchoze is up to/their reaction to the single stair movement? Wild that an anon blogger wrote these posts that have in the 5-10 years since inspired numerous white papers, state bills, etc. and we haven't heard anything from them since

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

NYC single stair twitter/Adam Neely fan crosspost

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Did not realize Seattle rents increased that much from 1997 to 2007, I understand why Ben Gibbard is a NIMBY now (Apologies for my 2010s-era tweeting, I am old)

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Is Polis the first governor to use the words "stair reform" in a speech??

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

When we end up upzoning Southern Brooklyn and Eastern Queens for midrise, we really need to (1) expand single-stair to larger floor plates and multiple PABs per building, and (2) make some new zoning categories with higher height/lower FAR I want setbacks and green space, not Park Slope 2.0

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Don't want to discourage anyone from subscribing, but I think you can get the density allowed by AB 1893 by multiplying "Parcel Size" and "Maximum Density Allowed" from Appendix 4.7 from planning.lacity.gov/plans-polici...

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2021-2029 Housing Element | Los Angeles City Planning

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

NYC subway map where the euclidean distance between two points tries to be proportional to the shortest-path travel time between the two stations (in minutes) (with actual map for comparison) You can kind of make out where each borough is?

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

This is better than NYC's A frequency on weekends

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

What's the YIMBY-NIMBY count on Berkeley City Council after the election? Are they considering delaying the missing middle ordinance so they can pass a bolder one in January?

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Great example of why I hate usage of the word "experts" in newspapers. The Great Barrington Declaration was rebuked by *some* public health experts, not all public health experts. All 3 authors of the declaration are themselves public health experts! www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I still don't intuitively understand why townhomes are so space-inefficient. I think what I need is to see a townhouse floor plan with both stairs and non-stair circulation shaded, vs a flat of the same size. Or a description of which circulation areas wouldn't be needed in a flat

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Did not realize that the ICC, famous for its excellent building codes, is also responsible for the codes that determine American street design

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Why haven't we landfilled the Meadowlands?

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Section 8 is expanding the Small Area Fair Market Rent program from 24 to 65 metro areas on Jan 1. This should increase the amount per voucher in these metros. Does anyone know if this is happening via larger appropriations or by giving fewer vouchers? www.huduser.gov/portal/datas...

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Apparently Germany has Google Street View images that aren't 15 years old now

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Had a dream that the YIMBY PA state legislature tried to troll the townships by ceding them each one park parcel with no zoning restrictions. (In Philadelphia it was Rittenhouse Square) The local governments were happy about the windfall but freaking out about the fact that there was no height limit

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

Does bklynlibrary.org not show the number of holds on a book?

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

New addition to the "East Bay is just New Jersey" list (they both have a Newark and a Union City): there's a New Jersey township called Irvington (there's a neighborhood/future BART station in Fremont called Irvington)

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

Why is PATH so slow? 8 min from Newport to Hoboken and 9 min from Hoboken to Christopher St seems insane to me given the short distance

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

This reminds me, I really want to make a table of what the % effective tax/% lost rent is for different AMIs and IZ percentages. The numbers are soo confusing to reason about, it's hard to tell how high a requirement is

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Okay I kind of missed this place

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Just noticed that @alonlevy.bsky.social writes tweets longer than 140 characters now 😮

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

Prediction: SF, SJ, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Berkeley housing permits: 10/1000 population by 2028 California overall permits: 6/1000 population by 2028 Net domestic migration for California positive by 2030

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

tfw you solve your state's housing crisis, usher in another half century of growth and prosperity and restore the mandate of heaven for the California Democratic Party

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

2024 Uniqlo supima shirts are good again. After 2 years of weird fits and fabrics it's back to 2021 quality 😎

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

Ugh, this is probably going to make buying non-FDA-approved sunscreen from Europe harder :( www.economist.com/finance-and-...

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

Noticed that Bluesky (correctly) doesn't notify on likes to replies you are tagged in! Old (public likes) Twitter got this wrong—you would constantly get notifications when people liked tweets dunking on you

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Why is the transfer between 1 and 23 at 34th St–Penn Station not cross-platform? @nilo.bsky.social

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Sid Kapur @sid-kap.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

Did the DTLA 2040 zoning amendments pass yet? These FARs are pretty epic, this would be like Upper West Side density if built out (especially if combined with SDBL)

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