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Michael Wiebe @michaelwiebe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When housing supply is fixed, a rich newcomer causes a demand cascade: they bid more for high-end housing at the top of the ladder, pushing everyone else down one rung, until the person at the bottom is priced out.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 07/09/2026

Only a quarter of New York City residents today lived in the city on 9/11 www.vitalcitynyc.org/how-nyc-chan...

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A City Forgets. Maybe It’s Supposed To.

The New York of today is a different city than the New York of 9/11.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 04/09/2026

things are not going great

Climate Goals Missed, U.N. Says World Must Now Remove Carbon at Scale. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/climate/united-nations-climate-target-overshoot.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-lA.CKe1.4Uuo1DKyvKVv&smid=url-share

U.S. Trade Gap Ballooned in July
The trade deficit bounced back up last month as spending on data centers to feed the A.I. boom drove up imports. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/business/economy/us-trade-defecit-july.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-lA.C9Vj.TsPWAZC71cMi&smid=url-share

Trump Administration Live Updates: Vance Says ‘I Don’t Know’ if Iran War Will Be Over by Midterms. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09/03/us/trump-news?unlocked_article_code=1.-lA.NMRY.yGrQKLOYOE_a&smid=url-share

Mortgage Rates Climb to Highest Level Since July 2025
Higher costs for home loans have put a squeeze on the housing market, adding pressure to consumers already struggling with elevated inflation. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/business/mortgage-rates-housing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-lA.8Q6F.UoyjJcw5Puqr&smid=url-share

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 26/08/2026

Working on small scale incremental housing legislation is fun because I get to have a huge impact on what actually gets built and nobody really notices because the NIMBYs are too busy flipping out about the transit oriented development bills.

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Nolan Hahn @nolanhahn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

89% of water in the state of Colorado is ag. Much of that is forage crops like hay and alfalfa.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It's a shame we don't have 3D Google Maps imagery for almost any cities in Latin America. I think it would surprise a lot of North Americans to see how much more built up a lot of much poor countries are then their own.

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Jerusalem Demsas @jerusalem.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"For the first time ever, more people are employed by remodeling companies than by single-family and multifamily developers combined." (h/t @josephpolitano.bsky.social) www.theargumentmag.com/p/americas-e...

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David Pardo @woodhaus-co.com · 05/08/2026

My blog post on building code reform went up on YIMBY Action's main blog. yimbyaction.org/blog/beyond-... Many thanks to @kevinrmatthews.bsky.social, @robertagreer.bsky.social, and @stephenjacobsmith.com for your assistance on this!

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/08/2026

We can't solve a housing crisis without building more housing. Today we broke ground on the Casanova Residence, which will soon be nearly 100 affordable and supportive homes with on-site services for New Yorkers. Every new home is a step toward a City that everyone can afford.

Mayor Mamdani stands at a podium next to Deputy Mayor for Housing Leila Bozorg.

A construction worker in a neon green t-shirt and a white hard hat stands at the Casanova groundbreaking.

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Jesse Smith @jessetayriver.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Over the course of both my carpentry and HVAC career probably 90% of my work has been renovation or repair of existing homes. People often don't fully grasp the level of difficulty these entail relative to new construction

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

It’s important to build enough housing to bring the market price down, not just take some units off the market. Why? The market price is the price anyone can reliably get. No lotteries, knowing the right person, lucking into a cheap rent-controlled unit a decade ago.

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David Pardo @woodhaus-co.com · 17/07/2026

We need a building code between the IRC and the IBC. Something that can accommodate 3-12 units in 3-4 story structures, uses only P2904 sprinklers or automatic fire extinguishers, allows 1st floor commercial (but not restaurants), and lends itself to reproducibility without the complexity of the IBC

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Constitutional amendment declaring that the taxable value of a property & it’s eminent domain value be the same, & allowing owners to voluntarily increase the former to protect from the latter

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 03/07/2026

Genius Machine says: 1. Universal Basic Income 2. Universal Basic Services 3. Land Value Tax 4. Annually rising Carbon Tax 5. Proportional representation via ranked choice voting and multi-winner districts 6. Publicly-funded elections 7. Nonpartisan primaries 8. 4-day 32-hr weeks *unplugs machine*

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I know his term only has 6 months left, but Colorado Dems should impeach and remove Polis anyway

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I especially love this diagram.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 24/06/2026

From now on I will refer to road charges not as tolls but rather as environmental, navigation and security fees, and I will impose them on every road in this country

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Michael Wiebe @michaelwiebe.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

NIMBYs claim to care about displacement of renters when it's a new apartment building being proposed, but have nothing to say when displacement is caused by new detached houses.

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Jason Cox @jasoncoxnc.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

How do I capture this populist zeitgeist for banning private equity from building rental homes & redirect it to banning private equity from building oversized, expensive fire trucks so they finally deliver the right-sized, affordable trucks Americans actually need?

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 06/06/2026

Beyond passenger elevators, Europe has way more freight elevators than us. On the left, a dumbwaiter at a small Tibetan restaurant in Paris. On the right, a NYC worker about to carry the better part of a ton of beer down into a basement by hand. High elevator costs are a worker safety problem.

The opening of a dumbwaiter, with an “I ♥️ Tibet” sticker on it. In the background is a small restaurant supply station.

A NYC sidewalk with a worker handling cases of Corona and Heineken beer, in front of a restaurant storefront with an open cellar door on the sidewalk leading down into a small vault into the basement.

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David Pardo @woodhaus-co.com · 25/05/2026

This applies equally in Denver

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Idothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I hold social media tech companies primarily responsible for Trump so zero sympathy for backlash to their data centers.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 21/05/2026

Great video about how moving chains work, with a real example youtu.be/QQYMUMTI7fk?...

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Building More Housing Creates 'Moving Chains' of Affordability

YouTube video by Pew

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Michael Wiebe @michaelwiebe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

NIMBYs who claim "zoning is not a constraint" don't actually believe it.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 15/05/2026

Unfunded inclusionary zoning mandates are a tax on new housing that crush housing production without creating broad affordability. Blue cities and states need to admit that this policy is counterproductive and abandon it entirely.

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Is a Portland rule requiring affordable units slowing down real housing growth?

A 10-year retrospective on the city's inclusionary zoning policy requiring large developments to have a percentage of affordable units suggests stricter regulations stalled production. Councilors will...

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Michael Wiebe @michaelwiebe.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Left-NIMBYs think that blocking new apartments stops gentrification. What actually happens: new demand is redirected to the existing housing stock. Instead of living in new apartments, rich newcomers buy up old homes and displace renters.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

it’s simple. Dems need to 1. prepare retaliatory gerrymanders in every blue state now that the VRA has been overturned 2. pack the court (and prosecute Thomas/alito) in 2029 I will only even *consider* primary candidates who support both of the above going forward

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 23/04/2026

One of the things that stuck with me from one of the many UBI pilots is how people started talking with each other more in person in the community, and the reason was because people felt they would no longer be asked for money. And so UBI increased social cohesion by making sure everyone had money.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 21/04/2026

Disney World employs about twice as many people as the entire coal industry. Lighting the climate on fire, ruining the environment, and making people sick so that 39,000 Manly Men can stay employed in a dying industry is so dumb.

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

10/ The reason most people don't want to attend public meetings isn't because they can't secure childcare, or they can't make it to the meeting venue, or whatever. The overwhelming, biggest-by-far reason is that they simply don't want to go. They have better things to do--and that's fine.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Is making public transport free “effective?” “…the relatively small difference between Victoria and NSW suggests price is not the main constraint on mode shift. Access, travel time, service reliability and the ability to make specific trips appear to matter more.” Via @theconversation.com

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Victoria has made public transport free – NSW hasn’t. Has there been any difference in uptake?

Public transport access, travel time and familiarity with the network all play a role in how many people switch away from driving.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

We certainly have to reckon with *The Car* as a dangerous machine that needs to be regulated, but a bigger problem is that cars have been over-deployed as a mobility tool, especially in places where other tools such as transit, cycling, and walking make more sense.

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Idothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

If the Democratic Party was smart, and theyre not, they would be flooding airwaves and feeds on Asian and Hispanic centric forums, feeds, algos, radios etc that Trump is trying to take away their citizenship by race.

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

“Every $1,300 New York City invested in building bike lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to one additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a new economic assessment.” That’s a better return on investment than some direct health treatments…”

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Bike lanes are a sound public health investment

Every $1,300 New York City invested in building bike lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to one additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a ne...

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Dr. Mike P. Moffatt @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

So the idea that "developers make very large homes because they make more money that way" really means "developers make homes for Gen X and Boomers, rather than for Millennials and Gen Z, because they make more money that way."

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

the ironic thing about California’s insanely strict fire codes is that they make it significantly harder to build multifamily housing, resulting in more exurban sprawl into fire zones. on net, the overly strict fire codes result in more fire deaths

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Nicholas [redacted] @borninawar.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

The two periods of life when Americans are happiest: 1. College 2. On vacation without their cars 🤔

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

here’s a crazy fact: more Americans have been killed in disputes over parking spots than on the NYC subway this year

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David Pardo @woodhaus-co.com · 09/03/2026

Great video for anyone who cares about the intersection of history, building design, and building science. youtu.be/-zP4zwvttxA?...

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Balcony Design through the prism of history

YouTube video by Façade Intelligence by IAST

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Jesse Smith @jessetayriver.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Sometimes I use AI to help write prefab housing jokes

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Wes Marshall @wesmars.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

This is beyond problematic. www.denverpost.com/2026/03/04/b...

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

1946: Freedom is being able to drive anywhere. 2026: Freedom is not having to drive everywhere. (above text suggested to us by @harrisongibbons.bsky.social)

Image of an urban arterial jammed with cars and trucks congestion, with the text saying our dependency doesn’t equal to freedom. Mobility freedom comes from mobility choices. Message via the Urban Truth Collective.

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Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @repyassansari.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Rep. Ansari Statement on United States Attack on Iran.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

seeing firefighters oppose safe, international best practice building codes purely out of misplaced inertia and resistance to change has made me appreciate that many urban issues have unexpected villains and you should be skeptical of anyone trying to blame it all on private equity or whatever

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David Pardo @woodhaus-co.com · 11/02/2026

Another awesome urban planning video from @justineunderhill.bsky.social this time about Avatar/Legend of Kora www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1_X...

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The Genius (and Horror) of Ba Sing Se's Urban Design

YouTube video by Justine Underhill

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David Pardo @woodhaus-co.com · 09/02/2026

@robertagreer.bsky.social and I wrote a ballot measure to bring more European-style buildings to Denver through zoning changes near Transit and Parks. Read about it here: archive.is/YNspf

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Sean Jursnick @seanjurs.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

A California lawmaker has proposed allowing projects up to 10 units be constructed under the residential code. That's 5x more than the current IBC limit of 2 units. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTe...

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