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Luke Lavanway

@yimbyfortgreene.bsky.social
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Here for progressive politics, news, and random interesting stuff. Brooklyn. YIMBY www.mobilize.us/opennewyork/event/7…

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Effective Transit Alliance @etany.org · 19/08/2026
A 125 St subway should be a slam dunk. But at $7.7B for 1.25 miles, and with stations deep underground, current plans would not only build the most expensive subway in the the world, but would cost riders valuable minutes every single trip. It's not too late, however: www.etany.org/reports/digg...
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Digging Out of a Very Deep Hole: Saving Billions on 125th Street — Effective Transit Alliance New York
A 125 St subway should be a slam dunk. But at $7.7B and with stations more than 100 ft underground, it would be the most expensive subway in the world, and cost riders more than 5 minutes every trip b...
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Benjamin Schneider @benschneider.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Progressive LA Mayoral Candidate Nithya Raman told Vanity Fair that her main difference with DSA is on housing. www.vanityfair.com/story/nithya...
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Paul S. @psantora.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Today, @mayor.nyc.gov officially submitted John Mangin’s nomination to serve as Chair of the Board of Standards and Appeals. John is one of NYC’s leading housing experts, and there is no shortage of work ahead at the BSA. The NYC Council should move quickly to confirm him, @shaunabreu.bsky.social!
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Luke Lavanway @yimbyfortgreene.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Housing folks: can we show support for @mayor.nyc.gov’s nomination of John Mangin for Board of Standards & Appeals? Voters spoke loudly for more housing in November. Mangin has the ideal track record to deliver on that mandate. Hope my CM @cmcrystalhudson.bsky.social is on board! #housingcrisis
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Alkinoos @alkinooskanaris.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Have you seen how cheap Spanish metros are to build? Well actually, I have and I will tell you all about it! I had the chance to visit the extension of line 11 in Madrid, where I learned a lot about their construction methods, peculiarities and processes. Let me take you along! A thread 🧵 (1/11)
Map of the extension I found online (not official, not the best, gets the job done regardless)Construction site of Comillas station, featuring the cross section of the tunnel as an exhibit overground.
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Joe Cohen @cohenhouse.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
This reads like a parody, but nope it's a real LinkedIn post
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The current 6-day Jeopardy champion works at a housing tax credit agency in New Jersey and for his banter with Ken he just looked directly at the camera and said "New York, California, shame on you, build more housing" and folks when I say heroes walk among us
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I hate this shit so much. My family rents, and we are also people! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/b...
“Build to rent is essentially home builders switching their construction from building homes for people to building homes for large institutional investors,” said Jim Baker, the executive director of the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, a watchdog organization focused on the impact of institutional investors. “It puts homeownership further out of reach for individuals,” denying them an opportunity “for building wealth for themselves, their families and their children.”
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 21/03/2026
It's time to build, Illinois.
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 16/02/2026
“We’d like to build this” Europe: “Right let me check that against the rules” Anglo: “K everyone go away and prepare your arguments”
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John Lansing @pipedreaming.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The extent that public spaces are essentially giant dog latrines is really unfortunate.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.
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John Lansing @pipedreaming.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
8 years before the Great Depression, the Department of Commerce created a building and housing division within the National Bureau of Standards to solve issues with high labor and material costs, obstructive building codes and zoning regulations. Affordability solutions are right there waiting.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back. Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance. Be a housing fan.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor. Some changes that they can look forward to:
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Scott Lapatine @scott.stereogum.com · 06/11/2025
#tbt sorry we missed this, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 04/11/2025
here's your reminder that in the usa, air traffic controllers are *required* to continue working through a government shutdown with no pay. one of the highest stress jobs imaginable. no pay
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Vishnu Reddy @vishnu.red · 23/10/2025
my kink. getting my mouth taped shut by Vickie Paladino and Bob Holden when I try to build affordable housing in Queens
Facebook ad paid for by NYC City Council that says “Mayor Adams' Ballot Proposals 2, 3 and 4 would leave us with less affordable housing and more gentrification. Get the facts!”

There is a picture of someone’s mouth taped shut, and the tape says “Ballot Proposals 2, 3, and 4”

There is a link to whatsonmyballot.nyc
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Dan Mauler 🎃 @meelar.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I'm vacationing in Paris, which is about the minimum acceptable level of excuse for missing this rally with @yesonaffhousing.bsky.social. If you can't match that, we'd love to see you there!
Rally for Affordable Housing,  October 15, 12pm at City Hall Park. Vote Yes on Props 2-5, New Yorkers!
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Albin Henneberger @ahenneberg.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
One of the most important ways to tackle NYC's housing supply crisis is by voting yes on Props 2-5 on the back of our ballots in November. Join us @yesonaffhousing.bsky.social to get these passed!
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Luke Lavanway @yimbyfortgreene.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
We all know housing is too expensive in NYC, and it’s getting more expensive by the day. It’s time to take action. As a New Yorker who follows housing issues closely and works on housing issues in my community, I believe proposals 2 – 5 will help. I’m voting YES!
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YES on Affordable Housing @yesonaffhousing.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
New Yorkers: After voting for candidates who will fight for affordability on the front of your November ballots, flip↩️your ballot to vote YES on affordable housing proposals 2-5 So that New Yorkers like Austin can afford to stay in the neighborhoods that raised them.
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Isaac Dovere @isaacdovere.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
At event in DC, Sen. Chris Van Hollen keeps it going with Hakeem Jeffries over not endorsing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: if you can’t back the kind of campaign he ran, “don’t ask those young people to show up for other Democrats across the country — that’s the message that will be sent.”
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Luke Lavanway @yimbyfortgreene.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The rent is too high, vote yes on 2-5!
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Metro North Capital @metronorthcapital.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Begging you to just build more housing
But one commuter town outside New York City is slicing through red tape and building thousands of new apartments.
New Rochelle has completed more than 4,500 new housing units over the past decade.
Another 6,500 units are either in the pipeline or the planning stages for the next several years. Those 11,000 new units would represent a 37% increase in the number of New Rochelle apartments compared with 10 years ago.
About a 40-minute train ride to Midtown Manhattan, this suburb of more than 85,000 remains one of the few places offering relative affordability in the notoriously expensive New York City metro area.
New Rochelle median rents are only 1.6% higher than in 2020, well below the 25% or higher increases in New York City and outer markets like New Jersey's Newark, Hoboken and Jersey City, according to Apartment List.
New Rochelle's median rent actually declined 2% from 2020 to 2023, while median rent nationally was surging at a double-digit rate.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 01/08/2025
Because this project will be fully grade separated, it should be built as automated light metro (e.g., Toulouse Metro, Milan M5, Honolulu Skytrain). This can enable: —More reliable & often faster service —More frequent service —Shorter platforms (& thus cheaper-to-build stations)
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Luke Lavanway @yimbyfortgreene.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Hope to see you there 😌🤝🗳️
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Albin Henneberger @ahenneberg.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
All New York residents, we are pushing to have the Faith Based Affordable housing Act passed help address the housing crisis. Additionally, we are on track to losing Congress seats and Electoral votes in the 2030 census and need to reverse this immediately! #FBAHA actionnetwork.org/petitions/ne...
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New York needs more housing opportunities! Support the Faith-Based Affordable Housing Act!
New York State is experiencing a dire housing and homelessness crisis, with more than half of New Yorkers facing unaffordable housing expenses each month and over 100,000 people in shelter each night....
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Luke Lavanway @yimbyfortgreene.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Folks have worked really hard on FBAHA — if you live in the state of New York, please contact your state senator and urge them to support the bill. We can do this! @opennewyork.org
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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 20/02/2025
In many ways it's fitting that the showdown between monarchy and democracy ends up being over NYC congestion pricing. Cities are where the power of kings were first challenged, and few things are more fundamental to government than control of public space. The cameras are staying on!
A cartoon with a sign that looks like a classic NYC no parking sign but is modified to say "No King Any Time", above a cartoon showing a cybertruck with a crown on it running over speed bumps and sawhorse barricades labeled Congress, Executive Branch, and Courts. It is stopped in front of bollards with a Congestion Pricing sign above it. In the background on the left is the Washington DC skyline with tire tracks coming out of a building. On the right behind the congestion pricing sign are the Statue of Liberty in front of the Jersey City skyline, an NYC walkup apartment with a bodega, people on bikes and walking, the Manhattan skyline, a subway train, and a bus in a bus only lane, and Pizza Rat.
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Luke Lavanway @yimbyfortgreene.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Housing can and should be abundant! Making it happen requires realistic plans to build more homes. I am proud of the community of NYC advocates who have raised the profile of this issue, and of politicians like @chiosse.bsky.social and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social who are taking it seriously.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
There’s a huge double standard when it comes to funding public transit vs funding highways. It plays out in various ways in how society looks at the costs of building & operating transit vs highways. The result is massive under-investment in transit. 🧵:
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Luke Lavanway @yimbyfortgreene.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I’ve been meaning to take a moment to thank @cmshahanahanif.bsky.social for supporting the Arrow Linen rezoning. I am so excited for more homes (including permanently affordable units!!) to come to Windsor Terrace 🎁🏗️🏙️ #HousingForAll
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 08/11/2024
vital political priority to get blue states to stop refusing to build housing. not only giving up electoral college votes to the GOP but clearly pushing many people to the right
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
Yes on Prop 1, no on Prop 2-6
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Open New York @opennewyork.org · 18/10/2024
RSVP here for Tuesday!!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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City of Yes City Council Hearing
🏠 Show Your Support for City of Yes! 🏠 YES to more Housing ! The City of Yes initiative seeks to update zoning regulations and promote the development of the housing that is essential for New Yorke...
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Urban Nomad @theurbannomad.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
Finally made the move, hope this site lives up to the hype
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Luke Lavanway @yimbyfortgreene.bsky.social · 06/10/2024
A few good accounts still holding out on twitter, though!
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #311,851, Luke ‪@lukeywave.bsky.social‬, joined on Jul 16, 2023"
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
It's ... almost like supply and demand work!
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