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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw

@amoralorealis.bsky.social

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Game dev, pro-housing activist. she/her

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · Nov 20

One reason I left Twitter was because of the nonstop (in-) fighting between the centre/centre left and the left in housing circles. In an effort to build a bridge early on here, I’m going to talk about my experience, both lived, and as an academic/activist. To kick things off: zoning is racist.

An image from an old newspaper, showing a “white workingman” living with his pretty daughter in a house, juxtaposed to a Chinese man smoking opium in a two-story apartment. The caption reads, “the unanswerable argument.”

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you! I’m really proud of it

Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 5d

Sigh, municipalities and their quest to make housing have a sin tax 🤨

Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 6d

That’s great! What’s the best part about it?

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 6d

My #dota2 Drow Ranger cosplay is finally done! Unfortunately missed the #TI14 cosplay contest due to Covid but hopefully will compete sometime in the future.

Me in a Drow Ranger cosplay shooting a glowy bow

Drow ranger cosplay with a bright moon background effect

Close-up of my Drow Ranger cosplay’s light blue makeup

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 14d

🤷🏻‍♀️ housing is an issue that goes far beyond the US.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15d

The BS asymmetry principle: The amount of energy needed to refute BS is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

Thank you to every science communicator who is doing the almost impossible work of countering misinformation every day. Every single one of you is saving lives!

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 14d

Quite simply, YIMBYs do advocate for housing abundance. The capital-A Abundance thing is a very recent and more specific phenomenon in the long history of housing advocacy. I can understand where there could be confusion.

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 14d

I think they’re reacting less to your nimbyism and more to your caricaturization of them, but meh. Let’s focus on policy folks.

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 14d

Indeed it’s funny to me that anyone thinks us YIMBYs who want to unban housing and regulate cars more (because of the pollution+other dangers) are at all aligned with environmental deregulation.

Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 14d

Sounds like we agree then. I don’t have much comment on whatever the abundance agenda may or may not be, and don’t think B-tier “abundance” celebs are actually leaders. What is actually being advocated for in my local policy circles is what I describe.

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 14d

Hi, environmental policy expert here. It is MUCH more effective to build policy to limit the pollution directly, than it is to limit what housing can be built near pollution.

Ban the pollution, don’t ban the housing. Not hard.

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 17d

First homebuyer problems in Van… it’s pretty sad that about 70% of the housing options I can afford would basically require me to also get a car to commute to work 🙃 and it’s allegedly a buyer’s market! I have more options than usual…

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 20d

City policy that forces LOTS of poor to middle income people right next to polluted arterial roads is utterly shit policy and our mayor and party in power should be ashamed of themselves

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 20d

Semi-regular reminder that “luxury condo” BS notwithstanding, poorer people live in higher density housing and richer people live in low density housing. This shouldn’t be surprising ofc since low density requires lots of land and thus it’s expensive.

Metro Van household income by type of housing. Data shows higher density houses poorer people.

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 20d

This is so disappointing. This means us poorer folks that can’t afford luxury detached housing is still artificially blocked from nice quiet streets by archaic city zoning.

OneCity Vancouver @onecityvan.bsky.social · 21d

Ken Sim and ABC have voted to bury Lucy Maloney’s motion that would have brought six floors and corner stores to side streets across Vancouver, unlocking thousands of family-friendly homes.

ABC VOTES TO KEEP YOU STUCK ON NOISY, BUSY STREETS

Governing party votes to bury motion that would have unlocked thousands of family-friendly homes on quiet streets

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 26d

When house owners talk about how they bought houses due to the "small neighborhood feel" what they mean is "a place where I don't have to see or tolerate renters" because renters are relegated to busy, filthy arterials outside those "small," "quaint" neighborhoods where they own property.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Aug 29

The Climate Systems Engineering initiative (CSEi) at the University of Chicago is seeking postdoctoral researchers interested in marine carbon dioxide removal to start in a year. 🌊🧪

Annual salary: $90,000/year
Research and travel funding: $10,000/year
Relation assistance: $3,000

CSEi Postdoctoral Researchers Position

climateengineering.uchicago.edu

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · Aug 23

I’m sorry but I refuse to educate people on reading charts on my day off. Go mansplain to a different data analyst, thanks.

Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · Aug 23

Yeah, really unfortunate. It’s funny to me, in Japan some of the most affordable housing is right next to train tracks (cause the noise lowers prices)

Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · Aug 23

Ugh, the latter could not be less true. Anyway, going to bow out, this convo is going nowhere and I have better things to do. Good day.

Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · Aug 23

No, all wealth matters, not just the 0.01%.

Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · Aug 23

Sigh. I strongly suggest you actually approach the urbanist research in the climate coalition with a modicum of curiosity. It’s very well established at this point.

Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · Aug 23

Anyway, I’m not someone you need to convince for wealth taxes, I fight for more redistribution all the time. AND we need to build new housing and buildings that don’t promote a car-centric lifestyle.

Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · Aug 23

It’s pretty funny how people overlook how much wealth actually is tied up in land. Just the land of one middling city like Vancouver is too expensive for even Zuckerberg or Bezos to buy. For many millionaires, it’s a huge proportion of their wealth. Which makes sense because it’s tax-advantaged.

Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · Aug 23

It’s pretty disappointing to see people who genuinely believe we must work to end climate change, yet actively fight against the need to build new things like denser/greener homes outside of wildfire zones. Reducing VMT is so fucking critical.