@dcurbanist.bsky.social
📍FFM - ❤️ DC - Firm believer in abundant housing and safe transportation
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If you liberalize zoning, a lot of housing gets built. If a lot of housing gets built, housing costs taper off.
December 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
If you liberalize zoning, a lot of housing gets built. If a lot of housing gets built, housing costs taper off.
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Downzoning was used by cities around the world to preserve neighborhood aesthetics & protect property values.
New evidence from Chicago in @findingspress.org ⏬ shows downzoning's effects over several decades:
—Massive drop in housing construction
—Higher home prices
—Increased racial segregation
New evidence from Chicago in @findingspress.org ⏬ shows downzoning's effects over several decades:
—Massive drop in housing construction
—Higher home prices
—Increased racial segregation
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...
findingspress.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Downzoning was used by cities around the world to preserve neighborhood aesthetics & protect property values.
New evidence from Chicago in @findingspress.org ⏬ shows downzoning's effects over several decades:
—Massive drop in housing construction
—Higher home prices
—Increased racial segregation
New evidence from Chicago in @findingspress.org ⏬ shows downzoning's effects over several decades:
—Massive drop in housing construction
—Higher home prices
—Increased racial segregation
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One of the biggest barriers to implementing pro-housing policy is the folk wisdom that building new market rate/mixed-income housing increases rents even though study after study shows that the opposite is the case:
building more housing lowers rents
building more housing lowers rents
Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
uhero.hawaii.edu
November 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
One of the biggest barriers to implementing pro-housing policy is the folk wisdom that building new market rate/mixed-income housing increases rents even though study after study shows that the opposite is the case:
building more housing lowers rents
building more housing lowers rents
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federal zoning codes when? (germany also)
October 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
federal zoning codes when? (germany also)
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Wear bright clothing.
October 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Wear bright clothing.
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when you de-pave streets, you don't need to land bank for new parks
Here's one of Barcelona's famous superillas, or superblocks, on Rocafort-Consell de Cent. All of this used to be asphalt and space for moving and storing cars. Now it's green, quiet, calm, and safe.
September 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
when you de-pave streets, you don't need to land bank for new parks
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Incredible animation. No notes.
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[from Reddit]
September 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Incredible animation. No notes.
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[from Reddit]
The difference is night and day
September 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The difference is night and day
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this is actually my great frustration of walking around in new york.
I was walking down a street in New York and I thought how lovely it was, with the trees and the light. Tried to take a photo and this came out. It’s incredible how blind we become to the ugliness of cars. They really do mess things up. Yet somehow we manage to filter them out.
September 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
this is actually my great frustration of walking around in new york.
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94% of Parisians live within a 5-minute walk of a bakery. My kingdom for urbanism this good in the US.
September 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
94% of Parisians live within a 5-minute walk of a bakery. My kingdom for urbanism this good in the US.
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Some news: This winter Team Oonee is launching NYC's first Dutch-Style🚲 parking hub in Brooklyn's Sunset Park. The Hub will provide free parking for 100+ bikes/scooters, and will include safe charging, and appt based repairs + lite service. This will make history in several ways.
More deets in 🧵👇🏾
More deets in 🧵👇🏾
September 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Some news: This winter Team Oonee is launching NYC's first Dutch-Style🚲 parking hub in Brooklyn's Sunset Park. The Hub will provide free parking for 100+ bikes/scooters, and will include safe charging, and appt based repairs + lite service. This will make history in several ways.
More deets in 🧵👇🏾
More deets in 🧵👇🏾
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Between June 2024 and June 2025, home prices in America fell in metro areas where available housing inventories increased from June 2019 levels. Prices rose in metro areas where inventory is still below June 2019 levels.
@harvard-jchs.bsky.social
@harvard-jchs.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Between June 2024 and June 2025, home prices in America fell in metro areas where available housing inventories increased from June 2019 levels. Prices rose in metro areas where inventory is still below June 2019 levels.
@harvard-jchs.bsky.social
@harvard-jchs.bsky.social
This is my politics.
September 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This is my politics.
As someone who works in the FinCrime space, this is pretty laughable because the DOD has absolutely zero jurisdiction here. DOJ, Treasury, FinCen? Sure. DOD? Absolutely not.
US DefSec Hegseth: US going on offense to ensure cartels can't be funded. -Fox News
September 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
As someone who works in the FinCrime space, this is pretty laughable because the DOD has absolutely zero jurisdiction here. DOJ, Treasury, FinCen? Sure. DOD? Absolutely not.
BLUESKY NOW HAS A BOOKMARK FUNCTION
September 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
BLUESKY NOW HAS A BOOKMARK FUNCTION
Famously no FBI informant has ever participated in the crimes that they were informing upon, just ask anyone from Boston.
September 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Famously no FBI informant has ever participated in the crimes that they were informing upon, just ask anyone from Boston.
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We need cheap rent so idiosyncratic weirdos can make a living pursuing their passions.
Call it Anti-Industrial Policy: we need is a suite of policies to nudge Americans to own and operate more little public-facing businesses. Speciality shops. Six-seater bars. Esoteric services. Restaurants serving two or three dishes. It would lower overall productivity and increase quality of life.
September 3, 2025 at 5:43 AM
We need cheap rent so idiosyncratic weirdos can make a living pursuing their passions.
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People who oppose new housing constitute a pro landlord lobby
September 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
People who oppose new housing constitute a pro landlord lobby
My German girlfriend started going to school without her parents when she was 6. She either walked with friends or took the bus (normal bus, there were no school buses) or tram.
American suburbia is unsustainable and makes people miserable
American suburbia is unsustainable and makes people miserable
I tracked down source of a TikTok i saw about horrific car pick up lane in a Tennessee school district. And it is true. Parents arriving by noon to wait in line for hours, doordashing food as they wait, etc.
www.wbir.com/article/traf...
www.wbir.com/article/traf...
Traffic near Loudon County schools stirs frustration, raises safety concerns with few immediate fixes
For years, school drop off and pickup lines at Eaton Elementary and North Middle School have frustrated drivers, backing up traffic on two highways.
www.wbir.com
September 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
My German girlfriend started going to school without her parents when she was 6. She either walked with friends or took the bus (normal bus, there were no school buses) or tram.
American suburbia is unsustainable and makes people miserable
American suburbia is unsustainable and makes people miserable
“People from other states shouldn’t be allowed to move here” is just a localized version of Trump’s “build the wall” immigration policy
it’s kind of annoying how complaining about transplants has become the new hipster xenophobia
September 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
“People from other states shouldn’t be allowed to move here” is just a localized version of Trump’s “build the wall” immigration policy
I remember reading a stat that was something along the lines of 25% of DC residents live in a historic district, both of those 25% about 80% are white. Historic preservation is just segregation preservation
Even in DC, which has many old-ass buildings that might be historic for a variety of reasons, historic preservation is mostly bullshit.
This is why every neighborhood tries to get historic designation, to stop housing. And if you think I’m exaggerating please find the true genuine example I will gladly admit I was wrong
August 31, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I remember reading a stat that was something along the lines of 25% of DC residents live in a historic district, both of those 25% about 80% are white. Historic preservation is just segregation preservation
This ad is going to make me the Joker
August 31, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This ad is going to make me the Joker
God I wish BlueSky had a bookmark function
August 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
God I wish BlueSky had a bookmark function
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Behold the power of single stair
August 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Behold the power of single stair