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I think this is mostly San Francisco finally shrugging off the pandemic, but it is *really* funny that rent prices in San Francisco shot up *immediately* after the city banned RealPage and other algorithmic price setting software.
My pre trends are incredible!
My pre trends are incredible!
November 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I think this is mostly San Francisco finally shrugging off the pandemic, but it is *really* funny that rent prices in San Francisco shot up *immediately* after the city banned RealPage and other algorithmic price setting software.
My pre trends are incredible!
My pre trends are incredible!
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“In medical research, there’s a practice of ending a study early when the results are too striking to ignore…When an intervention works this clearly, you change what you do.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o... (🎁🔗)
December 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
“In medical research, there’s a practice of ending a study early when the results are too striking to ignore…When an intervention works this clearly, you change what you do.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o... (🎁🔗)
The real value of Ticketmaster is in providing public relation insulation for popular artists
November 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The real value of Ticketmaster is in providing public relation insulation for popular artists
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The council member makes their opinion clear before the vote, and the applicant pulls the application if it’s not going to pass, so they don’t waste money on lawyers. Do the authors know this is a BS stat? Or maybe worse, they don’t and don’t realize how much housing they’re killing…?
November 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The council member makes their opinion clear before the vote, and the applicant pulls the application if it’s not going to pass, so they don’t waste money on lawyers. Do the authors know this is a BS stat? Or maybe worse, they don’t and don’t realize how much housing they’re killing…?
As much as the average bluesky user sucks, the CEO rocks. How did this happen?
You could try a poster’s strike. I hear that works
October 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
As much as the average bluesky user sucks, the CEO rocks. How did this happen?
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You could try a poster’s strike. I hear that works
October 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
You could try a poster’s strike. I hear that works
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that's why you bring the US flag to protests, folks
HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED
September 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
that's why you bring the US flag to protests, folks
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Getting there, but it still dedicates each bin to a specific building. We need these to be city-owned and available to all buildings, including smaller ones who can’t fill one on their own. Then owners need to be able to send residents to them directly, so they don’t need to pay supers
Mayor Adams is set to announce the expansion of containerized garbage collection to Brooklyn Community Board 2, which includes areas like Fort Greene, Cobble Hill, Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights, and Boerum Hill
September 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Getting there, but it still dedicates each bin to a specific building. We need these to be city-owned and available to all buildings, including smaller ones who can’t fill one on their own. Then owners need to be able to send residents to them directly, so they don’t need to pay supers
We should perhaps run the 7 and L OPTO
You may wait longer for a downtown [B] train.
We are running as much service as we can with the train crews that we have available.
We are running as much service as we can with the train crews that we have available.
September 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
We should perhaps run the 7 and L OPTO
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LA’s firefighter union has come out with a four-page letter opposing single-stair buildings. I’m going to respond to a few of the points within it. 🧵
September 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
LA’s firefighter union has come out with a four-page letter opposing single-stair buildings. I’m going to respond to a few of the points within it. 🧵
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The anti-OPTO bill shoved through by the TWU is bad law and Hochul should veto it.
New York City’s expansive train system currently has two-person crews on nearly all of its lines, unlike the one-person or fully automated trains in major cities like London, Paris and Washington, D.C.: https://bit.ly/4nnEhQF
September 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The anti-OPTO bill shoved through by the TWU is bad law and Hochul should veto it.
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I added to the chorus of criticism of the NYC City Council's plot to kill city charter reform, for City Journal:
www.city-journal.org/article/new-...
www.city-journal.org/article/new-...
Why is New York’s City Council Trying to End-Run Housing Reform?
The council is making a last-ditch effort to hold on to certain powers.
www.city-journal.org
September 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I added to the chorus of criticism of the NYC City Council's plot to kill city charter reform, for City Journal:
www.city-journal.org/article/new-...
www.city-journal.org/article/new-...
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If you are so blinkered to think that Mark Andreessen and Peter Thiel can never like a good idea, and so any idea they like must be cast into the fire, then you are going to make yourself stupid.
September 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
If you are so blinkered to think that Mark Andreessen and Peter Thiel can never like a good idea, and so any idea they like must be cast into the fire, then you are going to make yourself stupid.
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Astoria’s 3,200-unit Innovation QNS is dead, done in by New York’s inclusionary zoning and labor requirements. It’s not enough to just overcome anti-density NIMBYism – this city’s politicians also have to accept that they have to let the market set prices and wages if they want enough housing.
Death of 3,200-unit Innovation QNS project deals blow to city’s housing goals
Silverstein’s withdrawal from the $2 billion Astoria development jeopardizes one of the city’s biggest recent rezonings.
www.crainsnewyork.com
September 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Astoria’s 3,200-unit Innovation QNS is dead, done in by New York’s inclusionary zoning and labor requirements. It’s not enough to just overcome anti-density NIMBYism – this city’s politicians also have to accept that they have to let the market set prices and wages if they want enough housing.
New York City's Rent Stabilization system is a form of rent control.
[trying to let it go, but I can’t let it go]
IT’S NOT RENT CONTROL
a tiny, tiny sliver of NYC’s housing stock is rent controlled, an old an nearly obsolete policy. Mamdani has said many times it’s rent stabilization, which is quite common (1M apts) and different.
Cuomo should know this imho!
IT’S NOT RENT CONTROL
a tiny, tiny sliver of NYC’s housing stock is rent controlled, an old an nearly obsolete policy. Mamdani has said many times it’s rent stabilization, which is quite common (1M apts) and different.
Cuomo should know this imho!
August 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
New York City's Rent Stabilization system is a form of rent control.
@stephenjacobsmith.com
Fun one today. This shed is for that tower.
Maybe they're planning to see who can throw equipment off the top of the building the furthest?
Fun one today. This shed is for that tower.
Maybe they're planning to see who can throw equipment off the top of the building the furthest?
August 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
@stephenjacobsmith.com
Fun one today. This shed is for that tower.
Maybe they're planning to see who can throw equipment off the top of the building the furthest?
Fun one today. This shed is for that tower.
Maybe they're planning to see who can throw equipment off the top of the building the furthest?
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The 14th Street busway (2019) and congestion pricing evaporated traffic, so we worked with the Meatpacking District to install a new pedestrian promenade with five large decks, reclaiming 16,000 sq ft of space for people. If in Manhattan, go check it out and have a seat!
July 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The 14th Street busway (2019) and congestion pricing evaporated traffic, so we worked with the Meatpacking District to install a new pedestrian promenade with five large decks, reclaiming 16,000 sq ft of space for people. If in Manhattan, go check it out and have a seat!
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Something I appreciate about unions is they come right out and say it. NYC’s hotel workers’ union says the 2021 special permit requirement for new hotels (really, a ban) was to halt competition among hotels from driving down the price of a night’s stay in NYC hotelworkers.org/article/a-re...
July 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Something I appreciate about unions is they come right out and say it. NYC’s hotel workers’ union says the 2021 special permit requirement for new hotels (really, a ban) was to halt competition among hotels from driving down the price of a night’s stay in NYC hotelworkers.org/article/a-re...
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It's funny to think that fighting chain stores in cities used to be this righteous progressive cause. Sorry if it offends your aesthetic sensibilities, but quality chains are what makes a neighborhood attractive to normal people.
May 17, 2025 at 2:38 AM
It's funny to think that fighting chain stores in cities used to be this righteous progressive cause. Sorry if it offends your aesthetic sensibilities, but quality chains are what makes a neighborhood attractive to normal people.
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Eric Adams’s City of Yes rezoning is fulfilling its “a little bit more housing in every neighborhood” promise – this project looks to be 20% larger than it could’ve been before, which given the very incremental increase in density, likely made the difference between viability and not
Permits Filed for 133 Manhattan Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn - New York YIMBY
Permits have been filed to expand a three-story structure into a five-story mixed-use building at 133 Manhattan Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
newyorkyimby.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Eric Adams’s City of Yes rezoning is fulfilling its “a little bit more housing in every neighborhood” promise – this project looks to be 20% larger than it could’ve been before, which given the very incremental increase in density, likely made the difference between viability and not
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Critics of SB 79, Scott Wiener’s bill to legalize apartments near public transit, decry the high price of the “luxury” homes that would be allowed under the law.
They argue that we should build *affordable* housing instead of market rate. This common argument deserves an answer.
They argue that we should build *affordable* housing instead of market rate. This common argument deserves an answer.
April 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Critics of SB 79, Scott Wiener’s bill to legalize apartments near public transit, decry the high price of the “luxury” homes that would be allowed under the law.
They argue that we should build *affordable* housing instead of market rate. This common argument deserves an answer.
They argue that we should build *affordable* housing instead of market rate. This common argument deserves an answer.
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You all know I love the inspirational power of a great “before & after” street or place transformation. Here’s a before, middle and after transformation, showing the temporary and then permanent changes. The evolution of a school street in Bratislava, Slovakia, HT @holz-bau.bsky.social. Very smart.
March 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
You all know I love the inspirational power of a great “before & after” street or place transformation. Here’s a before, middle and after transformation, showing the temporary and then permanent changes. The evolution of a school street in Bratislava, Slovakia, HT @holz-bau.bsky.social. Very smart.
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Scaling fines to income is reasonable but to me the main thing is they need to revoke people’s licenses and seize their vehicles when they repeatedly break the rules.
This just seems like the Council’s impulse to be soft on enforcing anything at work.
This just seems like the Council’s impulse to be soft on enforcing anything at work.
NEW at @51st.news: D.C. will soon start giving low-income drivers a 50% discount on some traffic tickets. The pilot program stems from concerns that fines disproportionately hit poor residents. But there's a bigger question at play: What is the right fine for bad driving? 51st.news/discounted-s...
The fine line: Should low-income drivers pay less when they break the law?
This spring, D.C. is piloting a program offering low-income drivers a 50 percent discount on tickets from traffic cameras.
51st.news
February 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Scaling fines to income is reasonable but to me the main thing is they need to revoke people’s licenses and seize their vehicles when they repeatedly break the rules.
This just seems like the Council’s impulse to be soft on enforcing anything at work.
This just seems like the Council’s impulse to be soft on enforcing anything at work.
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obviously this is terrible for democracy and the rule of law in America
but I'm also offended on behalf of the prisoner's dilemma
but I'm also offended on behalf of the prisoner's dilemma
February 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
obviously this is terrible for democracy and the rule of law in America
but I'm also offended on behalf of the prisoner's dilemma
but I'm also offended on behalf of the prisoner's dilemma