Connecticut just adopted a MASSIVE pro-housing law that:
- Ends costly parking mandates (1st state east of the Rockies to do so)
- Incentives transit oriented development & fair share
- Allows middle housing in commercial zones
- Allows manufactured homes everywhere
Go @desegregatect.bsky.social!
Pic of Pontevedra from the air
“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)
Wow, Bremerton is on track to become WA’s 6th city to eliminate parking minimums on all new construction, citywide, after a surprise unanimous vote from the planning commission.
Brem punches above its weight in awesome.
Friendly reminder: Renters are real people (and families, and neighbors). Apartments are real homes. Almost all of us are renters at some point in our lives. Choices are good.
#Colorado has now legalized single-stair apartment buildings of up to 5 stories and removed parking mandates for multifamily housing within ¼-mile of transit.
You know what that means? A lot less need for land assembly, which is often difficult, time-consuming, and expensive.
Group of people engaged in conversation
Our “Housing Club” community meetup last Wednesday was a huge success. There was lots of great discussion among Astorians concerned about housing scarcity. It’s energizing to participate in these conversations. Many are asking what we can do at the local level to bring down the cost of housing.
Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.
5 stories
1 elevator
1 staircase
13 family-size homes, full of light, in a neighborhood-scale building in Seattle
This is the spacious & accessible future building code reformers want
crazy that an influx of dense infill housing can lower prices and make homeownership more attainable
"In 2020, [Portland, OR] approved building [middle housing] on lots zoned for single family homes... A new report from the City says, it's working. 1,400 new units built in just a few years and each one is $300,000 less expensive than a typical single family home." @nbcnews.com
Last week, Dallas changed its building code so that apartments with up to 8 units can be built under the same code as single-family homes, reducing building difficulty. For buildings up to 7500 sq ft, the change allows single-stair design, no sprinkler system, & changes to fire protection rules.
This is how 60-70% of American adults think about housing markets.
New from me in @thenation.com: A YIMBY theory of power and a rejoinder to critics who argue that YIMBYs are blind to class/corporate power www.thenation.com/article/soci...
There is no credible progressive argument against building a ton of new homes at all income levels. Opposing making it easier to build new homes isn’t progressive. It’s super conservative & an argument for a permanent shortage & permanent high rents.
