Emily Hamilton

My biggest source for optimism is that U.S. HUD code housing does have real cost savings compared to site-built of the same size and quality.

And also, George Romney biopic when??

The code works, the construction methods work, and today we're all living in higher quality housing that's 30% less expensive to build.

I think @mattyglesias.bsky.social should write an alternative history of Operation Breakthrough where HUD works with Disney, building on Disney's performance-based building code that it developed for Reedy Creek.

A History of Operation Breakthrough Many who look at the high and rising cost of housing see the problem as fundamentally one of production methods; more specifically, that homes could be built more cheaply if they were made using facto...

Nice new piece by Brian Potter on what went wrong with Operation Breakthrough, including this kind of scary anecdote: open.substack.com/pub/construc...

Oh I’m just talking about the influencers

I am literally putting on leggings for a bike ride as a type this. MAHA, please come up with nice modal leggings or something.

MAHA’s strongest point is on the benefits of natural fibers. Not because of ~toxins~ but because we the people are sick and tired of nylon and we’re not gonna take it anymore.

This has some planning commission action

They need to pause in the middle of each incident on this show with a QR code to the relevant ordinance/plat map/etc.

Well that was actually the golden age of land use regulation

Perhaps reasonable

Neighbors on HBO: hell yeah a whole reality show about land use disputes

Colorado man advocating for traffic light dies in crash at same intersection where wife was killed A man who spent two years pushing for a traffic light at the Cherry Hills–Greenwood Village intersection where his wife was killed in 2024 died Monday in a two‑vehicle crash at the same location.

it's really understated how horrific car killings are

He’s still in print! My oldest are 4, but I’m excited to get to those in a few years

I saw London and Paris at the store, might have to go back…

This book has delightful illustrations

This one I’m on is just unfair

This 1960 picture book did NOT foresee the great downzoning coming in 1961 😔

Senators Coons, Warren, colleagues introduce the American Homeownership Act to get homes into the hands of families Bill ends tax breaks and housing benefits for Wall Street, corporate landlords and reinvests the savings into building new housing and helping Americans achieve homeownership WILMINGTON, Del.–U.S. Sen...

"to get housing back into the hands of the American people, the bill would end tax breaks and other housing benefits for Wall Street landlords and reinvest the savings to increase the supply of affordable housing...."

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www.coons.senate.gov/news/press-r...

Mr. Eliason, who advocates allowing single-stair construction for small multifamily buildings as a solution to the housing crisis, said he learned how common the design was outside the United States while working in Germany in 2019. After seeing an 11-story tower his firm at the time had designed, Mr. Eliason recalled, he turned to his boss and said: "Something is wrong here. Where's your other stair?" "He's looking at me, and said: 'What are you talking about? If there was another stair, there wouldn't be any room for the homes'"

Single-stair gets the New York Times treatment. @holz-bau.bsky.social reminds us why they call the last line the kicker: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/b... (gift link)

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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Thrilled to be included on this list, among so many other exceptional women, including @ebwhamilton.bsky.social!
Special thanks to @aura-atx.org @yimby.town @texansforhousing.bsky.social @welcomingneighbors.us and many others for the all support & encouragement.
Housing advocates are the best 🎉

For years, I've been wondering (sometimes aloud) why Ukraine kept speaking of demands for 'territorial' concessions and not 'abandoning real people to authoritarian foreign occupation' concessions. Glad to see this important change in framing of the choices being forced upon them by appeasers.

New UCLA Report Looks into the High Cost to Build Parking - Streetsblog Los Angeles For new apartments, the research found that building required parking adds roughly $50,000 to $100,000 per unit, and disproportionately increases the cost to build smaller apartments

"What's more expensive: a new car or a new parking space?

As of 2025 a new car costs, on average, about $50,000.

A new UCLA study finds that a new parking space, on average, costs even more."

Specifically, these figures refer to structured or underground spaces, & do NOT include the cost of land.

Yeah, “free” country we have where some places don’t let you choose your housemates. The rules that prevent this are called occupancy restrictions, and they generally set a limit on unrelated people living together.

Yes, that's a big limitation

And PadSplit provides more generalizable data about the type of affordability rooming houses can deliver: www.padsplit.com/impact/

I think allowing single-family houses to become rooming houses is an underrated tool in the housing affordability toolkit.

Like lots of young people in DC, I spent a few years of my 20s in this type of housemate situation, paying rent far below what I would have had to pay for a studio apartment.