Adam Mongrain
@adammongrain.bsky.social
Director - Housing policy | Directeur - Habitation, Vivre en Ville
Montréal, Québec
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Opening Doors | Publications | Carrefour Vivre en Ville
Consultez notre publication « Opening Doors ». Carrefour Vivre en Ville
carrefour.vivreenville.org
I wish there was a way to convey how much of a big deal this is to me, I wish you could feel it.
Our work on housing policy, condensed in a single report, has finally been translated to English. You can download it here:
carrefour.vivreenville.org/publication/...
(Click "Télécharger le PDF")
Our work on housing policy, condensed in a single report, has finally been translated to English. You can download it here:
carrefour.vivreenville.org/publication/...
(Click "Télécharger le PDF")
This was the inevitable end point of the inclusion of immigration into housing discourse.
It was predictable because it makes intuitive sense to game out the math of housing demand in terms of persons and housing supply in terms of units.
It was predictable because it makes intuitive sense to game out the math of housing demand in terms of persons and housing supply in terms of units.
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
This was the inevitable end point of the inclusion of immigration into housing discourse.
It was predictable because it makes intuitive sense to game out the math of housing demand in terms of persons and housing supply in terms of units.
It was predictable because it makes intuitive sense to game out the math of housing demand in terms of persons and housing supply in terms of units.
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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IT GOT BETTER
📍Central MN
📍Central MN
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 AM
IT GOT BETTER
📍Central MN
📍Central MN
This feels so extravagant that I’m anticipating a @besttrousers.bsky.social thread detailing how I don’t actually understand what a median is.
THE MEDIAN AGE OF A U.S. HOME BUYER NOW SITS AT A RECORD HIGH OF 61 YEARS, PER NAR.
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This feels so extravagant that I’m anticipating a @besttrousers.bsky.social thread detailing how I don’t actually understand what a median is.
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Single-Stair Sickos might like to learn that a lot of European cities used to produce detailed books on their built environment, including complete floor plans.
Here's a snippet from Hamburg und Seine Bauten (1914)
Here's a snippet from Hamburg und Seine Bauten (1914)
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Single-Stair Sickos might like to learn that a lot of European cities used to produce detailed books on their built environment, including complete floor plans.
Here's a snippet from Hamburg und Seine Bauten (1914)
Here's a snippet from Hamburg und Seine Bauten (1914)
This (low-cost housing appreciating much faster than high-cost housing) keeps happening and I cannot recommend this @urbaninsideout.bsky.social enough if you want to make sense of it.
www.urban.org/sites/defaul...
www.urban.org/sites/defaul...
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This (low-cost housing appreciating much faster than high-cost housing) keeps happening and I cannot recommend this @urbaninsideout.bsky.social enough if you want to make sense of it.
www.urban.org/sites/defaul...
www.urban.org/sites/defaul...
This is why we make a point of spelling this out very plainly every time we talk about climate and housing policies.
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This is why we make a point of spelling this out very plainly every time we talk about climate and housing policies.
The pain of not being able to share this joke with all of my offline friends since they wouldn't get it.
November 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The pain of not being able to share this joke with all of my offline friends since they wouldn't get it.
I had an inflated sense of my autonomy and intelligence when I was 15, and I don't like getting old but I sure am happy that all of these rackets came online *after* I'd learned how I can't actually just trust my gut for important decisions.
we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
November 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I had an inflated sense of my autonomy and intelligence when I was 15, and I don't like getting old but I sure am happy that all of these rackets came online *after* I'd learned how I can't actually just trust my gut for important decisions.
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It's a small graphic design detail, but the loitering guy on TTC signage is actually in front of the red slash, casually leaning against it, making him look *unbelievably* cool.
November 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
It's a small graphic design detail, but the loitering guy on TTC signage is actually in front of the red slash, casually leaning against it, making him look *unbelievably* cool.
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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My mother was the breadwinner in the family, first to get a college degree in the family, and when she was pregnant with me her boss came into her office, told her that she'd never be the same accountant again, and fired her on the spot. That was in nineteen eighty two
the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from
November 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
My mother was the breadwinner in the family, first to get a college degree in the family, and when she was pregnant with me her boss came into her office, told her that she'd never be the same accountant again, and fired her on the spot. That was in nineteen eighty two
The way people square this circle is through vacancy trutherism: there is no lack of supply right now ("capitalism has built enough housing") but if we lose rentals to ownership, the units would sit empty and so be a net loss for the current residents.
if supply weren't a factor then who cares if 100,000 units go away to conversions
November 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The way people square this circle is through vacancy trutherism: there is no lack of supply right now ("capitalism has built enough housing") but if we lose rentals to ownership, the units would sit empty and so be a net loss for the current residents.
Reminded of @mtsw.bsky.social’s point about some leftist naivety on the gilets jaunes - that the optics of popular uprising manage to convince people that it is a proletarian revolution in essence.
November 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Reminded of @mtsw.bsky.social’s point about some leftist naivety on the gilets jaunes - that the optics of popular uprising manage to convince people that it is a proletarian revolution in essence.
Movember is a plot against me and my fellow babyfaced weak-chinned dudes
November 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Movember is a plot against me and my fellow babyfaced weak-chinned dudes
They whiffed on there being elves and trolls but I'm a bit in awe about how prescient the 4th edition of Shadowrun (2005) ended up being about most other things.
October 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
They whiffed on there being elves and trolls but I'm a bit in awe about how prescient the 4th edition of Shadowrun (2005) ended up being about most other things.
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I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
I wish there was a way to convey how much of a big deal this is to me, I wish you could feel it.
Our work on housing policy, condensed in a single report, has finally been translated to English. You can download it here:
carrefour.vivreenville.org/publication/...
(Click "Télécharger le PDF")
Our work on housing policy, condensed in a single report, has finally been translated to English. You can download it here:
carrefour.vivreenville.org/publication/...
(Click "Télécharger le PDF")
Opening Doors | Publications | Carrefour Vivre en Ville
Consultez notre publication « Opening Doors ». Carrefour Vivre en Ville
carrefour.vivreenville.org
October 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I wish there was a way to convey how much of a big deal this is to me, I wish you could feel it.
Our work on housing policy, condensed in a single report, has finally been translated to English. You can download it here:
carrefour.vivreenville.org/publication/...
(Click "Télécharger le PDF")
Our work on housing policy, condensed in a single report, has finally been translated to English. You can download it here:
carrefour.vivreenville.org/publication/...
(Click "Télécharger le PDF")
Ontario's awful ideas about security of tenure are upending my blog schedule
October 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Ontario's awful ideas about security of tenure are upending my blog schedule
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well this kicks ass www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
October 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
well this kicks ass www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Videos in which we see the comforting normalcy of the sky give way to the abyss of space are awesome in the old-timey sense, i.e. they inspire awe and/or terror. About a 40-60 split for me.
If you want an actually insane (and very cool) video of a passenger in a fighter jet, I cannot recommend enough this one by Sam Eckholm
Flying the U-2 Spy Plane 70,000 Feet to the Edge of Space
YouTube video by Sam Eckholm
youtu.be
October 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Videos in which we see the comforting normalcy of the sky give way to the abyss of space are awesome in the old-timey sense, i.e. they inspire awe and/or terror. About a 40-60 split for me.
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Hi. It's me. 2 weeks later. This is done. 58 frames over 3 seconds, *50* layers in the final image. WOO. This was a long edit, felt like ACTUAL work so unless I get it again with the actual sunset I doubt I'll be editing more like this. Psyched for the final piece tho! 🪶
September 28, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Hi. It's me. 2 weeks later. This is done. 58 frames over 3 seconds, *50* layers in the final image. WOO. This was a long edit, felt like ACTUAL work so unless I get it again with the actual sunset I doubt I'll be editing more like this. Psyched for the final piece tho! 🪶
dang the AWS outage took down my last medium post and today was the day I was gonna finally hit the 18 views milestone
October 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
dang the AWS outage took down my last medium post and today was the day I was gonna finally hit the 18 views milestone