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Paavo Monkkonen
@elpaavo.bsky.social
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Housing scholar - California, Mexico, France, Hong Kong

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Paavo Monkkonen @elpaavo.bsky.social · 1d
Omg amazing thank you!

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Paavo Monkkonen @elpaavo.bsky.social · 1d
I found another one!

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Paavo Monkkonen @elpaavo.bsky.social · 2d
Paris to Madrid in 6h woah como???
ec.europa.eu European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 10d
We’re launching a bold plan to make high-speed rail the fastest, more sustainable way to travel across Europe by 2040.

It’s a concrete timeline to remove bottlenecks, unlock investment, and harmonise rail systems ⬇️
A map of Europe titled “High-speed rail plan” showing future high-speed train connections and travel times. Green lines represent future new connections, and magenta lines represent future train travel times. Major cities are marked with circles and connected by these lines. Examples of travel times include: Lisbon–Madrid (3h), Paris–Brussels (1h15), Paris–Rome (6h), Berlin–Warsaw (4h15), Berlin–Prague (2h30), Berlin–Vienna (4h30), Berlin–Budapest (6h15), Berlin–Stockholm (4h), Riga–Tallinn (1h45), Vilnius–Riga (2h), Sofia–Athens (6h). The map includes the EC logo in the bottom right corner.

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Paavo Monkkonen @elpaavo.bsky.social · 3d
Parabens to the Fundacao Joao Pinheiro! panel is on now, here’s the English feed: m.youtube.com/watch?v=BL7x...
(tradução) 2º dia - Seminário internacional 30 anos da pesquisa do Déficit Habitacional no Brasil
YouTube video by Fundação João Pinheiro Oficial
m.youtube.com

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Paavo Monkkonen @elpaavo.bsky.social · 3d
Most famous person to pass beyond the veil in Santa Monica ? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
Before Bad Bunny, the World Had Juan Gabriel
www.nytimes.com

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Paavo Monkkonen @elpaavo.bsky.social · 3d
Noooooooooo

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Paavo Monkkonen @elpaavo.bsky.social · 3d
with everything going on, don't you want to zoom to a conference in Belo Horizonte tomorrow morning at 8:45 PST to hear some housing nerds talk about vacancy and deficits?

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Seminário Internacional – 30 anos da pesquisa do Déficit Habitacional no Brasil |
Referência nacional em estudos e pesquisas sobre gestão pública e desenvolvimento social, a Fundação João Pinheiro irá promover o Seminário Internacional 30 anos da Pesquisa Déficit Habitacional no Brasil nos dias 11 e 12 de novembro/2025, no Auditório do BDMG,…
fjp.mg.gov.br

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Paavo Monkkonen @elpaavo.bsky.social · 7d
Receipts! What did she say?

Reposted by Paavo Monkkonen

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UCLA Lewis Center @uclalewiscenter.bsky.social · 8d
It was a pleasure to begin our 2025-26 Housing Lecture Series with @elpaavo.bsky.social

After two years in Paris, we're thrilled to have Paavo back in LA, and enjoyed his history/analysis on French social housing. 🇫🇷🏗️ His lecture is linked below

youtu.be/t2Yp8oPIAZw
Professor Paavo Monkkonen teaching a class in a gold room in Paris. Credit: Paavo Monkkonen Paavo and family riding around the streets of Lyon during his sabbatical in France. Credit: Paavo Monkkonen

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Paavo Monkkonen @elpaavo.bsky.social · 8d
A great block! Used to bike past here a lot

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Paavo Monkkonen @elpaavo.bsky.social · 8d
How’s my hometown doing?

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 10d
We’re launching a bold plan to make high-speed rail the fastest, more sustainable way to travel across Europe by 2040.

It’s a concrete timeline to remove bottlenecks, unlock investment, and harmonise rail systems ⬇️
A map of Europe titled “High-speed rail plan” showing future high-speed train connections and travel times. Green lines represent future new connections, and magenta lines represent future train travel times. Major cities are marked with circles and connected by these lines. Examples of travel times include: Lisbon–Madrid (3h), Paris–Brussels (1h15), Paris–Rome (6h), Berlin–Warsaw (4h15), Berlin–Prague (2h30), Berlin–Vienna (4h30), Berlin–Budapest (6h15), Berlin–Stockholm (4h), Riga–Tallinn (1h45), Vilnius–Riga (2h), Sofia–Athens (6h). The map includes the EC logo in the bottom right corner.

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Paavo Monkkonen @elpaavo.bsky.social · 12d
anyone have the backstory on the revolutionary landlords of santa monica?

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Paavo Monkkonen @elpaavo.bsky.social · 13d
North Korean cold kimchi noodles at Ham Hung is great. Risk your like and bike around! One classic trip is walking / biking wilshire blvd from downtown to the beach… If you want to go to LACMA I can hook you up. Let’s grab lunch or something!

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Paavo Monkkonen @elpaavo.bsky.social · 13d
have you been here before? It’s hard to say, it’s a big city! the museum of jurassic technology is fantastic, and there’s some good food near there. Venice beach? I like small world books on the boardwalk. Walk around downtown, bradbury building maybe.

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Paavo Monkkonen @elpaavo.bsky.social · 13d
m.youtube.com/watch?v=hwSw...
Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles (1972) BBC
YouTube video by modcinema
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Paavo Monkkonen @elpaavo.bsky.social · 15d
households in LA with more car space than house space

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Paavo Monkkonen @elpaavo.bsky.social · 18d
welcome to LA! Hanging on by some painters tape

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Paavo Monkkonen @elpaavo.bsky.social · 19d
I do agree w that Monkkonen guy, feels like he‘s got beef with American urban planning

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Sending a Pointed Message Through Real Estate
“Hostile architecture is very American,” UCLA Luskin’s Paavo Monkkonen says of the phenomenon of using “spite houses” to settle scores.
luskin.ucla.edu

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Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 20d
Mexico City has a participatory budget. Usually, neighbors vote for pavement and street lighting with super low turnouts.
This year, some of the wealthiest neighborhoods voted to hire lawyers to prtoect exclusionary zoning within their boroughs 😖

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Paavo Monkkonen @elpaavo.bsky.social · 21d
Moving back to LA I sought out a walkable neighborhood. Last night two people walking on the side were killed a block from my apartment. Should I still walk here?

www.latimes.com/california/s...
Wrong-way motorist who fled on foot sought in fatal hit-and-run in Santa Monica
Santa Monica police are searching for a hit-run driver who plowed onto a busy Wilshire Boulevard sidewalk Friday night, killing two pedestrians and injuring two others.
www.latimes.com

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Paavo Monkkonen @elpaavo.bsky.social · Oct 16
do you have a guesstimate of how many total units of rezoned capacity SB79 will unlock? @idothethinking.bsky.social

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Paavo Monkkonen @elpaavo.bsky.social · Oct 16
a benevolent developer should make sure the first SB79 project in a single family neighborhood is a pretty building… prettier than ai can generate of course

Reposted by Laurent Dubois, Paavo Monkkonen, Patrick Stokes

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hucksgiving @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · Oct 12
In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”
Members of the force's sports squad, responsible - among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access. Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said. Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs". There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said. A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said. "The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there." Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Paavo Monkkonen @elpaavo.bsky.social · Oct 10
looks familiar, probably in the Confluence? pretty sure I see the Pont Raymond-Barre in the background

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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · Oct 9
Ice breaker specialist Mikko Suominen (!!) warns about the crucial importance of continuing intense ice breaker R&D efforts to maintain Finland’s leadership in ice breaker technology.

www.is.fi/taloussanoma...
Asiantuntijalta varoitus Suomen jättidiilistä
Meritekniikan asiantuntija muistuttaa jatkuvan tutkimuksen tärkeydestä.
www.is.fi

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Paavo Monkkonen @elpaavo.bsky.social · Oct 6
Did someone say social housing? If you're in LA, I'll be talking about my research on French social housing on Oct 29th. I'll present early results from a project with Florence Goffette-Nagot & Romain Durand on why some landlords build so much more than others...

www.lewis.ucla.edu/event/learni...
Learning From Social Housing Production in France - UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
www.lewis.ucla.edu

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Paavo Monkkonen @elpaavo.bsky.social · Oct 4
someone should make a Luskin law tracker

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Paavo Monkkonen @elpaavo.bsky.social · Sep 17
best birthday message #sncf #grandvoyageur #chemindefer #garedelyon

Reposted by Paavo Monkkonen

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Shane Phillips @shanedphillips.bsky.social · Sep 10
New episode, new mini-series! For this first entry in our Incentives Series, we invited @holz-bau.bsky.social to discuss his recent book, Building for People. Yes, that means we're talking single-stair reform. www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/09/10/9...
Episode 97: Single-Stair Buildings and Eco-Districts with Michael Eliason (Incentives Series, pt. 1) - UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
We discuss Michael's recent book, Building for People, with a focus on single-stair building code reform and eco-district redevelopment.
www.lewis.ucla.edu