Greg Holtz
fuzzyfaced.bsky.social
Greg Holtz
@fuzzyfaced.bsky.social
Law/politics/food. Land back.
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Started seeing these signs pop up in some fancier neighbourhoods. Thoughts: 1. Restricting how your land can be used will hurt your land value down the line. 2. You want to fight homes for more people in a housing crisis? 3. Remember what restrictive covenants were originally for (racism). #yyc
July 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Hats off to @peterloliver.bsky.social and the Beltline Neighbourhoods Association‬ for pushing this forward:

"... results show a majority of local businesses (54 per cent) support the open streets pilot, while 36 per cent remain opposed."

www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
Survey shows Calgarians mostly support pedestrian-only 17 Avenue pilot
A new survey suggests there’s strong public support for turning a stretch of 17th Avenue S.W. into a pedestrian-only zone on weekends in the summer months, but the plan is raising red flags for some l...
www.ctvnews.ca
July 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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A decade-spanning political battle between housing developers and defenders of California’s preeminent environmental law likely came to an end this afternoon with only a smattering of “no” votes.

The forces of housing won. cal.news/44sKsuX

📸 Semantha Norris
July 1, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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The UCP is wanting to distract from their piles of disasters by coming for our Bike Lanes?? Bold move. Come out to this Town Hall hosted by @bikecalgary.bsky.social to get informed and organize with your community! #yycbike www.eventbrite.ca/e/bike-calga...
April 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.

Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling.

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.
April 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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The City of Calgary is receiving an additional $22.8 million in federal funding for exceeding housing targets.

Funding will be allocated to support housing initiatives in Calgary’s downtown and incentivize more secondary suites across the city.
calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...
Calgary receives $23-million federal funding boost for exceeding housing targets
The City of Calgary will receive an additional $22.8 million from the federal government's Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF), it announced Saturday, after exceeding targets set out in late 2023.
calgaryherald.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Calgary's Local Area Plans are being leveraged by some Council members to stir up discontent among residents and stop our city from moving forward on important issues. @thecalgaryparty.bsky.social is committed to stopping the dysfunction on Council.

calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
Calgary's Local Area Planning process is broken
Calgary's Local Area Planning process is broken
calgaryherald.com
March 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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For too long, Calgary City Hall has been stuck in gridlock — endless bickering, missed opportunities, and a failure to deliver on what Calgarians need most.

That's why @briantyyc.bsky.social is stepping up - to be your next Mayor, and build a Calgary that works.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqCF...
Calgary deserves better — and we’re ready to build it.
YouTube video by The Calgary Party
www.youtube.com
March 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
your turn, @cityofcalgary.bsky.social. i get why governments got on twitter: it was a free, popular way to communicate that didn’t require anything more than access to the Internet. X is not that: it requires a subscription and using it is in itself a politcal statement.
Looking forward to the rest of the Government of Canada to do the same and move over here.
The Supreme Court of Canada is ditching its "X" account.

www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...
February 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Being strongly pro-housing is the obvious, practical response to a shortage of homes caused by decades of exclusionary NIMBYism and enabled by policymakers’ distraction, cowardice, and hand-wringing.
Housing Shortages Create an Alternative to NIMBYism
The Yes In My Backyard movement is barely a decade old. But it has set the terms of the debate over state and local housing policy.
buff.ly
February 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Hey @cityofcalgary.bsky.social when are we going to stop using X, a subscription-only private company owned by an alt-right American oligarch, for disseminating information about public services, from C-Train updates to statements by CPS like the one in this article?
Woman critically hurt after being hit by truck in downtown Calgary
Emergency crews have closed multiple roads in downtown Calgary Friday morning after a pedestrian was hit by a vehicle.
calgary.citynews.ca
January 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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i’ll be honest, i think equating land use reform with neoliberal deregulation and building code reform with tenements is a clear indication that the anti-YIMBYs are not particularly interested in solving the problem of high housing costs
What I would've rebutted in this ending paragraph is that no society, even the USSR, abolished the housing market. As @unlearnecon.bsky.social argues, it's a waste trying to abolish markets rather than expanding public capacity. If you want to focus on that, good but its not impeded by zoning reform
January 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Come for the policy discussion, stay for the sick burns.
Please read & share widely, this debate has some real 🌶️, as well as plenty of Karl Polanyi
In DISSENT's winter issue, I make the case for left-YIMBYism in a debate with Brian Callaci and Sandeep Vaheesan www.dissentmagazine.org/article/supp...
January 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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🛑🏠In voting to block 1,100 new homes in Calgary yesterday, eight housing gatekeepers on Calgary city councillors sided with the same vocal minority of NIMBYs who previously opposed bus rapid transit to their southwest communities.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
December 6, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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My latest for @thenation.com: I spoke with three local organizers with the new Tenant Union Federation.

Each is low-income and elderly or disabled.

Their stories show how TUF is transforming the most marginalized tenants into a political class to be reckoned with.
www.thenation.com?post_type=ar...
In the US, Tenants Are Usually on Their Own. Can a New National Tenant Union Change That?
The Tenant Union Federation aims to organize tenants to improve living conditions and transform the housing market, with the aim of turning renters into a powerful political class.
www.thenation.com
December 4, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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Just as the sun always always rises in the east, Postmedia engages in rage baiting about bike lanes.
They're setting conditions for the Dani to pull a Dougie #yycbike calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
Nelson: Calgary's bike lanes are our road to ruin
Many Calgarians imagine bike lanes are a fad, only affecting downtown. Oh no they are now. The city's plan is to build them everywhere.
calgaryherald.com
December 5, 2024 at 8:33 PM
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Wondering why your rent is going up? Why owning a home in Calgary is looking further and further out of reach? Well here's why. What to make of a council that votes against thousands of homes in a prime location for no valid reason?
December 5, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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Great essay on "spare bedrooms" as the link b/t market-rate housing prices and rates of homelessness across cities.

worksinprogress.co/i...
Why housing shortages cause homelessness - Works in Progress
Why do high-cost cities have more homelessness? It's not just about rents — it’s also about the rooms friends and family can’t afford to share.
worksinprogress.co
December 5, 2024 at 4:40 PM