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

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."

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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

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...

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.

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.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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?

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

Come for the policy discussion, stay for the sick burns.

🛑🏠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.
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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.
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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...

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?

Great essay on "spare bedrooms" as the link b/t market-rate housing prices and rates of homelessness across cities.

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