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how can we stroppy strangers live together without doing each other too much violence? | homes not highways | born 350ppm | still got hope so i think we’ll be fine in these disastrous times | he/they | www.amb.fyi
📍st johns, pdx
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and i think all of us should follow Mayor Kebler's lead in talking about how renters win when landlords have to compete with each other due to greater housing supply
November 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
and i think all of us should follow Mayor Kebler's lead in talking about how renters win when landlords have to compete with each other due to greater housing supply
the mayor's got the neighborhood associations and a bunch of other grumps all wigged out and they're submitting a gajillion comments, if you support the morillo amendment you should probably drop a quick note of support, electeds near to hear from you:
www.portland.gov/council/docu...
www.portland.gov/council/docu...
Adopt the FY 2025-26 Fall Supplemental Budget and make other budget related changes
www.portland.gov
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
the mayor's got the neighborhood associations and a bunch of other grumps all wigged out and they're submitting a gajillion comments, if you support the morillo amendment you should probably drop a quick note of support, electeds near to hear from you:
www.portland.gov/council/docu...
www.portland.gov/council/docu...
good organizing/relationship building can be done virtually, to be clear, but giving people belonging and community sure seems to be the antidote to despair
November 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
good organizing/relationship building can be done virtually, to be clear, but giving people belonging and community sure seems to be the antidote to despair
which to be clear I’d say is true of most YIMBY groups as well
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
which to be clear I’d say is true of most YIMBY groups as well
yes, absolutely.
in normative american housing advocacy we need to usurp municipal power to demand communities add more housing. in normative transportation advocacy we need to usurp state power to demand communities get to build sidewalks/transit/whatever instead of dumping billions into highways
in normative american housing advocacy we need to usurp municipal power to demand communities add more housing. in normative transportation advocacy we need to usurp state power to demand communities get to build sidewalks/transit/whatever instead of dumping billions into highways
November 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
yes, absolutely.
in normative american housing advocacy we need to usurp municipal power to demand communities add more housing. in normative transportation advocacy we need to usurp state power to demand communities get to build sidewalks/transit/whatever instead of dumping billions into highways
in normative american housing advocacy we need to usurp municipal power to demand communities add more housing. in normative transportation advocacy we need to usurp state power to demand communities get to build sidewalks/transit/whatever instead of dumping billions into highways
please resign, i'm begging you
November 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
please resign, i'm begging you
somewhat out of scope for Max's piece but nonetheless still relevant or important to me at least, i do appreciate @strongtowns.org's particular explicit antipathy for state highway departments, even if ST is not constitutionally "activist" in their advocacy for structural municipalist reforms
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
somewhat out of scope for Max's piece but nonetheless still relevant or important to me at least, i do appreciate @strongtowns.org's particular explicit antipathy for state highway departments, even if ST is not constitutionally "activist" in their advocacy for structural municipalist reforms
it helps that portland seems blessed with a good local ST chapter
November 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
it helps that portland seems blessed with a good local ST chapter