ched
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urban planning grad student @ the robert moses school of planning. based in seattle (kinda)
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everyone involved in this--from that nameless fuckface guard to john roberts himself--should spend their rest of their lives in prison
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
everyone involved in this--from that nameless fuckface guard to john roberts himself--should spend their rest of their lives in prison
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talking to the lady on the bus about stancil vs housing bluesky with increasing excitement about the points made on both sides until she unloads a whole can of pepper spray directly at my face
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
talking to the lady on the bus about stancil vs housing bluesky with increasing excitement about the points made on both sides until she unloads a whole can of pepper spray directly at my face
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Unpopoular opinion: these looser rules for buildings with more units are too cute by half, and are weaponizing affordability concerns in the service of NIMBYism
May 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Unpopoular opinion: these looser rules for buildings with more units are too cute by half, and are weaponizing affordability concerns in the service of NIMBYism
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Every single person with their hands on the “housing cost driver” elephant manages to convince themselves that their cost driver doesn’t matter because it’s marginal.
“It’s not CEQA! Market conditions changed! Building costs are high!” But everything adds up!
“It’s not CEQA! Market conditions changed! Building costs are high!” But everything adds up!
April 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Every single person with their hands on the “housing cost driver” elephant manages to convince themselves that their cost driver doesn’t matter because it’s marginal.
“It’s not CEQA! Market conditions changed! Building costs are high!” But everything adds up!
“It’s not CEQA! Market conditions changed! Building costs are high!” But everything adds up!
sorry didn’t post live posts but i did finally finish today….
gonna start reading gravity’s rainbow over winter break. tune in for some live posts.
March 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
sorry didn’t post live posts but i did finally finish today….
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Futurewise, a statewide pro-housing/anti-sprawl organization, is one of the prime advocates of rent stabilization in Washington State and one of the very many reasons it stands a chance this legislative session.
"yimby" types are not progressive in any way. 90% of them would kill rent control and every tenant legal protection for a 1% drop in rent
March 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Futurewise, a statewide pro-housing/anti-sprawl organization, is one of the prime advocates of rent stabilization in Washington State and one of the very many reasons it stands a chance this legislative session.
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Absolutely. Political economy is completely absent from these conversations! I support “abundance” but pundits haven’t engaged with actual existing politics and frankly offer no real roadmap to get us there.
i am quite sympathetic to the "abundance agenda" — we are a wealthy country! — but if the goal is to reshape the political order than i think its advocates need a vision for the constitutional order as well as a vision for public policy (cont.)
The Political Fight of the Century
For the first time in decades, America has a chance to define its next political order. Trump offers fear, retribution, and scarcity. Liberals can stand for abundance.
www.theatlantic.com
March 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Absolutely. Political economy is completely absent from these conversations! I support “abundance” but pundits haven’t engaged with actual existing politics and frankly offer no real roadmap to get us there.
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RHNA is a PvP server where local governments pay consultants to lie to state regulators and regulators mostly let them. It produces very little housing. It pales in comparison to ADU reforms.
March 12, 2025 at 5:33 AM
RHNA is a PvP server where local governments pay consultants to lie to state regulators and regulators mostly let them. It produces very little housing. It pales in comparison to ADU reforms.
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Basically every single left org in the month after Feb 24, 2022 was saying one of the following:
1. This was caused by NATO expansion
2. Ukraine needs to surrender to save their own lives
3. The Russian and Ukrainian people need to pick a secret third thing and overthrow their capitalist leaders
1. This was caused by NATO expansion
2. Ukraine needs to surrender to save their own lives
3. The Russian and Ukrainian people need to pick a secret third thing and overthrow their capitalist leaders
This was always the thing that blew my mind about people who were against Ukraine “from the left.” That conflict is entirely reducible to “the strong gets to take what it wants and the weak can only prevent harm to itself* through submission.”
*lol not really
*lol not really
March 2, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Basically every single left org in the month after Feb 24, 2022 was saying one of the following:
1. This was caused by NATO expansion
2. Ukraine needs to surrender to save their own lives
3. The Russian and Ukrainian people need to pick a secret third thing and overthrow their capitalist leaders
1. This was caused by NATO expansion
2. Ukraine needs to surrender to save their own lives
3. The Russian and Ukrainian people need to pick a secret third thing and overthrow their capitalist leaders
feeling a deep urge to get into riichi mahjong
March 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
feeling a deep urge to get into riichi mahjong
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Yes, *and* there are a lot of reforms -- state and local -- that can reduce bureaucracy in the planning and housing approval process. City planners spend so much time managing meetings about projects their cities' plans already say they want, entitlements that could go straight to permitting, etc.
The state of California built an entire statewide bureaucracy to regulate land use within a year like ~8 years ago. HCD was a minor agency with little real power and they hired like 1,000 people almost over night. Staffing up agencies isn’t not difficult but the idea it’s impossible is silly.
all of the stuff which people say will take decades to build is stuff which, when you look at it, was built in a couple decades.
March 1, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Yes, *and* there are a lot of reforms -- state and local -- that can reduce bureaucracy in the planning and housing approval process. City planners spend so much time managing meetings about projects their cities' plans already say they want, entitlements that could go straight to permitting, etc.
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I think the “Mod v Prog” split falls apart on housing stuff. Moderates and progressives are both terrible on housing in kind of similar ways tbh.
There are also good mods/ progs on housing, but they’re in the minority.
There are also good mods/ progs on housing, but they’re in the minority.
One thing we need to come to grips with as we rebuild a better Democratic Party is that in Blue States, the biggest impediment to progress at the state and local level is not Republicans but leftists and "progressives."
this is everything wrong with NYC politics in a nutshell: the ostensibly-progressive “Working Families Party” is endorsing Chris Marte, a hardcore NIMBY who has sided with Trump against congestion pricing. truly pathetic
February 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I think the “Mod v Prog” split falls apart on housing stuff. Moderates and progressives are both terrible on housing in kind of similar ways tbh.
There are also good mods/ progs on housing, but they’re in the minority.
There are also good mods/ progs on housing, but they’re in the minority.
i'm the perfect balance between market urbanist and left yimby
February 24, 2025 at 1:50 AM
i'm the perfect balance between market urbanist and left yimby
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Hard to miss how many admin positions also float in far left waters:
- vaccine skepticism
- attacking antidepressants
- cutting the military by 50%
- parlaying on Atlanticism with Russia
- red-brownism
- producerism / anti-consumerism
- liquidationism
- anti-PMC vibes
- hating low rates
- vaccine skepticism
- attacking antidepressants
- cutting the military by 50%
- parlaying on Atlanticism with Russia
- red-brownism
- producerism / anti-consumerism
- liquidationism
- anti-PMC vibes
- hating low rates
i genuinely think 2024 is probably best seen as a realignment of institutionalists vs cranks, and unfortunately america has a crank epidemic
Yeah I'm not surprised in the least a blog of McCain campaign alums is more anti Trump than a washed Ev-psych racist faux contrarianism. Crank realignment. We got the Grumps.
February 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Hard to miss how many admin positions also float in far left waters:
- vaccine skepticism
- attacking antidepressants
- cutting the military by 50%
- parlaying on Atlanticism with Russia
- red-brownism
- producerism / anti-consumerism
- liquidationism
- anti-PMC vibes
- hating low rates
- vaccine skepticism
- attacking antidepressants
- cutting the military by 50%
- parlaying on Atlanticism with Russia
- red-brownism
- producerism / anti-consumerism
- liquidationism
- anti-PMC vibes
- hating low rates
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Land value tax would fix this www.businessinsider.com/over-half-of...
62 families own a surprisingly large chunk of US land, and much of it has been passed down since the 19th century
Over half of the top 100 private landowners in the US have held the bulk of their property for at least two generations.
www.businessinsider.com
February 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Land value tax would fix this www.businessinsider.com/over-half-of...
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More and more evidence is emerging that modest fourplex-level upzonings don’t result in new construction and higher densities, 6+ units per parcel, are the bare minimum to see any missing middle housing to be built. This is especially true in a place like California where land values are so high.
Over @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, my new research on the financial feasibility of small-scale apartment buildings.
Right now, high land costs & high debt costs combine to make duplexes & triplexes really difficult to build.
Cities need to enable 5, 6, 7+ unit buildings if they want more housing.
Right now, high land costs & high debt costs combine to make duplexes & triplexes really difficult to build.
Cities need to enable 5, 6, 7+ unit buildings if they want more housing.
Small Apartment Buildings Can Help Address Housing Shortages, but High Land Costs and Interest Rates Are Limiting Construction
Recent zoning reforms intended to encourage more duplexes and triplexes have underperformed because high land costs and interest rates mean single-family homes are often still more profitable.
www.urban.org
February 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
More and more evidence is emerging that modest fourplex-level upzonings don’t result in new construction and higher densities, 6+ units per parcel, are the bare minimum to see any missing middle housing to be built. This is especially true in a place like California where land values are so high.
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ADUs are the only state reform that has lead to any significant increases in housing production in CA. They are: by right, have no affordability requirements, and are not subject to the commercial building code.
Worth reflecting on for policymakers imo.
Worth reflecting on for policymakers imo.
February 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
ADUs are the only state reform that has lead to any significant increases in housing production in CA. They are: by right, have no affordability requirements, and are not subject to the commercial building code.
Worth reflecting on for policymakers imo.
Worth reflecting on for policymakers imo.
if i beg really hard will someone give me an internship for the summer
February 9, 2025 at 1:13 AM
if i beg really hard will someone give me an internship for the summer
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Urbanists advocate for missing middle housing without adopting "large is bad" framing of anti-housing advocates (e.g. "gentle density").
Difficulty level: apparently quite hard!
Difficulty level: apparently quite hard!
February 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Urbanists advocate for missing middle housing without adopting "large is bad" framing of anti-housing advocates (e.g. "gentle density").
Difficulty level: apparently quite hard!
Difficulty level: apparently quite hard!
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Seattle’s tree preservation movement was never about trees. It was always about preserving low-density zoning and abundant curbside parking.
February 4, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Seattle’s tree preservation movement was never about trees. It was always about preserving low-density zoning and abundant curbside parking.
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we are experiencing a Kaleckian reaction to a relatively brief period of full employment and worker power. one fascinating thing about this is that a bunch of people who identify as workers but who act primarily as consumers and bosses to servants hate this too.
going all-in on the theory that the doncic trade is part of a much larger culture-wide attempt of management shifting power to itself even when it doesn't make business sense
No but seriously, why did the Mavericks trade Luka Doncic? defector.com/no-but-serio...
February 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
we are experiencing a Kaleckian reaction to a relatively brief period of full employment and worker power. one fascinating thing about this is that a bunch of people who identify as workers but who act primarily as consumers and bosses to servants hate this too.
they should make a film like la chinoise but instead of mao they’re really into francis fukuyama
February 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
they should make a film like la chinoise but instead of mao they’re really into francis fukuyama
im bleeding out in the marketplace of ideas, if you even care
January 30, 2025 at 5:41 AM
im bleeding out in the marketplace of ideas, if you even care
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You thought design review is bad now? In the 1920s, an East Bay Ku Klux Klan threatened an Albany store owner because he painted his grocery store red.
January 29, 2025 at 4:09 AM
You thought design review is bad now? In the 1920s, an East Bay Ku Klux Klan threatened an Albany store owner because he painted his grocery store red.
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Any YIMBYs who offer up collaboration as a legitimate option will be on my shitlist until the end of time.
You’d have to be a total moron if you think the Nazi crypto hawkers are offering a viable path to good governance reform.
You’d have to be a total moron if you think the Nazi crypto hawkers are offering a viable path to good governance reform.
A message to Jen Pahlka, Noah Smith, et al: You cannot work with Elon Musk and oppose American fascism. DOGE will never be a vehicle for accomplishing your public policy goals. There are no upsides to collaboration. resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/you-still-...
You Still Don't Have to Hand it to DOGE
Another response to Jen Pahlka
resnikoff.beehiiv.com
January 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Any YIMBYs who offer up collaboration as a legitimate option will be on my shitlist until the end of time.
You’d have to be a total moron if you think the Nazi crypto hawkers are offering a viable path to good governance reform.
You’d have to be a total moron if you think the Nazi crypto hawkers are offering a viable path to good governance reform.