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GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽
@georgiststeve.bsky.social
Urban economist from Aotearoa living in Seattle. Share rents. Build homes.
Is he black and blue or white and yellow?
January 23, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Would love to have you there!
January 23, 2026 at 5:11 AM
How a compliment from Ryan Packer feels:
January 23, 2026 at 4:16 AM
As an affordable housing advocate on Bainbridge Island, I can't tell you how helpful the HAA is about to be.

Our NIMBYs are going to be dragged kicking and screaming into passing a compliant Comp Plan.
January 23, 2026 at 3:26 AM
I wrote an explainer about this for my fellow Bainbridge Islanders:
open.substack.com/pub/yourewel...
Bainbridge Island gets a babysitter.
Explained: BI has been placed under HAA Selected Review. What does this mean for the Comp Plan and affordable housing?
open.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:22 AM
That was an incredibly good call now, given our descent into a papers please state.
January 23, 2026 at 3:09 AM
It does feel great, although I feel mildly like Leo DiCaprio getting the last ticket onto the Titanic.

(BTW If you do IRL stuff, let's hang out when I'm next in Princeton (around about June 12)).
January 23, 2026 at 3:02 AM
To be fair, it could also be misogyny.
January 22, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Also Trump obviously knows he's lying. Jack Smith detailed a bunch of claims that Trump continued making immediately after he had been directly told they were false by people he trusted.
January 21, 2026 at 6:14 AM
Looking Bon(i)ta
January 21, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Or if a private landowner wants to build some apartments. Suddenly they believe the entire community should get to decide.
January 20, 2026 at 6:40 PM