In order to facilitate housing growth and infill development, South Bend offers 27 pre-approved housing plans, ranging from single-family homes to duplexes and six-plexes. They provide site and building plans and pre-approve housing within two days. More of this.

Nobody likes billionaires.

Radicalized your neighbors, organize your workplace. Talk about your salaries to one another.

It's the oligarchs versus the rest of us. Act accordingly!

Men are being drawn in by the lies of fascists, attracted by delusions of power, and are instead receiving isolation and demands of subservience. We have to reject it all. The idea that power over others brings happiness is a lie. It brings disconnection.

My latest: www.jphilll.com/p/fascists-t...

"BuT We'Re NoT (insert European city)!"

It’s about learning from their playbook, adopting ideas and designs that work, and applying them in your own context.

Be inspired, then act.

It's not that American city leaders, planners, and engineers lack the knowledge to design and build safer, more equitable infrastructure. It's that they consistently choose not to prioritize it.

Reclaiming our communities from the car is about more than saving the planet. It’s about saving ourselves from the unsafe, unjust, unhealthy, unloveable places where we live.

Sixteen books we read this year that changed how we think about the process of building cities: an #UrbanismBookClub thread.

it's not a given that the majority of your city's new housing has to, or even needs to be, market rate housing.

“Loneliness and isolation can lead to: 29% increased risk of heart disease; 32% increased risk of stroke; 50% increased risk of developing dementia among older adults; and 60% increased risk of premature death.”

Surgeon General recommends designing cities to create more connections. #WalkableCities

#NewHampshire & #Maine good for you

@mattgerdingnh.bsky.social This is what we should be pushing for the whole of upper starting at stackpole rd while removing the suicide lane in the middle.

Apropos of nothing, we're 100% committed to universal health care for everyone.

Just thought we'd get that out there.

You want profit incentive about as far from people's health care needs as possible.

No reason why I bring this up now. Just stuff we've been thinking about.

we need a new american dream

a reset from one that is wholly unsustainable - and increasingly unattainable

to one that is focused on community, affordability, livability, climate action and adaptation.

better living through baugruppen

www.larchlab.com/baugruppen/

1-3 (the most effective) are the ones US mayors refuse to deploy

Frankly? Democratic voters love to bitch and moan about climate, homelessness, etc., but are mostly unwilling to accept the systemic changes needed to meaningfully address them because they perceive them as negatively impacting their lives

Why don't Americans have progressive attitudes toward transportation? Here are four stats:

The average American drives a car 48 minutes a day and spends over $1000/month to pay for it.

98% of Americans have never taken an intercity train.

68% have not ridden a bicycle once in the past year.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the loss of “3rd places” & what it means for children, their development, community health, & belonging. But I can’t shake the fear that this degradation of pro-social behavior has rotted out another even more important rung on the social ladder

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Highest #strawhouse wooden frame build just started in Hylle, Malmö by Kaminsky.se with ecococon.eu prefabricated #straw modules. This is rad.
#rapidlyrenewablematerial #holzbau #CO2storage #bauwende
Please copy and paste and see if your outdated national regulations will implode.

It was an honor to help @nhmarf.bsky.social today at their free store!

We help us, we protect us.

Help the effort by donating to donorbox.org/nhmarf

Your donation buys goods that go directly into the hands of the needy!

There is a deep well of empathy establishment politicians don't want to tap. Organize with your neighbors and defend your vulnerable comrades.

Liberation is never given. Always taken.