Seán Keyes
@quays.bsky.social
Exec Director of Progress Ireland.
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Ireland has ~1.5 million homes suitable for families. Ireland is very unlikely to ever have more than 0.8m families (with kids under 18).
Unbelievable that anyone paying attention to the housing crisis could have missed that the crisis is/will be for 1-2 person households.
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Unbelievable that anyone paying attention to the housing crisis could have missed that the crisis is/will be for 1-2 person households.
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Why new apartment standards won't mean housing more people
Half of the households in Ireland have children, yet there is no plan for where, and how, the next generations will live
www.rte.ie
September 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Ireland has ~1.5 million homes suitable for families. Ireland is very unlikely to ever have more than 0.8m families (with kids under 18).
Unbelievable that anyone paying attention to the housing crisis could have missed that the crisis is/will be for 1-2 person households.
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Unbelievable that anyone paying attention to the housing crisis could have missed that the crisis is/will be for 1-2 person households.
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
How does Bluesky feel about this one. Today An Coimisiún Pleanála upheld Fingal CC’s decision to bar DAA from demolishing disused old ramps. It said demolishing the old ramps “would diminish the visual amenity on approach to T1”
July 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
How does Bluesky feel about this one. Today An Coimisiún Pleanála upheld Fingal CC’s decision to bar DAA from demolishing disused old ramps. It said demolishing the old ramps “would diminish the visual amenity on approach to T1”
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🏙️ What if your street could vote on its own planning rules — like in Seoul & Tel Aviv — and share the value when development happens?
Seán Keyes’s taboo idea for Ireland: hyper-local planning, where neighbours decide and benefit from building higher.
@quays.bsky.social
Seán Keyes’s taboo idea for Ireland: hyper-local planning, where neighbours decide and benefit from building higher.
@quays.bsky.social
July 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
🏙️ What if your street could vote on its own planning rules — like in Seoul & Tel Aviv — and share the value when development happens?
Seán Keyes’s taboo idea for Ireland: hyper-local planning, where neighbours decide and benefit from building higher.
@quays.bsky.social
Seán Keyes’s taboo idea for Ireland: hyper-local planning, where neighbours decide and benefit from building higher.
@quays.bsky.social
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🚁 "This is a tech business, not a logistics business." – Ben Thompson
Manna’s drone delivery model isn’t about moving goods—it’s about zero marginal cost at scale.
It’s not just new logistics—it’s a tech disruption.
🎧 Listen: sharptech.fm/member/episo...
Manna’s drone delivery model isn’t about moving goods—it’s about zero marginal cost at scale.
It’s not just new logistics—it’s a tech disruption.
🎧 Listen: sharptech.fm/member/episo...
Sharp Tech
Sharp Tech - How technology works, and the ways it is impacting the world
sharptech.fm
March 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
🚁 "This is a tech business, not a logistics business." – Ben Thompson
Manna’s drone delivery model isn’t about moving goods—it’s about zero marginal cost at scale.
It’s not just new logistics—it’s a tech disruption.
🎧 Listen: sharptech.fm/member/episo...
Manna’s drone delivery model isn’t about moving goods—it’s about zero marginal cost at scale.
It’s not just new logistics—it’s a tech disruption.
🎧 Listen: sharptech.fm/member/episo...
Hey Tony! But what if they're actually good? Happy to call down to the shack any time
March 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Hey Tony! But what if they're actually good? Happy to call down to the shack any time
The rental market can turn quite quickly... pbs.twimg.com/media/Gk0PKC...
February 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The rental market can turn quite quickly... pbs.twimg.com/media/Gk0PKC...
The saddest graph. Wages minus rents for college educated and non college educated workers in the US, over time. It shows low-skilled workers have been the losers from housing shortages
December 2, 2024 at 9:58 AM
The saddest graph. Wages minus rents for college educated and non college educated workers in the US, over time. It shows low-skilled workers have been the losers from housing shortages
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It's pretty remarkable just how much the politics around zoning have shifted over the past decade—college towns like Berkeley and Cambridge were once the epicenter of NIMBYism. Now they're in a neck-and-neck competition to liberalize and build. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/21/b...
‘We love these buildings’: Should developers get to build six stories anywhere in Cambridge? - The Boston Globe
Housing advocates say simpler zoning would pave the way for more homes and generate more affordable housing. But others say unregulated development would only make things worse.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 28, 2024 at 9:41 AM
It's pretty remarkable just how much the politics around zoning have shifted over the past decade—college towns like Berkeley and Cambridge were once the epicenter of NIMBYism. Now they're in a neck-and-neck competition to liberalize and build. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/21/b...
This is a cool and also good-looking book @joemcreynolds.bsky.social
The book Emergent Tokyo isn't necessarily about fashion but it touches on some of these urban planning issues.
IMO, looking at historical and institutional structures like this helps us explain why culture is the way it is, and gives us more traction on how to change ours.
IMO, looking at historical and institutional structures like this helps us explain why culture is the way it is, and gives us more traction on how to change ours.
November 27, 2024 at 7:23 AM
This is a cool and also good-looking book @joemcreynolds.bsky.social
This strange graph says LA style freeways and sprawl are a MORE efficient way to move people around a city than rail, for commutes less than about 50 mins
November 26, 2024 at 7:30 PM
This strange graph says LA style freeways and sprawl are a MORE efficient way to move people around a city than rail, for commutes less than about 50 mins
Dublin is not dense for its size. Chart shows population per sq km for Dublin and peer cities.
November 26, 2024 at 12:23 PM
Dublin is not dense for its size. Chart shows population per sq km for Dublin and peer cities.
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Absolutely devastated by the privatization of public space in Seville. The ravages of neoliberalism!
November 22, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Absolutely devastated by the privatization of public space in Seville. The ravages of neoliberalism!