Lyndsey Rolheiser

Right?! Archives can be so fun

A dear friend of mine (not on the socials) is researching Monsanto and found these GEMS in the archives. “They’re lean, hungry-looking bodysweaters. Pure skin stuff.” 💀

Great example of a non-land use form of option value. I value the option to *think about going to a cool kid cocktail place down the street but then ultimately rot on my couch with the dog and cat

Alberta to become 1st province with mandatory 'citizenship markers' on driver's licences | CBC News The government of Alberta announced Monday that driver's licences and identification cards will feature "Canadian citizenship markers." The mandatory change, which is the first of its kind in Canada, ...

Potential natural experiment for crime Econ people 😬 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Opinion: Canada’s outdated elevator rules are adding to the housing crisis The high cost of elevators is a barrier to the development of affordable, accessible homes

@englishrail.bsky.social and I have a piece in the Globe & Mail about how Canada can make housing more affordable and accessible, and disentangle itself from its unreliable and hostile southern neighbor: give its elevator industry the option to use the European/global standard, not just the U.S. one

Parking, Garbage and the Decline of Toronto's Small Businesses Kelly Alvarez Doran and Mithcell May examine how parking and Type G loading regulations lead to lacklustre retail in new buildings.

Garbage, Parking, and the Death of Small Businesses. Eager to hear your thoughts!

@jasonthorne.bsky.social @alexbozikovic.bsky.social @johnlorinc.bsky.social @holz-bau.bsky.social

Full disclosure: it is the most random collection of can-con. Like Canada, it is a mosaic 🙃

Apple Music. I’ll send to you!

Also shout-out to can-con and 90s much music 🤗❤️

I lived in the states for 10 years. Every Canada Day I would subject my friends to can-con music. “Do you know this song? No?? How do you not know this!?” It was very annoying for them. I finally put it all together in a playlist. It’s 8hrs long 🇨🇦

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Why Is Spain’s Social Housing So Well-Designed? The country is trying to reverse its legacy of under-investing in public housing by churning out projects that defy expectations of the building type.

over on @dwell.bsky.social - @sustainabletall.bsky.social writes about spain's incredible social housing & cooperative movements, walking away from sterile, banal double loaded corridors

www.dwell.com/article/why-...

Toronto’s urban tree canopy is no joke

Even today’s NYTs crossword allows for ADUs

Update: vote needed 2/3 majority but received only 57%. Opposing side started a whisper campaign against a vocal supporter claiming he was a secret developer 😞. No ADUs in Arlington for now.

This is super helpful. Thanks Michael!

Thank you Payton!!

Thanks Ben!

Supply Constraints do not Explain House Price and Quantity Growth Across U.S. Cities Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Help pls! There were some nice critiques of this paper a few weeks ago and now I can't find them. Please send along if you remember. This paper was recently weaponized in Arlington MA to prevent the VERY mild proposal of allowing ADUs.

www.nber.org/papers/w33576

I can't overstate how important a dedicated bus lane on Dufferin will be given the explosion of residential dev. nearby. People opposing this think traffic is bad now? Link for Dufferin and Bathurst surveys here and here: ca.mar.medallia.com?e=448169&d=l...

ca.mar.medallia.com?e=448562&d=l...

obsessed with this +1 to the glass block 😍

Google maps satellite image of Cape Coral Florida

Doing some GIS quality control and was confronted by the impending wet reality of Cape Coral FL. I imagine a future museum exhibit "we used to build like this" in the climate disaster wing.

📣 Call for papers 📣

19th North American Meeting of the Urban Economics Association
October 3 - 4, 2025
Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Keynotes by Cecile Gaubert and Keith Head.

Please submit your paper by May 30.

urbaneconomics.org/meetings/uea...

Distilling key facts about housing affordability and its decline in the US and reviewing the literature on housing supply and the causes of declining affordability, from Nathaniel Baum-Snow and Gilles Duranton https://www.nber.org/papers/w33694

Why the Best Bike Lanes Always Get Blamed A standoff over cycling infrastructure and traffic congestion in Toronto shows why building protected bike lanes on essential corridors draws controversy along with riders.

In Bloomberg CityLab, I explained why cities must build cycling *networks* – not just lanes.

It’s a lesson that many elected leaders have yet to learn (esp Ontario’s Doug Ford, who is taking a sledgehammer to Toronto's cycling network).

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it's a very tough call! In the end I think I will be ok, but I worry more for those earlier in their careers. Four years is a long time. Perhaps the American conferences can come here...

What's the advice for junior faculty now missing essential conferences that are crucial for networking (finding letter writers etc.)? I am a geriatric junior approaching tenure package submission being given a burner phone from my uni but also a warning not to go. I have 3 conferences in May.

MURB!!

Real Estate Postdoctoral Associate MIT - Real Estate Postdoctoral Associate - Cambridge MA 02139

The MIT Urban Economics Lab is hiring!! #EconSky

My postdoc supervisor at MIT, Albert Saiz, is looking for a Real Estate Postdoctoral Associate!

Apply here: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

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