You'll understand our campaign more from this launch video than anything else. We gave it our heart and soul. Give it a watch.
27.02.2026 13:37 — 👍 103 🔁 24 💬 5 📌 16You'll understand our campaign more from this launch video than anything else. We gave it our heart and soul. Give it a watch.
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Using detailed address-level microdata, we trace movement chains originating with the initial residents of The Central and document three main findings. First, we show the building generated a substantial number of local vacancies. We identify 180 specific addresses that became vacant because of moves into The Central. Scaling to account for data coverage suggests the new tower induced more than 500 local vacancies in the three years after construction, by setting off chains of moves. Second, while The Central units were expensive on a per-square-foot basis, the homes vacated by movers were significantly cheaper. Homes left behind by those moving into The Central were about 40% less expensive. Unlike much of the prior literature, which track the changing neighborhood characteristics of movers
Even more evidence that building new housing decreases rents: Researchers tracked the residents of a newly built luxury condo building and found that they freed up less expensive apartments nearby.
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Rendering of proposed five-story white and blue apartment building
Non-profit files plans to build 55 affordable apartments off VFW Parkway in West Roxbury
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#Boston #housing
This is a phenomenal example of how people advocating for the "character of the neighborhood" are often actually advocating to *change* the character to be less dense and more suburban. Which, if you go play with the city's n'hood GIS explorer, is what has happened all over Boston!
25.11.2025 17:34 — 👍 106 🔁 23 💬 4 📌 2
An incomplete list of cities where housing abundance was a major campaign issue & pro-housing candidates held or expanded majorities:
- Bozeman, MT
- Cambridge, MA
- Durham, NC
- Kalispell, MT
- Littleton, CO
- Manchester, NH
- Missoula, MT
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Seattle, WA
- Wilmington, NC
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Lots of advice for Dems flying around, but here's a modest suggestion: how about more fulsomely embracing the one non-fascist people-powered movement that's actually succeeding?
05.11.2025 18:26 — 👍 199 🔁 37 💬 2 📌 1
Minneapolis built more housing than any other major Midwest city & it’s not a mystery why.
They allowed modest density housing types city-wide, cut regressive parking mandates, and made it easier to build apartments near transit.
The results: more homes + slowed rent growth.
Cities are developing a new approach to developing housing: Integrating it into mixed-use library projects. These investments improve neighborhood vitality, add housing & improve services.
In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, I create a database of such projects & point to success stories ⏬
Lmao who are the special interests pushing single-stair reform? Small scale multifamily infill developers who don't exist yet?
08.10.2025 20:44 — 👍 43 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
🚨 BIG NEWS!!
Salem, MA voted last week to eliminate minimum parking requirements for new multi-family housing! So what does this mean for Salem? 🧵 (1/4)
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New Boston polling our this morning, for @abundanthousingma.org
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Massachusetts needs more housing, not more roadblocks. 🏘️
Chip in today to help elect pro-housing champions:
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#YIMBY #mapoli #AbundantHousing
This November, city council races across Massachusetts will decide whether we build the housing our communities need — or keep falling behind.
That’s why we launched Abundant Housing MA IE PAC: to back pro-housing candidates and ensure champions win seats.
The cure to the male loneliness epidemic is YIMBY happy hours
25.09.2025 22:37 — 👍 163 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 6ND Gov. Kelly Armstrong at @yimbytown.bsky.social : on any policy change, 20% of people will be cranky & loud against, 80% are supportive but busy living their lives & don’t speak up. Ignore the 20%. Turn off your social media. Find a compelling emotional hook to engage the silent 80%.
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California is on track to lose Congressional seats. We are aging as a state—all because we aren’t building housing.
California should be a place where graduates, seniors, families and workers can afford to live and thrive. That will take building much more housing, much quicker.
It is only barely hyperbolic to say NIMBYism and the downstream effects of making affordable housing inaccessible are why Democrats have lost so much ground.
28.08.2025 01:38 — 👍 243 🔁 43 💬 10 📌 7A new state has joined the single-stair club: New Hampshire now allows four stories of multifamily, four units per floor, with a single stair. And it’s the cleanest code section there is – same conditions as for three stories. www.centerforbuilding.org/trackers?tra...
06.08.2025 15:25 — 👍 84 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 3I’ve helped co-moderate two City Council forums the past two nights. My general takeaway is that I’m at the point where I can’t support candidates, even ones I like personally, whose first instinct is No. As in No to new housing, No to bus lanes, etc. We have enough No in our city. We need more Yes.
10.07.2025 01:27 — 👍 41 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 1
📢 The new State of the Nation’s Housing report from @harvard-jchs.bsky.social confirms housing costs are out of control.
MA must act NOW to legalize more housing & invest in homes that people can afford.
Check out @mollygoodman.bsky.social blog post ➡️ www.abundanthousingma.org/the-state-of...
A recent poll found 22% of Massachusetts voters saw housing as the single biggest issue facing the state government.
@abundanthousingma.org @massincpolling.bsky.social
Our new poll for @abundanthousingma.org is out this morning. "Poll Finds Strong Support for More Housing Development."
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Good morning! New MPG poll out today, for @abundanthousingma.org, finds strong support for more housing, even at the local level.
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Big news for housing advocates: New polling shows strong, bipartisan support for more housing across Massachusetts—even when it means changes to neighborhood character or local control. The momentum is real, and it’s growing.
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81% of Massachusetts voters surveyed in a recent
@massincpolling.bsky.social / @abundanthousingma.org poll support "state lawmakers passing a bill to make it easier to build more homes, and a greater variety of housing options, in Massachusetts."
"the coddling of the american conservative" would be such a good book
21.04.2025 14:21 — 👍 2481 🔁 323 💬 36 📌 5
🚨2025-2026 Statewide Policy Agenda Alert!
We have developed our most ambitious and comprehensive policy agenda yet!
🏘️An Act to Promote Yes in My Back Yard
🏘️An Act to Study Single-Staircase Residential Buildings
🏘️An Act to Establish an ADU Trust Fund
www.abundanthousingma.org/2025-2026-pr...
The gerontocracy has real consequences: The House just passed their budget resolution -- a vote that would have likely failed if every Democratic seat was filled.
Remember: We've got three Dems missing -- one who's out from illness and two others from members who died in office.
Not great.
And this is why us blue staters should never write off red states. There are folks doing the work, protesting, and advocating for change in EVERY state in this country. And some of them are doing it in the most hostile of environments.
They should get our support, and we can’t abandon them.
Join tonight's webinar to keep the fun zoning conversations going bsky.app/profile/abun...
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