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RENT TOO HIGH? BLAME LANDLORDS NOT IMMIGRANTS • Quebec has over 65,000 short-term rentals through services like AirBnB. In Montreal, 44% of AirBnBs sit empty at any given moment. • It's landlords who decide to increase rents. Quebec's rent increases were double the rate of inflation for 2022-2023 (with an average increase of 7,35%). Profits are growing. • Real estate is Canada's wealthiest industry. The 25 biggest landlords now own a fifth of all private apartments.

“Rent too high? Blame landlords, not immigrants.”

This is frustrating. The housing debate has too much racist shit, I agree.

But if you want to welcome more immigrants, you **need** to emphasize housing supply more.

Rent control and “landlords are bad” won’t turn less housing into more housing.

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russian pavement streetart:

Got @humantransit.bsky.social’s revised book from the library today. So far of what I read (first 5 chapters), this caught my attention more than I expected. Imo every foamer should read these couple of paragraphs at least twice

I am a RETVRN guy specifically for mass produced building ornamentation.

Photo of a building in nyc

Can we take a moment for this building

Optimist: the cup is half full

Pessimist: the cup is half empty

The Institute of Traffic Engineers’ Parking Generation Manual: here’s a linear regression of cup demand based on 4 observations all collected in suburban strip malls. Use this to mandate excessive cup supply everywhere in America.

the sauce looks like it wasn't thick enough so they added oil to it (this is how i imagine american food manufacturers operate)

ive been thinking big and important thoughts lately

when i first saw this i was fed so i wasn't hungry and wasn't upset but my bluesky feed is small so i got hungry and saw this again and im upset now

I wonder how much/little the price of the toll is offset by savings on time and fuel from a faster commute to the willing drivers themselves?

Call it decongestion pricing.

Welcome to Bluesky. As you build your network here, consider: Even if all your opinions are correct (and of course your opinions are correct) you may still be in a harmful echo chamber. Welcome followers who respectfully disagree with you. Block only those who are abusive to you or to others.

Hi Bluesky! I moved from Twitter because it changed too much, and I think I found my new home. Don't you dare change either!

I'm sad to leave behind 7k followers, but I'm hopeful they'll find me again here. Please tell all my fellow NIMBYs I'm here and ready to protect my Bluesky neighborhood!

Excellent explainer. It's a pretty good sign of Hochul's motonormativity that the overnight tolls (9 p.m. to 5 a.m. on weekdays and 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. on weekends) will now be $2.25 per car. For comparison, subway fare is $2.90 per person and there's no overnight discount.

i dont know whatever that means but your bio reads dot dot dot and dot stands for department of transportation so you better not disappoint

Two sunflower wallpapers.

I started my adventure into the NeoY2K art with a sunflower, don't know if you guys remember it, t'was my first post here !

i remember when woah eh and zeal ver. were the only peeple with 1 trilliard score.

There is now a new, readable version of this essential graphic, thanks to @wklumpen.bsky.social and @kathrynmathias.bsky.social ! Spread it far and wide!

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yeah it's awesome, i visited moscow recently and spent a lot of time in metro, was thinking of this book a lot

this goes for worldwide YIMBYism too, the developing world is no less important to get on transit and density since we got one planet, but US-centric talking points can be irrelevant depending on the place

many people who could be YIMBYs are not on board because we alienate them politically. we ought to see people as on our team even if our other views clash, so long as they're willing to support transit and density

Burning coal is an outdated technology for electricity production, but damn did they have the juice. This thing is other worldly.

awesome stuff however im a 2nd year architecture student and i could do a better render than this 💀

It’s crazy how European Indianapolis used to look

IT’S TIME TO BUILD!!!!!!!!

Want to Really Help Low-Income New Yorkers? Support Congestion Pricing Streetsblog New York City The president of the Community Service Society, who has devoted his life to reducing the burden of poverty, has a message for the governor of New Jersey.

“Low-income New Yorkers are not hurt by congestion pricing. In fact, they overwhelmingly stand to gain from congestion pricing’s benefits.”

Free-parking socialism is such an annoying political stance.