Shane Phillips

For when you need to drop the mother of all bombs

Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protest outside Chicago-area ICE facility Nearly two dozen people were arrested as faith leaders protested on Friday outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago, authorities said, the latest sign of tensions over the Trump administration's aggressive enforcement push.

Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protest outside Chicago-area ICE facility reut.rs/49lQnWS

It will do all those things, and we know it will because that's what happened in every other city and state that moved its elections to November.

This is both comically ignorant economically and, on the immigrant count, empirically wrong by a factor of 2-3.

I feel like a journalist could just ask Trump at a press event, "Epstein...?" and watch him go on a deranged rant.

If you're serious about frequent headways, sometimes you've just gotta take matters into your own hands

We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.

marx was anti-capitalist in the sense that he longed for what (he thought) would come after; these days it seems many anti-capitalists are anticapitalists insofar as they long for what came before

IT GOT BETTER

📍Central MN

Will the YIMBY ‘Holy Grail’ Deliver an LA Building Boom? Supporters of the California zoning reform bill SB 79 say it will unleash a wave of multistory apartment buildings. In low-rise-loving Los Angeles, that could be a tall order.

Great piece about where the post-SB 79 housing policy conversation is headed: reducing costs, speeding permitting, easing financing, and making new apartment buildings more beautiful for the neighbors and livable for their residents.

“The Economic Policy Institute projects 861,000 U.S.-born construction workers could lose jobs if mass deportations continue.”

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"Scared of Charlotte" is a whole new level of "scared of cities" that I'd never even considered possible

Check out the depth of this @thecacoast.bsky.social required parking lot for a new apartment building in Santa Monica. This looks like an expensive hole! Great news for renters. And I’m sure the neighbors will love all the additional cars this puts on the road.

A photo of Katie Wilson seated in a wooden chair beside a white brick fireplace smiling at the camera with her hands folded

an image of the election results from King County

SEATTLE!!!

We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!

Episode 101: Beyond Zoning with John Zeanah and Andre D. Jones (Incentives Series pt. 4) Your city just legalized “missing middle” housing in its zoning code — now what? Looking at Memphis, Tennessee, we discuss the hidden non-zoning barriers to developing small apartment buildings.

In this week's UCLA Housing Voice we speak with John Zeanah, Chief of Development and Infrastructure for the City of Memphis, and Andre Jones, an urbanist developer in the city, about a host of smaller-but-important code barriers to building missing middle housing www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/11/05/1...

In 2018, then-Mayor Ada Colau called Barcelona’s new 30% inclusionary housing requirement for projects over 600m^2 a “paradigm shift,” making housing “a right and not a commodity.” It was supposed to produce 330 affordable units a year. The reality: just 31 affordable apartments in all these years.

Not just ignores; Trump looks annoyed that the collapsed guy is drawing attention away from him

One way to reduce condo defect liability: stop forcing architects to design buildings that leak. HCD’s “objective design standards” guide *encourages* making building envelopes more complex, heightening leak and therefore defect lawsuit risk cao-94612.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/documents/Ap...

Cancel culture is back baby

Why do builders put up giant McMansions, when zoning allows a fourplex? TLDR: A host of regulations make fourplexes lose money.

I read the eye-opening report. Now I'm looking forward to the podcast.

Especially good episode! John and Andre are heroes when it comes to missing middle development, especially cool to hear them talk about it from a policy lens!

Oh this is exciting! I worked with John on a project many years ago and have nothing but good things to say about him, and he’s doing great things in Memphis

Ugh, huge missed opportunity.

Episode 101: Beyond Zoning with John Zeanah and Andre D. Jones (Incentives Series pt. 4) Your city just legalized “missing middle” housing in its zoning code — now what? Looking at Memphis, Tennessee, we discuss the hidden non-zoning barriers to developing small apartment buildings.

Another message is the importance of planners and builders working together, which starts with taking each other's concerns seriously. John and Andre's partnership led to big changes both locally and at the state level. Hopefully it can serve as a model for others!

A key message from the report and interview is that our codes and standards should be in better proportion to the scale of the project being built. A triplex is much more like a single-family house than a 100-unit apartment building, and our codes should reflect that. Today, they mostly don't

Episode 101: Beyond Zoning with John Zeanah and Andre D. Jones (Incentives Series pt. 4) Your city just legalized “missing middle” housing in its zoning code — now what? Looking at Memphis, Tennessee, we discuss the hidden non-zoning barriers to developing small apartment buildings.

A lot of obstacles to building missing middle housing came about at a time when adding expensive mandates had no real impact because middle-scale housing was prohibited by zoning. Now that it's being legalized, these technical barriers are becoming more relevant www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/11/05/1...

This conversation was based on John's report, Beyond Zoning, published by @stephenjacobsmith.com's Center for Building in North America, and is based in large part on lessons learned from Andre's Malone Park Commons project www.centerforbuilding.org/publication/...

Episode 101: Beyond Zoning with John Zeanah and Andre D. Jones (Incentives Series pt. 4) Your city just legalized “missing middle” housing in its zoning code — now what? Looking at Memphis, Tennessee, we discuss the hidden non-zoning barriers to developing small apartment buildings.

In this week's UCLA Housing Voice we speak with John Zeanah, Chief of Development and Infrastructure for the City of Memphis, and Andre Jones, an urbanist developer in the city, about a host of smaller-but-important code barriers to building missing middle housing www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/11/05/1...

Interesting! I always thought there was some limit to how much you could borrow, regardless of repayment expectations. Maybe I'm thinking of a restriction that applies to cities but not states?

Does anyone know how much money California *could* borrow via bonds if it wanted to? I'm curious about its capacity to fund lightly to moderately subsidized social housing, if the use of funds matters for how much can be borrowed. @aceckhouse.bsky.social @pewilliams.bsky.social