One of the things that really trips a lot of analysts, including ones with real skin in the game, is that they refuse - absolutely refuse - to accept how stupid Trump very obviously is. He has no knowledge of anything, is incapable of learning, and only remembers the last thing to happen to him.
WATCH: This is STILL one of the toughest truths for some to accept, but one of the most IMPORTANT — car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtowns and urban areas!
Watch this excellent video by #NotJustBikes with #Urban3 & @strongtowns.bsky.social.
PLEASE SHARE it as much as possible.
YAY! #yyjpoli - @davethompsonvic.bsky.social and @mattdellvictoria.bsky.social 's motion to prioritize the 'gap' in the Pandora street bike lanes to Oak bay junction and Shelbourne passed unanimously after Gardiners bid to defer failed.. (I bet we'll read about how awful this all is in the TC btw)
Exciting motion from @davethompsonvic.bsky.social and @mattdellvictoria.bsky.social this week to expand the AAA network along Begbie and Pandora. Email mayorandcouncil@victoria.ca to show your support!
Coldest Night of the Year walk with team @homesforliving.ca! Collectively over $150k has been raised for Our Place society
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If you freeze buildings from changing, rich people just take up more space.
An extreme version of what is happening across wealthy cities
I wrote another blog post! This one's a short one about REITs and their relationship with new housing supply.
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Amazing: combination of sustainability and affordability and quality.
#yyj #circulareconomy
That woman does that constantly. So does Mehdi Bagheri, who's running for Saanich council, has consistently posted massive amounts of AI slop, sometimes literally leaving the prompts in. His entire website is AI generated as well.
"Vacancy-chain research does not suggest new buildings can replace the type of deeply affordable housing that public subsidy enables. But the potential for market-rate construction to help even low-income renters is significant."
That makes these cuts even less justifiable.
If you want to learn more about community land trusts, this is a great video from Utaye Lee on the subject.
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Very exciting to be at 716 Johnson to see the work being done by the Arts and Community Infrastructure Foundation, a local charity aiming to create a community land trust to safeguard community arts and culture spaces (RIP to Logan's, the VEC, and many others that have been lost).
They need to get their act together, this is becoming embarassing.
Glad to hear that at least. If the province is unwilling to properly fund this kind of thing, they need to give lower levels of government the tools to fund it themselves.
Brutal. Millions and millions of dollars wasted on projects that now won't go ahead, and thousands of affordable homes gone, all in service of shielding the wealthy from paying slightly more in taxes. Disgusting.
BCT had requested a 15k hour expansion for Vic to *maintain* service levels due to increasing congestion.
In denying expansion, and actually cutting, the province has made clear that Transit isn't a core service and that they are fine with seeing service quality degrade.
So much for Climate goals.
One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.
Building dense, walkable, rollable, transit-rich and amenity-rich neighborhoods (and transitioning away from car-dependence asap) is critical to our climate goals and climate resilience, and how we increase affordability, safety, tree canopy, address segregation, and help support salmon and orcas.
Yeah that's the main plan. Already hit over 500 doors so feeling good!
YIMBYs and urbanists often make the point that you should let people live where they want: near jobs, schools and amenities. I'd like to make a special case for Canada: we should let people live where the weather is good!
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I'll take that advice and simply just do ~11% more of it, bada bing bada boom
And that's one of the greatest regrets of my life. If elected, I promise to never again be nine years old.
I'm doing an AMA (ask me anything) today! Come ask whatever burning questions you've got.
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There's actually no higher form of praxis than screaming into the void from the internet
Instead of increasing the police budget, we should provide UBI to homeless youth/people in #yyj
This is true of many, many things.
And blue states continue to drive themselves into electoral oblivion.
If you're not aware of Alec, you should be. Excellent stuff.
