Chris Beam

Let's make it a bike tunnel!

If the census says our workforce is growing, I'd really hope to see our city's revenue increasing too. Otherwise, what's the point? Is it even correct to say our workforce is growing?

@chrisbriem.bsky.social if this graph is true, wouldn't Pittsburgh's collected LST in 2024 for employees within the City of Pittsburgh be significantly higher in 2024 than 2018? Rachael Heisler's Annual Report states that we collected 12.4 million last year in LSTs compared to 15.5 million in 2018!

So-called “inclusionary zoning”—the requirement that landlords rent new units to poor tenants at a loss as a condition of building new homes—is a tax on new housing that worsens the housing affordability crisis it is ostensibly designed to address.

It’s bad policy and we should stop doing it.

I can only dream and hope for a day when Pittsburgh PRT gets their act together and communicates with riders as much as WMATA does 😩

I wish so badly Pittsburgh had these in our denser neighborhoods. Our city would be so much cleaner without small trash cans constantly blowing over or getting knocked over by cars and driven over. Such a QoL win

Nice map! I think the general contractor for this is containerhomesusa.com if you include that in your map at all

Bloomfield home will be fabricated with shipping containers for $825K Six shipping containers stacked and welded together will become a house in Bloomfield. You read that correctly. Rebekah Siegel and Eric Smooke of Siegel Smooke Holdings LLC, both Allderdice High Schoo...

Originally announced almost 2 years ago: triblive.com/news/top-sto...

A picture of a home under construction being built out of 6 used shipping containers. The sign on the front purports this will be the first such home made from shipping containers.

I can't believe the dumb shipping container home is still happening! I'm all for wacky home designs and letting people do whatever they want, but I can't imagine this home will perform as well as something like what modulehousing.com builds. This won't even have a basement, it's slab-on-grade!

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People do genuinely move away from Pittsburgh due to the weather, but I love it here! Not too hot, not too cold, and my plants are very happy. We're definitely not full though. Please move here people and start walking, biking, and transiting around! Degrowth is the enemy. Make SWPA powerful again!

I'm so sad to see this project die. It would have allowed over 250 households to live in walking distance to the East Liberty's business district and preserved over 50 low-income homes for decades. We cannot continue to allow new housing to die on the vine in the midst of a housing crisis!

CityNerd — Pittsburgh: the Affordable Urbanism Mecca? I love to use data to analyze which cities give you the most urban amenities for your housing dollar, and Pittsburgh always seems to show up. But data is one thing; actually seeing and experiencing a ...

Pittsburgh has been hiding in plain sight and I will not stand for it

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My source tells me this is a pilot program for the 2026 draft, it is gonna be lit!

Hopefully some updates on statewide public transit funding will be discussed here

That does seem like the kind of term that might struggle with prior trademarks. Hopefully they get it squared away soon!

I do not understand why someone would run a small business from downtown if they did not plan to benefit at all from the people who arrive there via bus. Like, there are cheaper places to rent literally anywhere else in the city with worse bus access!

Pro-Housing Philly Kick-Off Event! Hi everyone! Thanks for staying up to date with our first event, coming up on Tuesday, June 3 at 6:30pm at the Pen and Pencil Club. Our goal from this first meeting is to give folks a chance to get to...

Some of us are starting a Pro-Housing Philly grassroots pro-housing advocacy group here, and we're having a kick-off event next week on 6/3 at the Pen & Pencil Club. If you have liked or retweeted 5 pro-housing tweets in the last year, you have to come! actionnetwork.org/events/pro-h...

Though frankly, when friends visit, I just use the app to purchase multiple tickets at once, one of my favorite features of the new system!

My hope is that with these new fare cards for the Masabi QR Code readers, we also get tap-to-pay with cEMV cards as well! It would be so nice for our visiting friends to not need an app or cash to pay for rides if they have a credit/debit card instead! www.masabi.com/full-fare-co...

Tunnel monsters are the perfect case study of traffic calming. Narrowing a road instinctively causes people to drive more slowly and more carefully.

Any Ouigo trains on the itinerary?

@governor.pa.gov @lgaustindavis.bsky.social
I hope Pennsylvania can show Illinois how much better we do multimodal transportation with a similar record breaking investment in bike lanes, sidewalks, and trails!

Not really. I could probably make some assumptions based on age, but it would be just confirming my priors. Only 1 transplant told me when they moved, and it was a Morningside resident who moved here from Minnesota in 2022.

For what it's worth, I was out canvassing for Corey and met a lot of generational PGHers who were very supportive of O'Connor in Carrick, Morningside, Highland Park, and Bloomfield. Many of the transplants I met complained about Corey "accepting MAGA money" and wanted to nationalize the election

My family was 2 of them! What a great time, even if we only tied!

Over 1,000 homes are on hold in Pittsburgh because of the Gainey administration’s flawed inclusionary zoning proposal. We warned this would happen. They denied it.

Now families are stuck waiting—and the city is pretending it’s not their fault.

Pro-Housing Pittsburgh Endorsed Candidates Corey O’Connor — Mayor of Pittsburgh Kim Salinetro — City Council District 2 Anthony Coghill — City Council District 4 Erika Strassburger — City Council District 8

Today, Pro-Housing Pittsburgh announced our endorsements for the May 20th Democratic primary.

These candidates best exemplify our pro-housing vision for Pittsburgh, and we encourage all of our members to vote for them in the upcoming primary!

Thank you to Councilors @barb4pgh.bsky.social, Wilson, and @charlandbob.bsky.social for writing/sponsoring this legislation to reduce obstacles to housing here in Pittsburgh. Thank you to @prohousingpgh.org members and allies for testifying in support of this as well! Let's do parking minimums next!