Emily Hamilton

This has some planning commission action

They need to pause in the middle of each incident on this show with a QR code to the relevant ordinance/plat map/etc.

Well that was actually the golden age of land use regulation

Perhaps reasonable

Neighbors on HBO: hell yeah a whole reality show about land use disputes

Colorado man advocating for traffic light dies in crash at same intersection where wife was killed A man who spent two years pushing for a traffic light at the Cherry Hills–Greenwood Village intersection where his wife was killed in 2024 died Monday in a two‑vehicle crash at the same location.

it's really understated how horrific car killings are

He’s still in print! My oldest are 4, but I’m excited to get to those in a few years

I saw London and Paris at the store, might have to go back…

This book has delightful illustrations

This one I’m on is just unfair

This 1960 picture book did NOT foresee the great downzoning coming in 1961 😔

Senators Coons, Warren, colleagues introduce the American Homeownership Act to get homes into the hands of families Bill ends tax breaks and housing benefits for Wall Street, corporate landlords and reinvests the savings into building new housing and helping Americans achieve homeownership WILMINGTON, Del.–U.S. Sen...

"to get housing back into the hands of the American people, the bill would end tax breaks and other housing benefits for Wall Street landlords and reinvest the savings to increase the supply of affordable housing...."

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Mr. Eliason, who advocates allowing single-stair construction for small multifamily buildings as a solution to the housing crisis, said he learned how common the design was outside the United States while working in Germany in 2019. After seeing an 11-story tower his firm at the time had designed, Mr. Eliason recalled, he turned to his boss and said: "Something is wrong here. Where's your other stair?" "He's looking at me, and said: 'What are you talking about? If there was another stair, there wouldn't be any room for the homes'"

Single-stair gets the New York Times treatment. @holz-bau.bsky.social reminds us why they call the last line the kicker: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/b... (gift link)

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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Thrilled to be included on this list, among so many other exceptional women, including @ebwhamilton.bsky.social!
Special thanks to @aura-atx.org @yimby.town @texansforhousing.bsky.social @welcomingneighbors.us and many others for the all support & encouragement.
Housing advocates are the best 🎉

For years, I've been wondering (sometimes aloud) why Ukraine kept speaking of demands for 'territorial' concessions and not 'abandoning real people to authoritarian foreign occupation' concessions. Glad to see this important change in framing of the choices being forced upon them by appeasers.

New UCLA Report Looks into the High Cost to Build Parking - Streetsblog Los Angeles For new apartments, the research found that building required parking adds roughly $50,000 to $100,000 per unit, and disproportionately increases the cost to build smaller apartments

"What's more expensive: a new car or a new parking space?

As of 2025 a new car costs, on average, about $50,000.

A new UCLA study finds that a new parking space, on average, costs even more."

Specifically, these figures refer to structured or underground spaces, & do NOT include the cost of land.

Yeah, “free” country we have where some places don’t let you choose your housemates. The rules that prevent this are called occupancy restrictions, and they generally set a limit on unrelated people living together.

Yes, that's a big limitation

And PadSplit provides more generalizable data about the type of affordability rooming houses can deliver: www.padsplit.com/impact/

I think allowing single-family houses to become rooming houses is an underrated tool in the housing affordability toolkit.

Like lots of young people in DC, I spent a few years of my 20s in this type of housemate situation, paying rent far below what I would have had to pay for a studio apartment.

I would like to see policy going further to get rid of occupancy restrictions (including owner occupancy restrictions) entirely and to get out of the business of regulating lease length.

That said, I'm glad to see any chipping away of occupancy regulations.

This Connecticut bill would require localities to allow single-family homeowners to be allowed to rent out at least three bedrooms as long as the lease term is at least six months: legiscan.com/CT/bill/SB00...

I Was Promised a Girlboss War And all I got was Trump bombing Iran like a dog

This is the Oren Cass policy agenda:

“A revenge fantasy wherein a bunch of useless girlbosses are told the party is over and it’s time for them to battle with each other to marry some guy in the trades to survive.” www.cartoonshateher.com/p/i-was-prom...

It’s nice to go to sleep in the warm cocoon of the nuclear vaporization zone

An agent to supervise the agents

There’s no denying Codex is extremely useful, but I predict it will usher in a huge surge in ~spreadsheet errors~

It’s like an enormous army of somewhat untrustworthy research assistants. It’s long and tedious work to check this army’s work, especially if you’re not already a good coder

So glad to hear it!

But if they want to walk to school, they're going to have to tramp across a field and a bunch of drop-off lanes, rather than being able to take a sidewalk to the front door like civilized people could.