Emily Hamilton

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I think we’ll stay somewhere with a kitchen, so I won’t even have to budget per diem. But then we’ll blast through those savings on beer and ice cream at Fenway

Thanks! We will not have a car and are happy to take the train

New "luxury" buildings are good, not just for overall housing affordability but for a city's overall economic health.

A Shift in the City’s Fabric: Understanding San Francisco’s New Family Zoning Plan - OpenScope Studio San Francisco’s newly adopted Family Zoning Plan marks a major shift in how the city thinks about growth, equity, and access to opportunity

San Francisco has been rezoned! It's not perfect but it's a step in the right direction. Now we need to pass single stair reform!

#architecture #housing #sanfrancisco

From the @openscopestudio.bsky.social blog:

openscopestudio.com/a-shift-in-t...

Thank you both! Yes I proposed this trip before quite realizing how expensive accommodations for the crew would be

Awesome thank you. CC does seem like a reasonable option. Accommodations in Boston are not cheap!

Thank you! This is for planning ahead for the summer, so we should be able to take the T there right?

Thanks!

Thank you!

Any tips of where to stay in Boston for ease of taking small children to Fenway?

...that is preventing new subdivisions. This paper clarifies that minimum lot size requirements larger than 0.3 acres is the dividing line.

This paper makes one important advance in the market urbanist vs. market suburbanist debates from the early 2010s.

The market suburbanists have always supported single-family zoning right up to the point that it becomes "large lot zoning"...

Even accepting his premise that the real shortage is in larger units (I think @ebwhamilton.bsky.social has made a strong case in the past that this is not true), this analysis just seems incorrect. Many of the policies in the first paragraph *would* promote family-sized units!

How do we know which countries really care about housing? Ireland is an affordability disaster

In 1978, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors downzoned the city, banning multifamily homes in many areas and sparking a decades-long affordability crisis.

47 years later, on a 7–4 vote, they passed the Family Zoning Plan to finally begin to undo that mistake.

The times, they are a-changin’!

Off the top of my head this conversation is extremely relevant in Arlington, VA right now

How a 1940 electoral system reform in Cambridge made its 2025 housing breakthrough possible   - CommonWealth Beacon This is more than just a housing “win.” It’s a triumph for Cambridge’s unique brand of representative democracy—one that balances citywide priorities with fair representation for diverse communities.

My colleagues @awjustus.bsky.social and @aarmlovi.bsky.social have a new article out connecting electoral design to local housing politics. They show how proportional representation in Cambridge has sidestepped the pitfalls of both district based and traditional first-past-the-post councils

People say there’s not a lot of crime on the National Mall, but there’s actually one rampant crime that the National Guard is doing nothing about. The crime is families with young kids eating outside food in the museum cafeterias.

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I did not see the parking lots because we took the Silver Line of course. I took the kids to see a Christmas train that was there the past couple of years, but it wasn’t even there today!

Obviously it’s insane to set parking requirements based on Black Friday’s unpriced demand, but I will say Tysons was an absolute zoo today in spite of everyone also shopping online. It was so crowded we had to eat our burgers on the floor.

County Releases First Annual Report on EHO Projects — ArlingtonWINs Today County staff released the first EHO Annual Data Report for the 2024 Fiscal Year (July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024), along with a spreadsheet of the raw data used in the analysis. At the De...

I'm just now seeing this 2024 report, but as @ebwhamilton.bsky.social predicted, most popular project type was 3-unit townhouses -- e.g., the largest bldg possible under IRC + conventional SF mortgage financing
www.arlingtonwins.org/updates-blog...

Can you unpack what this means?

No, but all the anti-semites would move to the same neighborhood if we had a ward-based board to get their representation

I wish this was a joke😭🥀 #releasethefiles #piano #christmas #fyp TikTok video by Jerick Tatarian | Music

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A move toward a district-based county board would be likely to, I think

There Really Was a ‘Mississippi Miracle’ in Reading. States Should Learn From It Aldeman: Key lesson — the only literacy policies that are likely to lead to significant learning gains meaningfully change schools and classrooms.

Check these NAEP scores for the bottom 10% of students across states www.the74million.org/article/ther...

This was a great conference, with a keynote by Mississippi Gov. Reeves which was the most interesting keynote by a politician I've ever heard

If you live in Arlington, you can share your thoughts about this here: us.openforms.com/Form/c616040...

Relative to peer jurisdictions, I think Arlington County, VA is quite well-governed. However, the county has an advisory panel going to consider big changes to our governance, including a ❗ move from at-large to district-based representation❗