🏘️Suburbia: Home is where the car is.
Evict people from city homes to make room for more parking lots.
Wishlist my game: store.steampowered.com/app/3031880/...
Check out the latest episode of UCLA Housing Voice, out today, featuring a conversation with Bob Simpson and Paavo about my December 2025 report on the potential of wealth-building rental housing, enabled through federal housing finance reform.
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2026/03/05/1...
More about the report and its findings here: bsky.app/profile/shan...
Stay tuned for our next episode where we'll be talking about a promising pilot program for this concept -- what I've been calling "shared prosperity rental housing." Here's the report: www.lewis.ucla.edu/project/2023...
Check out the latest episode of UCLA Housing Voice, out today, featuring a conversation with Bob Simpson and Paavo about my December 2025 report on the potential of wealth-building rental housing, enabled through federal housing finance reform.
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2026/03/05/1...
Seattle's code limits midrise single-stair apartment buildings to 4 apartments per floor.
The International Building Code (which, despite the name, is rarely used outside the US) allows two-stair apartment buildings more than 600' long, with dozens of apartments per floor.
Self driving systems are NOT all created equal. I am a happy Waymo customer. I would never ride in a Tesla operating in self driving mode.
Dan Simmons had bad politics, but if you haven't read Hyperion you're really missing out. Truly one of the sci-fi greats.
arstechnica.com/culture/2026...
Cover of The Lancet:
@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.
#Hoboken has insightful data from our Curb Study report, showing a less pronounced but similar condition on our streets. Although 80% of households don’t drive to work, almost all of our public street space is used for storing cars that are used 1-2x per week.
The 3 million-plus people applying for immigration status changes will now be required to provide the government with their social media handles. This expansive new requirement poses a serious threat to constitutional rights.
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A chart showing traffic tickets issued in San Francisco, with a sharp drop that began in 2014, hit bottom in 2022 when just a few tickets were issued, and has now rebounded almost to 2014 levels.
We’re back, baby!
Reading this story—about how the Pentagon has been given so much extra money it's struggling to spend it all—while thinking about the formerly homeless tenants I've spoken with in recent weeks whose housing vouchers are being discontinued for "lack of funds."
Another day, another paper showing new market rate housing reduces displacement and increases housing opportunities for low income families.
At some point the “one size fits all” cliché becomes an argument against policymaking, period. If every single instance of a social problem is irreducibly unique and special, what’s the point of trying to address it in aggregate?
As an e-bike guy, we need to address the anti-chairlift bias inherent to this Game
California told LA to allow apartments near transit.
LA's answer: a 70-page delay strategy.
What an insult.
cityclerk.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2...
🚨 shingled high rise alert. I repeat: shingled high rise alert. 🚨
How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
The drunk uncle theory.
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
Today T6 Nord tramway opened in Lyon. The project isn't very big (just 5.5 km) but the timeline is just impressive: the project was launched in 2020, 3 years for planning, design, public consultation, permitting and contracting and less than 3 years for construction.
youtu.be/XiJesxVJXFo?...
The bill cuts the stretcher requirement in small bldgs at risk of having no elevator at all (up to 6 stories, 24 units), as well as ordering the building code council to reconsider the issues of elevator hoistway opening protection and two-way visual comms. Tens of thousands in savings per building.
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Hotel Lay
It’s a list of some of the most affordable metro areas
RON JOHNSON: Did you ever encourage people to go out there and exercise their First Amendment rights?
KEITH ELLISON: I freely admit being in favor of the First Amendment
This is what we’re doing to people. We are the bad guys.
