Rob Galanakis

The Residential Infill Project took 6 years to get through the process. www.sightline.org/2021/08/06/t...

We're now almost 2 years since the Inner Eastside Area Planning Project to the Housing Production strategy. I don't know if BPS has yet realized the new council doesn't want to wait another 4.

Ah shit I was about to bike to pick up my daughter at school and it started raining, I guess I need to drive a 4000lb tank less than a mile to pick her up. Blast!

Biketown is very expensive to fully subsidize but a couple free vouchers could be done...

Yes! Biketown is what got me on a bike for the first time in 12 years- actually it was just a straightforward economic decision, buses weren't running and a Lyft was $50. Tried a biketown bike at 2am in July and was hooked.

Just raise the millionaire taxes to reduce inequality, and spend all we need to spend to fund society but limit inflation. Deals like this are too fragile and clever to actually pass or sustain.

Fair enough

I don't agree, this is just an evil job for a bad person. Bullshit jobs are meaningless jobs done by well meaning people. Give them some credit, they're way better than hoan.

pay for programs, how do you pay when taxes dry up as inequality falls?

It's also amazing that no other modern society works this way. It's such a stupid idea. 1) taxes don't fund services (see MMT). 2) it's impressive to come up with an equality improving scheme that will hurt social cohesion but here we are, 3) if you do depend on the fiction that taxes

You can buy a good Trek brand new for like $800 I think, what motorcycle costs that? Even decent ebikes have come way, way down in price. And used bikes are a few hundred, and will last forever. Maintenance costs are negligible. How is this comparable to motorcycles in price?

Got it. I live in a neighbourhood with rather elderly people and I'm often having to gently take them through the explanation of why we all can't expect to live on a half acre in the middle of a city, so that is how I saw it. Appreciate the response.

My first op-ed!

I think "only leave that neighborhood if you want to" would work, but it seems like it's important to get people into right sized housing, otherwise growth will continue to be inequitable.

There are a lot of people aging in 2500 sq ft homes on large lots that they pay massively underpriced taxes on. There are very few empty lots in many neighborhoods. How do we increase mobility with so much of the city stuck with SFH?

In a totally predictable turn of the circle of life, my kids also never met their paternal grandfather, who died in the same village (but instead of a farmer with lung cancer like his dad, he had lost his mind and was a ward of the church).

My maternal grandfather was a dentist, my parental grandfather was a Greek farmer in a small village in Crete who died while I was young (I don't think I met him).

I can second and confirm all of this. They also have great programming for little kids, red yarn music each week I think and tons more.

I have reminders set for my air and water filters.

Congrats!

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Looked at this report last night. I need to see their methodology regressed against fatalities or injuries per capita.

Something I really appreciate about @bikeportland.org is they always link to the report!

Telling that the 3 parties he considers make up "the market," conveniently leaves out the state which is almost entirely responsible for enforcing these monopolies

This is the right ranking but the format of I think you should leave created many memorable scenes. My kids still quote the car focus group.

I cannot suggest this hard enough. You have a better shot at winning and will make a great cause.

"The Labour Party under Starmer will abandon its core idealism and principles and it won't even gain tactical advantage. It will be a party which gives no one a reason to vote for it, and nobody will, in fact, vote for it." . - David Graeber

David Graeber made a warning about Keir Starmer in 2020. They did not listen

Is it to go further right? Who can be sure.

Yes, for sure, an area can become undesirable and demand falls; or supply increases, and prices come down. I'm trying to understand how you think rent control can bring down prices? By what mechanism? Since it violates supply and demand- how does rent control bring down prices?

in keeping rents flat to preserve existing residents. But because it acts as a drag on supply, it really needs to be paired with other interventions, it cannot be a core component of rent management. Many people have studied and said this better than I.

Thanks, I would definitely check out the impact of rent control some more. At the most generous, it could only keep rents stable, there is really not any mechanic to reduce rents. But in every case I've seen it increases rents to varying degrees. Which may be fine, there can be value