🗳️ We support the Fair Share Amendment, here’s what you should know about Ballot Question 1: now.tufts.edu/2022/10/31/low…

As a member organization of Abundant Housing Massachusetts we’re please to see this kicking off!

We’re here to say hell yes! We’re all about triple deckers, 4-plexes, and all the other fantastic #MissingMiddle homes we can build here in Somerville. We absolutely can provide the homes we need for folks to stay and join us in Somerville with apartments like these.

🎊🚨PARKING MANDATES COULD END TOMORROW🚨🎊

If you live in Cambridge, especially if you DON'T usually give public comment or email Council, we could really use your help. Details in 🧵 (1/)

FWIW social science research proves beyond a reasonable doubt that supply and demand matters. If we on the left say we believe in science, we have to actually believe it.

Always great to see more research showing how abundant homes help with housing costs!

If Kevin Erdmann is right, we're seeing the first data that shows major price effects from YIMBY wins in California. The clearest data point is that housing prices declined the most in California & Austin. In Austin, it looks like a correction: lower prices at all income levels.

Tomorrow I'm throwing a party at Vera’s in Union 6pm. Come and check out my new fit!

Sneak peak 👀

My takeaway from the story about landlords using a shared secret database of rental prices and algorithm software to adjust asking/renewal rents is that we should have a PUBLIC rental registry to increase the market power of tenants. A knowledge disparity is the big problem IMO

You know what makes YieldStar push rents down? Vacancy. YieldStar sees vacancy, and it automatically lowers rents. That's how their system works. That's how their system works because that's how the housing market works.

A great opportunity to connect with some of Somerville’s elected reps & let them know you want abundant homes in Somerville!

Big things are afoot! We're eliminating parking minimums! (But that's just the start 🤫)

Join me and the Somerville YIMBY gang THIS THURSDAY to learn how we're gonna make Camberville affordable!

Our steering committee members Laura, Aaron S. Weber, & Jeff Byrnes 🚰 are hosting an in-person conversation with Burhan Azeem, Cambridge City Councillor, Cambridge City Councilor!

• Thurs, Oct 20 6–7:30pm
• At Vera’s Union Square

Register to attend here! secure.actblue.com/donate/abville…

If you care about the progressive goal of encouraging racial integration, you need to support lifting apartment bans:

Tonight! City Hall Community Meeting for Ward 3 (formerly called “Resistat”) Pizza at 6, meeting at 6:30 - in at High School (main entrance), or via Zoom:
#https://www.somervillema.gov/communitymeetings

NEW RESEARCH: MaryJo Webster and I document that multi-family zoning is strongly correlated with racial integration in the Twin Cities. In parallel, Matt Resseger finds the same in Greater Boston. Here's a brief summarizing & contextualizing both papers.
mercatus.org/publications/u…

We spoke with Darrell Owens (Darrell Owens), an activist involved in developing new legislation for social housing in California. jacobin.com/2022/10/yimby-…

'Relaxing density restrictions, either alone or in combination with relaxing maximum-height restrictions and allowing multifamily housing, is the most fruitful policy reform for increasing supply and reducing multifamily rents.' 👀 bostonfed.org/publications/n…