Great to spend time with YIMBY Action’s Gillian Pressman at the Alliance to Close the Wealth Gap. She’s sharing how her organization is building a grassroots movement to say yes to housing.

Congrats to Newport News for joining RVA in allowing accessory dwelling units city wide 👏👏 pilotonline.com/2024/09/11/new…

Norfolk 👀

there’s a bizarre dynamic amongst some left wing academics who say that because YIMBY policies won’t magically fix every single housing issue, it’s not worth doing. it’s especially weird when most YIMBY politicians *support* things like social housing and government financing!

Do we need this on Lafayette Blvd?🤔

Great news!

"Newport News residents who live on single-family lots will soon be able to have a second dwelling on their property... It’s designed to provide more affordable housing options and increase the city’s housing stock." Read📰pilotonline.com/2024/09/11/new…

Bonfire of the V(T)anities

And this doesn’t include renters who are having a harder time. Building housing means helping people.

Funniest part of banning corporate ownership of single family rentals will be the many stories from renters who end up with mom & pop landlords that regularly violate housing law and/or generally don’t maintain properties well compared to the former (evil) corporate ownership.

How do we tackle the rising costs of housing, electricity, heating, & cooling? Attend our forum to voice your concerns & learn about affordable housing & energy-efficient solutions from experts. (2/2) 🧵 📅Oct. 1, ⏰6pm @ Norfolk's Jordan-Newby Library. ✍🏽norfolkvisionnow.crd.co

Virginia is a 400 year old state. After the initial YIMBY wins, localities will retaliate with weaponizing historic preservation and we need to be ready for it.

All seven cities should merge into one large city called Hampton Roads governed under a borough system and create like the seventh largest city in the USA

Richmond, Virginia

This is how Norfolk (and most other 757 cities) work. This is why there’s a housing shortage here.

NEW: After Austin got rid of parking reqs last year, I wondered: how much parking's getting built? Turns out, it's a bit too soon to tell. But one policy gives us a glimpse. W/o parking reqs, developers build ~25% fewer spaces than they would have had to: kut.org/housing/2024-0…

“Developers built about 25% fewer parking spaces than they would have had to under Austin’s old parking rules. In Buffalo, New York, developers built 21% fewer parking spaces two years after elected officials stopped requiring parking.” 🚘 Audrey McGlinchy kut.org/housing/2024-0…

Upzone Norfolk.