A fun pro-tip for developers/architects: If you want really unique and beautiful hand renderings, hire a background artist! Their art is full of character, they know how to work fast, and a bunch are out of work with the current film-industry slowdown

Regardless of who becomes President later this year, the fact remains we need to build more housing. More affordable housing. More single family homes. More market rate apartments. We need more housing.

Question: Do you know what city these buildings are in?

New American Classic.

Matthew Yglesias And their long anti-YIMBY article called for the very policies recommended by California YIMBY's policy framework! cayimby.org/resources/poli…

Great to see academic validation for California YIMBY's approach! cayimby.org/news-events/vi…

Legalize Single Stairs

Illegal across most of the city under Sac’s proposed bulk control for missing middle. These look nice to you? Come to city council on Tuesday and leave an e comment here asking council to remove this unnecessary mandate. sacramento.granicusideas.com/meetings/5163-…

From the Mr Beast "how to work here" guide. Interesting how this mindset towards consultants is radically different than how Gen X/Boomers see them.

The US plan for road safety: Build a system that requires driving everywhere all the time, optimize it for speed and volume then hope that ~240M drivers are never too drunk, high, young, old, exhausted, angry, bereaved, sick or distracted to make good choices. Bang up job guys.

Wealthy enclaves are weaponizing overly-permissive historic district laws to block new housing. We need state-level guardrails to ensure that historic preservation is used appropriately.

Instead of taking our politicians to Vienna we should take them on the A line at 11:00 pm.

It's time to legalize single stair apartment buildings in San Francisco (aka Point Access Blocks). Read more on the OpenScope Studio blog here and see what we've dreamed up for our small 25' wide lots openscopestudio.com/single-stair-b…

Super cool layout and floor plans for a SF single stair building! Mark Hogan openscopestudio.com/single-stair-b…

Cederhusen, Stockholm 245 apartments in 10-13 storey cedar-clad buildings, with a CLT structure Single stair access also 👀

Matthew Yglesias Advocates from Californians for Electric Rail are urging Metrolink to electrify publicly-owned San Bernardino Line which connects with Brightline West at the Rancho Cucamonga station. This will make faster & frequent service betw LAUS-RC possible. Sign the petition ➡️ actionnetwork.org/petitions/elec…

“Under SB 1211, the number of detached ADUs allowed on properties with apartments, condos, or townhouses would quadruple, from 2 to 8. In addition, if a property owner decides to replace a carport or driveway with an ADU, they would not be required to replace that parking.”

I’ve been skeptical of Project Homekey for a while, and this report is pretty damning westsidecurrent.com/news/exclusive…