as a Canadian, this is how it feels watching American elections these days

We have known how to build great cities for *milennia*. The past century of building them around cars and trucks is a profound aberration in our patterns of human settlement. #OverturnEuclid

I like this article but we really need to drop this idea that “progressives” are better on housing. It’s just not true. Across the US, the more progressive a city is the worse its housing shortage tends to be. I’m well to the left of center and wish this weren’t true but it is.

Why is the saying, “Don’t drink AND drive” instead of “Don’t drink OR drive”?

The US is addicted to building ever-wider highways that foul the air, catalyze sprawl, and cost billions of dollars -- while failing to curb congestion. In Slate, I outlined a strategy to kick a uniquely destructive American habit. 🧵 slate.com/business/2024/…

“Expanding highways doesn’t reduce congestion, but it sounds like it should,” said Beth Osborne, the director of Transportation for America. “And by the time it fails, that politician won’t be there anyway.” David Zipper slate.com/business/2024/…

𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 [𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑛]: the alarming growth of private cars in height, width, length and weight at the expense of public space, the environment and overall safety.

How will the end of Chevron Deference from Loper Bright affect things like the ADA Standards and Fair Housing Act Design Manual, and for that matter, state building codes? But then, many standards predated Chevron.

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It's wild how, in the 1990s, the entire rest of the developed world said, "Jeez, we really need to get a handle on all these traffic deaths," and the US just said, "You all go on without me." Hundreds of thousands of needless American deaths as a result.

"If we elect Donald Trump, we may feel the effects not for years, and not for a generation. We may read our mistake in the geological record a million years hence. This one really counts." -Bill McKibben theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

How is maintaining exclusionary zoning not a violation of AFFH, either federally, in the Fair Housing Act (which was passed into law 56 years ago), or by CA’s state law, which codified the pre-Trump proposed federal rule on AFFH?

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To be clear: building code reformers want a public building code that is based on science, and not allow a cartel of private, for-profit code writers that includes the National Association of Homebuilders, to resist calls for safe, accessible, and affordable housing types.

Conservative Power Broker of the Billionaire Class Jerusalem A new McMansion near me in Montgomery County just sold for $1.9 million. It's adjacent to a 12-unit apartment building and across the street from a large, run-down apartment complex. I'll take $1.9m over your tweet as evidence on this point.

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