How is it moral or equitable to say that it's okay to build one 3,600 square foot mansion on a lot, but it's not okay to build three 1,200 square foot homes on the same lot?
What an incredible night. The Port Townsend community showed up in huge and beautiful fashion to say that hate has no place here. Trans and cis-allies alike spoke love & support, and the only TERF speaker was from out of town. Tonight reminded me why Port Townsend is home. ❤️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
$200k/year isn't "middle class" and anyone who thinks otherwise is grossly out of touch with the life experiences of the average American (or, for that matter, the average Californian ($78,672 median household income) or Washingtonian ($77,006 median household income)).
@constans
My buddy started a bar that specialized in low-cost drinks, and he set the tipping at something like 50%, 100%, 250%, which, when dealing with drunk asses buying $2 beers, makes a lot of sense (he also thought it was funny, which it was).
Gentrification seems to be caused by insufficient supply to meet demand at all levels, resulting in the wealthier capturing most/all supply. I know this is probably understood by many, but I'm amazed at how many people don't understand. The solution is making enough supply.
It's because "I'm fiscally conservative but socially liberal" became a social meme some years back among people who don't actually pay attention and don't know their own politics, but it's a thing but almost nobody actually is.
I'm constantly and profoundly disappointed at the apparent tendency of environmental orgs who fail to see the forest for the trees. Density and urbanization is habitat preserving, GHG reducing, environmental stewardship.
We are past denying the simple truth that housing policy is climate policy. Environmental orgs need leadership that embrace this reality & fight for housing & climate justice.
If I'm so "controversial" why didn't any MAGA chuds file to run against me? And no, I did not cheer on anyone assaulting anyone. I cheered trans people coming to city council to speak of their lived experience, & that our community will never turn our back on them. ❤️
The controversial Mayor of Port Townsend is running unopposed.
Mayor Faber cheered on Antifa when they assaulted an 80-yr-old woman who was kicked out of the YMCA after she reportedly witnessed a trans-identified staff member watch little girls undress.
Fourplexes should be legal to be built everywhere in urban growth areas. They can fit into the footprint of a large single-family home and can be built using conventional financing, allowing anyone to provide surplus housing with some economy of scale to keep costs lower.
A resident of Port Townsend filed a WA Bar Association ethics complaint against me because I made a joke involving the word "CUM" on Twitter. This is going to be a spicy election year (I am still going to make jokes on Twitter)
Literally the only option is political right. Even if this person uses left-coded language or is a self-described leftist, being opposed to interracial relationships is fundamentally conservative in literally the most basic, fascistic sense.
Mayor of Port Townsend here: The failure of HB 1782 & 1660 this session is very disappointing. WA is suffering through a housing crisis (as elsewhere), and letting local jurisdictions off the hook for making the crisis worse is legislative malpractice.
#Homes4Wa
Are we going to adjourn the 2022 session without passing HB 1782 & HB 1660? ⚠️Legalizing middle housing already died & lifting bans on ADUs statewide will die @ 5pm today unless the Senate takes action. Call y/Senators.⬇️
#Homes4WA
@nytimes
Andrew Yang is doing a great job of telling us he doesn't understand how the very structure of American democracy functions without saying it.
@22BirdGirl22
@travishelwig
I think most potential shitty toxic parents are probably having kids. The people who choose not to are probably more aware of their responsibilities in general.
@DavidAstinWalsh
The emergence of mass communication technology and ready availability of the personal automobile set in motion the worst period of urban design in human history. It's going to take generations to undo it. We're still making ridiculous mistakes with urban planning.
People love to worry that increased density causes strain on infrastructure, but it's absolutely & entirely the opposite: added density/infill reduces long-term infrastructure costs, adds to the tax-base to maintain/replace capital, and results in more efficient service delivery
1 of the concerns raised on a project of mine is the additional strain on the fire dept.
So, I called the fire dept to ask about this.
The fire chief said that infill projects DO NOT add strain on their resources. Annexing property for sprawl does.
Anyone shocked?
@WaitingOnBiden
@POTUS
Might want to check what Sinema and Manchin said on the subject before you say that Biden should have expensed so much political capital in a futile parliamentary move
I've encountered someone who believes that elimination of exclusionary zoning is "social engineering". My guy, the government telling people where they can and cannot live is perhaps the archetypal social engineering policy imaginable.
@swolecialism
Most people don't need significant long-term care assistance, people who do need it typically don't need it for long, and people can still own their primary residence while receiving Medicaid long-term care...
This is a huge win for Kitsap & the North Olympic Peninsula, and is a significant step (or set of steps) forward for anyone who wants to travel to or from Port Townsend without a car!
The vision for a 200-mile trail connecting Bainbridge Island with La Push will get much closer to becoming a reality, thanks to a new $16.1 million federal grant that will fund design work on 34 different trail segments along the planned route.
I'm a "watched many friends struggle to find housing & realized that stopping people from building more housing is immoral & destructive to my community" YIMBY.
Seriously, what is the moral argument behind locking a built environment in amber & saying "no more housing"?
What type of YIMBY are you?
I’m “grew up poor, saw my family and friends struggle with housing costs their entire lives, studied the research extensively, and realized that fighting for working class people meant fighting for housing”
@AndrewYang
@DonotInnovate
You're not going to achieve a multiparty parliamentarian democracy without completely reforming the very structure of our government. It's bonkers how few people understand that Congressional/presidential winner-take-all structures can only ever truly accommodate two parties
@Baddiel
@simon_schama
A Jewish friend of mine called out one guy making this comparison a couple months ago. The man breathlessly denied the latent anti-Semitism in comparing masking and vaccines to the Holocaust before calling my friend a "fat little Jew".
@graham60165741
@POTUS
If he has to take credit for inflation, he gets to take credit for pandemic jobs recovery. Both the blame and credit are pretty much incorrect, but that's apparently the nature of political theater.
@mateosfo
To be fair, they were building off the actions of the two or three prior generations and the technological incentives were perverse (personal automobile), but par for the course of boomer politics ignoring the health and happiness of any and all future generations
I'm slightly disappointed I didn't draw a rightwing crank challenger. That would have been a fun time. But with my wife super pregnant, I wasn't looking forward to having to campaign super hard with an infant at home. I'm glad I'll be able to focus on the work!
Shouldn't a prerequisite of starting a political party be having even the barest understanding of the basic functions and rules of the federal government?
For the record I’m for women’s reproductive rights and common sense gun safety regulations as are the majority of Americans. You can want these things regardless of party affiliation. My question is why are we not getting these things?
@johnniefgreco
@jkass99
@MenshevikM
If this is a joke, I love it. If this is your earnest belief, I hate you. This discourse has ruined my ability to tell intent.
New data: California has 12% of the US population but 30% of its homeless & 50% of unsheltered homeless.
Why? CA doesn’t have more mental health issues than other states.
Rather, it’s about housing. We have fewer homes per capita than other states. We must prioritize new homes.
@zylaros
@whstancil
@posting_forever
Are you saying that "'the US invasion of Iraq was bad' sounds like the hallucinatory delusion of someone dying of CO2 poisoning" or...?
There's a man in a dusky red truck who drives around Port Townsend tossing peanuts to crows. He is escorted everywhere by a murder. He is the crow king and he is a man of incredible power.
NIMBY flyer in Richmond against expanding a nursery school. 30 more toddles are portrayed like an open pit of nuclear waste.
We should not demonize people like this, but we must make them irrelevant. Join
@RVA_YIMBY
to get involved.
Tonight the Port Townsend City Council approved first reading (second reading 3/27) of some tactical infill zoning code changes that have the capacity to allow our community to do more to address housing affordability. Those changes include:
- Allow two ADUs
...
Rep. Pramila Jayapal is in Shoreline this afternoon to tour the area around the 148th Street light rail station and the planned pedestrian bridge that's planned over I-5 to connect the station to the west.
@IDoTheThinking
If we just transitioned to using smaller firetrucks for most calls, road design could improve so dramatically. I was talking with a planning consultant recently and he was speaking about this issue being the next clear community planning target that needs addressing.