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Logan Bowers 🏗️ 🏘️

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Husband. Father. Engineer. Economics, software & urbanism. Once called a Density Basilisk and walking urbanism checklist. Public policy day job.

Seattle, WA, USA

Joined May 2007

Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.

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Logan Bowers 🏗️ 🏘️

10 months

I want a brighter and more abundant future (than I had) for my son and others of his generation. That means building a lot more stuff in the highest opportunity places in the country.

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bob's burgers urbanist 🐿️

10 months

This thread is such a perfect encapsulation of the "lead paint caucus" mindset: "When I was young, I had to choose between living in a lead paint filled shithole, moving to a sprawlburg, or uprooting my life and relocating to another city. And so should you!"

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10 months

New kind of resource consumption attack just dropped.

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11 months

I’ve fallen into HVAC YouTube and a lot of it is from the UK. Holy moly their housing is in rough shape. These people consume insane amounts of energy for heating. I think they might actually build their homes without walls.

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Logan Bowers 🏗️ 🏘️

10 months

I heard @PodSaveAmerica talking this week about how “migrant bussing” by red states worked and made Dems more hostile to immigration, and I can’t think of a more damning indictment of liberal/progressive housing and infrastructure politics.

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5 months

Just wild that the US in the 20th century collectively decided to let all its cities rot and now we have almost no ability to build anything other than highways (at affordable prices).

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1 year

It took 10 days to erect this building. 10 days! Just getting the permits in Seattle could take 1-2 years—if it were even legal to build. If we were serious about the housing crisis, we’d be cranking these out in a WA factory.

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single stair, no setbacks, buildings touching. all illegal in the united states or canada, but legal everywhere else. they also win international awards. maybe our codes suck?

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1 year

I’m so fucking tired, man.

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2 years

NPR just did a segment on the evils of gentrification of international cities and it included an American university professor complaining that she couldn’t get a table at her preferred restaurant in Mexico City and I am going to become the joker.

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2 years

If only we knew the cause of this pernicious labor shortage. Oh well, I guess we’ll never know. Let’s just raise interest rates until businesses fail and people are tossed out of work.

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10 months

In most cases, it’s looking like having a high likelihood of getting caught is an effective deterrent (to the extent preventative measures don’t work), whereas harsh punishments rarely meted are not.

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10 months

Auto break-ins in San Francisco are plummeting due to focused enforcement. Consistent accountability for crime sends a loud message.

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10 months

The tell here is that we historically preserve a ton of buildings that don’t look anything like this, while simultaneously making it illegal to build the exact same style brand new.

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Spokane Rising

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“Breaking up the massing” makes buildings look worse.

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1 year

Argue about prices all you want, but if 100 people show up to put in an application on a single apartment, the only way to house them all is build 99 more apartments.

@sam_d_1995

sam

1 year

I was already a YIMBY (obviously), but dealing with the NYC housing shortage first-hand by trying to find a place to live and facing dozens of people lined up to tour every apartment really shows just how badly the city needs way more housing

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Logan Bowers 🏗️ 🏘️

2 years

@sam_d_1995 You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

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Logan Bowers 🏗️ 🏘️

1 year

There was, like, 10 people in sport coats at @costco just lolligaging down the asiles. Stuck behind them for a minute, I’m like, “are y’all from corporate or something?” Guy looks at me surprised, “yes,” me: “then get out of my way, I’m buying things.” Operational awareness guys.

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9 months

“Smashing people into units” is an incredible euphemism for “the literal difference between having somewhere to live and being out on the street”

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Christopher D. Cook

9 months

It's amazing and sad how the build, baby build folks just don't give a damn about the history of protest, resistance, and public space. It's all about smashing people into units. What a dreary non-vision. I support BOTH #PeoplesPark AND housing for UCB students.

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Logan Bowers 🏗️ 🏘️

2 years

This passage from @IDoTheThinking ’s substack is why most YIMBYs are so singularly focused on zoning most of the time. You can get more housing faster at all levels—including low income—just by allowing private development than you could ever hope to get through public spending.

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Logan Bowers 🏗️ 🏘️

8 months

Cities can get away with this for a few years, but eventually folks figure out there are no rules.

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𝕂ℕ𝔽 𝕀𝕆𝕆 ☎️ ☎️ ☎️ ☎️

8 months

When we talk about how dangerous our streets are we never talk about this. This is a cop strike.

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Logan Bowers 🏗️ 🏘️

1 year

@_johnsonator @TheOmniZaddy @nikicaga These people are telling on themselves re: respect they give to service workers.

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Logan Bowers 🏗️ 🏘️

2 years

This is an interesting map from @aei , of all places, showing homes within a 10-min walk of at least 6 different amenities (e.g. restaurants, stores, etc). Some really interesting things pop out. A quick 🧵

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1 year

The people who would have lived in those 6 homes aren’t incinerated. They’re going to have to find new homes somewhere else, like the urban growth exurbs where one home requires cutting a few hundred trees. 🙄

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chekovian jubilee

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In Seattle we decided a single tree was more important than housing for 6 families.

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Logan Bowers 🏗️ 🏘️

4 years

@mattyglesias @daveweigel Ben Huh pointed out that if you have an 80" hole in your wall, it's cheaper to patch it with a television than it is drywall.

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7 months

“NIMBYism is a virus…that exists in the human soul” - @GovInslee , at a press conference hosted at the Incredibly Based Department

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Ryan Packer

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7 months

Here's me asking @GovInslee about this session's housing accountability bills and Lt. Gov. Heck's comments that "NIMBY attitudes and some local governments" are stymieing progress on housing.

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2 years

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1 year

I kinda hope this passes and the Supreme Court rules it unconstitutional. Cities especially are increasingly not governing and just foisting their responsibilities onto private citizens and businesses. It’s unjust, but even more importantly, it’s ineffective.

@Susan_Shelley

Susan Shelley

1 year

A little more about the initiative that would require all L.A. hotels to call into the city and report the number of vacant rooms every evening, and then accept homeless guests paying with city vouchers for "fair market value." On the March 5 ballot, City of L.A., for real.

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Logan Bowers 🏗️ 🏘️

1 year

It’s been eye opening to me to see how almost all city policy is about banning and prohibiting things, and rarely, if ever, do they get around to proactively allowing or encouraging things. It’s a fundamentally broken form of governance if you believe change brings prosperity.

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Jesse Piedfort 🇺🇦

1 year

My issue with Airbnb bans is that short term rentals fill important niches: - If you need a 3-6 month rental, maybe between buying and selling a home, there aren't enough short term leases available. - If you're traveling with younger kids, hotels don't work at all.

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Logan Bowers 🏗️ 🏘️

10 months

I honestly don’t understand California. The electricity prices are so high (2.5x Seattle’s) that I don’t see how it’s economical to have an EV. Is this all just status? Subsidy? Idk.

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Devon ☀️

10 months

Interesting map!

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Logan Bowers 🏗️ 🏘️

2 years

@BBolander DQ has a cat door and can go out by himself whenever he wants, but he still runs to the front door whenever he thinks I’m going out because he prefers walks together. If he knows of a bunny hideout, he gets big mad if I don’t go there with him (attacks my leg).

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11 months

@skaushik100 @cruickshank Look, this is a transit line. It’s hard. It requires lots of planning and outreach. It’s not something easy we can do in 9 years, like going to the moon.

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2 years

Kinda wild how the pejorative “tech bros” to mean “all tech workers” has just slipped into casual usage in Seattle’s social justice chattering class. It’s othering, a little xenophobic, erases women in tech, and is bad politics in a city that’s ~15% tech workers. 🤷🏽‍♂️

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9 months

Driving to Costco for the first time in years (normally I bike). We haven’t even parked yet and I’m ready to kill myself.

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Logan Bowers 🏗️ 🏘️

2 years

This is probably our best and almost only insight into what a broad upzone does. It fucking works.

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Eric Lombardi

2 years

In 2019, the New Zealand’s federal government took action to seriously liberalize zoning laws in major cities. Not to do it in theory, they made the math work. And despite “Labour Crises”, starts have boomed even as prices and rents have begun to fall.

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Logan Bowers 🏗️ 🏘️

11 months

@mldunham They also have the best heat pump tech—despite not having insulation technology—because US regulations are the worst.

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@law4community @henrynewell @BostEvan People with less money are more likely to commute by bike because they’re in fact waaaay cheaper than a car.

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2 months

Are we uncancelling Silver now that he says something we like? Or do we just pretend it never happened? I don’t know how it works in the 2020s.

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Nate Silver

2 months

The streams have crossed.

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1 year

Cities force new construction to pay for public improvements. It translates straight into higher house prices. Incumbent owners gain from the higher prices, renters pay for it. For every $1 in city improvements extracted this way, renters pay~$10 to incumbents in higher rents.

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Matt Hutchins

1 year

Sadly, we pulled the plug on the Spokane Four. We couldn’t get the construction budget to where it needed to be. The biggest line item extra was 87k in alley improvement. Until we can find a better site and better financing options, the design will be available as a stock plan.

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4 years

Almost half of police duties go away if citizens aren’t driving cars.

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Derek Thompson

4 years

What do the police actually do?

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Logan Bowers 🏗️ 🏘️

1 year

This guy is where he should be. Issaquah is a policy failure of sprawl because cities like Seattle (or even Bellevue) didn't allow new housing, so development sprawled out and took this bear's home.

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1 year

Issaquah is bear country. This video — captured today — is a great reminder to stay bear aware. Tips: 📷: @JamesK19782009

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4 months

Planning for the last 70 years has been: - freezing whatever was there in 1950 - build shopping centers on wetlands for the tax revenue - separating uses for maximum car dependency - historically preserving old buildings while mandating new ones look completely different Okay

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What's so viscerally objectionable about @EastSolanoPlan is the complete disregard for the expertise and knowledge that goes into every single aspect of what makes a city function. 🧵

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3 months

The idea that making our living conditions better—including modern ventilation, increasing insulation, and getting rid of toxins like lead—is somehow bad because poor people should be living in these worse conditions, is one of the most classist takes I’ve ever seen.

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Christian Diaz

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In Logan Square a developer bought a 4-flat for $820k. Gut rehabbed it. He was given, under the ADU pilot, another unit as of right. The ADU asking rent is $2,600. The other units are $3,700. One year later, the building is for sale for $2.3million. This is gentrification.

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Logan Bowers 🏗️ 🏘️

10 months

@smuggly_ugly I think that since the structure of these AIs is that the input streams from the attacker and the host are commingled, and also that the machine itself is probabilistic, suggests this attack vector will structurally exist forever. (But probably get harder with time)

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2 months

The thing is that if this LA Councilmember just upzoned the city and allowed market rate apartments to be built, the city could buy used apartments for, like, half of the cost they spend publicly contracting to build it themselves. Plus, millions of middle class families would

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Eunisses Hernandez

2 months

We cannot criminalize people into housing that does not exist.

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Logan Bowers 🏗️ 🏘️

10 months

When there isn’t enough housing, it gets allocated to the highest bidder, so people exit the city roughly in order of income. The solution to a diverse and equitable city is enough housing for everyone.

@musingsofmonica

Monica Kim⁷ 💜

@musingsofmonica

10 months

I’ve mentioned this few times before, but rapidly widening inequity in many areas of Seattle happening right before my eyes is really starting to shock me — even just within few mile radius around. I’m having real hard time reconciling things I’m seeing, hearing, & experiencing.

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Logan Bowers 🏗️ 🏘️

2 years

How it started / How it’s going That first map passed the Senate 40 - 8, and the butchering that is the second map was 100% the work of the House Dems.

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Robert Cruickshank

2 years

Legislative caucuses are reticent to let the public know how decisions get made. But it's important that we find out. Which legislators demanded places like Mercer Island and Bellevue and Northeast Seattle get exempted from TOD? Without knowing, accountability is difficult.

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1 year

Just begging environmental orgs to try to actually put the human survival and flourishing first.

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Alec Stapp

1 year

Senior White House Adviser John Podesta: “These delays are pervasive at every level of government — federal, state and local. We got so good at stopping projects that we forgot how to build things in America.” Which is why we need permitting reform at every level of gov’t…

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11 months

Look, this is a transit line. It’s hard. It requires lots of planning and outreach. It’s not something easy we can do in 9 years, like going to the moon.

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Sandeep Kaushik

11 months

@cruickshank I mean, this official timeline is an absurdist joke. NINE FUCKING YEARS of planning?!?!??!!! Followed by FOUR FUCKING YEARS of design, and then 12 FUCKING YEARS of construction?!?!??!!! To get to FUCKING BALLARD?!?!??!!! Like, what is wrong with us as a region?

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1 year

Not YIMBY, not NIMBY, but a secret 3rd thing (NIMBY).

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2 months

This isn’t normal. Fourth time this year.

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Logan Bowers 🏗️ 🏘️

4 years

Abigail Jerina Bowers passed away at 6:40pm tonight in our arms.

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9 months

Wow this is terrible. This Dem bill turns every project into a hostage negotiation. It’s infuriating that the people who ostensibly care about the environment actually use the crisis as a cudgel for unrelated political leverage. It’s unserious is discrediting.

@CSElmendorf

Chris Elmendorf

9 months

Whoa, the NEPA provisions tucked into the new "Clean Electricity & Transmission Acceleration Act" are like a wish list for greenmailers. There's lots of good in the bill (⤵️), but the NEPA stuff is stunning. Come take a look. 🧵. 1/14.

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1 year

None of these new buildings, which would look right at home in any older Seattle neighborhood, are allowed under Seattle’s current design rules.

@VicctorianChad

NeoTraditional Architecture Memes

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1 year

Really impressed with a lot of the newer construction in Tribeca @Cobylefko

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Recall that 13 people are going to move out of used homes to live in these new ones. Other people will move out of other used homes to move into those and so on. After about 6 hops (~2 years), this development will create about 7 vacancies in Seattle’s cheapest neighborhoods.

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one house becomes 13 homes in seattle's queen anne neighborhood. the single home sold for $3.7 million the new homes are selling for $1 million to $1.6 million. no, not affordable, but certainly cheaper than what was there before. density makes things cheaper.

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6 months

@sf_mills So, if we could rewind time to lower educational achievements, which year would go back to? Like, 1900 when most kids barely learned the three Rs? Or is it just that right now in this moment we’ve achieved the ideal level and pace of educational attainment?

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2 years

Maximus was born tonight and @Jerinap and he are healthy!

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2 years

I feel like as an elected official it is actually literally your job to explain the positions you take to the people who elect you. If that is too onerous for you, maybe you should choose a different career?

@RepEpps

Elisabeth Epps

2 years

There is not a single constituent who was reasonable and polite that I was sarcastic to. Not one. There’s a lot that I owe constituents. Free labor on demand explaining positions outside my legislative reach is not on that list. Find other folks to tone-police. I’m not the one.

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@HelaKarp @EricFrancisco24 @CatStaggs I’m imagining that scene in The Kingsman where all the dilettantes’ heads explode but they’re CEOs of streaming platforms.

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Yep. Folks pretend NIMBYism is a right-wing concept, but housing costs are overwhelmingly a problem of cities with near unbroken streaks of center-left and left leadership. Conservative areas aren’t exactly great, but they’re objectively much higher growth for over 20 years.

@louismirante

Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

2 years

Today’s housing crisis is mostly the responsibility of elected Democrats to fix, but they often choose to *make the crisis worse.* It’s an invitation to Republicans to capitalize on Americans’ desire for homeownership or affordable rental opportunities that Democrats deny them.

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1 year

Lmao, this sets a minimum tax of 4% on the sale of apartment buildings. Developers, roughly, aren’t landlords. They build it, then sell it. If their profit margin is 10-15%, this eats ~1/3rd to 1/2 the profit. WA Dems just going full 🤡 on housing.

@DBeekman

Daniel Beekman

1 year

Backers of a bill that would hike taxes on real estate sales to fund low-income housing are prodding WA lawmakers to take action and ripping a biz group over a TV ad attacking the bill, which could raise billions of $ in the coming years. (w/ @vizscience )

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@ChrisMommsen @WatsonLadd @PodSaveAmerica They were allowed to work, they were allowed to build homes, and the cities rolled out subway and transit lines left and right, opening up more areas to housing and employment.

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8 months

Just incredible ability to pack every wrong idea into a single piece of legislation.

@MaxGhenis

Max Ghenis

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California Republicans have introduced a half-billion-dollar bill that would give tax credits to homeowners if they live in fire zones. Also it's non-refundable. Also it has a welfare cliff. And a marriage penalty for parents.

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Not a single councilmember willing to go to bat for housing in Seattle. I think that’s instructive for anyone who cares about housing as the defining issue of our era.

@JHopLovesTrains

Jonathan Hopkins 🚅🚇🚎🚲🛴🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦

@JHopLovesTrains

1 year

Spokane is killing it. Seattle is not even considering it.

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Cities destroy their public spaces because rather than deal with homelessness by building housing, they instead try to make the streets so miserable to spend any time on that homeless people go elsewhere.

@IDoTheThinking

Darrell Owens

@IDoTheThinking

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This is my area neighbor who suffers from chronic pain prohibiting him from bending his legs and he just got surgery. Now hes sitting on the ground in downtown berkeley because @CityofBerkeley and @rideact dont have benches at their bus stops.

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When we had our third child I bought a Borg Cube. It’s very safe and built like resistance is futile. We always had all-terrain assault walkers like the AT-AT that are no match for the rebel alliance. The lives of my children are too important to risk to another driver.

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@IanTCrozier

Crowshair

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When we had our third child I bought an AT-AT. It’s very safe and built like an all-terrain armored transport. We always had tanks like Abrams' which have no chance against speeders and laser batteries. The lives of my children are too important to risk to another driver.

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@mateosfo @Cgoinggal I’ve had criminals drive a car through my building five times at my shop in Redmond, WA in the last year and this is exactly one of the excuses the city gave me for why they wouldn’t allow me to place bollards between the road and the sidewalk to prevent it. 🫠

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8 months

Yep. Cars aren’t going away, over half of households own cars in Tokyo. In Seattle, most of the gains to be made are making transit good enough that households choose to go from 2 cars -> 1 car.

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wanye

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25% of Manhattan households and 50% of Brooklyn households own a car, which should tell you that people *really* like owning a car and those who can afford to will do it even when 1) it's maximally inconvenient and 2) the transit alternatives are maximally convenient

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5 months

NEPA doesn’t protect the environment, it protects the status quo.

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Brad Thomas

@bradleywthomas

5 months

“No significant impact”

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1 year

@scottm00re @typewriteralley If we don’t want Clyde Hill residents in our city because they’re a bunch of freeloaders who don’t pull their weight, can we disconnect all the roads to Clyde Hill and you can have your town on its own?

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1 month

Ngl, this hurts

@YIMBYsforHarris

YIMBYs for Harris 🥥🌴🏠🌆

@YIMBYsforHarris

1 month

We have completely eliminated single family zoning and costly parking mandates citywide. Sorry Seattle, but we are #1 in terms of pro-housing policy. We have done the work on the policy side, we are doing the work on the permitting side. We really need a federal partner that will

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This really simple quantities-based analysis is why left-NIMBYs especially cling so maniacally to vacancy trutherism.

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1 year

Housing politics outside of upzoning (or in Seattle’s case, including upzoning) is almost always an exercise in strategic innumeracy.

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1 year

@Ngrjnv They == me. We’re in historic Redmond, so we can’t just sink bollards wherever we want. We’ll sink bollards into the frame of the building.

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1 year

This adds somewhere around $10,000 to $15,000 in cost per home and is a direct assault on middle class and working class residents. Just full-on NIMBY policy.

@pushtheneedle

push the needle

1 year

this housing killer is going to pass because council members Tammy Morales, Kshama Sawant, Debora Juarez, Lisa Herbold and Alex Pedersen believe we should tax the hell out of new housing in a shortage. 4 of them aren’t seeking reelection appalling

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10 days

No matter how you slice it, this is indicative of Blue State policies being phenomenally detrimental to millions of Americans. Feels like that deserves more self-reflection.

@mcpli

Michael Li 李之樸

12 days

As people talk about the path to 270 this year, worth remembering that by 2032 (two elections away) the path could look very different thanks to the next reappointment.

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2 years

ICYMI “we have popular opinion on our side, we just have to turn out the votes” is mostly a myth.

@davidshor

David Shor

3 years

@lancesalyers @mrianleslie It is actually substantially easier to persuade voters who already care about politics than it is to turn out voters who do not care about politics. This is why most changes election-to-election are driven by persuasion and not turnout!

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1 year

Yet another DSA L. Here in Seattle, DSA member & Councilmember Sawant voted against allowing development w/on-site affordable units to skip the often weaponized & expensive Design Review process. There’s no limit to the number of people she’ll make homeless for the revolution.

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2 years

The SB5466 “TOD” bill is a NIMBY dream. A mandatory 20% halts all development near light rail now and forever into the future. This freezes wealthy neighborhoods in @RepJuliaReed ’s 36th LD as SFH. This doesn’t protect poorer neighborhoods in 37th LD that are already upzoned.

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1 year

@duckvalentine @MinisterofDOOM They get to deduct the loss in value against their profits when computing their corporate tax payment. One possibility is the tax write-off saves them more money than they think they make by keeping it on the service.

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11 months

@bugfush @mldunham Flammable refrigerants are not allowed except in unusably small quantities. R290 (propane) performs better, achieves higher temperatures, and is more environmentally friendly than what we use in the US now (R410a) or in the near future (R32).

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1 year

OMG how did this suburb get so based? Bothell shows what actual leadership is like, compared to whatever the f*** you want to call what we have in Seattle.

@berkie1

Jonathan Berk

1 year

The Pop Shops on Main provide space for local entrepreneurs to try their hand at operating a brick and mortar retail space, growing their businesses locally, while activating the edge of a parking lot along Main Street. 📷 @GordonOfSeattle 📍 Bothell, WA

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5 months

@PEWilliams_ “All the people at my local dive bar still visit third places”

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@davidshor

David Shor

2 years

@erichdelang Right now you’d need to add six or seven states to get the median-mean of the senate to where it was in 2012 (which at current levels of ticket splitting would still put us at a big disadvantage)

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5 months

This is why it’s so important to focus on quantities rather than prices. Like, there simply aren’t enough 3+bd homes in Seattle for it to have a normal number of families with kids. No amount of subsidy, rent control, or tax rebate changes that.

@andrewglynch

Andrew Lynch

5 months

Standard political response to housing issues

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2 months

We asked the @CityOfRedmond for bollards, they said put in a stronger door. A STRONGER DOOR, PEOPLE!

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Mom graduated Berkeley in ‘69 and was there the first time they tried to build dorms. These will be built maybe in time for her grandson to attend. Meanwhile 50,000 or so kids missed out on housing in the intervening years. These politicians make our lives worse.

@JovankaBeckles

Jovanka Beckles For State Senate🌹

@JovankaBeckles

4 months

Deeply saddened by the CA Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of construction on People’s Park. While affordable housing is a pressing need, this project will not create it. We cannot stand by as the UC, the biggest landlord in the state, destroys a historic and cultural landmark.

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10 months

@conjurial @nextdoorsv @PodSaveAmerica Totally! We need to and can do better. And yet, places like Texas are leading the nation in renewable energy. The reality is that no party has a lock on small-c conservatism.

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1 year

Rep Bateman’s legacy will be literal millions of people getting housing in WA where they otherwise would be displaced or living in their parent’s basement. 👏👏👏

@jessdbateman

Rep. Jessica Bateman

1 year

Y’all we passed middle housing in Washington State!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊🎊🥳🥳🍾🍾🍾👏👏👏👏 #Homes4WA

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1 year

“Man, all these teams of professionals who run retail stores for a living are so stupid and full of shit” —guy who has thought about their problem space for five minutes

@JuddLegum

Judd Legum

1 year

1. Last week, @Target announced it was closing 9 stores due to theft, generating an avalanche of credulous coverage from nearly every major media outlet One thing that was missing from all these stories: DATA So Popular Information tracked it down 🧵

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Developer 1: I’d like to redevelop this lot. Planning: you have to spend unlimited money to preserve the historic facade! Dev 2: I’d like to make a new building with a historic-looking facade. Planning: Absolutely not!

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9 months

No American city has enough scale to make custom-built anything be cost effective. We live in an age where our incredibly high living standards come from standardization and mass production.

@AlecStapp

Alec Stapp

9 months

"After 5 years of debates, studies, surveys, hearings, prototypes & test runs, the process to replace San Francisco’s trash cans with bespoke models just hit another delay: costs. The department has spent more than $500,000 on the project" 5 years, for trash cans.

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5 years

Seattle was founded on the lands of the Duwamish _Tribe_ and is named after their leader at the time. It’s deeply disappointing the Seattle School District and the school board decided to let them be written out of our locally taught history.

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The Urbanist

5 years

Seattle students will soon learn about WA tribes, but not the Duwamish via ⁦ @Crosscut ⁩

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9 months

CA is spilling enough electricity on the ground to power something like 20% of Seattle. In a sane world, we’d build another transmission line, like yesterday, to utilize this literally free energy. Instead, we spend decades “planning” and doing “environmental” reviews.

@aarmlovi

@Alex_Armlovich

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It's complicated, but when the grid's noon solar power peaks are so high that CAISO has to curtail solar...it no longer makes sense to pay retail rates for wholesale solar power! The incremental solar panel in CA no longer produces usable electricity without a battery attached

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This f***ing guy wants to force a State agency to sign off on every tree removal over 12" to ensure that it's not "culturally modified"—altered by indigenous tribes prior to the formation of Seattle. What freaking 12" tree is over 150 years old?

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Pedersen Plan Would Require State Approval to Remove Any Tree Larger than 12 Inches - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett City Councilmember Alex Pedersen, who’s leaving at the end of the year, may get one…

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6 months

The places in Seattle where approximately everything is in walking distance.

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8 months

This is almost enough in permitting to power all of California.

@AlecStapp

Alec Stapp

8 months

Offshore wind energy might be the clearest example of how broken the permitting process has become. The United States has 42 megawatts of offshore wind capacity in operation. But there is more than 20,000 megawatts (!) of potential capacity stuck waiting for permits...

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To a first order approximation, anti-change left ratcheted up NEPA review so nothing happens. Conservatives exempted stuff they care about (oil drilling and pipelines), so environmental review only applies to things liberals and progressives want to do (clean energy, trains)

@pushtheneedle

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11 months

“one estimation says US energy would be 80% carbon free by 2030 if we didnt have all the environmental review and red tape. the wind farm in wyoming took 18 years to get approval” @billmaher nails it here

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2 years

They just added about $10,000/apartment to cost of this building by delaying 9 months, and will add another $2,500/apartment to put brick on a wall facing another property. Pointing that out was deemed "off-topic." Your city hard at work.

@Qagggy

Qagggy!

2 years

Logan Bowers: Says this is the most expensive brick wall in the history of this city. Talks about housing crisis. Moderator cutting him off.

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2 years

440 home owners paid an extra $40,000 each so that 5 local architects could see what this building looked like with a different kind of “partly cloudy” day. In what world is this not a bats*** crazy?

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2 years

The assumptions he makes in this graphic aren’t true, land values don’t go up 4x just because you can build 4 homes. But imagine believing this and then still thinking it’s terrible if 4x more people are housed and bad if the city gets 4x the tax revenue.

@PippengerHarlo

Harlo Pippenger 🥕🛠🎀

@PippengerHarlo

2 years

study this image. internalize it. and then come talk to me about zoning..

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10 months

@SenMarkoLiias trains plz

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@Mlondon83 There’s already nothing for them to steal, no money in the tills or ATM, only a small amount of display project out. The ease with which the cars are stolen has made the level of criminal much dumber. Career criminals mostly know it’s not worth it!

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2 years

Inclusionary zoning so prohibitive and without exception still in the bill. This measure blocks all new construction near transit in Seattle. Fucking incredible.

@ericacbarnett

Erica C. Barnett ericacbarnett on all platforms

2 years

House Democrats Cede Ground on Density, Scaling Back Transit-Oriented Development Bill

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2 years

She’s trying to preserve a f***ing suburban Walgreens in the 2nd densest neighborhood in the city. I am going to become the joker.

@ericacbarnett

Erica C. Barnett ericacbarnett on all platforms

2 years

Update on the proposal to prevent any new development at a landmarked Walgreen's drive-thru in South Lake Union: @Lisa_Herbold has proposed imposing protections on the building and drive-through and allowing housing in the (tiny) parking lot.

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