@scott@carfree.city2025-10-03 23:50:32
Looking for something to do this evening in SF? Come learn about municipal social housing!
https://actionnetwork.org/events/municipal-social-housing-panel?source=mastodon
@scott@carfree.city2025-10-03 23:50:32
@imprs_solar@academiccloud.social2025-09-03 19:29:15
Content warning:
Thank you so much to @… for hosting us today and showing us around some of the fascinating venues on Telegraphenberg in the Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein as well as your Potsdamer Babelsberg site! We saw the impressive Great Refractor, the famous Einsteinturm, and enjoyed a very inspiring talk by Prof. Poppenhaeger.
@newstik@social.heise.de2025-10-02 19:54:06
"Right now, a lot of condos [are] coming online that people don't really want to live in."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/unsold-condos-metro-vancouver-bc-2025-1.7647776
@scott@carfree.city2025-10-02 18:42:38
organizing this panel about social housing and how Seattle’s success can inspire SF to get around roadblocks. please come if you’re in SF! Friday evening
https://actionnetwork.org/events/municipal-social-housing-panel?source=mastodon
@harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizza2025-10-02 08:38:16
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-11-01 23:29:56
#Republicans HAVE devoted time to:
☑️ Gerrymandering to stay in power
☑️ Punishing their enemies
☑️ Enriching their friends
☑️ Silencing their critics
☑️ Deporting immigrants
☑️ Scapegoating minorities & DEI
Republicans HAVEN'T put forth proposals to:
❌ lower housing costs
❌ reduce groceries prices
❌ improve our schools
❌ make h…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-10-01 16:12:35
Unlawful caps and work requirements.
Millions could lose housing aid under Trump plan - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/01/millions-could-lose-housing-aid-under-trump-plan_partner/
@brichapman@mastodon.social2025-10-01 05:43:00
New Canadian Transit Fund prioritizes electric buses over hydrogen, promoting competition and sustainability while supporting all transit agencies. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-02 14:47:23
You’ll still get your social security and Medicare.
Flights will keep going, but with unpaid and possibly limited staff.
Most parks will remain open, but will probably be under-maintained.
Smithsonian museums and the National zoo are open through at least 6 October.
Federal workers are the hardest hit, withmany being unpaid or furloughed.
Consumer protections, which have already been hit hard by cuts, are at risk of incapacity.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-10-01 17:11:31
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-10-30 13:49:48
About 20 years ago, I was part of the Neighborhood Network - people concerned about good planning and good governance. The Mayor's office was pushing to allow more nmarket rate housing. When Jim Meko and I met with the then housing czar, he explained supply and demand. When I argued commodity vs luxury item and profit motive, he admitted that unrestricted building would reduce prices by maybe 3%. Very close to the current conclusion.
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-10-30 13:49:48
About 20 years ago, I was part of the Neighborhood Network - people concerned about good planning and good governance. The Mayor's office was pushing to allow more nmarket rate housing. When Jim Meko and I met with the then housing czar, he explained supply and demand. When I argued commodity vs luxury item and profit motive, he admitted that unrestricted building would reduce prices by maybe 3%. Very close to the current conclusion.
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-30 10:05:59
The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-28 04:45:58
South Korea confirms that a fire at National Information Resources Service's data center, housing 647 government IT systems, directly damaged 96 of them (Lee Jung-joo/The Korea Herald)
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10585032
@paul@social.van.buu.re2025-08-31 17:25:01
Student looking for tips for housing in Rotterdam. Anyone?
https://pan.rent/@tommi/115124354568461390
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-10-30 08:49:25
"inadvertent error"
Just like Angela Raynor then?
Starmer rules out investigation after Reeves admits rental rules 'mistake' - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd04d0yxnrvo
@steadystatemcr@mstdn.social2025-10-30 13:40:15
“The housing crisis is primarily one of affordability rather than solely relating to supply and a range of measures are needed to address them.
“But allowing developers an even greater level of autonomy does nothing to deliver the kind of housing solutions needed by the majority of people affected. It just allows developers and landlords to increase their profits.”
Labour told ‘numbers game’ approach to housing targets is doomed to failure | Morning Star
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-10-29 20:15:49
YouTube reorganizes its product group, naming Christian Oestlien as head of all subscription products, including YouTube TV, Music, and Premium (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/youtube-product-r…
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-09-26 12:36:51
🌆 Why the legacy of East Germany’s prefab housing blocks is more relevant than ever
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/06/why-the-legacy-of-east-germanys-prefab-housing-blocks-is-more-relevant-than-ever
@benrosstransit@mastodon.social2025-08-28 12:40:33
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2025-09-29 00:55:47
A government shutdown is coming, at least I hope it is coming because it is better to starve the maga mad dog than to feed it.
Many people will be hurt, some badly, especially those with lower incomes or lack of secure housing or medical care.
We need to take care of those people during the shutdown. Food stores, medical providers, landlords, etc (many of which will themselves be hurting due to the shutdown) will need to be considerate and provide services even if payment is def…
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-08-30 19:56:18
Housing Price commentary - recognizing that housing costs are a function of many variables, and merely changing zoning may not reduce costs.:
https://www.planningreport.com/2025/07/22/dear-atlantic-stop-publishing-propaganda-housing…
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-08-30 19:56:18
Housing Price commentary - recognizing that housing costs are a function of many variables, and merely changing zoning may not reduce costs.:
https://www.planningreport.com/2025/07/22/dear-atlantic-stop-publishing-propaganda-housing…
@anneroth@systemli.social2025-08-15 11:44:42
"As a collective of homeless and marginally housed mothers, Moms 4 Housing organizes to reclaim vacant property warehoused by investors. In 2020, another group of mothers began squatting in vacant foreclosed properties owned by Philadelphia’s Housing Authority (PHA)." ❤️🔥
https://rosalux.nyc/self-help-housing/
@servelan@newsie.social2025-08-31 18:08:12
30 day orders = housing, etc., payment; 29 day orders, nothing.
'It infuriates us': Veterans rage at 'abusive' Trump over reports of him stiffing soldiers - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-infuriating-29-day-orders/
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-08-30 09:19:22
Reform UK councillor in Burnley accused of ‘whipping up misinformation’
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/politic
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-30 13:26:00
Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/10/trump-officials-military-housing-stephen-miller/684748/?gift=1ga2TvL-DbuHDQIcYF7oR6IRKlFiVQjpKpNmoQZhUgw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p44#a251030p44
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-28 21:31:12
Myanmar shut down a major online scam center on October 21 as part of operations starting in September to curb cross-border online scams and illegal gambling (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-scam-centers-cybercr…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-08-31 05:57:02
Trump wants to ax an affordable housing grant that's a lifeline for many rural communities | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-tennessee-america-hud-kentucky-b2817204.html
@shriramk@mastodon.social2025-08-19 16:48:43
This reminds me of something I've idly wondered about for a while now: whether MAGA will cause veganism to flip like Tesla, from being left-coded to right-coded. (It's already adjacent to vax-deniers and horseshoe-ish.)
@grumpybozo@toad.social2025-09-20 21:18:23
Nepo babies can be so stupid about their supposed familial expertise…
The Fed doesn't control long-term (i.e. federally-backed mortgage) rates.Those reflect what the credit market believes inflation will be over the long term and how much return they think they can get elsewhere. Lowering rates before inflation has absorbed the tariff shocks and settled down will increase long-term inflation expectations, raising long rates.
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2025-08-29 17:32:10
New York City ought to immediately initiate eminent domain proceedings and seize every trump or trump org family owned building in the city.
On what grounds:
Because of false statements and failure to abide by agreements with the city.
For instance, tromp-tower was built in violation of an agreement to preserve aspects of the Bonwitt-Teller building.
And the city does have need of space for homeless and low income housing.
If the maga's can fire people based…
@cdamian@rls.social2025-10-24 12:53:57
The Europeans Podcast mini series Who Does It Best has started with two episodes about the housing crisis
#TheEuropeans
@egallager@social.treehouse.systems2025-09-17 19:39:20
One of the members of my church's congregation has gotten right to work making use of our state's new ADU law: #NHPolitics #YIMBY #Housing
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-08-25 21:23:00
🏘️ Will we ever get enough housing? The future holds promise
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-10/home-2050
🆓 https://
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-08-29 19:33:48
This is a good outcome.
Now the government must give asylum to all likely to get it anyway, allow asylum seekers to do paid work, and advocate positively for their right to come here and seek sanctuary.
(Not holding my breath as Starmer is a Reform / #POX enabler).
Asylum seekers to remain at Epping hotel after court of appeal revokes ban | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social2025-08-20 13:44:59
@… Hi JP - I am pleased to encounter you here, as I have been involved with the various Scottish co-housing groups for about a year now. Sadly, things are going much more slowly here than in England, where there are many different variants being tried out.
Where are you active yourself?
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-10-11 17:00:39
"New Zealand oceans warming 34% faster than global average, putting homes and industry at risk, report finds"
#NewZealand #Climate #ClimateChange
@servelan@newsie.social2025-10-30 16:04:57
Stephen Miller Is Hiding From Protesters by Living on Military Base | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/post/202463/stephen-miller-kristi-noem-hiding-protesters-military-base-housing
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-08-30 13:22:17
Podcast host Jon Lovett, a former aide to former President Barack Obama: "This is an emergency. We should all be freaking out about how urgent it is to do anything humanly possible to build housing,” he said, “and you’re worried about whether or not there’s a place for a few senior citizens to sit outside a building.”
Think about that for a moment. How does this align with all of the research around outdoor access, windows with views, and general health? How does this address th…
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-08-30 13:22:17
Podcast host Jon Lovett, a former aide to former President Barack Obama: "This is an emergency. We should all be freaking out about how urgent it is to do anything humanly possible to build housing,” he said, “and you’re worried about whether or not there’s a place for a few senior citizens to sit outside a building.”
Think about that for a moment. How does this align with all of the research around outdoor access, windows with views, and general health? How does this address th…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2025-10-16 11:13:54
“By 2040, the Locational scenario could reduce the total system cost by 23 – 59 Bn. EUR annually. These savings are in the order of magnitude of those associated with the integration of European electricity markets.”
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/J…
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social2025-10-09 15:22:08
look who visited marquette yesterday!
#wienermobile #oscarmayerwienermobile
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-10-13 18:57:47
I’ve always felt a deep resentment toward the wealthy, not just for their excessive privilege, but for how they hoard resources that could ease so much human suffering. It infuriates me that their fortunes grow while people sleep on the streets and struggle to survive another day.
I believe everyone deserves the fundamentals that make life dignified, secure housing, nourishment, healthcare, education, and fair social support. No one should have to beg for what should already belong to …
@newstik@social.heise.de2025-10-21 20:15:09
I think there will now be affordable real estate in the Ingersoll area. #housing
@dr2chase@ohai.social2025-10-05 19:41:21
People in the US have just had their brains fried by suburban myths. We walked from a Copenhagen subway station to visit friends living in some of that housing, then we walked with them and their kids to the nearby pasture-N-stuff. They don't even own a bicycle yet, but they're making plans.
Afterwards, two stops up the subway line we stopped in a mall to pick up some stuff my wife needed for work the next day.
@MichaelLondonSF@mas.to2025-08-24 17:26:33
Wrong question IMHO. Trying to make housing in London 'affordable' by just building more is a mistaken approach.
Instead re-think growth obsession focus all energy on growing the social housing stock rent controls on privet rent. Aim it all at lowering land prices and housing prices.
Unless the building is by a public body it would be so hard to avoid car-heavy executive homes in GB.
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-08-24 13:46:06
We have long had problems with slumlords in the US.
And we have long had codes related to habitability standards in residential buildings.
What #MayorLurie could do is direct the Dept of Public Health and Dept of building inspection to review these codes, and perhaps even more importantly what the penalties are for non-compliance, and work with the departments and if needed state …
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-08-24 13:46:06
We have long had problems with slumlords in the US.
And we have long had codes related to habitability standards in residential buildings.
What #MayorLurie could do is direct the Dept of Public Health and Dept of building inspection to review these codes, and perhaps even more importantly what the penalties are for non-compliance, and work with the departments and if needed state …
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-09-22 16:42:18
lol c'mon, gtfoh
@RenkeSiems@openbiblio.social2025-08-07 17:10:55
The "kill cloud" at work.
https://www.972mag.com/microsoft-8200-intelligence-surveillance-cloud-azure/
@egallager@social.treehouse.systems2025-09-17 23:00:00
My Dad made the maps used in this article: #NHHousing
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-20 04:25:51
EliseAI, which provides AI tools for healthcare and housing industries, raised a $250M Series E led by a16z, doubling its valuation to $2.2B from August 2024 (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcar
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-08-10 21:25:37
Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif was killed in an Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City (Al Jazeera)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/10/al-jazeera-journalist-anas-al-sh…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-28 17:17:28
It has always been in our nation’s darkest chapters that 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲.
We are — each and every one of us, whether we like it or not — living history today.
It is a time in which demanding what should be considered the most basic tenets of human dignity is considered 𝘢 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘢𝘤𝘵.
To demand affordable housing,
a decent wage,
the right to healthcare,
that we pay to care for our people,
instead of the flattening of Palesti…
@shellheim@social.linux.pizza2025-10-04 18:19:54
It's absolute insanity that the recruiting arm of the US army is just the violence of poverty.
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-08-25 14:51:10
For those considering #SanFrancisco's Upzoning Plan (aka #FamilyZoningPlan) , predicated on letting for profit developers build higher and denser, we have some data:
"London boroughs with the greatest number of these rental property developments, rents have increased by 48% to 5…
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-08-25 14:51:10
For those considering #SanFrancisco's Upzoning Plan (aka #FamilyZoningPlan) , predicated on letting for profit developers build higher and denser, we have some data:
"London boroughs with the greatest number of these rental property developments, rents have increased by 48% to 5…
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2025-10-23 00:30:52
In response to El Cheato tearing down a building that you and I own (i.e. the East Wing of the White House) then I propose that NYC condemn trump tower (for being unsafe and also for violations of the promises to preserve the prior Bonwit Teller art) and repurpose it for low incoming and homeless housing.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-10-12 10:15:14
Homelessness is not a moral failure or an accident of fate, it is the direct result of capitalist property relations. Under a system where land, housing, and production are privately owned, the working class is alienated from its means of existence. People are cast into the streets not because scarcity is real, but because profit determines who deserves shelter.
The solution is not charity or state bureaucracy but the abolition of private property in housing and the collective organiza…
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-08-21 07:57:19
Evil woman.
Tory councils should consider asylum hotel challenges, says Badenoch - BBC News
#AuntTom
@grumpybozo@toad.social2025-09-15 16:25:31
I’m glad to have never lived in such places that are only accessible by car. Just cities and 'burbs built up before the phenomenon of encapsulated residential developments became dominant. I always walked (or more often biked) to school as a kid and so did my kids (except for K, of course)
I wonder what sort of effect that has on the psyche. Seems like a recipe for people predisposed to xenophobia.
@scott@carfree.city2025-10-22 06:47:26
If you're free Wednesday night in SF, check out this panel on social housing at 518 Valencia. Sounds like it'll be good (I unfortunately can't make it):
Wed, Oct 22, 7:30pm
Social Housing: Challenging YIMBYs and NIMBYs
"What we’re doing on housing isn’t working. We’ve upzoned, streamlined, deregulated. And still, the crisis deepens. There is a movement waiting to be built—...rooted in care, solidarity, and the belief that everyone deserves a place to live.&qu…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-09-22 17:23:52
HUD Orders Audit Of Public Housing To Find "Illegals" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/09/hud-orders-audit-of-public-housing-to-find-illegals/
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-09-25 14:30:47
I'm not sure how to interpret "Of those, more than 80% (57,000) have earned initial approvals but have not yet received the final sign-off from the Department of Building Inspection to begin construction."
Are they confounding Planning approval - general building form issues such as lot coverage, height, number of bedrooms, parking minimum/maximum, bicycle storage, etc - with DBI permit approval, which gets into the construction details - issues of structural integrity, f…
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-09-25 14:30:47
I'm not sure how to interpret "Of those, more than 80% (57,000) have earned initial approvals but have not yet received the final sign-off from the Department of Building Inspection to begin construction."
Are they confounding Planning approval - general building form issues such as lot coverage, height, number of bedrooms, parking minimum/maximum, bicycle storage, etc - with DBI permit approval, which gets into the construction details - issues of structural integrity, f…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-10-06 17:28:20
It's shocking to me that the guy who was a useless councilmember (and council president) in Seattle for more than a decade also turned out to be a useless Mayor. Absolutely shocking! https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/115327462564038876
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-08-14 12:00:02
Freezing rent is easy. Making NYC housing affordable isn’t.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/07/28/world/freezing-nyc-rent/
🆓
@benrosstransit@mastodon.social2025-08-07 12:17:42
Chair of MoCo Planning Board advocates single-stairway building code reform. https://ggwash.org/view/100397/how-rethinking-stairwells-could-boost-housing-in-montgomery-county
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-09-10 15:10:53
Nepalese "Gen Z" protestors set fire to the offices of daily newspaper Annapurna Post and of Kantipur Media Group, housing its print, TV, and radio divisions (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/09/nepal-protests
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-10-22 13:17:40
Am I the only one who is bewildered that a location so close to city hall, less than 1/3 of a mile to Van Ness BRT, BART, CIvic Center MUNI station, 5, 6 and 19 bus lines is a low priority location for urban infill? Close to a great library and large open space with playgrounds? Why there is not serious activity on the part of the city to build mixed income housing so as to help bring a range of incomes into the community? Why isn't the city mapping a strategy that transitions this n…
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-10-22 13:17:40
Am I the only one who is bewildered that a location so close to city hall, less than 1/3 of a mile to Van Ness BRT, BART, CIvic Center MUNI station, 5, 6 and 19 bus lines is a low priority location for urban infill? Close to a great library and large open space with playgrounds? Why there is not serious activity on the part of the city to build mixed income housing so as to help bring a range of incomes into the community? Why isn't the city mapping a strategy that transitions this n…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-12 10:20:45
How Google, Meta, and Apple's pledges to spend billions on new Silicon Valley housing failed to meet expectations; Apple spent $1.6B by July 2024, the most (Nicole Friedman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/tech-compa…
@scott@carfree.city2025-08-06 04:14:25
Katie Wilson, ahead in early results in Seattle's primary for mayor, emphasized housing in her platform.
But not the SF YIMBY vision of upzoning/market-rate only while slashing affordable housing funds. SOCIAL housing with major public investment.
Who will run for SF supervisor next year on that?
https://www.w…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-09-19 21:26:12
Military families face health, safety hazards due to poor oversight of privatized housing
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2025/09/military-families-face-health-safety-hazards-due-to-poor-oversight-of-privatized-housing/
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-09-05 03:05:36
You can't say Ithaca isn't building housing: here are (left to right) Harolds Square and Asteri looming in the background with murals on the side of the Press Bay Alley retail development
#ithaca #buildings
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-10-16 07:36:03
"Rachel Reeves, boasted to corporate executives that she has “unblocked” a large housing development in Sussex being held up by “some snails … a protected species or something … microscopic snails that you cannot even see”. .. The very rare little whirlpool ramshorn snail, by no means microscopic, is an indicator of fresh water not affected by sewage pollution"
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-10-22 12:00:53
"Government U-turns on support for bird-friendly swift bricks in new homes"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Birds #Houses
@servelan@newsie.social2025-09-18 21:24:22
Bellevue is a relatively wealthy city, so when "residents claim a large presence of homelessness and crimes related to unhoused people [and] Bellevue crime statistics show otherwise", you know it isn't about crime, it's about othering the poor.
Bellevue neighbors voice safety concerns as city defends housing campus | Northwest | ncwlife.com
https://www.ncwlife.com/news/northwest/watch-bellevue-neighbors-voice-safety-concerns-as-city-defends-housing-campus/article_a139af5e-cc3d-58e5-b4ca-d47fd4238908.html
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-08-10 21:45:12
👯♂️ Young men in UK more likely than women to live with parents
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/23/men-women-society-uk-housing-parents-women
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-10-22 13:35:16
For some reason, the #FamilyHousingPlan in the new RTO-C zoning, doesn't appear to permit the sort of live work spaces discussed here.
https://www.sfgate.com/realest…
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-10-22 13:35:16
For some reason, the #FamilyHousingPlan in the new RTO-C zoning, doesn't appear to permit the sort of live work spaces discussed here.
https://www.sfgate.com/realest…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-09-10 19:57:34
Attorney General's Office Sues Investment Firm for Obstructing Access to Stable, Affordable Housing for Over 70 Manufactured Housing Units in Taunton | Mass.gov
https://www.mass.gov/news/attorney-generals-office-sues-investment-firm-for-obstructing-access-to-stable-affordable-housing-for-over-70-manufactured-housing-units-in-taunton
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-09-19 10:00:23
"Canadian cities can prepare for climate change by building with nature"
#Canada #Climate #ClimateChange #Nature
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-08-20 13:24:28
Stochastic urban planning for housing: Reduce regulations with no provision to provide housing supporting the mix of incomes in California.
After all, in our system, return on capital plays no role in determining what price developers demand for building./s
https://www.s…
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-08-20 13:24:28
Stochastic urban planning for housing: Reduce regulations with no provision to provide housing supporting the mix of incomes in California.
After all, in our system, return on capital plays no role in determining what price developers demand for building./s
https://www.s…
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-08-11 07:55:55
"Shortly before being killed, al-Sharif, ... wrote ... that Israel had launched intense, concentrated bombardment – also known as “fire belts” – on the eastern and southern parts of Gaza City.
"In his last video, the loud booms of Israel’s intensive missile bombing can be heard in the background as the dark sky is lit in a flash of orange light."
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera staff killed by Israel in Gaza | Al Jazeera
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-10-20 13:31:04
"...there isn’t enough new housing to make a dent on affordability. "
What I don't understand is why journalists keep framing this as a simple supply and demand - if only we let developers build, the price will come down.
When the reality is developers will build if and only if one condition is met: Buyers (or landords) will pay a price that meets the developers profit targets. And we see evidence of that in the timelines looking at selling price vs construction…
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-10-20 13:31:04
"...there isn’t enough new housing to make a dent on affordability. "
What I don't understand is why journalists keep framing this as a simple supply and demand - if only we let developers build, the price will come down.
When the reality is developers will build if and only if one condition is met: Buyers (or landords) will pay a price that meets the developers profit targets. And we see evidence of that in the timelines looking at selling price vs construction…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-08-20 23:25:41
@atrupar: JD Vance: "As we've kicked illegal aliens out of our country, you actually see housing costs start to level off."
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lwul3yr6lq2p
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-08-11 07:36:54
"Appointed by Starmer as his undersecretary of state for homelessness and democracy she could have been a trailblazer for reform in the housing sector. She could have championed the return of sold-off council houses to the public sector. She might have persuaded the Cabinet to introduce rent controls to drive private-sector rents down to affordable levels."
The Rushanara Ali case is a spotlight on a broken housing sector | Morning Star
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-10-04 13:44:00
If #MayorLurie could only explain how this plan would provide housing affordable to the full mix of household incomes, without trotting out the hypothetical (and misleading) explanations of #filtering and related misleading
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-10-04 13:44:00
If #MayorLurie could only explain how this plan would provide housing affordable to the full mix of household incomes, without trotting out the hypothetical (and misleading) explanations of #filtering and related misleading
@servelan@newsie.social2025-09-09 16:00:49
House Democrats investigate Trump's housing attack dog Bill Pulte
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/09/bill-pulte-donald-trump-jamie-raskin
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-10-08 13:28:37
Except, of course, on city-owned property like Potrero Yards, because affordable housing doesn't pencil out.
And SF's Upzoning plan allows towers without on-site affordable, unlike the State Density Bonus, which actually requires significant on site affordable housing. Developers can just fee out for less than half the cost of building affordable units.
SO I wonder - who were the advisors on the Family Zoning Plan, and whose families would be built for?
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-10-08 13:28:37
Except, of course, on city-owned property like Potrero Yards, because affordable housing doesn't pencil out.
And SF's Upzoning plan allows towers without on-site affordable, unlike the State Density Bonus, which actually requires significant on site affordable housing. Developers can just fee out for less than half the cost of building affordable units.
SO I wonder - who were the advisors on the Family Zoning Plan, and whose families would be built for?
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-10-07 20:56:42
Gee, wouldn't it be nice if Lashinsky actually talked about how the plan would or would not support affordable housing, or had some references to support that upzoning helps develop large amounts of housing affordable to the mix of incomes in the community? (Esp in already densely built areas, liek San Francisco)
Because all of the research I have done says this is family zoning for families making over $250K a year. But I'm sure the Mayor's realtor brother is eager for m…
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-10-07 20:56:42
Gee, wouldn't it be nice if Lashinsky actually talked about how the plan would or would not support affordable housing, or had some references to support that upzoning helps develop large amounts of housing affordable to the mix of incomes in the community? (Esp in already densely built areas, liek San Francisco)
Because all of the research I have done says this is family zoning for families making over $250K a year. But I'm sure the Mayor's realtor brother is eager for m…
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-08-07 14:40:47
#CateringToCruelty but not actually addressing root causes. But ignoring reality is a #47Hallmark.
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-08-07 14:40:47
#CateringToCruelty but not actually addressing root causes. But ignoring reality is a #47Hallmark.