I sprained my pointing-leo muscle while watching this video by Justine Underhill. Maybe you will too?

Really wish it would've been published before I had a holiday dinner with my worst-uncle and housing prices/homelessness came up.

#Housing #BuildHousing #HousingBuildMoreOfIt #Urbanism #TheRentIsTooDamnHigh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQW4W1_SJmc

What Luxury Housing Does To Homelessness

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Every time we try to build more residential housing in downtown #Seattle some well funded group objects — for their view corridor, alley access or historic preservation reason — with hella lawyers & delays.

I want Spotts to acknowledge that nimbys gonna nimby “vitality” when it takes away their lifestyle or changes their built world in even small ways.

#BuildHousing #ChildcareDowntown #PublicSchoolsDowntown #ParksForKidsDowntown #OneSeattle #SeattleCompPlan

https://twitter.com/spottnik/status/1589319041524846592?s=46&t=3tsXX0wPxdweR-Q_M943LA

Greg Spotts on Twitter

“Downtown Seattle has growing number of residents and visitors, even though office occupancy is only 40% I’m committed to enhancing vitality of Downtown and adjacent neighborhoods Capitol Hill was hopping last eve. My lady and I stayed out til midnite for first time in a while”

Twitter
Wealthy investors are buying Long Beach's old low-rent buildings and evicting everyone, making them homeless https://boingboing.net/2018/08/01/eviction-epidemic.html #therent'stoodamnedhigh #latestagecapitalism #buildhousing #rentcontrol #california #losangeles #evictions #longbeach #Business #Post
Wealthy investors are buying Long Beach's old low-rent buildings and evicting everyone, making them homeless

Wealthy investors are buying Long Beach's old low-rent buildings and evicting everyone, making them homeless

Boing Boing
"I'm here to chew gum and move the Overton Window, and I'm all out of gum." #buildhousing #byanymeans #addmorefloors #itallneedstobetallermayaswellstarthere #edwardiansareuglyanyway #sfbay