Lyle Solla-YatesFeb 4
https://www.ffxnow.com/2026/02/03/fairfax-mayor-advocates-for-virginia-to-ease-rules-for-church-based-affordable-housing/ “Every time you delay something, the market forces themselves simply make it more expensive to build” #YIGBY #VALeg #Virginia #Housing #PredatoryDelay #shortage #inflation
Fairfax mayor advocates for state to clear path for church-based affordable housing | FFXnow

A lengthy approval process for an affordable townhouse development motivated Fairfax City Mayor Catherine Read to testify in support of state legislation eliminating a key hurdle to affordable housing on church-owned properties. State Sen. Jeremy McPike's (D-29) Senate Bill 388 would eliminate would let religious organizations develop housing on their land by right, without needing

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jakob.pxiMay 13, 2025

The concept of #predatoryDelay is so very useful to understand the incentive structures of our fossil-economy. It also maps well to other phenomena of rent seeking and exploitation:

It does not matter to billionaires, if current strategies of exploitation are unsustainable. The reckoning is future billionaires' problem, so the hoarding in the presence will continue unabated.

Threats of future consequences are no threats at all, all that matters is the present. Hence delaying the future.

Lyle Solla-YatesSep 19, 2024
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/alameda-food-bank-services-in-jeopardy-due-to-lawsuit/ “This location is a historic parking lot” #ceqa #preservation #predatorydelay #foodsecurity #redtape #food #parking #foodbank #alameda
Lyle Solla-YatesSep 17, 2024
I just learned of the battle between #louisville and #kentucky over whether more affordable #housing types should be permitted there. "I think it stops the momentum. I think it worsens the crisis" https://www.wdrb.com/in-depth/kentucky-lawmakers-seek-freeze-on-louisville-land-code-changes/article_ed876410-e7b1-11ee-8951-3b61116736d2.html #zoning #zoningreform #shortage #predatorydelay #inflation #economy #jobs
Lyle Solla-YatesSep 6, 2024
https://reason.com/2022/12/05/ron-desantis-admin-says-in-new-lawsuit-that-the-free-market-wont-produce-affordable-housing/ “These improvements are marginal, but they're improvements nonetheless. DeSantis' administration is going to great lengths to stop them from happening, including making novel arguments about the expansive powers of state regulators.” #gainesville #florida #zoning #predatorydelay #housing #desantis #shortage #inflation
Ron DeSantis Admin Says in New Lawsuit That the Free Market Won’t Produce Affordable Housing

Florida's Department of Economic Opportunity is suing the city of Gainesville to block its legalization of small "missing middle" apartment buildings in single-family neighborhoods.

Reason.com
Show threadLyle Solla-YatesMar 15, 2024
@cityobs “In 2009, the Oregon Legislature—as part of a compromise with environmentalists concerned about the added driving promoted by highway projects—enacted a state law directing ODOT to implement a road pricing demonstration project no later than September, 2012” #climate #predatorydelay
Gil Friend, sustainability OGJan 24, 2024

My latest article: "Why COP28 Doesn't Matter."
Yes, I actually said that.

#Cop28 #ClimateCrisis #PredatoryDelay #NetPositive

Show thread😀🚲Dec 9, 2023

@capntransit this must be a fake picture since the US can't do overhead lines with double-stacked cars 🤪 "a joint research agenda to test the safe integration of emerging technologies, including hydrogen-powered and battery-electric locomotives" #GreenWashing #ClimateDenial #PredatoryDelay #HydrogenPower #COP28

https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/u-s-and-canada-pledge-to-work-together-on-zero-emissions-locomotives/

😀🚲Dec 5, 2023

faster dammit

https://urbanists.social/@bikeloudpdx/111529306258310057

#PBOT #ClimateDenial #PredatoryDelay

BikeLoud PDX (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image More diverters, faster! PBOT needs to proactively manage car traffic for #Portland to have a connected low-stress bikeway network that provides a convenient & comfortable alternative to driving for families, children, all people. #pdxBikes #ClimateAction "post-project data showed: * Significant reduction in traffic on the NE Alameda neighborhood greenway. * No significant impacts to nearby local, neighborhood streets. * No significant impact to NE Fremont Street." https://www.portland.gov/transportation/safestreetspdx/ne-alameda-and-ne-fremont

Urbanists.Social
Lyle Solla-YatesDec 3, 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/03/back-into-caves-cop28-president-dismisses-phase-out-of-fossil-fuels “Cop28 must deliver a decision on phasing out fossil fuels in a just and equitable manner, without any loopholes or escape routes for the industry to continue expanding and exacerbating the climate crisis” #cop28 #climate #predatorydelay #phaseout
Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels

Exclusive: UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber says phase-out of coal, oil and gas would take world ‘back into caves’

The Guardian