learning today from Bluesky dot com that neoliberalism is when you support allowing multifamily construction and the more you support allowing multifamily construction the more neoliberaler it is
November 27, 2024 at 6:55 PM
learning today from Bluesky dot com that neoliberalism is when you support allowing multifamily construction and the more you support allowing multifamily construction the more neoliberaler it is
Abundance is left now and we're going to build multifamily housing everywhere
June 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Abundance is left now and we're going to build multifamily housing everywhere
Get in, folks, we’re actually going to start building dense multifamily housing around public transit stations in California!!!
June 4, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Get in, folks, we’re actually going to start building dense multifamily housing around public transit stations in California!!!
Multifamily housing support/opposition in Nashville by income
April 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Multifamily housing support/opposition in Nashville by income
This is a really remarkable achievement: Cambridge, Massachusetts now allows midrise multifamily housing citywide.
I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge.
We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style
Here’s the details 🧵
We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style
Here’s the details 🧵
February 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This is a really remarkable achievement: Cambridge, Massachusetts now allows midrise multifamily housing citywide.
Pew's main findings:
- Newer multifamily is safer than older multifamily
- Newer multifamily is safer than newer single-family
- Single-stair multifamily buildings are as safe as buildings with two stairwells
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/12/03/1...
- Newer multifamily is safer than older multifamily
- Newer multifamily is safer than newer single-family
- Single-stair multifamily buildings are as safe as buildings with two stairwells
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/12/03/1...
Episode 103: Fire Safety in Multifamily Housing with Alex Horowitz (Incentives Series pt. 6)
Explore why multifamily homes are often safer from fires than single-family housing, as Alex Horowitz shares research on building age, fire risk, and single-stair safety in our Incentives Series.
www.lewis.ucla.edu
December 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Pew's main findings:
- Newer multifamily is safer than older multifamily
- Newer multifamily is safer than newer single-family
- Single-stair multifamily buildings are as safe as buildings with two stairwells
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/12/03/1...
- Newer multifamily is safer than older multifamily
- Newer multifamily is safer than newer single-family
- Single-stair multifamily buildings are as safe as buildings with two stairwells
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/12/03/1...
in seattle - our codes allow wealthy people to store junk along the waterfront
but don't you dare think about building housing
our environmental laws consider multifamily housing to be pollution
but don't you dare think about building housing
our environmental laws consider multifamily housing to be pollution
In Seattle, they're selling million dollar storage units to rich people, but God forbid we tax millionaires.
www.seattletimes.com/business/whe...
www.seattletimes.com/business/whe...
New $1M ‘condos’ in Seattle will house people’s things, not people
Collectors of luxury cars and yachts may soon have a place to convene and showcase their possessions near the Ballard Locks.
www.seattletimes.com
June 6, 2026 at 6:40 PM
in seattle - our codes allow wealthy people to store junk along the waterfront
but don't you dare think about building housing
our environmental laws consider multifamily housing to be pollution
but don't you dare think about building housing
our environmental laws consider multifamily housing to be pollution
Imagine calling yourself a leftist and claiming new multifamily housing will cause gentrification in Palo fucking Alto
July 10, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Imagine calling yourself a leftist and claiming new multifamily housing will cause gentrification in Palo fucking Alto
Multifamily housing printer go brrrrrrrrr
🚨🚨FED CUTS RATES 50BPS🚨🚨
September 18, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Multifamily housing printer go brrrrrrrrr
We're all going to be unbelievably fucked if blue states don't start immediately rolling back restrictions on new housing to create a construction boom and build millions of new multifamily homes as soon as possible
March 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
We're all going to be unbelievably fucked if blue states don't start immediately rolling back restrictions on new housing to create a construction boom and build millions of new multifamily homes as soon as possible
Something is happening with multifamily housing. Starts +20% YoY and share of deliveries is ripping back towards the pandemic-era record. Big efficiency improvements too - implied completion times are down dramatically even as volume picks up.
May 21, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Something is happening with multifamily housing. Starts +20% YoY and share of deliveries is ripping back towards the pandemic-era record. Big efficiency improvements too - implied completion times are down dramatically even as volume picks up.
If Oregon cities want to improve their multifamily zones for accessibility & age-friendliness, the state just created an "easy button." Its new multifamily model zoning code allows for 40' buildings by right, or taller for buildings that include a few Type A (wheelchair-ready) homes.
September 25, 2026 at 5:46 PM
If Oregon cities want to improve their multifamily zones for accessibility & age-friendliness, the state just created an "easy button." Its new multifamily model zoning code allows for 40' buildings by right, or taller for buildings that include a few Type A (wheelchair-ready) homes.
Well that didn’t take long – now she’s coming for the multifamily rentals too www.axios.com/2026/03/27/h...
March 27, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Well that didn’t take long – now she’s coming for the multifamily rentals too www.axios.com/2026/03/27/h...
I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge.
We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style
Here’s the details 🧵
We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style
Here’s the details 🧵
February 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge.
We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style
Here’s the details 🧵
We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style
Here’s the details 🧵
Actual data suggest we’re experiencing the result of a nationwide multi-family construction surge during the Biden era; a cresting wave of newly completed units has been coming on the market since the summertime. www.theguarantors.com/blog/owners-...
December 16, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Actual data suggest we’re experiencing the result of a nationwide multi-family construction surge during the Biden era; a cresting wave of newly completed units has been coming on the market since the summertime. www.theguarantors.com/blog/owners-...
BIG news: The California Democratic Party just endorsed @scottwiener.bsky.social’s landmark housing bill #SB79, which legalizes multifamily homes near major public transit statewide!
This marks a major shift in state politics: California Dems are *finally* embracing a party that builds!
This marks a major shift in state politics: California Dems are *finally* embracing a party that builds!
August 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
BIG news: The California Democratic Party just endorsed @scottwiener.bsky.social’s landmark housing bill #SB79, which legalizes multifamily homes near major public transit statewide!
This marks a major shift in state politics: California Dems are *finally* embracing a party that builds!
This marks a major shift in state politics: California Dems are *finally* embracing a party that builds!
San Diego fell from 5th to 12th most expensive rental market by building more multifamily housing per capita than any other California city.
This is what happens when you actually build. The lesson isn't complicated.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/13/s...
This is what happens when you actually build. The lesson isn't complicated.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/13/s...
May 20, 2026 at 3:59 AM
San Diego fell from 5th to 12th most expensive rental market by building more multifamily housing per capita than any other California city.
This is what happens when you actually build. The lesson isn't complicated.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/13/s...
This is what happens when you actually build. The lesson isn't complicated.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/13/s...
thinking about how our multifamily housing doesn't have attics to hide in
October 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
thinking about how our multifamily housing doesn't have attics to hide in
Dense multifamily housing and walkable neighborhoods are "hot."
July 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Dense multifamily housing and walkable neighborhoods are "hot."
why are US planners so afraid to put multifamily housing directly fronting a park?
cool project in minneapolis taking an old kmart lot, restoring the street grid, and developing the site into parks and mixed use/mixed income housing lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/RCA...
January 1, 2026 at 9:30 PM
why are US planners so afraid to put multifamily housing directly fronting a park?
Stark: in 2024, the City of Seattle represented 28% of statewide permits for multifamily housing - that number is now 16%.
September 20, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Stark: in 2024, the City of Seattle represented 28% of statewide permits for multifamily housing - that number is now 16%.
whenever I play golf I like to shout “four!” to remind everyone how many multifamily housing complexes could be built on each hole
May 5, 2026 at 3:38 PM
whenever I play golf I like to shout “four!” to remind everyone how many multifamily housing complexes could be built on each hole
according to some groups - this is less than the handful of acres of trees lost to multifamily housing in seattle
The extraordinary wildfire outbreak across Oregon, eastern Washington, and southern British Columbia has become even more alarming amid critical fire weather conditions. Over 500,000 acres have already burned in OR & WA alone, and that number could be >1 million acres by Mon.
July 26, 2026 at 4:21 AM
according to some groups - this is less than the handful of acres of trees lost to multifamily housing in seattle
oh hey it's a map of where multifamily housing is limited to
'Bike mechanic turned internet mechanic' creates mapping tool of people killed or injured while walking or biking in WA
#SEAbikes #Seattle
#SEAbikes #Seattle
‘Bike mechanic turned internet mechanic’ creates mapping tool of people killed or injured while walking or biking in WA
Snapshot of deaths and serious injuries in Seattle between 1/30/2015 and 1/30/2026 (more recent data may be incomplete). From CrashMap. Nick Magruder is a self-described "bike mechanic turned internet mechanic" who dedicated his free time to create a tool to help people "conceptualize and ingrain the true scale of the damage traffic violence bares on our communities," he wrote in an email to Seattle Bike Blog.
www.seattlebikeblog.com
March 9, 2026 at 4:35 AM
oh hey it's a map of where multifamily housing is limited to