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danielsuitor.com
Canvassing multiunit buildings:
danielsuitor.com Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · Aug 25
Here's another PSA, for no particular reason: landlords cannot outright prohibit candidates from canvassing inside multiunit buildings between 9am and 9pm. They can require ID and they can require the campaign to make an appointment to be let in. But they can't ban a particular candidate.
211B.20 DENIAL OF ACCESS BY POLITICAL CANDIDATES TO MULTIPLE UNIT DWELLINGS. §Subdivision 1.Prohibition. (a) It is unlawful for a person, either directly or indirectly, to deny access to an apartment house, dormitory, nursing home, manufactured home park, other multiple unit facility used as a residence, or an area in which two or more single-family dwellings are located on private roadways to a candidate who has: (1) organized a campaign committee under applicable federal or state law; (2) filed a financial report as required by section 211A.02; or (3) filed an affidavit of candidacy for elected office. A candidate granted access under this section must be allowed to be accompanied by campaign volunteers. (b) Access to a facility or area is only required if it is located within the district or territory that will be represented by the office to which the candidate seeks election, and the candidate and any accompanying campaign volunteers seek access exclusively for the purpose of campaigning for a candidate or registering voters. The candidate must be seeking election to office at the next general or special election to be held for that office. (c) A candidate and any accompanying campaign volunteers granted access under this section must be permitted to knock on the doors of individual units to speak with residents, and to leave campaign materials for residents at their doors, except that the manager of a nursing home may direct that the campaign materials be left at a central location within the facility. The campaign materials must be left in an orderly manner. Subd. 2. Exceptions. Subdivision 1 does not prohibit: (1) denial of admittance into a particular apartment, room, manufactured home, or personal residential unit; (2) requiring reasonable and proper identification as a necessary prerequisite to admission to a multiple unit dwelling; (3) in the case of a nursing home or an assisted living facility under chapter 144G, denial of permission to visit certain persons for valid health reasons; (4) limiting visits by candidates or volunteers accompanied by the candidate to a reasonable number of persons or reasonable hours, provided that access must be permitted during the hours of 9:00 a.m. through 9:00 p.m. on any day, at a minimum; (5) requiring a prior appointment to gain access to the facility; or (6) denial of admittance to or expulsion from a multiple unit dwelling for good cause.
August 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
corsiaq.bsky.social
"Secondhand smoke infiltration from smokers’ apartments into nonsmokers’ apartment units in multiunit housing can provoke major morbidity for nonsmoking residents."

Yep! Another excellent article (and reminder) from James Repace.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Secondhand smoke Infiltration in multiunit housing: Health effects and nicotine levels
Approximately 46% of U.S. multiunit housing residents with smoke-free home rules, 29 million persons, experience secondhand smoke infiltration in thei…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
govpritzker.illinois.gov
The housing crisis is echoing across the nation.

Our BUILD plan is one of the most comprehensive to tackle it — making it easier, faster, and more effective to build homes here.
Gov. JB Pritzker’s ambitious housing plan for Illinois: More four-flats, looser rules
A cornerstone initiative from Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker would loosen zoning restrictions for multiunit buildings, drawing excitement from housing advocates but concerns from local officials.
www.chicagotribune.com
April 18, 2026 at 3:29 PM
michaelwara.bsky.social
Parcel on the right with all the trucks is part of Marin’s housing plan (RHNA). Another parcel on the far side of the bridge has permitted multiunit affordable housing to be built at grade. We are still digging the hole deeper.
December 8, 2025 at 6:00 AM
laurie-merrell.bsky.social
absolute multiunit
May 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
thismachinekillsfascists.bike
transit too

also heat pumps, insulation, new multiunit housing. We haven't gone through a winter with elevated fossil fuel prices yet.
September 18, 2026 at 2:46 PM
whetmoser.com
Prop 60: I would like to build a modestly sized multiunit building

YES: 1%
NO: fuck you
November 5, 2024 at 9:39 PM
panikadoc.bsky.social
Just chatted with @gebo4parkboard.bsky.social on behalf of himself and Jazz Hampton at my door. Really appreciate these campaigns knocking in multiunit buildings!
October 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
wdncnu.bsky.social
I saw the best blocks of my city destroyed by multiunit housing...

ZFH is Moloch!
April 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
danielkayhertz.bsky.social
Evanston IL might legalize multifamily (four-unit) housing in all residential zones www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...
Evanston looks at eliminating single-family-only zoning
If passed, a proposed change in the North Shore city's zoning rules would make it the first Chicago-area municipality to allow construction of multiunit buildings on any lot that has previously been h...
www.chicagobusiness.com
November 21, 2024 at 4:03 PM
isomorphism.net
Me, a YIMBY: "Yes build all of the multiunit housing"

Also me, a former multiunit housing dweller: "Where is this Count Rugen, so I may kill him?"
August 13, 2026 at 5:41 AM
stevevance.net
Read the article www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/12/j...
Gov. JB Pritzker’s ambitious housing plan for Illinois: More four-flats, looser rules
A cornerstone initiative from Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker would loosen zoning restrictions for multiunit buildings, drawing excitement from housing advocates but concerns from local officials.
www.chicagotribune.com
April 12, 2026 at 2:42 PM
whstancil.bsky.social
There is demand for single-family homes but YIMBYs are (rightfully) opposed to the kinds of regulations that make them economical to build in cities. There is greatly reduced demand for family multiunit housing. There is some! It’s less than a lot of people seem to think
slucy.bsky.social Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · Nov 19
You’re wrong on this one, dude.

There is huge demand for family sized units in cities a real zoning and building code barriers to constructing them profitably.
November 19, 2025 at 3:47 AM
strongtowns.org
Back in September, the Sacramento City Council unanimously adopted the Missing Middle Housing Interim Ordinance, making it the first city in California to allow multiunit housing in all neighborhoods previously zoned single-family only.
Photo of a house with a text bubble that says "...Multi-family?" The location is tagged as Sacramento.
March 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
terriclarke.bsky.social
Through the HAF they approved 26 multiunit developments in Spryfield that require zero parking. Those people need the number 9 bus. Not delivering on the service they promised is not acceptable.
February 12, 2026 at 5:53 PM
whstancil.bsky.social
Developers do a lot of research into what sorts of housing people want and will buy - they, after all, stand to lose or gain a lot - and even in many places where they have the ability to build multiunit family housing, it's comparatively unusual, because it simply doesn't sell THAT well.
November 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
carlnyberg312.bsky.social
Sweet home Chicago
White flowers amongst green plants in front of yellow multiunit building.
May 31, 2024 at 7:46 PM
jeminna.bsky.social
A housing fix, one empty lot at a time

Initiative aims to show how small multiunit projects can chip away at L.A.’s shortage.

Aug. 7, 2026

Grace Toohey
www.latimes.com/california/s...
L.A. has more than 20,000 vacant lots. They could help solve the city's housing crisis
A new initiative seeks to model a solution for affordable homeownership: building multifamily complexes on L.A.'s 20,000 small, vacant, privately owned lots.
www.latimes.com
August 7, 2026 at 2:43 PM
danielemarinazzo.bsky.social
Combo of two papers on partial information rate decomposition now out!

journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...

Mini thread below 👇
Partial Information Rate Decomposition
Partial information decomposition (PID) is a principled and flexible method to unveil complex high-order interactions in multiunit network systems. Though being defined exclusively for random variable...
journals.aps.org
October 30, 2025 at 10:12 AM
alexgoyette.bsky.social
What if I told you they weren’t concerned about people in multiUNIT buildings
November 29, 2023 at 7:34 PM
chicagotribune.com
Gov. JB Pritzker’s multiunit housing plans for Illinois stall in Springfield’s spring session
Gov. JB Pritzker’s multiunit housing plans for Illinois stall in Springfield’s spring session
www.chicagotribune.com
June 2, 2026 at 6:34 AM
oldhouses.bsky.social
oldhousesunder50k.com/c-1800-1900-...
$145,000
Welcome to a renovator's dream! #NorthCarolina #fixerupper is a unique #multiunit property. History included!
February 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
terriclarke.bsky.social
They all are on city water and sewer, have garbage pickup and snow clearing, and many of them have new multiunit housing, they just currently don’t get recapped.
August 27, 2026 at 5:35 PM
rinrat86.bsky.social
My first thought reading that is that the haters have never visited Montréal where the streets of multiunit walk ups are absolutely gorgeous
June 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
olivia0.bsky.social
NEW: I wrote about Gov. JB Pritzker’s ambitious, abundance-coded housing plan. 4 units on basically any standard size Chicago residential lot? ADUs? Looser parking minimums? potentially yes, in our backyard >> www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/12/j...
Gov. JB Pritzker’s ambitious housing plan for Illinois: More four-flats, looser rules
A cornerstone initiative from Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker would loosen zoning restrictions for multiunit buildings, drawing excitement from housing advocates but concerns from local officials.
www.chicagotribune.com
April 12, 2026 at 2:45 PM