It’s only “value capture” if it comes from the Georgist region of land value taxation. Development fees and exactions are just sparkling housing taxes.
Michael Wiebe@michaelwiebe.bsky.social · last mo.Vancouver planners said legalizing sixplexes would create land value uplift that the city could tax to fund public amenities. But they allowed sixplexes only on larger lots. Why not do this everywhere? Why are we refusing to do land value capture? blog.michaelwiebe.com/p/why-does-v...
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Literally vote for anyone else. Her ideas would destroy the California insurance industry and make housing affordability even worse, which is difficult to imagine being possible.
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 2mo agoInsurance Commissioner is a hard but important job that demands a serious policy person to deal with a very real crisis that affects nearly every Californian. Do not vote for Jane Kim.
Oh, I thought this was about housing public comment when people are like "I personally would not live in this building because [small units/no parking/...]". Nope, it's about audience for posts. Good thing to remember regardless though. bsky.app/profile/rauc...
Eric Rauchway@rauchway.bsky.social · 4mo agothe national motto needs to be IT’S OKAY IF SOME THINGS ARE NOT FOR YOU
me when the other options are Lipton and Red Rose
Rail enthusiast wife Daria@dariaphoebe.com · 2y agoAnyway
What is the opposite of displacement? Reverse displacement? This is a story of new "luxury" housing causing unhoused people to move into homes. Titi got housing and was reunited with her son because a wealthier person got a fancier place to live.
Shane Phillips@shanedphillips.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis is a great video that puts a human face and personal story to the incredible quantitative research on moving chains done by Evan Mast and others. I think it's going to have a big impact. youtube.com/watch?si=pm9t2HI0WtzV1zMp&v=QQYMUMTI7fk&feature=youtu.be
I had a dream about a musical called "Faculty Meeting" and weirdly it was good? The first number is about someone objecting to approving the minutes without unanimous consent but not offering a correction. This is how we meet The Parliamentarian, our narrator.
This kind of smart, edible, mixed-sweets urbanism-
KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · 11mo agoWhich brings us to this year and Mr KJC's move into full urban planning with an entire street scene. Tune in next Christmas: he wants to do a sailing ship.
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · last yr.Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
