That crooked cabinet handle bothers the s*** out of me Just straighten it before taking the listing photos!

Another *crazy* 2BR apartment floorplan … where neither the Living nor the 2nd Bedroom have a direct window And at 1400sf, it’s bigger than a Starter Home. And rent is $3200/month AND all but 1 of these layouts has leased

hooooooo boy, this is a **tough** floorplan For combination of silly room names "Mingle" and "Stir" to a truly ludicrous bathroom layout ... this one has it all

I love townhouses. They're a housing type that has filled the neighborhoods of American cities around in and around downtowns for centuries Smaller, family oriented housing … so the young people who move in to the City for opportunity can have kids and STAY www.thesisdriven.com/letters/the-...

The Return of the Townhouse

An endangered housing typology is en vogue once more

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This is what we’re working on 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Townhouses are the cheapest type of construction to build. American cities contain many beloved historic townhouse neighborhoods. So why do new townhouse projects generally suck? Can’t we do better? www.slowboring.com/p/make-townh...

Since the Road to Housing ban specifically excludes triplexes … the funniest take is that Warren is actually just trying to promulgate the Boston Triple-decker as the dominant BTR form across the US Imagine if this is how every new suburban community looked!

SXSW Event. @americanhousing.bsky.social

The American Housing Corporation@americanhousing.bsky.social · 6mo ago

For a half-century, America has critically under-built family-sized housing in our most dynamic cities and neighborhoods, rendering them childless and unaffordable. It's time to save the American Dream. Introducing The American Housing Corporation.

Now **that's** a strange floorplan 1BR/1BA, 475sf, $2720/month, Washington DC

I did a podcast with the Washington Post last week: How cities have become places of demographic churn (young people move in but leave when they have kids) ... and how my company is building housing to fix that.

The 3-Story Rowhouse is *THE* American prototype … the perfect starter home

The best floorplan comment possible …

I really like this 2BR/1BA floorplan in Kendall Square, Boston 720 square feet ... and deals with a narrow acute corner angle really well Developers don't really building 2BR/1BAs anymore

Really enjoyed this podcast conversation with Aaron Renn. Any critiques I have of The City, are only because I want them to be great. I think in order to be truly great, they have to designed FOR families. So that young people can have kids and stay. open.spotify.com/episode/7fUP...

Wow. Here's an awesome (and efficient) bathroom layout with the separate toilet closet condition ... which I really like (don't need to have the window in the toilet room)

One of the craziest rules inhibiting “Family Friendly” apartments is the application of Fair Housing Act Here is a (old) Christmas card photo for my family. I’m obviously biased but I also think this is a PERFECT lifestyle photo to illustrate the benefits of living in an apartment building

In the urban downtown context "Family-Friendly" simply means a house where it's possible for a couple to have a baby ... which means having an extra "room" Like this 1100sf 2BR+Den/Nursery unit ... that also has a dining table instead of an island

“Bobby Fijan is one of the country’s most vocal critics of his industry’s inertia” I’ll take it!

We don't built apartments for families. Look at the distribution of units built in Bellevue, Washington. In buildings since 2010 with more than 20 units ... over 70% of new units are Studio or 1BRs, and less than 2% have 3+ bedrooms

Rachel has been a reliably good and persistent writer on the topic of babies and housing for a long time now.

Rachel Cohen Booth@rcobooth.bsky.social · 9mo ago

After decades of building for singles, cities are realizing the bill has come due. I wrote about the dearth of housing for families — and what it’ll take to fix it www.vox.com/policy/46981...

Cities will always be a magnet for the ambitious & adventurous. A great places to be young - if you don’t have kids Thats the heart of a Vox piece (I was quoted in) which explains how cities grew by attracting millennials but lost sight of the next step in people’s lives www.vox.com/policy/46981...

Cities made a bet on millennials — but forgot one key thing

Can cities learn to love kids again?

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Building family friendly housing is good people … and good for cities www.vox.com/policy/46981...

Cities made a bet on millennials — but forgot one key thing

Can cities learn to love kids again?

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The 16-18' wide rowhouse is the perfect "starter home” My company is building this 3-story rowhouse typology is bc it’s beautiful and functional as both detached AND attached … so it works in both urban & suburban neighrbhoods 1200-1600sf, 3-4BR units

What does it look like for a City to be family friendly? “In the City, I want there to be so many babies, so many strollers … that it is as common for you to see a stroller as it is for you to see someone walking a dog.”

"If you want to stay in the city and raise your family there, you should be able to do that” “I think if a lot of these row houses here on Capitol Hill were $300,000 and you could just like buy one if you had a normal job, 80-90% of people would just do that” open.spotify.com/episode/3bpq...

A Floor Plan for Making Babies (ft. Bobby Fijan)

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Wow St. Louis! I was not familiar with your game Might be the most striking apartment building I've seen. And it's 5 years old.

This apartment building in Sacramento has the *perfect* lifestyle photo as their hero/header image New buildings never include any photos of any children.

Oversized chess sets are the funniest apartment amenity … that no one ever uses.

It’s a great time to be looking for an apartment in Nashville. Lease specials: 3 months free rent! A free cruise!

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Next Wednesday, November 19, I am participating in a panel discussion at AIA Brooklyn with @holz-bau.bsky.social and SO-IL's Jonathan Molloy about building code reform. It will be in-person in Downtown Brooklyn from 6 to 8:30 p.m., register free to attend here: www.eventbrite.com/e/rethinking...