Anna Fahey
@trufahey.bsky.social
Thinktanking on housing + democracy + clean energy Opinions—all mine. Or yours, recycled—as also mine. Zero endorsements here. #Housing #affordability talking points galore 🏘️🎯➡️ https://www.sightline.org/the-pro-homes-messaging-toolkit/ #Parking feed ⬇️
I spent a week with Kol Peterson biking down every block in Portland's Cully neighborhood counting up tiny homes on wheels and occupied RVs. My conclusion: people are massively underestimating the popularity of this housing solution. www.sightline.org/2026/08/19/s...
Seven Lessons from Portland’s Mobile Dwelling Experiment | Sightline Institute
A new survey reveals the growing popularity of this low-cost, flexible housing solution.
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Hey all, Catie Gould has a great new piece about how tiny homes on wheels are apparently outpacing ADUs in one Portland neighborhood www.sightline.org/2026/08/19/s...
Seven Lessons from Portland’s Mobile Dwelling Experiment | Sightline Institute
A new survey reveals the growing popularity of this low-cost, flexible housing solution.
sightline.org
"Low-emission zones," where car traffic is restricted, save lives -- especially the lives of children. The empirical evidence is unambiguous. But every attempt to create a new one is met by hysterical opposition filled with lies, because our societies are collectively poisoned by car-brain.
London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air?
Similar initiatives have been launched from Barcelona to Bogotá, but they have misinformation, political pressure and vested interests stacked against them
theguardian.com
No more ‘hypothetical situations’: States move to fortify elections against Trump stateline.org/2026/08/14/n...
No more 'hypothetical situations': States move to fortify elections against Trump • Stateline
State Democratic officials are preparing for chaos at the polls this November, as President Donald Trump casts doubt on election security and pushes for more federal involvement in local voting. At st...
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New study finds that the rapid growth of electric vehicles in China has prevented over 300,000 premature deaths. Conversely -- and this is just math -- everything done to prevent the rise of EVs in the US leads to more preventable deaths of Americans. It's not an academic debate.
Reduced urban air pollution and mortality from the transition to new energy vehicles in China - Nature Health
Using satellite data and interpretable machine learning, the widespread adoption of new energy vehicles was shown to reduce particulate matter particles with a diameter of 2.5 μm or less and carbon mo...
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New Sightline strategic messaging guidance: How to talk about upgrading the electric grid! ⬇️💡
Sightline Institute@sightline.org · 2w agoThe lights come on when we flip the switch, but most of us rarely think about the electric grid or its role in cutting climate emissions. @trufahey.bsky.social sightline.org/MessagingNWEnergy
Family support is a beautiful thing when it's a choice. Let's build more homes so families can choose to help, not have to.
Amid cost of living stress, many parents are supporting children well into adulthood
Polls show most Americans think young adults today have it harder financially than past generations. A majority of parents help their grown children with expenses, even if it hurts their own finances.
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"Parking minimums are officially a thing of the past in Bellingham, WA" mybellinghamnow.com/news/297792-... (🤦♀️the car-filled photos that outlets seem to always run w/ these stories...)
Bellingham City Council gives final approval to permanently remove parking minimums - My Bellingham Now
Minimum parking requirements for new developments have been suspended since January 2025.
mybellinghamnow.com
🚨🚨🚨 WAYNE ALLYN ROOT: You have the right to declare a national security emergency for elections. If you do this in the next month, we will get photo ID, proof of citizenship, and a limit to mail ballots TRUMP: Let me just say stranger things have happened. I'll leave it at that
It can take 20 years for a long-distance electric transmission line to be permitted and built. @ktrumbull.bsky.social and @emilymoore.bsky.social detail what WA and OR can do to get poles in the ground and wires in the air at the pace climate change demands.
Unlocking the Northwest’s Energy Future | Sightline Institute
Policy recommendations to responsibly speed up electric transmission line permitting in Oregon and Washington—for a safe, modern grid and shared climate progress.
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ICE detained multiple people at construction sites in Idaho on Tuesday. In the video, an agent asks the worker where he was born. The worker responds, “I was born here, bro. Let me work.” www.ktvb.com/article/news...
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🔌 Transmission enthusiasts: we've got NEW @sightline.org reports outlining how we can build the grid the PNW needs AND and how to talk about it. Includes a new poll showing that 70% of OR/WA voters support expanding the grid and 78% support speeding up approval of grid projects.
Sightline Institute@sightline.org · 3w agoNew report(s): If the PNW wants a fighting chance at freeing itself from fossil fuels, we need to string more transmission lines—fast.
What unites Zohran Mamdani (the Democratic Socialist Mayor of New York City) and Americans for Tax Reform (which opposes all tax increases as a matter of principle)? Both agree that minimum parking mandates should be abolished.
North Carolina Ends Mandatory Parking Minimums for New Developments - Americans for Tax Reform
North Carolina faces a shortage of housing in many parts of the state, but new legislation enacted this summer will help address that challenge. On July 7th,
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“You have to make people dream. The space that’s taken by a single car can be used for so much more.” @milesperhoward.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/02/o...
What Boston can learn from Montreal’s car-free summer - The Boston Globe
Miles of city roadway become places for gardens, art, outdoor dining, and unhurried discovery.
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Bellingham is working on a slew of legislation that's supposed to make housing easier to build and more affordable. Strategies being weighed include fewer regulations for low-income housing, allowing tiny homes on wheels citywide, and eliminating parking minimums for good.
What legislative levers can Bellingham pull for more housing amid rapid growth? | Cascadia Daily News
Council considers strategies: tiny homes on wheels, low-income incentives, no parking minimums
cascadiadaily.com
“I kept seeing all these box stores that had to have huge amounts of parking, and it seemed like it wasn’t being used until two weeks before Christmas” - NC state Rep. Donnie Loftis, a Republican Parking reform is "free-market oriented...property rights oriented” www.governing.com/urban/north-...
North Carolina Finds a Consensus Issue in Parking Reform
North Carolina is the latest state to lift minimum parking requirements in its cities, an action it says will help the environment and lower housing costs.
governing.com
“There are many differences in construction costs between the U.S. and other countries, but I’m not sure there’s anywhere else where the difference is as large as the elevator.” @stephenjacobsmith.com
Why doesn’t the U.S. have small elevators like Europe and China?
Advocates for smaller, cheaper elevators say it could spur a housing boom.
washingtonpost.com
How campaigners and organizers shifted strategies for #RankedChoiceVoting. @Sightline.org @alvanderklipp.bsky.social www.sightline.org/2026/08/03/h...
How to Run a Campaign Under Ranked Choice Voting, According to Those Who Have Done It | Sightline Institute
Campaign staffers and political organizers recount how they shifted strategies after voters in Alaska and Portland, Oregon, chose the reform.
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Projects are taking shape after WA's 2024 law legalized thermal energy networks for gas utilities. @emilymoore.bsky.social
WA Gas Utilities, Meet Clean Heating and Cooling | Sightline Institute
A 2024 law legalizing thermal energy networks is bearing fruit, but lawmakers can do more to harness the systems’ potential.
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"A lot can happen over 20 years. Just look where Seattle was in 2006 — with no light rail, a very different South Lake Union and nearly 250,000 fewer residents." @nickdeshais.bsky.social
Seattle City Council limits residents’ ability to challenge new zoning
For years, residents have had a fairly easy route to delay zoning changes in Seattle, putting the burden on the city to defend its plan if they have $120.
seattletimes.com
“Building new transmission lines has been the main holdup for expanding the state’s clean energy supply.” www.kuow.org/governing/20...
Washington state’s clean-energy bottleneck leads to calls for reform
Despite its green reputation, the Evergreen State trails every other U.S. state in adding wind and solar power to its electrical grid, according to a 2025 investigation by Oregon Public Broadcasting a...
kuow.org
How can Houston keep growing and stay affordable? Cut parking minimums. | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Keep Houston growing and affordable. Cut parking minimums. | Editorial
How can Houston keep growing and stay affordable? Cut parking minimums, writes the Houston Chronicle editorial board.
houstonchronicle.com
Wow. For real??
Sammy Roth@sammyroth.bsky.social · last mo.Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
Threshold alert: renewables are about to pass coal as the No. 1 global source of electricity.
IEA: Global power demand is surging – and renewables are passing coal
Global electricity demand is rising, but booming solar will help renewables overtake coal as the top power source this year, says the IEA.
electrek.co
Cool bill from CA: take the $ gas utilities would spend on replacing pipes and give it to customers to electrify. PNW gas utilities are also spending big on new gas pipes. Let's spend that $ instead on heat pumps to give people cooling - Sweating in Seattle earthjustice.org/experts/matt...
Californians Deserve to Choose the Energy Source for their Homes — a New Bill Would Give Them the Freedom and Funds to Do So
The Home Energy Choice Act (AB 2313) is the biggest no-brainer of the state legislative session
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