Reminder: East Bay Kidical Mass is riding around Lake Merritt this Saturday, August 8th, starting at 10:30am! 🚲🔔‼️ Free stickers, bike bells, and safety vests for the kids. At the end, we'll have free treats for all riders (chicken & waffles, churros, and soft-serve ice cream). See you there!

Lake Merritt Ride · Luma

A Kidical Mass bike ride is a large group ride for kids of all ages, family members, and supporters. We choose an easy route that anyone can ride, and ride as…

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Bike East Bay@bikeeastbay.bsky.social · 2w ago

We've nearly reached our goal, but not quite! Tomorrow is your last chance to become a Bike East Bay member, at any amount you'd like! We want to make sure ANYBODY can join in and claim their place in the movement for safe streets. Make your gift at BikeEastBay.org/SlidingScale

$170 - 185k to come work in Nashville on transportation projects www.governmentjobs.com/jobs/5415099...

Senior Director of Engineering - Choose How You Move in Nashville, TN | GovernmentJobs.com

Apply for Senior Director of Engineering - Choose How You Move position in Nashville, TN through GovernmentJobs.com. Join our team and become a part of Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson ...

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AI growth for growth's sake + no protections for mobile home park renters = displacement and crushing financial loss and destabilization for folks who can least afford it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...

North Berkeley's Hopkins protected bikeway debate is coming to a head (again!) with a vote at City Council this Tuesday, July 28. We & our local partners are in support of the council referral, and we encourage you to get involved too! Learn more here: BikeEastBay.org/Hopkins

Hopkins Street Protected Bikeway Vote at Berkeley City Council - Bike East Bay

Show your support at the final, final, FINAL vote to approve a protected bikeway on Berkeley's Hopkins Street.

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Rachel Swan@rswansf.bsky.social · 3w ago

On Tuesday, Berkeley City Council will vote on whether to install protected bike lanes on both sides of Hopkins Street. The aim: resolve an 8-year conflict that has become a distillation of all the madness that can swirl around bike lanes. Story: www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

70+ postcards in support of a protected bikeway on Hopkins in N Berkeley were mailed out to the Mayor & City Council yesterday, including these great ones from area kids who want to get around on their own 2 wheels. Visit BikeEastBay.org/Hopkins to show your support too, before the July 28 vote!

JUST PUBLISHED: The [*Open Access*] introduction for the forthcoming special issue of @urbanstudiesjournal.com on manufactured housing. Such fun to work on this with @andrewrumbach.bsky.social, Esther Sullivan & all the authors. doi.org/10.1177/0042... More to come as we approach the pub date.

Manufacturing the urban: Situating manufactured housing and manufactured home communities in urban studies and charting a course for research - Zachary Lamb, Esther Sullivan, Andrew Rumbach, 2026

Manufactured housing (MH) provides a key source of affordable housing in the United States and elsewhere, including in Canada and Australia. In this editors’ in...

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The absurdity of the Hopkins saga is what radicalized me and got me interested in engaging Berkeley politics in the first place. I’m running for D1 and safe streets is a core priority of mine. Climate, community, public safety and personal health: bike lanes are the way 💪🚲 Rossforberkeley.Com

Warren Wells, AICP@warrenjwells.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Berkeley City Council will vote on whether to provide protected bike lanes on Hopkins Street. What's interesting is that they did already, back in 2022. When that vote happened (which was later derailed), my older daughter was not yet born. She will start TK the week after this vote.

Sounds like a great pick! Berkeley taps ‘safe streets leader’ as new public works chief www.berkeleyside.org/2026/07/15/b...

Berkeley taps ‘safe streets leader’ as new public works chief

Coming from Oakland and San Francisco, Jamie Parks will oversee Berkeley's infrastructure department.

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This wonderful book is now available for order & free Open Access download: www.routledge.com/Designing-Si... It is the product of a really fun and productive collaboration led by Tali Hatuka and Larry Vale.

Designing Signals of Inclusion: A Framework for Fostering Shared Neighborhoods

In an age of increased polarization and fragmentation, improving the prospects for sharing neighborhoods matters more than ever. Focusing on urban design and planning at the neighborhood scale, this c...

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Great to see another California resident MHC purchase! I don't see folks on BlueSky to tag, but congratulations to the residents, CCCD, ROC USA, @ucirvinelaw.bsky.social law clinic students, and others who made this happen! www.aol.com/news/road-ow...

The road to ownership: Salinas residents buy their mobile home park - AOL

Residents banned together, created a cooperative and closed escrow on Alisal Country Estates Mobile Home Park in Salinas.

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Last commentary in our Urban Studies special issue is out! Pullen et al. compare industrialized construction in Sweden (where IC is huge) & the US (where it's not). Great context for understanding manufactured housing's past & future. @andrewrumbach.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

A tale of two houses: Manufactured homes and industrialized construction in the U.S. and Sweden - Tyler Pullen, Jerker Lessing, Santiago Ossa, 2026

Communities in the U.S. face an intensifying housing affordability crisis driven in part by rising construction costs, skilled labor shortages, and stagnant pro...

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Two new wonderful commentaries from an upcoming special issue of Urban Studies on manufactured housing and manufactured home communities (aka mobile home parks) edited by @andrewrumbach.bsky.social, Esther Sullivan, and I are newly in the world:

A great story about folks mobilizing to save a community they love. 'San Lazaro is not temporary housing': Residents organize to buy their Boulder County mobile home park boulderreportinglab.org/2026/05/12/s...

San Lazaro residents race to buy their Boulder County mobile home park before it’s sold

Residents are scrambling to assemble financing for the $42.5 million property, hoping resident ownership can protect hundreds of families from the displacement and rising rents.

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New York streets belong to New Yorkers, and Soccer Streets are for the kids. We’re turning the block outside your school into a car-free playground and World Cup celebration. Now until June 26, you’ll find Soccer Streets in front of 50 public schools across all five boroughs. Let’s play!

The Gubernatorial Candidates Housing Forum is happening today! You can watch some of the top candidates dive into their plans to address our housing crisis via the Ezra Klein Show’s livestream starting at 4:15pm: youtube.com/live/6HETwu7...

California Gubernatorial Candidates Housing Forum | The Ezra Klein Show

YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show

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The full issue edited by @zacharylamb.bsky.social, Esther Sullivan & myself will be published soon but if you care about housing issues you should read this terrific commentary by Asher Ghertner on manufactured home communities and urban marginality in the US: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4mo ago

The Trump administration has announced two more payouts for energy companies to walk away from U.S. offshore wind projects under development.

Next Stop: Prom night. Break out the taffeta, tease up that hair, and dust off your dancing shoes. BART is hosting its first-ever prom at Rockridge Station Saturday, June 6, from 6pm to 10pm! All ages are welcome. Bring a date or don’t! Buy your tickets here 👇 www.railgoods.com/bart-prom-ti...

Here’s a short, seven-minute documentary about East Bay Kidical Mass @ebkm.org, posted online for the first time. Enjoy, and hope to see you at a future ride! youtu.be/10CImzRMSu8

Kidical Mass: A Family That Bikes Together

YouTube video by BIKEPACKING.com

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In other words, the war is one more reason to support opposition candidates, to organize, and to protest. May Day is the next big chance for Americans to do so. (14/14) indivisible.org/events/may-d...

May Day Strong: No Work, No School, No Shopping | Indivisible

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We’re hiring a housing and cities lead researcher! - Develop and drive pro-housing policy - Focus on state legislation in WA - $106-125k, plus 10% retirement

New York folks: go see some incredible live music and dance. www.pigeonwingdance.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

AOC: “This is a threat of genocide & merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing & cannot be trusted. To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat”

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.

The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office. The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.

NEW WORK: How does property structure climate change vulnerability and adaptation? What transformative possibilities exist to enable flexibility, collective action, and equitable adaptation? @brookings.edu @lindashi.bsky.social www.brookings.edu/articles/ret...

Rethinking the governance of property can help communities adapt to climate change | Brookings

Climate adaptation often creates disparities between those who can adapt or even benefit from changing landscapes and climate conditions, and those who lose everything.

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A blockade that causes a national power grid to collapse would be a crime against humanity. www.cnn.com/2026/03/16/a...

Trump muses over ‘taking Cuba’ as island’s power grid collapses after weeks of US oil blockade | CNN

US President Donald Trump mused over whether he would have the “honor of taking Cuba” on Monday, the same day the communist-run island’s electricity grid suffered its first nationwide collapse since t...

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Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.