The city shouldn’t require you to rally your neighbors to get basic infrastructure

'We're short on all homes. Full stop. There just aren't enough of them. And that means that existing homes are getting bid up because we see high income households competing with low income households for the same residences”

Spot on The Pew Trusts Alex Horowitz npr.org/2024/04/23/124…

Is the 10 year liability thing only stopping condo construction in CA or throughout the nation?

The repeal of poison pills in Boise's ADU ordinance has led to a big increase in permitting: nextcity.org/urbanist-news/…

Inbox: Pennsylvania brought in $373 million more in tax revenues than expected this month, or 7% higher than projections. Year-to-date, tax returns are $740 million more than anticipated, or 2% higher than projections.

• $132.2 million to reconstruct and widen I-78
• $115 mil for Route 61 'reconstructing and safety improvements'
• $93.8 mil to realign and reconstruct an interchange
• $95 mil to reconstruct another interchange

We're addicted to outlandishly expensive highway tweaks.

Regular reminder that Philly's collar counties are built on the city acting as the backstop for all their unmet housing, drug treatment, and social service needs

Jon Geeting Agreed, but Del. Ave at least has the bike path. Large parts of city Ave. look like this:

Jon Geeting This feels like a great harbinger of change- there is a groundswell of demand for walkable, mixed use communities, and projects like these will go a long way to lock that demand in & affect change in the surrounding area

As per Jake Blumgart, 1,674 new housing units have been approved for construction on City Ave. Thanks to the local leaders in Lower Merion for taking a bunch of parking lots and promoting mixed-use developments + new trails and bike lanes. #goburbs

So many Philadelphians don’t even know this neighborhood exists but would you LOOK at this stunner 😍😍😍

Build the Roosevelt Blvd Subway so the Northeast get its due love

redfin.com/PA/Philadelphi…

While we were doing our thing on the mainland, Hawaii legislature passed TWO huge housing bills!

- legalized 3 units per lot in urban areas
- legalized mixed-use housing on all commercial zones land

Massive W for Hawaii in their fight against a very aggressive housing crisis!

Checking in on cumulative house price growth over the pandemic, the donut effect hasn't gone anywhere

Interesting city ave breakdown. I can say the zoning on the philly side is awful, have looked at some properties there and the overlay has bizarre requirements that make new multifamily difficult such as 1 parking spot per unit, 20 foot setback etc. inquirer.com/real-estate/ci…

If your zoning rules are forcing a small business to hire me to tell them that they should reposition part of their coffee shop as an office solely to game out the square footage associated with their parking mandate, that's an indicator there's something wrong with your zoning.