housing, especially in the Pacific NW
A lot of smart people talking about housing abundance and distribution.
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@andersem.bsky.social
@haleylemieux.bsky.social
Policy director at Maryland Dept of Housing & Community Development ๐ฆ๐ก / Montgomerian turned Anne Arundelian / Views strictly my own
@yitgordon.bsky.social
Fulbright Journalism Fellow reporting on the housing crisis from Berlin ๐บ๐ธ๐๏ธ๐ข๐ฉ๐ช
@riocobre.bsky.social
City lover, Transportation Geek, Educator https://www.linkedin.com/in/norman-garrick-9b199137/
@sarabronin.bsky.social
Mexican-American architect, attorney, Cornell professor, National Zoning Atlas founder, "Key to the City" author, preservationist, 7th-generation Texan, mother of 3. https://wwnorton.com/books/key-to-the-city
@miriam-mjoy.bsky.social
Parent, Shelterforce editor (all things housing!), contra dancer, singer, poet, queer, anti-racist, small-city lover, believer in good trouble and being just instead of nice, though am nice by nature/nurture. Mask TF up. Opinions are mine, not my org's.
@tonyjordan.bsky.social
Parking and local politics, mostly (and some dad-type jokes). President of the Parking Reform Network. Grist 50 Fixer.
@tonydamiano.bsky.social
B+ dad and PhD housing researcher at the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs - University of Minnesota. Bucks, Packers, Hawkeyes and Golden Eagles too
@housingmark.bsky.social
housing policy consultant, attorney (barely), USC Kaufman dad, former LIHTC allocator, UNC-CH x3 alum & adjunct professor, sweet tea & hushpuppy connoisseur
@housing.bsky.social
This account will focus on housing issues in New York and nationally.
@saraklind.bsky.social
Co-Executive Director @openplans.org | Transportation, Housing, Walkable Cities.
@indinmkng.bsky.social
tofu eating wokerati | pdx, transportation, housing, cool places for all she/they
@cselmendorf.bsky.social
The law prof at UC Davis. Dad. Denizen of San Francisco. Patron of Amtrak. Tweets are my own, not statements of UC. (he/him)
@mkingsella.upforgrowth.org
CEO at Up for Growth | Housing policy + strategy | Advocate for housing abundance | Occasional hot takes on markets & policy | Views my own, but homes for all.
@ahmadak.bsky.social
Affordable housing & urban planning stuffโฆPersonal views.๐Washington, D.C.
@studonovan.bsky.social
Economist researching cities, transport, housing, & energy. I focus on New Zealand & Australia, with European dalliances. And some chaff.
@sightline.org
Think tank cooking up nonpartisan policy research on housing, democracy, energy, climate, and forests in Cascadia. ๐ง ๐ณ Likes/follows โ endorsements. Newsletters: sightline.org/signup
@fabulavancouver.bsky.social
Cities are life! Writing about Vancouver region urban issues, politics, housing + more for Globe and Mail mainly, BCBusiness, Vancouver mag, and a few more. Grand-daughter of Saskatchewan farmers, mom/step-mom to four millennials coping with housing market
@danbertolet.bsky.social
I think it's good when cities are legal, and I work at Sightline Institute to make that happen. My takes on here, though, are no less than 100% mine.
@aura-atx.org
Austinites advocating for abundant homes, reliable public transit, walkability, & safe streets for all!
@masonthompson.bsky.social
Mayor of Bothell. Because the world won't change itself. Curious about land use and transportation. Rides a bike to boring meetings.
@justupthepike.bsky.social
maryland policy director @ggwash.org, your east silver spring civic association VP, pit bull parent, elder emo, just out here getting cuter. no growth has to mean less is less. they/them.
@yonahfreemark.com
Transport / Housing / Land Use / Politics / @urbaninstitute.bsky.social / Le progrรจs ne vaut que sโil est partagรฉ par tous / yonahfreemark.com / thetransportpolitic.com
@davidjfaber.bsky.social
Mayor of the City of Port Townsend, WA. Personal account.
@anikasinghlemar.bsky.social
Some of my thoughts on what community development means and my affection for New Haven here: https://bit.ly/3AawrCb
@michaelwiebe.bsky.social
Economics (UBC), yimby, replication, effective altruism, data science.
@aysha.bsky.social
editor @nextcity.org and analystnews.org covering the path to flourishing cities and a just world ๐๏ธ๐ urbanism without equity is gentrification. housing is a human right. genocide is bad. nonprofit journalism is the future. ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ nextcity.org/pitch
@conradspeckert.bsky.social
Building code, multiplexes, missing middle and mid-rise housing
@jfatkey.bsky.social
Housing advocate by day and night. CEO at BCNPHA, Director at Rental Protection Fund, Community Housing Transformation Centre, Boann Social Impact, Community Housing Coverage, and Chartered Institute of Housing Canada.
@nicolechaland.bsky.social
I've been on and off sick since Sept 2024, hoping to be well enough to get back to work soon. I would like to learn to play a musical instrument and speak another language, but first I'm trying to end mass homelessness in my hometown, Victoria, BC. she/h
@henrygrabar.bsky.social
staff writer @slate, author of Paved Paradise, editor of The Future of Transportation, Loeb Fellow '24 henry at grabar at slate dot com
@christianb.bsky.social
Reporter at Reason Magazine covering urbanism, property rights, and occasionally heavy metal. Sign up for my housing newsletter! https://reason.com/newsletters/rent-free/
@hawthorne.bsky.social
Architecture critic. Faculty Architecture and English @Yale. Prev. Chief Design Officer, City of Los Angeles; architecture critic, Los Angeles Times. Berkeley native, longtime Angeleno, now New Havenite
@sciortino.bsky.social
Dad, Husband, East Bay YIMBY, socdem๐งฆ, founding board member of @eb4everyone, singer/pianist, ๐บ๐ธ๐ฎ๐น๐ช๐บ, I ๏ฟฝ Unicode
@willthomas-usa.bsky.social
Fairly opinionated. Liberal. YIMBY. (Former ED, opennewyork.city). he/him. ๐Long Island City, Queens
@jakegotta.bsky.social
Social media host and reporter for @kpbssandiego.bsky.social @jakegotta on IG
@nbrhoodwrkshop.bsky.social
Principal at Neighborhood Workshop & Faculty with the Incremental Development Alliance. Coined and popularized the term ACU - Accessory Commercial Unit. ACUs keep it local and make it walkable.
@rpdonohue.bsky.social
He/Him/His - Chief Advocacy Officer at Habitat for Humanity Seattle-King & Kittitas Counties - Housing abundance advocate - San Fransisco Giants fan
@jenwith1n.bsky.social
Urban planner, chronically & mysteriously ill, โก๏ธ, plant lady, dog mom PDX
@caryw.bsky.social
Architect, developer, builder, placemaker, cyclist, Urbanist seeking to build civilization...the neighborhood is the amenity. LGBTQIA+ & Black Lives Matter ally, keeping it real in Bothell, WA.
@ronpdavis.bsky.social
Husband, dad, progressive policy and politics guy who wants to fix our cities. Will never give into MAGA weirdos. Follow my newsletter at rondezvous.beehiiv.com
@citizen-cate.bsky.social
Fighting against car dependency, one unused parking spot at a time. Senior researcher at @Sightline.
@kevinerdmann.bsky.social
I discovered the surprising story of what really happened in 2008 (not enough housing) and accidentally became a housing policy guy. https://kevinerdmann.substack.com/ https://www.amazon.com/stores/Kevin-Erdmann/author/B099P7SN1G
@dpherriges.bsky.social
Urbanist advocate. Policy Director at the Parking Reform Network. Writer at Strong Towns. Co-author "Escaping the Housing Trap." St. Paul, Minnesota.
@hanlon.bsky.social
I co-founded @cayimby.bsky.social to make California affordable and accessible for everyone. Support pro-housing candidates: http://cayimbyvictoryfund.org
@spokanerising.com
Itโs our city. Letโs build it up. ๐น๐งฆ ๐๏ธ๐ฐ๐ ๐ anthonyegill.bsky.social ๐ linktr.ee/spokanerising
@rorystolzenberg.bsky.social
renewable energy tech by day. legalizing housing by night. sometimes vice versa. planning commissioner in charlottesville
@siegman.biz
Transportation planner and economist. Founder, Siegman & Associates. Formerly Principal & Shareholder at Nelson\Nygaard. LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/5cekhrjh
@mkaiasand.bsky.social
Columnist on homelessness, inequality and new visions for community safety at unwantedpersons.substack.com; former executive director @StreetRoots; poet, kaiasand.net
@alexbaca.bsky.social
Mad online about land use, but not paid to tweet (views are mine and you choose to read them, for free). I work for @ggwash.org and live in a duplex with a white picket fence. Ward 1 exceptionalist in Washington, D.C.
@jannefrommpls.bsky.social
Abundant housing. Justice. Dismantling oppression. Mpls politics. Observations from Zรผrich. She/her.
@ericacbarnett.bsky.social
Seattle-based reporter, founder/editor of PubliCola.com, and author of Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery She/her, Latina, Texan
@aforhj.org
๐ค ๐๏ธ Building & supporting infrastructure for a powerful, grassroots-led movement to win safe, affordable, equitable housing for all. ๐ https://linkin.bio/aforhj
@atxfriends.org
We all live in neighborhoods. Together, let's reclaim the word "neighborhood" to include the full diversity of voices.
@yimbydenver.bsky.social
Advocating for more people and fewer cars in Denver. Likes and reposts of candidates or elected officials are not endorsements. Become a member of YIMBY Denver at Yimbydenver.org
@davidwelton.bsky.social
Computers, startups, bikes, Italy (lived in Padova for about 15 years), Bend YIMBY
@pnwelcome.bsky.social
Housing is a human right. Fighting for four floors and corner stores across Portland for all ages, wages and stages of life. ๐๏ธ
@davidl206.city
Attorney, dad of 2, in Seattle. About: ๐ Faster buses. ๐ข More and bigger apartments. โ๏ธ Less car priority. โ๏ธโ๏ธโ๏ธ.
@bradleybondy.com
Portland should aim for a minimum 2% average annual growth rate. People already want to live in Portland, we just need to make it cheap and easy to build homes. ๐๏ธ๐๏ธ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฆซ
@dovkadin.bsky.social
Work at SACOG to plan for a more compact and sustainable Sacramento region. City of Sacramento Planning Commissioner. Posts are my own.
@joshlinden.bsky.social
Is this the one? Spend a little too much time thinking about housing // transit // climate // cool maps. And not enough time learning how to garden properly. Member of the Montgomery County Planning Board, but all posts and opinions here are my own
@krambopdx.bsky.social
Now: Street Roots EIC/ProPublica LRN Reporter, SPJ Oregon President, Amateur GM 3800 Series II Mechanic, They/Them. Formerly: IowaWatch, The Oregonian, Gazette-Times/Democrat-Herald, Ditch Digger.
@evanmanvel.bsky.social
Lover of walking and biking, the Northwest, thoughtful policy, parking reform and gueuze. Dad. Opinions are my own. He/him.
@sid-kap.bsky.social
ML engineer, interested in housing/transit/history/econ ๐Greater Boerum Hill Historic District, USA
@katemacfarlane.bsky.social
Seattleite. Likes: maps, dogs, plants, ice cream, walkable cities. Dislikes: most zoning, Elon Musk
@pspoutz.bsky.social
@seanjurs.bsky.social
Architect, housing advocate, and Emergent Ventures grant recipient
@cohenhouse.bsky.social
Here to solve the Housing Crisis Tweets mostly about LA and CA land use and development
@chuckslothower.bsky.social
Reporter and editor, Daily Journal of Commerce, Portland. Interested in housing, development, CRE, design, construction, public policy. Oregonian. Typing at my kitchen table.
@tmccormick.org
Housing and knowledge activist, designer, researcher, writer, builder; Contributor writer at @Sightline.org; etc. Mostly in: Cascadia, Western US, LDN; nomadic. http://tmccormick.org; tmccormick.eth
@mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social
Portland | housing | urbanism | climate | dynamism | abundance | liberation & justice for all | ambitious optimism
@ahvancouver.bsky.social
We are a non-partisan group of advocates supporting more housing of all types for everyone in Metro Vancouver
@ansel.lundberg.com
YIMBY in Sacramento. professional electric grid understander. sharks ๐ฆ๐ and kings ๐๐ fan. he/him
@westnorth.com
Card-carrying urbanist since 1998; housing developer, author, museum docent, board member, single-issue #climate voter. Opine solely for myself. Ex-CHI, BOS, RDU ๐๐๐ดโโ๏ธ๐๐๏ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Words @ggwash.org @citybuilder.bsky.social
@slittlehale.bsky.social
Build Housing, Protect All Workers, Organize. California construction labor union research analyst and campaigner since 2003. Research finds that union membership, collective bargaining, and quality jobs are good for people and society, actually.
@zyudhishthu.bsky.social
Sidewalk enthusiast and former St. Paulite. I like to write about housing policy, especially in the Twin Cities. Nowadays Iโm an economics research assistant in Chicago https://pencillingout.substack.com/
@matthutchins.bsky.social
Seattle architect, urbanist and Planning Commissioner advocating for housing options, 15-minute cities and sustainable construction. AIA Seattle President, Seattle Design Festival President, AIA Strategic Council. Passivhaus designer.
@dawe.bsky.social
Your friendly neighbourhood Vancouverite Housing abundance enthusiast. Real Estate Consultant. Vive le Canada. Elbows Up
@alexbozikovic.bsky.social
Architecture critic @theglobeandmail.com. Also author, University of Toronto Daniels Faculty instructor, husband, father of two city kids. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/alex-bozikovic/
@jessekb.bsky.social
Saying yes to homes for all across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as Executive director of Abundant Housing MA! http://abundanthousingma.org
@markasaurus.bsky.social
Architect in San Francisco. Principal at OpenScope Studio (openscopestudio.bsky.social). Working in SF + LA. Housing, #Architecture, London, Buffalo and #gardens. Twitter: https://twitter.com/markasaurus Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@Markasaurus
@jennyschuetz.bsky.social
Housing policy wonk. Forever bullish on cities. VP of Housing at Arnold Ventures.
@princetonyimby.bsky.social
Yes In My Backyard. Urbanism. Place. Transit. Bikes. Jersey. I blog at: walkableprinceton.com