Arlington (TX) YIMBY @ArlingtonYimby
Advocating for more housing, good urbanism, and great places in Arlington, TX Arlington, TX Joined August 2022-
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An interesting response we've been getting: “This video is cruel. I can’t leave the city. My job, friends, and family are here!” Yes. That's why we shouldn't block housing in cities and price people out.
An interesting response we've been getting: “This video is cruel. I can’t leave the city. My job, friends, and family are here!” Yes. That's why we shouldn't block housing in cities and price people out.
The train has come to assert its dominance. All hail the alpha train!
If You Hate Density, Maybe Don’t Live in A City: youtu.be/LQCvIRfRgX0
Texas 2020 housing approach is California 1980 housing approach. Same policies. Same outcome.
Texas 2020 housing approach is California 1980 housing approach. Same policies. Same outcome.
“For most Americans, owning a home is key to their vision of success…But about 75 percent of homes currently on the market are out of reach for those in the middle class, according to the National Association of Realtors.” newsweek.com/housing-crisis…
it’s wild that coastal cities have spent years debating if YIMBY policies will lower rents, and Austin just… did it they streamlined permitting, upzoned most of the city, and eliminated parking mandates. Tons of housing is going up and rents are plummeting. YIMBY policies work
Housing shortages are actually housing spillovers. Everyone needs a home. So when we don't build, demand doesn't evaporate—it floods into other neighborhoods, other cities, other metro areas or even whole regions. 🧵
The new Strong Towns book is out today. Check out this preview: youtu.be/OtJD45cTV9c?si…
The new Strong Towns book is out today. Check out this preview: youtu.be/OtJD45cTV9c?si…
The Tortured Urbanists Department
This @FT piece is the best examination of US crash deaths that I've seen in ages. The US is so bad at this: "Even after adjusting for distance driven, US fatality rates remain 2x the rich-world average." Here's a quick 🧵 to share insights (paywall). ft.com/content/9c936d…
Eisenhower’s Interstate system is great, but the urban miles he never wanted destroy over a $TRILLION in real estate value & $BILLIONS per year in tax revenue. And the value destroyed is 3X the cost to build. Shame on @TxDOT for hiding this! originalgreen.org/blog/cheapways
Eisenhower’s Interstate system is great, but the urban miles he never wanted destroy over a $TRILLION in real estate value & $BILLIONS per year in tax revenue. And the value destroyed is 3X the cost to build. Shame on @TxDOT for hiding this! originalgreen.org/blog/cheapways
Higher rates, bigger economy?
Higher rates, bigger economy? https://t.co/CLnGd3SU7Q
@aaron_lubeck Put another way, almost every US city/town is surrounded by a large belt of increasingly-obsolete strip shopping centers. In many, those are only commercial strips they have. Something must be done to turn these into community assets. In most cases, there’s limited 💰 to do it.
In my opinion, more than 75% of every urban planning, architecture, and landscape architecture program today should focus on “SPRAWL REPAIR”. The work is endless. And virtually nobody is teaching it.
In my opinion, more than 75% of every urban planning, architecture, and landscape architecture program today should focus on “SPRAWL REPAIR”. The work is endless. And virtually nobody is teaching it.
Would it really be so bad if this happened in the typical American suburb? I don't think so.
Reject the false choice of good design or ample housing. We can have abundance AND beautiful housing. We've done it many times in the past. We just need to be thoughtful about how we do it for the present.
Also, when we have rules mandating minimum distances for businesses that sell alcohol from churches and schools, and we create easy paths for neighbors to oppose when someone wants an alcohol sales permit, we push bars and pubs even further from our homes, thus forcing driving.
20th century planners viewed the city from the top down and saw disorganized chaos. Jane Jacobs observed city life at the street level, and saw organized complexity in "the sidewalk ballet." To understand a city, there's no better vantage point than the street.
Yeah, engineers like @JTrea81 use the same terminology for trees: DFOs (Deadly Fixed Objects). Even though studies show that lining a street with trees save lives. These folks think that what makes a highway safe makes a street safe, when the opposite is true.
Yeah, engineers like @JTrea81 use the same terminology for trees: DFOs (Deadly Fixed Objects). Even though studies show that lining a street with trees save lives. These folks think that what makes a highway safe makes a street safe, when the opposite is true.
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Ok but YIMBYism is obviously right wing lol
Biking home from a @henrygrabar talk, stopped at gas station for milk. The two 20-something cashiers loved my @Parking_Reform stickers (I gave them some) and vented about how awful it was growing up in the unwalkable exurbs. One was a @notjustbikes fan. The kids are alright.
We received our building permit on Houston’s first triplex (duplex + ADU) under their new ordinance Here’s how I analyzed it: For context, anything more than 2 units previously was automatically treated as commerical which meant it was cost prohibitive - full civil plans…
This hype video is the latest example of how politicians love a buhzillion dollar groundbreaking. Sure, high speed rail will be nice. In the meantime, there are a buhzillion low-cost ways for DOTs to improve mobility & traffic safety.
We have broken ground on high-speed rail in America.
Negative 50,000 dollars
How much value does this pool add to a median priced home in your market, if any?
How do you systematically destroy precious nature, farmland, and rural communities? Subsidized suburban sprawl. 📍Frisco, TX 1985 -> 2024
Frisco, TX 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2024
Using a standard curb bulb with a 30' parking restriction just seems odd.
Legalize it.
50 apartments in 1 building (75% 2 & 3BR) on 0.6 acres
The California Coastal Commission is doing the meme. politico.com/newsletters/ca…
I have been trying to articulate this for a while. Thanks @OhUrbanity! youtube.com/watch?v=LQCvIR…
Only small cities remove highways like Rochester, New York City, and Seoul.
Texas 2020 housing approach is California 1980 housing approach. Same policies. Same outcome.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: the Sunbelt doesn't have housing policy magically figured out. These places are mostly just California 30-40 years ago. strongtowns.org/journal/2024/4…
"Texas's housing policies" mostly look like this photo. I don't know where, or whether, people think California should be building more of this. CA should upzone a ton, reduce delays, fees, and avenues for NIMBY obstructionism. But that doesn't really amount to emulating Texas.
I have said this over and over and over and over again: if California adopted Texas' housing policies, it would become a completely unstoppable economic powerhouse. It would be eating Texas' lunch. California actively chooses to make itself poorer, to satisfy rich NIMBYs.
"Engineers think of traffic as a liquid... if it gets clogged up, build a bigger pipe. In fact, the evidence shows the traffic functions much more like a gas, which is to say it expands to take up" the space. Loved this discussion w/ @megankimble #txlege douglewin.com/p/induced-dema…
it’s wild that coastal cities have spent years debating if YIMBY policies will lower rents, and Austin just… did it they streamlined permitting, upzoned most of the city, and eliminated parking mandates. Tons of housing is going up and rents are plummeting. YIMBY policies work
Housing shortages are actually housing spillovers. Everyone needs a home. So when we don't build, demand doesn't evaporate—it floods into other neighborhoods, other cities, other metro areas or even whole regions. 🧵
W U T
Dallas named the third 'most-walkable' city in the nation bit.ly/44awM7p
I am devastated to report that Heritage has become infected with severe donkey brains. Praying for a full recovery
The conservative movement must stop defending free markets (though it is a good) and start defending the American family for which the free market was created to serve.
Designed public spaces to be *so hostile to everybody* that they repelled even people who literally had nowhere else to go. Rather than making them *so inviting to everybody*, that a small number of homeless people would basically blend in with everyone else. Ridiculous.
What a barbarous society we live in. In the 1970s we stopped providing shelter & inpatient asylum beds, so we get encampments. Then we closed public bathrooms & designed hostile public spaces to deter encampments Now we fear the "rough sleeping-public defecation nexus" 🤯🙄
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