I'm a Richard Scarry Urbanist

This is at least something! I've only heard about the evils of development and densification from the UK sources I follow.

This article is about greenfield development and I've yet to hear about the UK promoting land use reform in existing communities. I'd love to see something to the contrary!

It's good that they actually want to build housing. It's bad that they just want greenfield development instead of allowing density.

And extremely anemic pro-housing politics. Like, nobody seems to support land use reform

This is an underreported contributor to the housing supply crisis: households are getting smaller (more single occupancy housing units; note the connection to the loneliness epidemic, too), resulting in the need for more housing units even when population contracts.

YFyfreemark.bsky.socialSep 13, 2024 10:10pm

Many US cities are experiencing household growth occurring at a faster rate than population growth. E.g., DC's population is 10% lower now than in 1970—but it has 20% more households than then. This is a contributor to the housing affordability crisis.

Wild that we are still having arguments over whether RT is functionally part of the Russian intelligence apparatus (it is)

Mrs. Doubtfire is a foundational text for the MRA movement

*reads the news about Fujimori*

Not that I have much time to use either platform between my 13 month old daughter, mayoral duties, and dayjob...