@aarmlovi Housing must be not too opulent and not too Spartan. It's up to central planners to determine what is be just right.
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Aintropy 🔰
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Aintropy 🔰
@Aintropy
Standard Time enthusiast — https://t.co/EprNk6xBKU, 1,400 sqft minimum lot size advocator, @5starvoting
Katılım Nisan 2010
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I'm huge supporter of re-legalizing family apartments in US cities
But it's important to push back on the hysterical moral panic about studios
Studios are valuable bc they're profoundly undersupplied
Single family houses are the *~only* homes America allowed for 70 years!
Alex Armlovich@aarmlovi
We need to legalize family-friendly apartments *and* we need to legalize microunits & SROs The discourse sometimes gets out of hand & leans into banning studios 😬 But most cities have overwhelmingly big 1-family homes. New studios are popular in part bc they're undersupplied!
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@maxdubler Americans become hardcore communist central planners when it comes to zoning.
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My Big Dumb Idea for fixing zoning is that we should do away with the complex population growth projections and simply require every city to have zoned capacity for 5x its current population, updated every 5 years.
DC should be zoned for 1,625,000 homes.
DC Office of Planning@OPinDC
To keep housing prices from rising relative to inflation, OP estimates that DC needs capacity to support at least 460,000 households by 2050. Through DC 2050, we're planning to add capacity for an additional 15,000 households. Read more: dcgis.maps.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/c…
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@maxdubler Imagine if instead of foodstamps, grocers were on the hook for dishing out free food for every sale they made.
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Unfunded inclusionary zoning mandates require home builders to rent units at a loss. They raise the cost of building new housing, worsen our housing shortage, and raise housing costs across the board.
This is bad, counterproductive policy that California should abandon entirely.
Saad Asad@realsaadasad
Oregon may ban unfunded affordable housing mandates — because data proves they suppress homebuilding. When cities require below-market units without offsetting costs, developers build fewer homes, pushing up prices for everyone. California still uses the same counterproductive approach that Oregon may ban. sightline.org/2026/03/05/ore…
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This image is psychological terrorism against like 10k people on here and the other app
Graham Platner for Senate@grahamformaine
Thank you, Bernie Sanders, whose relentless and often lonely fight for the last 40 years has been a beacon of hope to millions. I am humbled to stand with you and to carry your legacy and our movement forward. We will stand together in the Senate and pass Medicare for All.
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Just so the sequencing is clear:
Trump tried to threaten the Iranians via an attack on their key gas field; the Iranians responded by inflicting significant damage on Qatar's LNG facilities; and Trump is now, for all intents and purposes, backing down. x.com/gbrew24/status…
Gregory Brew@gbrew24
Israel bombed Iran's south Pars gas field. Trump reportedly signed off. Iran signaled it would strike major Gulf energy facilities in return. Hours later, a ballistic missile struck Qatar's gas refinery at Ras Laffan. It is in flames. Trump is now opposed to further attacks on Iranian energy facilities, per WSJ.
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Trump putting as much distance between himself and the South Pars attack as he can.
Seems to rationalize Iran's response (to a degree) while condemning its attack on Qatar.
Promises no further Israeli attacks on South Pars.
But threatens the field's total destruction if Iran attacks Qatar again.
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Why is the Center for American Progress running interference for the Jones Act
americanprogress.org/article/how-th…
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"The College Board, the agency in charge of the AP program, admits its questions are easier and passing scores have been lowered on key tests like the English Language exam."
educationnext.org/dumbing-down-o…
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In many subway systems across the world, trains are run by just one person.
In cities like Paris, some subway lines are fully automated, without a transit worker on board: gothamist.visitlink.me/yQ4SSB
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this is going to be a disaster
Polymarket@Polymarket
BREAKING: 𝕏 rolling out dislike button over the next 30 days.
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Biden was famously very good at funeral orations for decades. I was agog watching that speech
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He's not kidding. This was a verbatim part of Biden's *eulogy for Jesse Jackson.* Just a rambling mess.
jesse@cc37876
@daveweigel @CongressmanRaja @DanielBiss @laurafineforIL9 @KatAbughazaleh @bushraamiwala @IsaacDovere @RobertJPeters @JunaidForUs biden's comment about africa becoming a superpower was awful. classic biden
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The only one of these candidates who won was unopposed
Ro Khanna@RoKhanna
Tuesday is primary day in Illinois! Polls are open from 6am-7pm CT. Get out, vote, and help elect candidates to Congress who will fight for working-class Americans. @KatAbughazaleh @JunaidForUs @drthomasfisher @paulnolley @RobertJPeters @DeliaRamirezIL @CongressJackson
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@admcrlsn @daveweigel What a corrupt cesspool Illinois with their plurality system
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Yeah this is just not good enough for Kat in Chicago.
And she’s in third in suburban Cook.
Biss definitely in the driver’s seat, but not yet callable.
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Biss only winning by 9% in the part of the district that includes Evanston proper is probably bad news for him so far. Laura Fine might be in very strong position early.
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@bayes_pr I don’t get why all the early and mail Cook vote wasn’t tabulated together?
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@DrewSav Why didn’t all of Cook’s early and mail vote get tabulated at a central place?
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With 68/222 precincts in suburban Cook in, Kat Abu is in third place
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