YIMBYLAND

For a half-century, America has critically under-built family-sized housing in our most dynamic cities and neighborhoods, rendering them childless and unaffordable. It's time to save the American Dream. Introducing The American Housing Corporation.

On May 7, City Council will be taking up a resolution to make several rule fixes for HOME I & II projects * Reduce minimum lot widths * Apply HOME uniformly across Austin * Zero out side setbacks where there is space next door * Lower two-unit lot size minimum to 2x one-unit min.

Austin feels like Portlandia

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…I would kill for a good Tex-Mex Persian place. Some saffron rice and a poblano stuffed with pomegranate and ground lamb.

I have ZERO interest in competing with Lennar Their construction costs are incomprehensibly low.

13%+ of all building permits issued this year are in 78744. Where the heck is 78744? Major development happening that way, all the way toward Lockhart.

I'm watching the film “Sandlot” with our kids and just realized that the film’s version of America with baseball, public pools, county fair, block parties, etc is almost extinct.

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This is a subset of the affordability debate but I think there are a fair number of youngish Americans with $200-250k household incomes who feel like that should afford a nicer lifestyle than it actually can in top 10 metros (in part because retirees still have the good houses).