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This is 30 minutes of pro-housing gold, Jerry. GOLD. Seriously, this is the best, most comprehensive, up-to-date video that I’ve seen in a while. Full of data, covers all the NIMBY talking points. Spread far and wide — I will… (c/o @robharrisonCPHC) youtube.com/watch?v=rQW4W1…

LOVE yarn bombing…

Mona Caron, contemporary Swiss-born artist, known for her large scale environmentally themed murals #WomensArt

'City lights Bristol' by contemporary UK artist Cath Read #womensart

US photographer Alice Austen's photographs fearured in the book 'Bicycling for Ladies' 1896 #womensart #BookArtWeek

Rooftops, 2022 by Emma Haworth, contemporary London-based painter #WomensArt

The only trees I trust are public: Streets. Parks. Forests. Jungles. 🤓

Juan del Pozo (Spanish, b.1969) "Empire State Colors," 2024 Oil on canvas 121 x 101 cm

Iran's metro system is built according to Iranian and Islamic architecture and is very beautiful.

Not very long ago Marco Rubio @SecRubio made the following grossly misleading remark: “If Iran spent billions on people instead of weapons, it would be a much better country.” Yet Iran’s subway systems, as shown today, suggest otherwise, modern, extensive, stunning & in many cases more advanced than parts of New York’s aging infrastructure & those in Europe itself. Perhaps the U.S. should spend less on its military & more on its own infrastructure & public services, & start prioritising its own people first. They peddle narratives based on ignorance. Iran responds with receipts.

“Paris / Montmartre” Yuriy Shevchuk (b.1957, Yagodnoye / Russia)

People’s Park, Berkeley, California, April 3, 2026.

NEW: Private equity's greed is squeezing mobile home residents living off of Social Security. Residents have had to skip their medication to deal with 125% rent increases. But a bill from Rep. Maxwell Frost could let residents buy their parks before Wall Street swoops in.

On my #podcast, I talked w/@KromanDavid about the @SeattleCouncil's consideration of a "pause" for the city's Mandatory Housing Affordability program. Why is this happening, and what impact will it have on #affordablehousing? Full show: buzzsprout.com/798857/episode… @WWConverge

In a groundbreaking social initiative, Albuquerque, New Mexico launched a program that pays homeless individuals to clean streets, parks, and public areas. The idea was simple — offers work, dignity, and purpose instead of punishment or pity. The results were remarkable: over 70% of participants have now secured permanent housing or full-time employment, transforming their lives and communities alike. The city’s “There’s a Better Way” program proves that compassion-driven policies can be more effective than traditional welfare systems.

A neighborhood shaped by sunlight. MVRDV’s Nieuw Bergen in Eindhoven is a 29,000 m² cluster of seven buildings whose dramatic 45° roofs are cut to preserve daylight below—while also carrying green roofs, solar panels, and rooftop gardens. The project includes 237 homes, with Orange dedicated to 48 social-housing apartments.

Yep.

truly, many adults prefer the suburban model: a detached house, a private yard, and car culture. The market has spent decades refining and scaling that product, and as a result, those households face no shortage of options. But a large share of adults are not looking to spend weekends maintaining a lawn or structuring daily life around car trips. They want proximity and immediacy: the ability to walk their kids to school, to run errands on foot, to participate in a neighborhood where social life is ambient rather than scheduled. That demand is not being met. The supply of genuinely walkable, family-compatible neighborhoods is extraordinarily thin, and the housing types within those neighborhoods are even more constrained. In most U.S. cities, you can find either small urban apartments or large suburban houses—but very little in between. The idea of a spacious, well-designed home in a walkable setting—where a parent can realistically say, “go play outside with your friends”—is effectively a unicorn so this is the gap that the courtyard block is filling. A courtyard condo offers the spatial and functional qualities of a larger home—multiple bedrooms, generous living areas, access to outdoor space—while embedding that home within a coherent, walkable urban fabric.

The G.O.A.T. 🐐