Brendan Kent
@BrendanKent11
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Transportation Finance @MBTA. Views my own 🇺🇸 🌎
Boston, MA
Joined June 2022
Courtyard housing made from timber, proposed in Høn, Norway One reason such density can be built in this location is Høn has a rail line (trains are 30 minutes to Oslo Central). Designed by Oslotre and Lala Toyen
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Boston: with the right zoning reforms, we too could have pedestrian-centered housing for $225ish per square foot.
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Imagine Boston with Austin building regulations. We’d be growing by tens of thousands of people every year
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Adam Smith’s been on my mind lately. I think he wouldn’t be terribly surprised that we’re still debating the same issues he highlighted and 90% of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is still just as relevant today as in 1776.
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Ich freue mich für Wien! Grün ist bestimmt besser für die Einwohner als ein paar Parkplätze.
An Austrian adaptation of the Barcelona Superblock, Vienna is finishing up its first Supergrätzl ("Super neighbourhood") in the 10th district, where through traffic is filtered out to regenerate an intersection into a liveable, climate-adapted, pedestrian-friendly public space.🧵
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We can, should and will build like this again. We will create millions of jobs, form millions of new families and contribute towards civilizational ascension in 🇺🇸
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New Hampshire has legalized something we haven't had in over a century: free-market electricity. If you don't connect to the grid, under a new law the PUC has no regulatory authority.
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This should be legal on every corner in the Commonwealth.
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We can, will and must build on this.
Lived in Boston from 1986 until 1996. It was great. Rents were affordable. I paid 1000 for a three bedroom house in Brookline. It was Blue Collar. All different working, middle class and yuppies living together. The Celtics were on fire. You could attend a Red Sox Game for
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Americans want for high speed rail but need the right people to step up and deliver it.
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"Can zone out with a mimosa and chill."
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Just in case you needed a reminder of all the LIFE we can fit into cities when we rethink streets for cars. Space for green and nature DOESN’T compete with density of people or buildings. It competes with density of CARS. Image via @LondonNPC
https://t.co/fYHG4gWN8E
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SB 79 PASSED! APARTMENTS NEXT TO ALL RAPID TRANSIT STATIONS IN CALIFORNIA ARE NOW LEGAL! THIS IS HUGE!!!
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HUGE HOUSING NEWS: The Assembly just passed our bill allowing more homes near public transportation, SB 79! We need more housing & we need it near transit. It’ll reduce traffic congestion & carbon emissions & increase transit ridership & affordability. Go housing! Go transit!
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Thanks for the great time, Edinburgh. Time to legalize density here in Massachusetts!
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What say you @BOSCityCouncil? We could be leading this list, creating tens of thousands of good jobs, creating tens of thousands of new homes and improving QOL for our region. Why don’t we?
🤯The City of Austin (proper) is leading the nation in total # of apartments under construction in 2025. Austin has 15,195 apartment units under construction, followed by Charlotte 12,365 and Houston 7,700. Notably, Dallas and SA are in the top 10. As a metro…
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