Greg Anderson
@WalkableAustin
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work in Affordable housing, teach Urban Studies, and resist anti-housing NIMBY games. let’s build! 🔨
Downtown, Austin
Joined April 2015
Ranger, Texas ~1920! What if we’d chosen to build robust rail networks instead of endless highways?
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We all knew Cleveland we coming for us.
November 2024: 7 of the nation's 50 largest metro area housing markets (14%) had falling year-over-year home prices. February 2025: 12 of 50 (24%). April 2024: 20 of 50 (40%). May 2025: 22 of 50 (44%). June 2025: 25 of 50 (50%). Chart via @ResidentialClub
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Former Council Member @GregCasar nailed it when he led the push to dedicate 100% of city taxes from formerly public land back into the housing trust fund. Gutting it now makes no sense. We can and should do better.
Wow. The new proposed budget zeroes out the Housing Trust Fund after this year. That’s crazy and indicative of how this budget is not serious policy just “savvy” politics…like the APD contract vote. It’s punting on any real decisions on actual tradeoffs until after a TRE vote.
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So true! Spelman set the standard and was always game to walk you through the logic. The Professor!
TLDR: the Austin policymaker role model for how to balance taking public safety seriously while remaining fiscally prudent
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Waterline out here reminding us it’s the new tallest—here’s a fun angle. Where’s yours?
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This is where 28 Years Later opens. Run while you can 🧟♂️✨
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Another fatality on I-35 this morning. Today marks 9,000 straight days of death on Texas roads.
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“Free” parking in a popular urban park means cars camp for days, others idle waiting for spots, and it’s full nearly 100% of the time. Time to charge — or better yet, turn it into a park. @AustinCityParks #MuellerLake
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Take down a tree in the city? Total panic. Level a hill in the suburbs? No hearings, no protests. Easy. Sprawl is policy.
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HB 24 is now law 😃 The NIMBY playbook in Austin just lost a major page. Will City staff move to rewrite our 1984 LDC to legalize housing/walkable communities — or stall behind a comfy “vision plan” update?.
🚨 BREAKING: Texas Just ENDED the Tyrant’s Veto 🛑. THANK YOU @Burrows4TX, @GregAbbott_TX, @SenBryanHughes and @AngeliaOrrForTX 👏. With the passage of HB 24, we’ve restored fairness to local zoning decisions and protected your right to build on your own land. Here’s what
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The Capitol and UT Tower make Austin shine — Texas icons through and through
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“Tyrant’s veto” must die. NIMBYs have used it for yrs to kill needed housing.
austinchronicle.com
House Bill 24 brings big change to 100-year-old law
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Thinking of turning my place into a storm-watching speakeasy
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