Bobby Fijan
@bobbyfijan
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Bill James of Floorplans | Building Rowhomes for Families | Signal: Bfijan.19 | Podcast: Why We Don't Build Apartments for Families ⬇️
Joined May 2017
"I honestly think if rowhouses here on Capitol Hill were $300,000 & you could buy one if you had a normal job 80-90% of people (who move to DC) would do that” Thats my company goal: Building rowhomes designed for families, so people can move to the City, have kids and STAY 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Pronatalism is more than speeches and tax breaks. The world has turned subtly hostile to family formation, and it's going to take real builders and visionaries to set us back on course. @bobbyfijan has a vision for cities full of thriving families living in affordable homes. Now
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Another reason to try going to church Our sunday school class has a rotating dinner party in peoples’ homes every month
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Did you know? Rio Grande LNG has made ~$950,000 in charitable donations focused on community development and supporting 60+ local organizations.
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Here's 3rd Paragraph of "The Problem with Everything Bagel Liberalism" "But if the pace and price of Tahanan were the norm, the outlook would brighten" The general idea behind Abundance and Everything Bagel is correct. But no one should overly focus on its proposed solutions
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The two best new construction "Studio" floorplans are these: Left: 400sf, by @catculley in Portland, Maine Right 380sf, by @khzny in Calgary
@bobbyfijan What do you consider minimum dimensions for a decent studio?
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"Half the cost, in half the time" is the way Klein describes it. As a solution, that's just not correct. Faster, no doubt. Cheaper? No way. Or at least ... not yet.
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Cartridges. Classics. Real retro. Evercade brings back gaming’s golden age - official collections on physical cartridges.
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Using modular building at Tahanan (833 Bryant) was 3% less on a cost per square foot basis. That's hardly noteworthy.
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Modular/Pre-fab/factory CAN be a part of the housing solution, if it's done well. But it has to be evaluated on an actual apples to apples comparison. Which means Cost per Square Foot, not Cost per unit. As a reminder, the proposed SOLUTION of the "Everything Bagel" essay, the
California has a housing crisis because we aren’t building enough housing. To drive down costs, we need to embrace new technologies like modular and 3D printing to make homebuilding cheaper, faster, and better. New technologies can make construction more productive.
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Because the marginal cost of construction for the additional square foot is very low … even for “nice” houses Land costs, soft costs and major horizontal construction costs are fixed. A bathroom is cheap to add if you’re already building anyway. And very expensive to add later
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The problem with the New Right is that it doesn't build anything. No communities, no organizations, no religious revival, no manufacturing, no state capacity. Nothing. https://t.co/B6WEcVg7T1
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And this applies to both suburbs and cities. Demographic homogeneity is just not good. Families and retirees need younger single folks just as much as vice versa.
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And it’s driven by a lack of familiarity, which is unfortunately increasing as cities are getting more demographically separated When you dont live around and hang out with people who are married and have kids … its not that surprising you will find it “weird” or “silly” It’s
CANNOT emphasize enough how many of folks' preferences are just aversions yesterday i spoke with a friend who "doesnt want to marry and have kids" and for the first one the real issue when asked, 2 questions deep, was looking silly and being looked at on the wedding day
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That’s what the Apple Watch does. It’s massively popular among my son’s friends … but thankfully has also been banned at school.
If Apple made a dumb phone that integrated with their ecosystem (iMessage, Find My, etc) it could use chips that are five generations old and they could charge $800 for it.
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ZIRP made living downtown incredible. Startups created a massive subsidy for urban lifestyle of transportation, food, and travel And if 2012 was the best time to be millennial single … 2019 was the best time to be a parent of young kids in the City.
Apparently there is now a Gen Z TikTok trend where they are romanticizing being a millennial in 2012
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I honestly don’t know why Ertz was his favorite. Maybe it was the catch in the Super Bowl. But our son could never explain it. He just loved him. And Ertz’s was the only jersey he wanted. And he wore it everywhere Sports is a pretty magical thing
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Zach Ertz was my son’s first favorite Eagles player. He was heartbroken when he was traded Truly hope his career isn’t over, but he had a legendary career and left a lot of memories on a lot of fans.
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Build Homes designed for House Parties 🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Le Diplomate is #15?! That’s a lot of warm shrimp salads
Kinda crazy that the highest-grossing restaurant list doesn’t have a single restaurant in the City of LA in the top 50, and there are only two total in SoCal on the entire list
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Another perfect lifestyle photo of how apartment buildings can be great for families ... the firepits on roofdecks are great for making s'mores
One of the craziest rules inhibiting “Family Friendly” apartments is the application of Fair Housing Act Here is a (old) Christmas card photo for my family. I’m obviously biased but I also think this is a PERFECT lifestyle photo to illustrate the benefits of living in an
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I have very strong opinions on pedagogy but it basically boils down to: • Progress on math as rapidly as possible (no break for summer) • Read lots and lots of books Beyond that, I don't care all that much I like to say we homeschool our son AND he also goes to school
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My son attends a public magnet middle school, and frankly this wouldn't be a big deal to us ... because I don't expect the schools to teach our son to read long books We require him to read any (new) book he wants for at least 1 hour every day after school, and we pay for him $2
Staff at Alice Deal Middle School decided this year to remove all full-length novels from the 8th grade curriculum. It's a mistake, one parent writes, arguing that "reading full novels has real and important benefits" in middle school and beyond:
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