RT @StrongTowns: As Edward Erfurt, our Chief Technical Advisor, says, “The hard truth is this: growth alone doesn’t guarantee solvency. "….

A lot of people read "government" here indiscriminately. We can debate economic illiteracy at the federal level, but local government budgets are very much like a household.

“Somebody once came up to me and said, ‘Oh, Strong Towns — you’re teaching cities how to be cities.’ We could do that, but what we’re really doing is teaching citizens to be citizens.” ❤️. -Edward Erfurt.

The idea that development in the SW is slowing down is getting a lot of spin. We've been talking about it for years - it's the natural outcome of our unnatural development pattern.

RT @Chris_arnade: I've stayed out of the Abundance debate, because there are a lot better informed people to talk about it. Strong Towns….

This feels like it settles a bet between @TwinsGeek and @AaronGleeman.

RT @StrongTowns: Turning empty lots into housing that meets the community’s needs—that’s what Muskegon, Michigan is doing with Tax Incremen….

RT @VladTheInflator: If the Federal Reserve had never purchased mortgage-backed securities (MBS)—especially during and after the 2008 finan….

@StrongTowns Here's my latest column, a short take on Abundance.

Abundance asks us to empower others to fix what we already have the power to change. At @strongtowns, we think you don’t need to wait for permission.

We talk about Jane Jacobs, but plan like Robert Moses. We want bottom-up outcomes but keep using top-down tools. I wrote about why that doesn’t work, what it costs cities like Newport and Chester, and how places like Medicine Hat show a better way.

RT @EpsilonTheory: This is a common knowledge moment - everyone now knows that everyone now knows that the US deficit cannot be controlled….

RT @StrongTowns: “The only way you get the people living in this neighborhood to agree. is if you have a vision of how that will actually….

RT @BricksCenter: Nobody touching him 😭

RT @BillSimmons: I don’t care who wins this game. The touch foul calls SGA gets are really awful. They don’t resemble anything else that’s….

Wolves in 5. Bring on the conference finals.

RT @InlandCaGuy: Fellow YIMBROs, no need to fight this thread, because look a) there are YIMBYs that do advocate for sprawl b) it's not a s….

Real solutions require places that invite growth, reinvestment, and evolution. Not just more units—better places. We wrote a full response to the NYT piece. Read it here:

This isn’t about aesthetics. Not about taste or class or nostalgia. It’s about math. If a neighborhood can’t pay for itself, building more of it won’t fix the problem. It will make the problem worse.