Ratnika Prasad
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A workforce shortage, exacerbated by the housing crisis, is one of the biggest barriers to effective deployment of funding allocation by federal and state govts for conservation and wildlife prevention today.
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Spending close to a billion dollars to increase our car dependency is the worst investment in Chicago that we could be making.
But wait, there’s more! There are necessary infrastructure improvements:
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Chicago residents took the train and bus 279 million times last year. They deserve a system that is clean, safe and frequent. We need new leadership who can address the issues faced by CTA.
An unreliable public transit system jeopardizes Chicago's economy, exacerbates our housing crisis, and dooms our climate goals.
Urban Environmentalists IL supports the appointment of a CTA President who will address CTA's multiple ongoing crises in a timely, transparent manner.
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@contrerasforca
What about women who mock men and women because believing in astrology is gross.
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Having done a complete 180 since my MPA/ID days on the usefulness of RCTs, one point that the article misses to highlight - which completely changes the “efficiency” calculation on the use of RCTs - is just HOW much it costs in comparison to the intervention it seeks to study.
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@katharinegk
Really think progressives in Berkeley have lost the plot here. We need much more student housing and a 1970s planted area’s “historic” value to a few boomers doesn’t outweigh that need.
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Twitter gal here to say that Chicago builds more and consequently, said apartment complexes are much more affordable and diverse (by ethnicity and in income ranges) than the old no build neighborhoods of San Francisco and Cambridge.
The dumbest housing Twitter guys are the ones who vaguely talk about YIMBYism-as-desegregation and they're just talking about building apartment complexes charging $3,000 for a studio
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@BlockClubCHI
Excited for much needed new housing, including affordable units, in the neighborhood!
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@JGrantGlover
Every time I walk by, I am awed by its majesty and annoyed by how the wide roads around it make the pics less impressive than a plaza/square might have looked.
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@henrygrabar
Great point on just how dangerous a slippery slope it sets us down- not to mention that it could add yet another weapon in the NIMBY arsenal for why we shouldn’t have high rise construction downtown
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@_CharlesPreston
At the bus stop the other day, the off duty CTA driver waited with a migrant family to make sure that the next driver knew which stop they were heading to, since they were new to the bus system and also didn’t speak English. Our city has some rockstar public servants!
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As people living in the US, a direct local climate action we can be take today is to vastly expand housing supply to support new migrants, several of whom are climate refugees. Or we can keep railing against “fossil fuel capitalists” and pat ourselves on the back for our ethics.
Please ignore the fossil fuel capitalists committing genocides around the world to protect profits. The real problem is people who think we should build more public housing
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Troubling to see folks in Old Town skate around income and race arguments under the guise of “character”, but kudos to
@AldermanHopkins
for recognizing the needs of Chicago to grow & to be balancing the views of the neighborhood with those of broader/future residents!
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Meanwhile, we spent two weeks in Busan in 2022 and were struck by the child friendly apartment amenities, incredible bus and train connectivity and independent small businesses everywhere. If only SF could be like this.
Busan, South Korea. endless rows of tower blocks in real life shook me. was told they’re part of the reason young people don’t get married and have children.
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Love my 15 minute city where it took me 15 minutes to walk to the lake to see the northern lights.
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Nothing stabilizes rents more than a literal glut of housing production. Unless we build more, securing affordable units will have the odds of winning a literal lottery, instead of a mainstream option available to everyone.
I know that's right!
If I snagged a rent-stabilized apt 30 yrs ago for $250 and was then able to live my dream as a writer and photographer because I'm paying affordable rent, I'd be standing tall in front page news too.
I don't know her but I'm cheering her on.
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@conorsen
This is a fairly US centric view. It's hard to know what you want when your choice set is artificially restricted. Lots of 30-80 somethings in India and SE Asia live in cities and can do so since quality schooling, medical care & more living space are not just suburban features
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South Korean women face horrific relative levels of misogyny in the workplace and unrealistic expectations on load sharing in marriage motherhood. Seeing this as a reflection that “they be chillin” is intellectually lazy to say the least.
What do South Korean women even do all day lol honestly queen shit good for them
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@BrandisFriedman
@wttw
Sad to see folks being unwelcoming to our new neighbors who desperately need shelter
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@dbroockman
How about we eliminate restrictions to let developers build as many units as the land can physically support?
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A great example of advocacy targeting the root cause of the challenge to great effect. Throwing more money on transit without fixing issues like a shortage of workers does nothing. More reliable and frequent buses and trains are what we need.
BREAKING: The
@cta
Board just confirmed that the agency is DOUBLING rail operator training capacity in 2024! This is a BIG step toward rebuilding rail service! We look forward to supporting the agency's goal of training 200 rail operators this year!
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Fantastic article by
@JimA21754232
on why we need to make it easy to build dense housing near transit! Chicago has SO many parking lots near L stops that could be put to better use.
My op-ed in the Chicago Tribune today.
@UrbanEnviroIL
@KDillardRTA
@streetsblogchi
@chi_streets
@ctaaction
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As a proud YIMBY who also works for one of the most dedicated conservation orgs, this cultural battle is real and truly one where we need to win hearts and minds.
New >> I went to Minneapolis to find the fake environmentalists -- instead I met a bunch of real ones.
On the culture war brewing inside environmentalism:
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Fantastic paper tracing how relaxation of Floor Area Ratio restrictions not just increases the supply of housing, but specifically increases the supply of more AFFORDABLE units in Mumbai
paper on the effects of a zoning reform in India that increase housing supply and lowered prices through a mechanism that I don't think has gotten as much attention previously: increased investment in shared amenities allows smaller unit sizes
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My neighbor in the glass and steel box I currently call home is the construction worker who built the glass and steel box across the road from me. Increasing supply lowers price points and lowering price points expands access for everyone.
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Grateful that these exist so that 1. We can organize for a better Chicago and 2. My husband is spared the latest play by play on the abundant housing and urbanism agenda
Lots of great conversations were had at tonight’s happy hour.
Thank you to everyone for attending! 😊🏘️🍕
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Are data driven approaches to studying & scaling interventions for social good desirable? Yes in theory. Should we spend $100k of a $300k grant to implementing an RCT on the impact of $100 cash transfers? You tell me if the RCT>the 1000 additional families that could benefit.
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@AaronGuhreen
If we block all these market rate concerts by Taylor Swift, then obviously she’ll be forced to do affordable ones! This is a win for the common Swiftie.
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Allowing property owners to build >1 unit of housing enables multigenerational families to stay in place, expands supply of homes near transit and business areas and reduces sprawl - all without costing taxpayers a penny. This is common sense regulation by
@RepKamBuckner
My letter to the editor explaining the benefits of Kam Buckner’s housing bill to allow at least two homes per property in Illinois’s eight largest cities was published.
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Also, this point by
@arvindsubraman
about the influence of a “very incestuous club of prominent academics, philanthropy and mostly weak governments” cannot be made strongly enough.
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Chicago, when?
Reducing minimum lot size rules in Austin could unlock new "backyard lots" that could be turned into new homes.
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The fact that such a beautiful park isn’t covered on all sides by skyscrapers, that maximize the number of people who can enjoy the park, is a land use policy failure
2700 Slowly getting built would be an absolute win. Not sure why Robert is repeating implying anything negative about building tall on or near ocean beach.
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This brilliant article by
@michellecyca
echoes every problematic dynamic I see in my work supporting indigenous and local community led conservation projects. A must read.
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All of
@UrbanEnviroIL
will celebrate if we can convince
@dieworkwear
to move here. The city is beautiful, the people are great, the food is amazing and the rents are relatively affordable (and we are fighting hard to keep it that way).
every time i see anything related to Chicago real estate, i have to pause and step away for a bit bc it hurts too bad
IG michaelscavogroup
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Thanks
@Andrefor40th
for leading the kind of zoning reforms this city needs to expand much needed housing supply and support small businesses!
Join us May 29th for an exciting development & exhibit - the 40th Ward will be rezoning Western Avenue across the ward to increase residential affordability and reimagine the business district!
It will be the first time it’s ever been done in Chicago so come learn more!
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For a commercial Bollywood movies, Dunki provides shockingly compelling dialogues for a regular audience about the absurdity of Western immigration systems and the injustice of the lottery of birth
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Why yes, you should
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What is especially sad here is that 2-3bd options near train lines are in short supply - one reason families are often forced to move out further. Hope that
@40thforward
can work with the developer to move this and other projects ahead in the future.
A plan to turn an Andersonville home on Ashland into apartments was denied by the alderman.
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@JGrantGlover
At the community meeting, the two women behind me were discussing how this would let in low income people and then one of them told the other "You can't say low income dear". The casual classism and racism on display was unbelievable.
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Illinoisians - this is one of the easiest online actions you can take to expand affordable housing supply in the state today.
It’s time to submit witness slips in support of
@RepKamBuckner
’s
#HB4213
! This bill will legalize ADUs statewide in Illinois!
This handy article from
@stevevance
provides step by step instructions for how to support this bill. 🏘️🏘️
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@DanielKayHertz
Love the way you lie by Rihanna and Eminem and Pumped up Kicks by Foster the People becoming club hits was ironic, to say the least
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@laura_waxee
@sfchronicle
Controversial for whom and why? Turning a car storage into more housing in a fantastic area like Telegraph Hill should be supported by anyone with common sense.
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@north0fnorth
@maxdubler
One can despise Gov Burgum’s anti human rights politics while acknowledging that the lack of stifling zoning and corrupt permitting processes is one of the things that has historically kept places like North Dakota or Texas more affordable.
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Thank you for the common sense comment
@40thforward
Vasquez said he supports the development, and does not buy the argument that affordable housing ruins a neighborhood.
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Visited this last year. It was a powerful visual of the ways in which zoning shaped - and segregated - Chicago.
Last year The “Redefining Redlining” art installation brought 100,000 tulips to a vacant Washington Park lot where 21 homes once stood.
#chicago
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Evanston has severely underbuilt housing for decades, leading to 17% of households being housing cost burdened. As Mayor
@DanielBiss
highlights, expanding supply is the best thing we can be doing for affordability. Excited to see Evanston improve its zoning & permitting processes
Daniel Biss: New vision for Evanston is focused on ‘yes in my backyard’ rules
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500 new homes in Old Town right next to the Red, Brown and Purple Lines that are likely to face significant pushback. If you care about housing in Chicago, voice your support! This meeting is virtual, so it’s literally a 1 click action to support much needed new build.
Babe wake up, new community meeting just dropped 👀
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As my former colleagues at
@EnvDefenseFund
have been saying these past few years, net zero plans that simply transfer O&G to be someone else’s dirty problem is not sufficient from
@TheEconomist
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I’d love an America with the cleanest air, cleanest water and the lowest carbon emissions ever. I’d be out of a job but the world would have several million more.
#ClimateChange
#DebateTonight
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@bd_wetz
As an environmentalist, I am incredibly disappointed that fellow environmental non-profit folks would take such a narrow lens view of what has macro environmental implications. Not just climate- you think birds aren't hurt by the growth of suburbia on marsh lands?
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@Eric_Erins
As
@Amy4KY
said, the economics no longer pencil out. Plastic is cheaper than glass, cleaning is expensive and return logistics even more so. Add updated FDA regulations on contamination and even recyclable plastic isn’t cost competitive for food grade products.
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I’m so sorry that transit oriented development hurts the Jewel Oscos and strip malls of the exurbs.
Cartoon complaining how Chicago transit lines oriented towards downtown were sucking commerce from outlying areas.
Should be of interest to
@Eric_Erins
!
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Refused to put up wedding pictures, but I may just frame this article and hang it in my living room.
This from
@elidourado
is still the best articulation of the specifics for an abundance agenda in Washington, DC
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If we truly want to support small and medium businesses, a good first step would be making it less difficult for them to exist where their owners may live
ICYMI my
@TorontoStar
column on the anti-working-class sentiment surfacing as the city allows small scale biz's in neighbourhoods. Wealthy white collar types worked at home but object to working & service class folk doing the same.
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As raised in tonight’s Old town meeting, Chicago needs to be building a LOT more housing at all price points to stay accessible and affordable
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Housing, immigration, energy. We can move towards a world where these are abundant or keep fighting pointlessly over “gentrification”, people who enter countries “the right way” and what energy uses are “wasteful”.
It is human nature to view others as competition for resources. Only we lucky moderns have been fortunate to escape a fixed-pie world.
So, we face a constant urge to fight over a fixed pie rather than growing the pie.
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@StrongTowns
1. Loneliness epidemic
2. Aging in place
3. Declining fertility rates
4. Immigration and how contentious it has become
5. Exposure to diversity of class, job types and stages of life
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Let's legalize these across the city so that we can be adding 200 a month!
I think a Chicago zoning milestone has been reached: the 200th ADU permit since re-legalization in May 2020 was issued earlier this month.
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10 years ago, as a recent grad who had moved to the Bay Area, reading this article changed my relationship with local political engagement.
Happy bday YIMBY! 10 yrs ago today
@TechCrunch
ran this
@kimmaicutler
article which illuminated for a generation of young San Franciscans why the rent was too damn high and exposed the powerful interests arrayed against building homes. A movement born 🧵
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@arvindsubraman
However, the field may now have landed in a place where it’s the victim of its own success. Simpler design, including giving a much larger portion of the $ directly to communities rather than to the academics seeking to study them can yield better development outcomes.
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@arvindsubraman
There is a reason that a handful of entirely Western institutions and consultancies that serve these - whose leadership is dominated by Western citizens even as they are based in developing countries- are disproportionately represented in publications.
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If you genuinely care about affordable housing, then you fight NIMBYism. A thoughtful piece by Joint Forces for Affordable Housing on addressing NIMBY concerns by neighbors
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@Eric_Erins
The beauty of supply and demand in a desirable neighborhood. If Pilsen NIMBYs actually cared about gentrification, they'd be cheering this because it represents lower pressure on every other neighborhood by yuppies.
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As a brown immigrant cis her female who didn’t know what a trust fund meant until age 17, I support upzoning because 1. It works 2. The data says it works 3. The majority of the human population lives in geographies where it works
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@CDRosa
@kateontransport
@Suntimes
Alderman, this is why we need to make it as easy to build up on those vacant lots as possible! Reducing permitting timelines would go a long way there.
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@Brandon4Chicago
- if you’re truly pro housing and small business, then expediting permitting for such projects would be an easy win!
There's now 2500+ new residential units in 115+ future new construction multi unit/mixed use buildings in Chicago, tied up in pending permits and city hall process submitted since July 2023
Actually more like ~3000 - future 40 story South Loop bldg w/no unit count on permit
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Let’s get this built!!!!
256 homes 😍
64 affordable homes 😍😍
Ten parking spots 😍😍😍
Replaces a Burger King 🍔🍔🍔🍔
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@YIMBYLAND
The increasing default to display subtitles for television and movie theater content has made the viewing experience more enjoyable.
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ADUs support infill that allows multiple generations of families to stay in place and offers new housing options in resource rich neighborhoods. Hoping that
@AldPatDowell3rd
and others can support this!
City Council Zoning Committee is scheduled tomorrow to take up a new version of acting chair
@AldLawson
's ordinance that'd allow Additional Dwelling Unit (ADU) construction citywide. No vote scheduled to be taken.
Here the summary of the proposal that was just sent to alders:
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@mateosfo
@amyliztweets
Thank you for your effort! This project is important both from a climate and equity perspective.
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@maxdubler
@keegan_tweets
There’s an important nuance here that we YIMBYs need to point out more - the impact of “gentrification” is very different on homeowners versus renters. And the only way to help renters is build so much new housing that filtering and trickle down keeps rents affordable.
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@KhoaVuUmn
I’d be shocked if this doesn’t inspire a new generation of little girls to become mathematicians and economists
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Hoping this helps advance this much needed housing project but man, you know a system is absolutely broken when the governor of a state with 39 million people has to step in with statements supporting 40 units of housing.
For weeks, the Half Moon Bay planning commission has been delaying a 100% affordable housing project for senior farmworkers, criticizing it over concerns about parking, height, and impact on coastal views.
Now, even Gov.
@GavinNewsom
is joining those calling for its approval!
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This is, in fact, completely untrue.
“There is no serious academic research showing that building sizable numbers of housing units, almost exclusively at the high end of the market, makes housing more affordable over a time period relevant for current residents.”
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1. Zoning and permitting reform for abundant housing, transit and clean energy
2. Immigration reform to eliminate country caps, and the lottery system
3. Apolitical bodies at all levels to draw electoral boundaries
4. Term limits on Supreme Court justices
5. Composting
If you had complete control of policy for 100 days, what policies would you implement? (Maximum of 5)
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The one thing industrial ag did VERY well was make food EXTREMELY cheap - and avert a lot of deaths in the process. No serious conservationist I work with in Africa or Asia would deny that, even as we work to make agricultural systems better aligned with conservation.
industrial food production is the yimby logic applied to food - let big corporations call all the shots and make all the policy - and it is destroying the planet
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Whenever I see earnest BS like this, I’m reminded of the classic interview with Bono
Rather than creating an individualized “culture of giving,” we should be challenging capitalism’s institutionalized taking.
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Space is cool, solving climate change is cool and working at a place bringing both these topics together is cooler. So excited for
@EnvDefenseFund
‘s launch of
@MethaneSAT
with
@SpaceX
!
We’ve found our ride to space! 🚀
@SpaceX
Falcon 9 rocket will deliver MethaneSAT into orbit in 2022. More details here:
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Change occurs slowly. There's lots of coalition building, attention to incentives & processes to navigate
Today's climate wins might feel fast-paced, but these are outcomes of decades of persistent effort. And that's what makes it a special day to be part of the climate community
🚨BREAKING🚨ExxonMobil shareholders elected 2 new board members to lead the transition to a net-zero energy system. This historic move is a major victory for both portfolios and the planet.
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@arvindpawan1
@EnvDefenseFund
and
@rff
put together some really solid research on policy solutions that have worked in diff states and can/should be scaled federally
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@sam_d_1995
This part of Cambridge has entirely transformed! More walkable and cyclable, more interesting new restaurants and way more housing options for Harvard and MIT students.
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Can people focus all their ire on anti children sentiments in society on NIMBYs like this, instead of fighting over some clickbait child/dog ridiculousness.
"The proposed childcare centre is not environmentally friendly."
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Urbanism at its best. Imagine trying to get permits for this.
shout-out to the band setting up in the middle of the chicago river right now
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Housing crisis or character? You pick what matters, as a decent human.
“Old Town Canvas would help address the city’s housing crisis, according to Chicago resident Jordan Gold, protecting millennials like him from the skyrocketing cost of living, including rising rents.” 👏
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All I want this birthday is an end to single family zoning, community input requirements, design reviews, parking minimums, FAR and building height restrictions
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Yes
NEW: Is it time to fire CTA boss Dorval Carter?
Gov. Pritzker has joined the chorus of critics calling for a leadership change at the CTA as the agency continues to struggle with service.
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Some of our best allies here in Chicago are older folks - faith groups, coalitions fighting homelessness, refugee support committees. YIMBYism is about enabling abundant neighborhoods for folks at every stage of life.
Younger YIMBYs should ease up on soft ageism about e.g. Boomers. I'm as guilty as anyone, and there's an element of truth. But I increasingly see older folks hurt by the crisis join YIMBY groups. (And become key allies.) I'd hate for this rhetoric to make them feel unwelcome.
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@sam_d_1995
NEPA’s origins were in 1970, when major federal projects took little to no account of environmental impact in approval decisions. 52 years later, we have a very different paradigm in making infrastructure decisions and NEPA should be reformed to reflect that.
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@louismirante
@drvolts
Just as we don't give into women groups within the anti-abortion movement framing it themselves as "feminists", we shouldn't give in to folks breaking logic on what advances emissions reductions and the protection of our ecosystems most - housing density and abundance!
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True, it’s just been replaced by budgeting and deadline anxiety in a climate organization
I bet you that 80% of your climate anxiety will go away if you work full-time in climate
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Readers, it’s because Austin built a lot more housing.
Did building more housing cause rents in Austin to come down? Or did its national coolness favor declining cause rents to decline? We may never know
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