How Urban Renewal Ruined Everything (darrellowens.substack.com)
[article] Eliminating 'parking minimums' helped U.S. cities. Could it work here? | CBC (www.cbc.ca)
Ottawa recently announced they’re considering removing their mandatory parking minimums. For context, parking minimums are extremely arbitrary, based on pseudoscience, and are a key barrier to housing development.
[article] Opinion: Lowering Canada’s high housing costs is also a recipe for raising our notoriously low productivity (www.theglobeandmail.com)
Non-paywall link: archive.is/J2cSo...
Pa. zoning laws are strangling home construction, and lawmakers want changes (www.inquirer.com)
New Chair Leads ‘YIMBY’ Wave at Manhattan Community Board 5 (commercialobserver.com)
[article] Vancouver's new mega-development is big, ambitious and undeniably Indigenous - Macleans.ca (macleans.ca)
[meme] And lots of public transit investment (lemmy.world)
[meme] Parking minimums in a nutshell: (lemmy.world)
[article] How NIMBYs are helping to turn the public against immigrants | Vox (www.vox.com)
I’ve seen this in Canada waaaay too much. Instead of rightfully directing their anger at screwed-up land use restrictions and a draconian zoning code, people who are normally pro-immigration are rapidly turning anti-immigrant because of the housing crisis.
[article] Why State Land Use Reform Should Be a Priority Climate Lever for America (rmi.org)
New analysis from RMI finds that by encouraging better-located, less car-dependent communities, we can solve the nationwide housing shortage while dramatically cutting pollution.
[article] The hottest trend in U.S. cities? Changing zoning rules to allow more housing | NPR (www.npr.org)
[article] 'I was elected to slow down development,' Pointe-Claire mayor tells Poilievre | Montreal Gazette (montrealgazette.com)
For reference, Pointe-Claire is right next to a new automated light metro station, so blocking housing there is doubly harmful, as it sabotages the potential ridership of a brand new rapid transit system.
[image] Space used for cars in downtown Houston (lemmy.world)
[video] What NIMBYs Get Wrong About Density (Intentionally?) (youtu.be)
Sometimes You Need To Destroy a Perfectly Good Mansion (www.strongtowns.org)
Has California's housing policy revolution been successful? Will it be? (www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com)
Building new units is proven to push rents down – but not for the reasons you may think (www.theguardian.com)
[article] The Culture War Tearing American Environmentalism Apart | The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)
Non-paywall link: archive.is/l991o
Build Housing Where We Need it Most (citylimits.org)
[video] Why Americans Live So Far Away From Everything (youtu.be)
Housing affordability drives supercommuting
[meme] Why do we make it so obscenely hard to build anything? (lemmy.world)
[article] Australian housing wealth is meaningless, destructive and fundamentally changing our society | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/8967868...
[meme] The Myth of Consensual Urban Planning (lemmy.world)
[video] We Need to Talk About the “Missing Middle” | Oh The Urbanity! (youtu.be)
In urbanist and YIMBY circles, we often talk a lot about missing middle housing, but this is actually a very broad category. This video gives more in-depth information about the kinds of missing middle housing and how prevalent they are in the five biggest Canadian cities.
[article] Rents Are Falling in Some US Cities, Thanks to New Apartment Construction (www.bloomberg.com)
YIMBYism works, y’all....