The law, in its majestic equality, forbids all men to sleep under bridges, in SROs, or on lots smaller than 10,000 sqft-the rich as well as the poor.
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27 Apr 2021
Can we do anything about Vermont's housing crisis?
Most obstacles to affordable housing construction are local!
Let's reform land-use regulations, allow denser infill construction in our town centers, and incentivize walk-able mixed use communities.
brookings.edu/policy2020/big…
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But isn’t most of the zoning around the station single family where the law doesn’t apply
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Jun 11
Council President Kenyatta Johnson told me that he is interested in opting all of the South Broad Street subway stops into the super charged transit-oriented development overlay that City Council approved today: inquirer.com/real-estate/com…
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#BTV Chittenden County, VT could join the growing list of pro-homes success stories — but we need more than a couple good years to make up for decades of under-building.
Check-out letsbuildhomes.org to get involved
vtdigger.org/2026/06/09/burl…
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Jun 10
“Philadelphia spent a century building a public transit system. The least we owe the next generation is the right to live next to it.”
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Jun 9
At least the phone bit was a lot easier when you could just buy a SIM card at Lo Wu and put it in your phone.
Jun 9
Every response:
“It’s super easy! Just take the MTR to Lo Wu station and walk to the crossing guard, get a 10 day transit visa (be sure to get there at 6:30 AM with passport photos) back through Macau (not a journo visa), and use an eSIM to get a VPN to set up AliPay in HK…”
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Jun 9
Pro tip, if you’re in Europe or Asia, and plan to travel to China, worth it to buy your iPhone with physical sim and eSIM support
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Today I went to the grocery store for ginger with the electric kettle on boiling water for udon and I got back before it finished.
What fascinates me about these conversations are the ppl who are like "just go to the grocery store more often"
My brothers & sisters in Hestia, the idea of going to the grocery store every day or even every other day is basically a 7th circle of hell nightmare
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Maybe you can’t grab something that fast if you have to walk from the parking lot to the back of your Walmart super center, but urban format stores are small and quick to walk through.
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May 30
Can we not do Atlantic City and air conditioning discourse at the same time?
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May 29
So excited to hear we’re finally going ahead with dynamic tolling on I-95 and I-76
BREAKING: I just announced a $30 million plan to fix traffic congestion and keep people safe around the Sports Complex in South Philly.
This area is a major economic and entertainment hub — and too many of us know what it’s like to sit in that traffic.
Whether you’re coming into town for a game or you’re a local who drives on these roads daily, these investments will help you get to where you need to go safely and on time.
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May 27
It takes really high gas prices to get people with cars to switch from driving to transit, so the benefit really has to be somewhere else: time savings, convenience, etc.
My edge case model for deciding whether to commute by regional rail to avoid I-95 traffic or just drive.
May 27
High gas prices are not ALL it took to see public transit ridership come back in the US. It also took huge efforts by transit agencies to improve their service or at least not cut it.
Transit service cuts in many cites could throttle this growth.
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Is your job understanding if a train is delayed or canceled, and the next one comes an hour later?
What happens if you have to stay 15 minutes late to finish something? Do you have to wait 45 minutes for a train?
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May 27
For peak direction commuting, you get the cost savings of not having to pay for parking, and more competitive travel times due to traffic, but for reverse commuting, SEPTA is barely cost competitive at $4.40 gas, at a significant cost to convenience.
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May 27
Americans Are Finally Using Public Transportation And All It Took Were Historic Gas Prices jalopnik.com/2178851/high-ga…
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I would love to read a HBR style deep dive into the economics of Chinese dumpling shop (or whatever) and how they differ from the most similar types of businesses in the US.
May 23
If you can't see the contradictions between 1) food delivery is very affordable to ordinary Chinese. 2) food delivery workers make above-median income. 3) Affordability is because of cheap labour. I can't help you.
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* better produce supply chain (fresher food and less spoilage)
* smaller portion of capital going towards renovations
* higher competition and specialization (firm density and competitiveness)
* high restaurant turnover rates means places with bad food die quickly
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May 24
Meanwhile in the US we’re talking about like commercial rent control. Idk
Probably the worst thing for better restaurants in the US is the broken cold chain, which drove a lot of restaurant owners to directly source ingredients from farmers, and sell at a premium.
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