Director of Impact @GroundworkUSA | affiliate @urichmond | board pres @scottsaddition | alum @OSUCEOAS @Augustana_IL | opinions mine; facts peer-reviewed
Joined November 2013
- Tweets 11,837
- Following 1,931
- Followers 3,149
- Likes 11,655
2,244 Photos and videos
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
birders and yimbys are the same movement and haven't been introduced. the thing wrecking bird habitat isn't the six-story apartment, it's the cul-de-sac that bulldozed forty acres of forest so eleven families could each keep a lawn that feeds no insects and therefore no birds
8
17
207
7,490
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
Jun 10
This Bellevue-Seattle listings comparison is an unbelievably vivid YIMBY map
In Seattle, people ask how legalizing all these $700k condos makes housing far more affordable
In Bellevue, those condos are illegal & instead they mandate $3M single family homes. There's the answer
Jun 9
Seattle is in a similar situation. While Bellevue is building >3000sqft homes for the rich, Seattle is primarily building for the middle and upper middle class. This will cause an even bigger gap in incomes.
Tough to say if it's good or bad.
4
33
353
27,092
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
Jun 7
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
washingtonpost.com/climate-s…
11
155
463
11,602
Building shade is as good if not better than tree shade for protecting people from extreme heat stress, especially in areas where big canopy trees are hard to maintain, so taller buildings and shade structures should be a bigger part of our strategy for urban heat resilience
Jun 4
What slightly-unhinged views on urbanism/cities do you hold dearly? Hobby horses and petty beefs?
1
103
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
May 18
Excellent stuff by NYT Ed Board:“To bring down housing costs, cities and towns need to make two principal changes. First, they should loosen zoning laws to allow more multifamily homes. …Second, cities and towns should make it easier to build where it is already legal.”
14
54
224
19,923
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
May 18
There are 0 high-cost, high housing production cities in the US.
52
378
4,813
377,073
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
May 15
IZ (inclusionary zoning) is “vibes based planning”.
IZ is intended to benefit the politician proposing it at the expense of the lower income person needing it.
May 15
I'm not aware of a single instance where IZ mandates ushered in broad improvements in housing affordability, but I'm aware of loads of instances in which they crushed housing production. Blue cities/states need to take the evidence seriously and scrap these failed programs.
5
3
32
1,709
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
May 14
Even in the arguably most car dependent metro in the country, there’s a clear demand for walkable spaces and dense urbanism. Stop making it legal to only build car dependent sprawl and then use that reality to say no one demands anything else.
26
39
506
23,160
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
May 13
These "requirements to build affordable housing" are a demand that builders rent or sell a percentage of their brand new homes at a loss. This is a tax on new housing that has worsened the housing shortage and increased housing prices in every city where it was implemented.
May 13
There are currently six BUILD bills in the state Senate aimed at increasing housing and lowering costs. "Yet there’s one thing missing in each bill: a requirement to build affordable housing," write Carolina Sternberg and Jesse Mumm of DePaul University. chicago.suntimes.com/other-v…
6
75
890
23,490
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
If it happens ones, it can be a coincidence.
If it happens twice, it starts to be a pattern.
If it happens 40 times, we have truth!
A @EUROCITIES survey across 38 European cities found: lower urban speed limits aren’t slowing cities down. They're just making them work better!
33
256
780
51,633
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
That Urban Studies paper about how zoning reform only produces modest gains in housing supply was based on extremely shoddy data: of the 180 "major reforms" they examined, 60 were misidentified, 118 were misclassified, and only 2 were real.
1
15
125
4,598
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
Apr 11
A city that treated the housing crisis like a five-alarm fire made it legal to build so much housing that it actually reduced rent by a lot. Who would’ve guessed?
Apr 10
Austin, Texas, where rents dropped by a full 6 percent over the past year, more than in any other large metro area in the US. The Austin area’s median rent, at $1,274, is back to roughly where it was right before the pandemic — which means that, in 2026 dollars, it’s significantly cheaper than it was in 2019.
19
98
1,504
62,867
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
30 Oct 2018
nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early
astronaut: moon's haunted
nasa employee: what?
astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* moon's haunted
771
96,490
348,198
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
Mar 27
not only is congestion pricing working, it’s living proof that government can actually do things that materially improve our lives and the functioning of our society
better things are possible!
Congestion pricing has been a huge success.
Traffic is down.
Business is up.
The cameras are staying on.
18
100
879
41,419
Mar 10
Carytown when?
Mar 10
Center City District has released their report on Open Streets, it is a remarkable success.
27% increase in pedestrian activity
62% increase in in-store traffic
38% sales growth
These are remarkable numbers, the city should make Open Streets a regularly scheduled event.
11
635
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
Mar 8
Housing and rent prices collapsed in Austin and people still pretend building housing isn’t the solution to affordability.
Mar 8
It's actually never been cheaper to rent in Austin, TX.
The Rent/Income ratio across the metro has dropped to 18.3% - the lowest on record (going back at least 20 years).
Landlords are aggressively cutting rents at a time when incomes in Austin keep rising.
The typical rent is down to $1,565/month.
While the median income is up to $100k.
Making Austin the cheapest city to rent relative to income.
94
376
3,684
126,044
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
North American bird populations are not only declining, but they’re also shrinking faster with each passing year—particularly in regions shaped by intensive agriculture, according to a new study in Science. scim.ag/4clAUaN
39
717
1,649
129,028
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
Mar 3
Since 2014, Sydney has carved out 79.5 miles of tunnels underneath the city to create a brand-new, fully automated metro system. North American leaders need to stop thinking so small.
Mar 2
🚇 Dig done!
Sydney Metro West has hit a major milestone with TBM Jessie smashing through at Hunter street, making her final breakthrough and marking the completion of Sydney Metro’s 128km tunnelling program across four projects.
Learn more: sydneymetro.info/article/dig…
46
380
5,103
176,241
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
People don't create traffic. Cars create traffic.
140
560
13,090
161,096