City of Houston allows minimum lot size of 1600 sqft (25 per gross acre) or 1250 sqft under certain conditions (35 per gross acre). More smaller size homes are being build in the city. What other cities are going this way?

An example here

https://www.zillow.com/homes/504-Schweikhardt-St-.num.B-Houston,-TX-77020_rb/339419373_zpid/

4 story single family home, 1,736 sqft floor area on a 1,750 sqft lot

Now that Project 2025's transportation and housing policies will be enacted, we will be fighting against not only state level policies but federal policies that are hostile to safe streets for all and denser housing types.

I watched "Safety Last!", a silent-movie-era icon, and couldn't help but calculate out the rent these fellows were paying for their well-furnished, walkable-neighborhood room. Each would pay $278 per month in 2024 dollars!

https://preview.redd.it/fhvucg7zijxd1.png?width=1119&format=png&auto=webp&s=3cc343fdcb02030b68da96bac9e8ad750c4b1056

Hey! I was watching one of chuck's videos and he talked about how he started a contest that gave $100 to 20 people to make improvements in the neighborhood. Over the course of 4 rounds, the winner would receive $5000 for their neighborhood project of choice. Does anyone know where I can find more details about how they ran that contest?

It seems like there's no right answer for this one. On paper, this sounds great. Costa-Hawkins is bad and this repeals it and allows cities to set their own rent controls. However, the opposition claims that cities will set their rents unreasonably low to prevent new housing from being built.

The argument seems tenuous because it requires the assumption that cities will set low rents to stifle growth, but on the other hand I can totally see that happening.

The prop is authored by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, whose president is a known slumlord that generally is not an "affordable housing" type.

Anyone have advice on which way to vote for this one? The current system sucks - is this a fix or just another future problem?

It seems as though there is a disappoj ting trend in several provinces to put more and more decision making control centralised in the provincial government's hands. Here is one more example https://globalnews.ca/news/10816779/doug-ford-plans-to-rip-out-existing-bike-lanes/

Also worth mentioning that much of NJ is just a massive suburb stretching from NYC to Philadelphia. It bucks Midwestern and west coast trends in that it is dotted with historic pre-1900 town centers, so perhaps those anchors make it function.

Is Arapahoe Avenue at this location on Google Maps, would you consider that a "Stroad?"

Hey y'all,

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