While we mostly haunt Minneapolis, our immediate next door neighbor St. Paul is as dear as it is near. We know a few cool YIMBYs who live there, and tirelessly show up to represent our generation’s needs in housing and planning battles. The St. Paul city logo presently features a row of single family homes,… (read more)
Category: Art and Swag
Support housing advocates who produce art, and check all this stuff out.
Know the signs
What is your child tweeting about all the time? You’ve looked, but their twitter feed is unintelligible. Use this handy reference to decode your child’s online conversations before they fall in with a rough crowd of apartment enthusiasts… Then, talk to your kids about zoning. This handy guide is also available as a poster, mug,… (read more)
Only You Can Prevent Sprawl
National Parks has Smokey the Bear, protecting the environment from fires, our as-yet unnamed rodent friend should be there to protect the environment from sprawl and undensity. Beavers are also prolific builders. So, help keep America green and fight sprawl!… (read more)
Happy Fathers Day!
This Fathers Day, we pay tribute to the rich white man who always kept our backyard safe. He worked late, writing letter after letter to the planning commission. He testified at all the hearings. When the neighborhood was under attack, he stood up to hurl insults at our city council member. Dad had a good… (read more)
Avocado Toast
Some rich bozo decided that the only thing preventing millennials from owning a home is an inability to budget properly, due to splurging on silly things like avocado toast. This analysis ignores some other things preventing millennials from finding affordable places to live: lack of housing supply, which leads to higher prices and rents; low… (read more)
Fauxgressive Quarterly №. 2
In the latest issue of FQ: we profile the people who believe you should Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything (BANANA). These radicals are keeping the neighborhood funky and driving the housing prices way up. Gentrification takes many forms. Restrictive zoning can force a neighborhood to remain physically the same, but it won’t hold prices… (read more)
Fauxgressives Quarterly
Progress can be scary. The only thing scarier than progress is looking like you’re opposing it— that can be downright embarrassing. Fauxgressivism needs a rebrand to transform regressive messages into progressive ones. This will make it less embarrassing to engage in shameless concern-trolling of planning commissions and zoning committees with things that just feel right…. (read more)
Your complaints add up
“Because it doesn’t feel right to reject more neighbors, some people resort to dubious “yes, but” arguments that really amount to a big fat “no.” From neighborhood to neighborhood across entire regions, these arguments add up. If we want to start saying yes to more neighbors in our cities, it starts by welcoming them to… (read more)
Check Your Homeowner Privilege
You’ll be a hit with longtime residents at your next public hearing with these business cards (2 x 3½). Available in two formats (standard & extra special), they are a subtle reminder for homeowners speaking at public meetings against renters, density, windows– what have you– in ways that only acknowledge the lived experiences of homeowners…. (read more)
Stop betraying our seniors
“There’s an old saying in the neighborhood: “I want my house to be worth infinity dollars, but I want to be taxed as if it’s worth zero dollars.” Unfortunately, real life doesn’t work that way. There’s a relationship between how much you pay in taxes, how much you get from the city, and how many… (read more)
