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)
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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)
Minneapolis residents opposed housing for WWII veterans
The news that Minneapolis had again passed 400,000 residents last summer is a reminder that we did it before. Buried in our history is a story of a post-war Minneapolis that at one time had more than 520,000 residents, and has not seen as many since. Part of the reason for this expansion and decline… (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
Art Discussion Update We created this card about a year ago, when Neighbors for More Neighbors existed mostly to produce artistic, tongue-in-cheek commentary on housing politics. We (just a couple of renters at the time) created it because we see housing policy spaces dominated by homeowners who oppose things that benefit people like us. The… (read more)
Stop betraying our seniors
The Future of the Parks (cont’d)
Valentine’s Day sucks
But, you can still use it to talk to your more-than-friends about zoning! Print this page to PDF, then print it on a real printer, maybe photocopy a few times, and then clip it out and give it to a dreamboat city planner, council member, planning commissioner, or fave housing advocate. ?? ICYMI: what is… (read more)
