Emily Hamilton
@ebwhamilton
Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about zoning?
Just one lonely country has local level building codes, and the same country is alone in using privately developed codes
When was this time when building codes issues were decided on a solely technical basis? Was it when they were used to make apartments expensive to try to stop immigration? ircc.info/Doc/A1163909...
The people complaining that the Smithsonian isn't patriotic enough must not be aware of the George the Greek god statue in the American History Museum
We’re starting a rewatch of Boardwalk Empire. I was wondering why I thought this show got to be too much, and oh, maybe it’s because it has 350 characters
States have to update their definitions of manufactured housing to comply with the law, and if they don't, people in the state won't be allowed to install of build manufactured housing.
Checking out the scene at America 250. They are playing an inordinate amount of ABBA here
Yes to land reclamation, especially the cheap kind open.substack.com/pub/alltrade...
Among married Yiddish-speaking women in the U.S. ages 20-50 with 4+ of their own children at home, 21.5% are the primary breadwinners in their household, a share that has increased quite a bit faster than for similar non-Yiddish speaking women.
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”
It's funny how the HUD Code relies on an interstate commerce clause justification to exist, but the code made this housing much less moveable than earlier mobile homes were. From one of the great manufactured housing paper from Christ Herbert and coauthors: www.jchs.harvard.edu/research-are...
Nice Brian Potter post breaking down the build to rent housing market here: www.construction-physics.com/p/the-rise-o... Once you realize some of these developments are basically detached apartments, the slopulist approach of banning """investor-owned housing""" really makes no sense.
Nicely-sliced data here on the types of households living in housing units with different bedroom counts in cities:
Oops, we eliminated due process for federal building code requirements outside the HUD code www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1...
Lots of things about Finland make it seem like an idyllic place to have kids, so why aren't the Finns having any? www.nuffieldfoundation.org/sites/defaul...
Thank you @stephhmurray.bsky.social for stating the blindingly obvious clearly. For kids to have independence to go places independently, you need a certain density of destinations that doesn't come from being sure that single-family neighborhoods have sidewalks: thedispatch.com/article/heli...
HELLO SIR, IF YOU WANT TO IMPROVE HOUSING AFFORDABILITY, IT DOESN’T HELP TO BAN RENTAL HOUSING
The National Fire Sprinkler Association is none to fond of your plex zoning reforms nfsa.org/2025/09/02/l...
A survey of 400 Bay Area parents found that 31% of parents who live less than 2 miles to school drive their 10-14 year old kid to school because of Stranger Danger and 2% drive because of Traffic Concerns: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Fantastic ride organized by @hillfamilybiking.org today to protest the sudden NPS decision to remove DC’s 15th St bike lane
Can somebody please write a book about education in Steubenville, OH? I can’t stop thinking about it since listening to Sold a Story ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/04/02/w...
Hot take: I think there may be some downstream consequences of treating kids like checked baggage.