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Matthew Larsen @theurbaneist.bsky.social · 2h

This is tonight! Don't miss it if you care about housing affordability!

Matthew Larsen @theurbaneist.bsky.social · 9d

Denver area followers: Many have tried to get pro-housing-supply messages out via new media, but few have mastered it like Justine Underhill. Find out how she does it! www.eventbrite.com/e/justine-un...

Justine Underhill: Using New Media to Turn NIMBYs into YIMBYs

Justine Underhill tells the story of how she went from NIMBY to YIMBY and became the world's most compelling YIMBY Youtuber.

www.eventbrite.com

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Matthew Larsen @theurbaneist.bsky.social · 4d

If we had let enough housing be built in Denver to keep rents stable, many fewer people would be falling into homelessness in the first place. A key part of the long term solution to homelessness is allowing far more housing to be built in the region.

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Matthew Larsen @theurbaneist.bsky.social · 9d

Denver area followers: Many have tried to get pro-housing-supply messages out via new media, but few have mastered it like Justine Underhill. Find out how she does it! www.eventbrite.com/e/justine-un...

Justine Underhill: Using New Media to Turn NIMBYs into YIMBYs

Justine Underhill tells the story of how she went from NIMBY to YIMBY and became the world's most compelling YIMBY Youtuber.

www.eventbrite.com

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Matthew Larsen @theurbaneist.bsky.social · 22d

Denver area followers: Many have tried to get pro-housing-supply messages out via new media, but few have mastered it like Justine Underhill. Find out how she does it!
www.eventbrite.com/e/justine-un...

Justine Underhill: Using New Media to Turn NIMBYs into YIMBYs

Justine Underhill tells the story of how she went from NIMBY to YIMBY and became the world's most compelling YIMBY Youtuber.

www.eventbrite.com

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Matthew Larsen @theurbaneist.bsky.social · 22d

Denver area followers: Many have tried to get pro-housing-supply messages out via new media, but few have mastered it like Justine Underhill. Find out how she does it!
www.eventbrite.com/e/justine-un...

Justine Underhill: Using New Media to Turn NIMBYs into YIMBYs

Justine Underhill tells the story of how she went from NIMBY to YIMBY and became the world's most compelling YIMBY Youtuber.

www.eventbrite.com

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Matthew Larsen @theurbaneist.bsky.social · Aug 6

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Matthew Larsen @theurbaneist.bsky.social · Jul 30

Tonight!

Matthew Larsen @theurbaneist.bsky.social · Jul 11

On July 30th, find out if a Land Value Tax could really solve all of our land use problems in Colorado. www.eventbrite.com/e/1471491543...

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Matthew Larsen @theurbaneist.bsky.social · Jul 11

On July 30th, find out if a Land Value Tax could really solve all of our land use problems in Colorado. www.eventbrite.com/e/1471491543...

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Matthew Larsen @theurbaneist.bsky.social · Jul 24

YIMBYs, socialists, neoliberals, conservatives, tax lovers, tax haters - come to this event on July 30th at 6:30pm to find out about the Land Value Tax, an exciting way to encourage infill development and more affordable housing, and arguably the only way to tax without creating a deadweight loss.

Can We Tax Our Way to a Better Denver?

You've heard of the land value tax, but could it work on the Front Range? Find out from the experts and local electeds!

www.eventbrite.com

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Matthew Larsen @theurbaneist.bsky.social · Jul 24

YIMBYs, socialists, neoliberals, conservatives, tax lovers, tax haters - come to this event on July 30th at 6:30pm to find out about the Land Value Tax, an exciting way to encourage infill development and more affordable housing, and arguably the only way to tax without creating a deadweight loss.

Can We Tax Our Way to a Better Denver?

You've heard of the land value tax, but could it work on the Front Range? Find out from the experts and local electeds!

www.eventbrite.com

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Matthew Larsen @theurbaneist.bsky.social · Jul 19

I am so straight I have never had an opinion on the aesthetic value of anything except buxom women.

Matthew Larsen @theurbaneist.bsky.social · Jul 14

Yeah if I recall correctly potatoes were able to deliver calories in weather and situations where grains could not thrive, in effect enabling meaningfully more population growth in Europe.

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Matthew Larsen @theurbaneist.bsky.social · Jul 11

On July 30th, find out if a Land Value Tax could really solve all of our land use problems in Colorado. www.eventbrite.com/e/1471491543...

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Matthew Larsen @theurbaneist.bsky.social · Jul 11

If you want those feelings of dread to ever fade, the Democrats need to have solidarity across a party with a tent big enough for charismatic socialists and trans-skeptic, Israel loving center-rightists.

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Cadenza @cdnza.bsky.social · Jul 8

housing theory of everything undefeated

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Jul 8

Such quality tailoring is possible because the cost of living is much better in Seoul than, say, New York City or San Francisco. The Assisi team tells me you can get an apartment in Seoul for $1k/ month and dinner for $7. Compare that to $3.5k rent and $25 dinner in San Francisco.

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A man being fitted by a tailor in a bespoke double-breasted, peak lapel, chalkstripe suit. The suit is in its forward fitting stage, which means there are tailor tacks and basting stitches all over the garment.

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Daniel Heppner @danielhep.me · Jul 8

I know they had a terrible slow order after a derailment along a long freeway running section that basically every line uses. I believe it increased trip length by like 10-20 minutes. I wonder if that is part of the reason?

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Kirk Hovenkotter @kirkhovenkotter.com · Jul 8

The Seattle area runs 14% less bus service today than it did in 2019. The region grew by 3% in that time. We’ve got to get back to running more frequent transit.

That’s going to take more investment from the City, State, & County. Great research from @urbaninstitute.bsky.social & @yonahfreemark.com

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Matthew Larsen @theurbaneist.bsky.social · Jul 4

That wasn’t how it worked in Bozeman.

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Matthew Larsen @theurbaneist.bsky.social · Jul 4

Note I said building _enough_ luxury housing.

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Matthew Larsen @theurbaneist.bsky.social · Jul 4

Building enough luxury housing lowers prices: montanafreepress.org/2025/06/23/h...

Has Bozeman’s rental market finally flipped?

A glut of new ‘upscale’ developments is driving prices down from pandemic highs; city officials hope the surplus will have far-reaching effects in one of the state’s most expensive places to live.

montanafreepress.org

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Matthew Larsen @theurbaneist.bsky.social · Jul 4

If I dug them up, I could find at least 5 recent peer reviewed papers showing supply increases lower prices. How many can you find showing the opposite?

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · Jun 27

At the risk of getting yelled at, this is part of why I keep saying blue state NIMBYism is a travesty for democracy. When we make it so that low-income immigrants, LGBTQ people and pregnant people can't afford to live where they want, think about what they end up being subject to.

Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · Jun 27

Which means a baby born in New York to undocumented parents will be a citizen. But a baby born to undocumented parents in Kentucky will not be a citizen.

This is madness.

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Matthew Larsen @theurbaneist.bsky.social · Jun 20

We were too young to care much about prosperity/politics. To contrast childhood years in the 70s and early 80s,I’d bring up more freedom for kids to roam around, being bullied as an unremarkable part of junior high school, “gay” and “retard” as the top 2 insults. But politics was the next decade.

Matthew Larsen @theurbaneist.bsky.social · Jun 19

The late 80s and then Clinton & the 90s were the politically formative experience for Gen X. It was a pretty good decade overall for the US. Peace, prosperity, no pandemic, no financial crisis. Probably encouraged us to believe the system can work, relative to prior or subsequent generations.

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Matthew Larsen @theurbaneist.bsky.social · Jun 19

I have no doubt that software tells airlines to raise prices on less competitive routes, but the problem there is the lack of competition, not the software. I think that probably applies to apartment rentals too.