City Engineer
@cityengineer.bsky.social
PE. Dengineer. Transportation and Engineering. Safe network builder for people walking, in wheelchairs, cycling & driving. Train lover. Selectboard member. Substack: https://danmurphy672689.substack.com
I see this as the core problem in N America actually that only supply growth across metros can really bring. Housing lotteries are elitist. Planners need to plan it and engineers and contractors, mostly local ones, can bring it. Zoning reform only way forward.
#HousingDignity
#HousingDignity
December 2, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I see this as the core problem in N America actually that only supply growth across metros can really bring. Housing lotteries are elitist. Planners need to plan it and engineers and contractors, mostly local ones, can bring it. Zoning reform only way forward.
#HousingDignity
#HousingDignity
Zoning is the 20th century’s original sin.
November 30, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Zoning is the 20th century’s original sin.
Put the blame for traffic where it belongs - mostly on terrible land use planning via zoning. We’re fixing generations of bad planning that persists. Note : we drive 2-3 times what Europe does and traffic still grows.
November 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Put the blame for traffic where it belongs - mostly on terrible land use planning via zoning. We’re fixing generations of bad planning that persists. Note : we drive 2-3 times what Europe does and traffic still grows.
Smart phones and SUVs the culprits since 2010 with majority of deaths from crashes at night, in darkness. Mostly on arterials roadways. There’s also big variance between states
November 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Smart phones and SUVs the culprits since 2010 with majority of deaths from crashes at night, in darkness. Mostly on arterials roadways. There’s also big variance between states
I see this as the core problem in N America actually that only supply growth across metros can really bring. Housing lotteries are elitist. Planners need to plan it and engineers and contractors, mostly local ones, can bring it.
#HousingDignity
#HousingDignity
November 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I see this as the core problem in N America actually that only supply growth across metros can really bring. Housing lotteries are elitist. Planners need to plan it and engineers and contractors, mostly local ones, can bring it.
#HousingDignity
#HousingDignity
If Dems had done their job, and maintained the 3:1 housing multipliers we had, blue states would be bigger more diverse, welcoming communities providing market affordable places to live. GDPs there would easily be 10–20% higher, $2–4 trillion a year Beautiful more walkable metros.
November 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
If Dems had done their job, and maintained the 3:1 housing multipliers we had, blue states would be bigger more diverse, welcoming communities providing market affordable places to live. GDPs there would easily be 10–20% higher, $2–4 trillion a year Beautiful more walkable metros.
The mindset of my home as an “investment” needs to slowly change back to my home as a “home”.
To the Greatest Generation, a home wasn’t a wealth-machine, it was shelter, stability, and a foundation for family life.
They measured success in kids playing on the street, not Zillow curves. #BackTo3
To the Greatest Generation, a home wasn’t a wealth-machine, it was shelter, stability, and a foundation for family life.
They measured success in kids playing on the street, not Zillow curves. #BackTo3
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The mindset of my home as an “investment” needs to slowly change back to my home as a “home”.
To the Greatest Generation, a home wasn’t a wealth-machine, it was shelter, stability, and a foundation for family life.
They measured success in kids playing on the street, not Zillow curves. #BackTo3
To the Greatest Generation, a home wasn’t a wealth-machine, it was shelter, stability, and a foundation for family life.
They measured success in kids playing on the street, not Zillow curves. #BackTo3
If you don’t have time for @yappelbaum.bsky.social ‘s great book “Stuck”
at least read this great article! www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
at least read this great article! www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
November 26, 2025 at 3:01 AM
If you don’t have time for @yappelbaum.bsky.social ‘s great book “Stuck”
at least read this great article! www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
at least read this great article! www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
Serious question. Why can’t we incrementally give the nation’s kids and grandkids the gift that the Greatest Generation gave the Boomers nationwide in 1970 - a nationwide 3:1 multiplier?
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Serious question. Why can’t we incrementally give the nation’s kids and grandkids the gift that the Greatest Generation gave the Boomers nationwide in 1970 - a nationwide 3:1 multiplier?
What a great day today joining a record number walking the the Sunderland leg of the Walk for Hunger for the @foodbankwma.bsky.social !! PS There’s plenty of room for a shared use path!!
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
What a great day today joining a record number walking the the Sunderland leg of the Walk for Hunger for the @foodbankwma.bsky.social !! PS There’s plenty of room for a shared use path!!
End the scarcity. End the lotteries.
Return dignity to the housing market.
Give the country’s kids the gift the Boomers were given
Return dignity to the housing market.
Give the country’s kids the gift the Boomers were given
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
End the scarcity. End the lotteries.
Return dignity to the housing market.
Give the country’s kids the gift the Boomers were given
Return dignity to the housing market.
Give the country’s kids the gift the Boomers were given
The Supreme Court affirmed single family housing explicitly in Euclid v. Ambler (1926) when it endorsed excluding apartments as “parasites.”
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The Supreme Court affirmed single family housing explicitly in Euclid v. Ambler (1926) when it endorsed excluding apartments as “parasites.”
“Zoning is the segregation of uses and of those populations whose interests are not compatible.”
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
“Zoning is the segregation of uses and of those populations whose interests are not compatible.”
“Cities must be protected against the mixing of buildings and populations which are not harmonious.”
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
“Cities must be protected against the mixing of buildings and populations which are not harmonious.”
“Zoning separates not only incompatible uses but incompatible people, for the protection of property and the stability of neighborhoods.”
November 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
“Zoning separates not only incompatible uses but incompatible people, for the protection of property and the stability of neighborhoods.”
Zoning was born from xenophobia and class fear. Euclid even called apartments “parasites.”
Low-density maps blew up budgets and forced states to bankroll roads.
We didn’t inherit the Motordom bogey man, we created him.
States can undo it all with more by-right housing. There is a path forward.
Low-density maps blew up budgets and forced states to bankroll roads.
We didn’t inherit the Motordom bogey man, we created him.
States can undo it all with more by-right housing. There is a path forward.
November 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Zoning was born from xenophobia and class fear. Euclid even called apartments “parasites.”
Low-density maps blew up budgets and forced states to bankroll roads.
We didn’t inherit the Motordom bogey man, we created him.
States can undo it all with more by-right housing. There is a path forward.
Low-density maps blew up budgets and forced states to bankroll roads.
We didn’t inherit the Motordom bogey man, we created him.
States can undo it all with more by-right housing. There is a path forward.
End the scarcity. End the lotteries.
Return dignity to the housing market.
Return dignity to the housing market.
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
End the scarcity. End the lotteries.
Return dignity to the housing market.
Return dignity to the housing market.
It’s just so city centric. Fix the multipliers with much greater growth across metros. Engage the governors of high multiplier places to fix both traffic and affordability.
#BackTo3 incrementally
#BackTo3 incrementally
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 AM
It’s just so city centric. Fix the multipliers with much greater growth across metros. Engage the governors of high multiplier places to fix both traffic and affordability.
#BackTo3 incrementally
#BackTo3 incrementally
A path forward. It’s a slow-growth path that still raises home values but redirects trillions from land inflation back into small businesses, services, wages, and community life
November 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A path forward. It’s a slow-growth path that still raises home values but redirects trillions from land inflation back into small businesses, services, wages, and community life
The Boomer Line was ~3× income in 1970.
Today our “best planned” metros sit at 10–20×.
We ration housing, run lotteries for scraps, and call it equity,
Stability is good but a local public investment club is nothing to be proud of.
If young people must win a raffle for a home, that’s not success.
Today our “best planned” metros sit at 10–20×.
We ration housing, run lotteries for scraps, and call it equity,
Stability is good but a local public investment club is nothing to be proud of.
If young people must win a raffle for a home, that’s not success.
November 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The Boomer Line was ~3× income in 1970.
Today our “best planned” metros sit at 10–20×.
We ration housing, run lotteries for scraps, and call it equity,
Stability is good but a local public investment club is nothing to be proud of.
If young people must win a raffle for a home, that’s not success.
Today our “best planned” metros sit at 10–20×.
We ration housing, run lotteries for scraps, and call it equity,
Stability is good but a local public investment club is nothing to be proud of.
If young people must win a raffle for a home, that’s not success.
This is the biggest reason young men are struggling.
They have been systematically denied the opportunity to be home providers by the Selfish Generation, the one given a less than 3:1 housing multiplier by the Greatest Generation but so far refuse to pay it forward
#BackTo3
@profgalloway.com
They have been systematically denied the opportunity to be home providers by the Selfish Generation, the one given a less than 3:1 housing multiplier by the Greatest Generation but so far refuse to pay it forward
#BackTo3
@profgalloway.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This is the biggest reason young men are struggling.
They have been systematically denied the opportunity to be home providers by the Selfish Generation, the one given a less than 3:1 housing multiplier by the Greatest Generation but so far refuse to pay it forward
#BackTo3
@profgalloway.com
They have been systematically denied the opportunity to be home providers by the Selfish Generation, the one given a less than 3:1 housing multiplier by the Greatest Generation but so far refuse to pay it forward
#BackTo3
@profgalloway.com
It’s very simple folks.
Flip this curve going forward.
Flip this curve going forward.
November 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
It’s very simple folks.
Flip this curve going forward.
Flip this curve going forward.