#morehousing — Public Fediverse posts

"Construction on Union Community Housing at Country Squire near RIM Park in Waterloo is now underway. The building is part of a much larger project, looking to bring 10,000 affordable homes to the region, as part of the BUILD NOW: Waterloo Region initiative." #MoreHousing #WatReg https://kitchener.citynews.ca/2026/06/25/largest-affordable-housing-project-in-canada-begins-in-waterloo/

Now make sure these units are AFFORDABLE!

A Corporate Solution To The #HousingCrisis That Will Help Cities Thrive

By Dean Kaplan,
Aug 21, 2025

Excerpt: "Reshaping vacant office space into new apartments could create around 1.25 million new homes across 91 U.S. cities, study analysts found. Over 70,000 conversions may happen in 2025 alone as architects, builders and developers take advantage of #AdaptiveReuse incentives in cities from #Boston to #SanFrancisco."

Read more:
https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesfinancecouncil/2025/08/21/a-corporate-solution-to-the-housing-crisis-that-will-help-cities-thrive/

#LessOffices #MoreHousing #AffordableHousingForAll

Special shout out to @subzidion from Upgrade King County for playing amazing guitar at our picnic. Our favorite moment was when one of the kids walked up to him super serious and was like very slow and careful "I really enjoyed your music."

🥹 awwwww #community #music #MoreHousing #Seattle #KingCounty #PublicBroadband

Last night a person I'd never met before was wearing a hoodie. On the back of it was printed in big bold lettering "more housing, less prisons". I told the wearer that I loved it. ❤️

#MoreHousing

"[...] the PSRC’s analysis suggests statewide middle housing reform would add something in the ballpark of 200,000 extra homes in Puget Sound over the next 20 years, which are sorely needed to address the dire shortfall of homes and affordability crisis." - by @urbanistorg

#MoreHousing

https://www.theurbanist.org/2023/02/27/how-much-housing-will-washingtons-missing-middle-legislation-create-in-puget-sound/

“There’s been this decades-long process of hollowing out cities essentially to favor the rich and those in the suburbs who drive everywhere,” said Wagner."
“Why should people pay high prices for housing but cars pay nothing for some of the most valuable land on Earth?"
#MoreHousing #LessParking
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/26/us-cities-parking-lots-climate-walkability

"The homes are to be demolished to make space for additional parking."
This is ridiculous. We are in both a Climate Crisis and and a Housing Crisis. This makes no sense to me. We need #MoreHousing #LessParking https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/2022/12/22/date-set-for-council-decision-on-henry-walser-expansion.html

"An addition to the existing funeral home is proposed, as well as a new parking lot along Becker Street."
If I am understanding this correctly, this proposal demolishes existing homes for a parking lot?
#MoreHousing #LessParking #WatReg https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/bb2db3e61bd043209c1f16d16a3ced0c/page/Current-Applications/?data_id=dataSource_12-Planning_Applications_Active_5584%3A5797%2CdataSource_10-Planning_Applications_Active_5584%3A5766&views=view-2_FeatureInfo_art%2Cview-2_FeatureInfo_art-copy

Yesterdays #CheeseTwitter meetup won’t be the last and of course I took the bus to it with my Bus Only Scarf on! #ShoePic #Seattle #Urbanists #Community #Urbanism #MoreHousing #SafeStreets #SlowSpeedCities