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StrongtownsGR meeting this week Wednesday at the Broadleaf Brewing on Bridge St. 2026-08-19 at 6:30pm. Let's talk about the future of downtown (GR Forward), transit & mobility (The MobileGR Blueprint), and organizing. #GrandRapidsMI #Strongtowns #StrongtownsGR #CorePrioritiesGR
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StrongtownsGR meeting this week Wednesday at the Broadleaf Brewing on Bridge St. 2026-08-19 at 6:30pm. Let's talk about the future of downtown (GR Forward), transit & mobility (The MobileGR Blueprint), and organizing. #GrandRapidsMI #Strongtowns #StrongtownsGR #CorePrioritiesGR
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StrongtownsGR meeting this week Wednesday at the Broadleaf Brewing on Bridge St. 2026-08-19 at 6:30pm. Let's talk about the future of downtown (GR Forward), transit & mobility (The MobileGR Blueprint), and organizing. #GrandRapidsMI #Strongtowns #StrongtownsGR #CorePrioritiesGR
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StrongtownsGR meeting this week Wednesday at the Broadleaf Brewing on Bridge St. 2026-08-19 at 6:30pm. Let's talk about the future of downtown (GR Forward), transit & mobility (The MobileGR Blueprint), and organizing. #GrandRapidsMI #Strongtowns #StrongtownsGR #CorePrioritiesGR
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Bloomington IL #StrongTowns charrette
https://courtyardurbanist.com/p/setting-the-table-for-courtyard-urbanism -
Bloomington IL #StrongTowns charrette
https://courtyardurbanist.com/p/setting-the-table-for-courtyard-urbanism -
Bloomington IL #StrongTowns charrette
https://courtyardurbanist.com/p/setting-the-table-for-courtyard-urbanism -
Bloomington IL #StrongTowns charrette
https://courtyardurbanist.com/p/setting-the-table-for-courtyard-urbanism -
Bloomington IL #StrongTowns charrette
https://courtyardurbanist.com/p/setting-the-table-for-courtyard-urbanism -
The Interstate Highway mission ended in 1992. The Highway Trust Fund did not.
We now face record spending, growing maintenance gaps, and projects that don’t match local realities.
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The Interstate Highway mission ended in 1992. The Highway Trust Fund did not.
We now face record spending, growing maintenance gaps, and projects that don’t match local realities.
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The Interstate Highway mission ended in 1992. The Highway Trust Fund did not.
We now face record spending, growing maintenance gaps, and projects that don’t match local realities.
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The Interstate Highway mission ended in 1992. The Highway Trust Fund did not.
We now face record spending, growing maintenance gaps, and projects that don’t match local realities.
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The Interstate Highway mission ended in 1992. The Highway Trust Fund did not.
We now face record spending, growing maintenance gaps, and projects that don’t match local realities.
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You can’t solve a housing shortage with a system designed to keep housing scarce.
From 2006 through 2025, Canada’s dwelling stock grew by about 4.29 million units.
To keep up with household formation, restore a healthy vacancy buffer and account for households that couldn’t form because housing wasn’t attainable, we needed about 4.96 million.
That’s a 671,000-home shortfall in just 20 years.
And we were already roughly 459,000 homes behind when that period began. Total gap today: 1,130,128 homes.
About 475,000 of that is the basic demographic and vacancy shortage. Another 655,000 represents suppressed households: people who would have formed their own household if a suitable home had actually been available at a price they could manage.
The whole system is built to protect scarcity.
Zoning limits what can be built. Financing makes small, incremental projects unnecessarily difficult. Tax policy rewards rising property values. And with roughly two-thirds of Canadian households owning their homes, politicians know that falling prices are a much harder sell than vague promises to “build more.”
So we get longer mortgages, bigger savings accounts, buyer incentives and subsidized loans. More money to chase too few homes.
The Strong Towns point is that no amount of wrangling around the edges will fix a system whose basic incentives all point the wrong way.
We need to legalize small apartments, multiplexes and backyard homes in ordinary neighbourhoods (a big step towards this in BC recently, yay!). Make financing work for small builders. Tax land more and buildings less. Build public, co-op and non-market housing at a serious scale.
But first Canada has to pick a lane: is housing shelter that ordinary people should be able to afford? Or is it an investment that homeowners can expect to beat inflation, year after year?
It cannot reliably be both.
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You can’t solve a housing shortage with a system designed to keep housing scarce.
From 2006 through 2025, Canada’s dwelling stock grew by about 4.29 million units.
To keep up with household formation, restore a healthy vacancy buffer and account for households that couldn’t form because housing wasn’t attainable, we needed about 4.96 million.
That’s a 671,000-home shortfall in just 20 years.
And we were already roughly 459,000 homes behind when that period began. Total gap today: 1,130,128 homes.
About 475,000 of that is the basic demographic and vacancy shortage. Another 655,000 represents suppressed households: people who would have formed their own household if a suitable home had actually been available at a price they could manage.
The whole system is built to protect scarcity.
Zoning limits what can be built. Financing makes small, incremental projects unnecessarily difficult. Tax policy rewards rising property values. And with roughly two-thirds of Canadian households owning their homes, politicians know that falling prices are a much harder sell than vague promises to “build more.”
So we get longer mortgages, bigger savings accounts, buyer incentives and subsidized loans. More money to chase too few homes.
The Strong Towns point is that no amount of wrangling around the edges will fix a system whose basic incentives all point the wrong way.
We need to legalize small apartments, multiplexes and backyard homes in ordinary neighbourhoods (a big step towards this in BC recently, yay!). Make financing work for small builders. Tax land more and buildings less. Build public, co-op and non-market housing at a serious scale.
But first Canada has to pick a lane: is housing shelter that ordinary people should be able to afford? Or is it an investment that homeowners can expect to beat inflation, year after year?
It cannot reliably be both.
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You can’t solve a housing shortage with a system designed to keep housing scarce.
From 2006 through 2025, Canada’s dwelling stock grew by about 4.29 million units.
To keep up with household formation, restore a healthy vacancy buffer and account for households that couldn’t form because housing wasn’t attainable, we needed about 4.96 million.
That’s a 671,000-home shortfall in just 20 years.
And we were already roughly 459,000 homes behind when that period began. Total gap today: 1,130,128 homes.
About 475,000 of that is the basic demographic and vacancy shortage. Another 655,000 represents suppressed households: people who would have formed their own household if a suitable home had actually been available at a price they could manage.
The whole system is built to protect scarcity.
Zoning limits what can be built. Financing makes small, incremental projects unnecessarily difficult. Tax policy rewards rising property values. And with roughly two-thirds of Canadian households owning their homes, politicians know that falling prices are a much harder sell than vague promises to “build more.”
So we get longer mortgages, bigger savings accounts, buyer incentives and subsidized loans. More money to chase too few homes.
The Strong Towns point is that no amount of wrangling around the edges will fix a system whose basic incentives all point the wrong way.
We need to legalize small apartments, multiplexes and backyard homes in ordinary neighbourhoods (a big step towards this in BC recently, yay!). Make financing work for small builders. Tax land more and buildings less. Build public, co-op and non-market housing at a serious scale.
But first Canada has to pick a lane: is housing shelter that ordinary people should be able to afford? Or is it an investment that homeowners can expect to beat inflation, year after year?
It cannot reliably be both.
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You can’t solve a housing shortage with a system designed to keep housing scarce.
From 2006 through 2025, Canada’s dwelling stock grew by about 4.29 million units.
To keep up with household formation, restore a healthy vacancy buffer and account for households that couldn’t form because housing wasn’t attainable, we needed about 4.96 million.
That’s a 671,000-home shortfall in just 20 years.
And we were already roughly 459,000 homes behind when that period began. Total gap today: 1,130,128 homes.
About 475,000 of that is the basic demographic and vacancy shortage. Another 655,000 represents suppressed households: people who would have formed their own household if a suitable home had actually been available at a price they could manage.
The whole system is built to protect scarcity.
Zoning limits what can be built. Financing makes small, incremental projects unnecessarily difficult. Tax policy rewards rising property values. And with roughly two-thirds of Canadian households owning their homes, politicians know that falling prices are a much harder sell than vague promises to “build more.”
So we get longer mortgages, bigger savings accounts, buyer incentives and subsidized loans. More money to chase too few homes.
The Strong Towns point is that no amount of wrangling around the edges will fix a system whose basic incentives all point the wrong way.
We need to legalize small apartments, multiplexes and backyard homes in ordinary neighbourhoods (a big step towards this in BC recently, yay!). Make financing work for small builders. Tax land more and buildings less. Build public, co-op and non-market housing at a serious scale.
But first Canada has to pick a lane: is housing shelter that ordinary people should be able to afford? Or is it an investment that homeowners can expect to beat inflation, year after year?
It cannot reliably be both.
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You can’t solve a housing shortage with a system designed to keep housing scarce.
From 2006 through 2025, Canada’s dwelling stock grew by about 4.29 million units.
To keep up with household formation, restore a healthy vacancy buffer and account for households that couldn’t form because housing wasn’t attainable, we needed about 4.96 million.
That’s a 671,000-home shortfall in just 20 years.
And we were already roughly 459,000 homes behind when that period began. Total gap today: 1,130,128 homes.
About 475,000 of that is the basic demographic and vacancy shortage. Another 655,000 represents suppressed households: people who would have formed their own household if a suitable home had actually been available at a price they could manage.
The whole system is built to protect scarcity.
Zoning limits what can be built. Financing makes small, incremental projects unnecessarily difficult. Tax policy rewards rising property values. And with roughly two-thirds of Canadian households owning their homes, politicians know that falling prices are a much harder sell than vague promises to “build more.”
So we get longer mortgages, bigger savings accounts, buyer incentives and subsidized loans. More money to chase too few homes.
The Strong Towns point is that no amount of wrangling around the edges will fix a system whose basic incentives all point the wrong way.
We need to legalize small apartments, multiplexes and backyard homes in ordinary neighbourhoods (a big step towards this in BC recently, yay!). Make financing work for small builders. Tax land more and buildings less. Build public, co-op and non-market housing at a serious scale.
But first Canada has to pick a lane: is housing shelter that ordinary people should be able to afford? Or is it an investment that homeowners can expect to beat inflation, year after year?
It cannot reliably be both.
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It's a shame Strong Towns has such cruddy options for reading about this.
News Article (has a "turn off your ad blocker or subscribe" wall): https://www.brainerddispatch.com/news/local/apartments-proposed-for-city-hall-parking-lot
IG Short (supports fascism): https://www.instagram.com/reels/DZqO8cXzjAR/
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It's a shame Strong Towns has such cruddy options for reading about this.
News Article (has a "turn off your ad blocker or subscribe" wall): https://www.brainerddispatch.com/news/local/apartments-proposed-for-city-hall-parking-lot
IG Short (supports fascism): https://www.instagram.com/reels/DZqO8cXzjAR/
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It's a shame Strong Towns has such cruddy options for reading about this.
News Article (has a "turn off your ad blocker or subscribe" wall): https://www.brainerddispatch.com/news/local/apartments-proposed-for-city-hall-parking-lot
IG Short (supports fascism): https://www.instagram.com/reels/DZqO8cXzjAR/
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It's a shame Strong Towns has such cruddy options for reading about this.
News Article (has a "turn off your ad blocker or subscribe" wall): https://www.brainerddispatch.com/news/local/apartments-proposed-for-city-hall-parking-lot
IG Short (supports fascism): https://www.instagram.com/reels/DZqO8cXzjAR/
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It's a shame Strong Towns has such cruddy options for reading about this.
News Article (has a "turn off your ad blocker or subscribe" wall): https://www.brainerddispatch.com/news/local/apartments-proposed-for-city-hall-parking-lot
IG Short (supports fascism): https://www.instagram.com/reels/DZqO8cXzjAR/
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Beyond Economics: A New Lens on Climate Resilience
Every so often a new report comes out that reminds us all the climate crisis is a health crisis.
#ClimateChange #Environment #OurWonderfulGreenFuture #OWGF #Regeneration #StrongTowns #Urbanism
https://owgf.org/2026/06/10/beyond-economics-a-new-lens-on-climate-resilience/ -
Beyond Economics: A New Lens on Climate Resilience
Every so often a new report comes out that reminds us all the climate crisis is a health crisis.
#ClimateChange #Environment #OurWonderfulGreenFuture #OWGF #Regeneration #StrongTowns #Urbanism
https://owgf.org/2026/06/10/beyond-economics-a-new-lens-on-climate-resilience/ -
Beyond Economics: A New Lens on Climate Resilience
Every so often a new report comes out that reminds us all the climate crisis is a health crisis.
#ClimateChange #Environment #OurWonderfulGreenFuture #OWGF #Regeneration #StrongTowns #Urbanism
https://owgf.org/2026/06/10/beyond-economics-a-new-lens-on-climate-resilience/ -
Beyond Economics: A New Lens on Climate Resilience
Every so often a new report comes out that reminds us all the climate crisis is a health crisis.
#ClimateChange #Environment #OurWonderfulGreenFuture #OWGF #Regeneration #StrongTowns #Urbanism
https://owgf.org/2026/06/10/beyond-economics-a-new-lens-on-climate-resilience/ -
Beyond Economics: A New Lens on Climate Resilience
Every so often a new report comes out that reminds us all the climate crisis is a health crisis.
#ClimateChange #Environment #OurWonderfulGreenFuture #OWGF #Regeneration #StrongTowns #Urbanism
https://owgf.org/2026/06/10/beyond-economics-a-new-lens-on-climate-resilience/ -
I'd happily take a introductory car maintenance course from a non-carcentric mechanic. I.e a mechanic who is down with the #strongTowns, #safeStreets, #banCars agenda
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I'd happily take a introductory car maintenance course from a non-carcentric mechanic. I.e a mechanic who is down with the #strongTowns, #safeStreets, #banCars agenda
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I'd happily take a introductory car maintenance course from a non-carcentric mechanic. I.e a mechanic who is down with the #strongTowns, #safeStreets, #banCars agenda
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I'd happily take a introductory car maintenance course from a non-carcentric mechanic. I.e a mechanic who is down with the #strongTowns, #safeStreets, #banCars agenda
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I'd happily take a introductory car maintenance course from a non-carcentric mechanic. I.e a mechanic who is down with the #strongTowns, #safeStreets, #banCars agenda
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Social Hour next Wed (29th) 🍻 Join Strong Towns ABQ to connect, recharge, and build momentum ahead of May 7th Council. Urbanists, cyclists, YIMBYs, and curious newcomers all welcome. Let’s socialize, organize, and dream up a stronger Albuquerque together. #abq #albuquerque #strongtowns
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Social Hour next Wed (29th) 🍻 Join Strong Towns ABQ to connect, recharge, and build momentum ahead of May 7th Council. Urbanists, cyclists, YIMBYs, and curious newcomers all welcome. Let’s socialize, organize, and dream up a stronger Albuquerque together. #abq #albuquerque #strongtowns
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Strong Towns Newcomer Orientation
Orpheum/Homewise Offices, Wednesday, April 22 at 06:00 PM MDT
Strong Towns ABQ on Instagram: "Curious about Strong Towns ABQ? New here? Just looking for a way to get involved in building a stronger Albuquerque? ✨ Join us for our Newcomer Orientation ✨ This is a low-pressure, welcoming space to learn what Strong Towns ABQ is all about; our history, goals, and how we show up for housing, transportation, and fiscally responsible growth in our city. 🗣️ Ask questions 🤝 Meet others 🧭 Find your role! Whether that’s joining a campaign, helping with outreach, or just learning more 📅 Wednesday, April 22nd ⏰ 6:00–8:00 PM 📍 Homewise Center Conference Room 500 2nd St SW, Albuquerque"
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Strong Towns Newcomer Orientation
Orpheum/Homewise Offices, Wednesday, April 22 at 06:00 PM MDT
Strong Towns ABQ on Instagram: "Curious about Strong Towns ABQ? New here? Just looking for a way to get involved in building a stronger Albuquerque? ✨ Join us for our Newcomer Orientation ✨ This is a low-pressure, welcoming space to learn what Strong Towns ABQ is all about; our history, goals, and how we show up for housing, transportation, and fiscally responsible growth in our city. 🗣️ Ask questions 🤝 Meet others 🧭 Find your role! Whether that’s joining a campaign, helping with outreach, or just learning more 📅 Wednesday, April 22nd ⏰ 6:00–8:00 PM 📍 Homewise Center Conference Room 500 2nd St SW, Albuquerque"
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Strong Towns Newcomer Orientation
Orpheum/Homewise Offices, Wednesday, April 22 at 06:00 PM MDT
Strong Towns ABQ on Instagram: "Curious about Strong Towns ABQ? New here? Just looking for a way to get involved in building a stronger Albuquerque? ✨ Join us for our Newcomer Orientation ✨ This is a low-pressure, welcoming space to learn what Strong Towns ABQ is all about; our history, goals, and how we show up for housing, transportation, and fiscally responsible growth in our city. 🗣️ Ask questions 🤝 Meet others 🧭 Find your role! Whether that’s joining a campaign, helping with outreach, or just learning more 📅 Wednesday, April 22nd ⏰ 6:00–8:00 PM 📍 Homewise Center Conference Room 500 2nd St SW, Albuquerque"
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Strong Towns Newcomer Orientation
Orpheum/Homewise Offices, Wednesday, April 22 at 06:00 PM MDT
Strong Towns ABQ on Instagram: "Curious about Strong Towns ABQ? New here? Just looking for a way to get involved in building a stronger Albuquerque? ✨ Join us for our Newcomer Orientation ✨ This is a low-pressure, welcoming space to learn what Strong Towns ABQ is all about; our history, goals, and how we show up for housing, transportation, and fiscally responsible growth in our city. 🗣️ Ask questions 🤝 Meet others 🧭 Find your role! Whether that’s joining a campaign, helping with outreach, or just learning more 📅 Wednesday, April 22nd ⏰ 6:00–8:00 PM 📍 Homewise Center Conference Room 500 2nd St SW, Albuquerque"
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Strong Towns Newcomer Orientation
Orpheum/Homewise Offices, Wednesday, April 22 at 06:00 PM MDT
Strong Towns ABQ on Instagram: "Curious about Strong Towns ABQ? New here? Just looking for a way to get involved in building a stronger Albuquerque? ✨ Join us for our Newcomer Orientation ✨ This is a low-pressure, welcoming space to learn what Strong Towns ABQ is all about; our history, goals, and how we show up for housing, transportation, and fiscally responsible growth in our city. 🗣️ Ask questions 🤝 Meet others 🧭 Find your role! Whether that’s joining a campaign, helping with outreach, or just learning more 📅 Wednesday, April 22nd ⏰ 6:00–8:00 PM 📍 Homewise Center Conference Room 500 2nd St SW, Albuquerque"
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RE: https://cosocial.ca/@showuptoronto/116426034360977115
I didn't know there's a Strong Towns Toronto group! Very cool.
Advocating for safe streets, incremental development, and an alternative to Ontario's suburban experiment.
https://strongtownstoronto.ca/
#Toronto #StrongTowns #StrongTownsToronto #Urbanism #WalkableCities #Housing #Transit
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RE: https://cosocial.ca/@showuptoronto/116426034360977115
I didn't know there's a Strong Towns Toronto group! Very cool.
Advocating for safe streets, incremental development, and an alternative to Ontario's suburban experiment.
https://strongtownstoronto.ca/
#Toronto #StrongTowns #StrongTownsToronto #Urbanism #WalkableCities #Housing #Transit
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RE: https://cosocial.ca/@showuptoronto/116426034360977115
I didn't know there's a Strong Towns Toronto group! Very cool.
Advocating for safe streets, incremental development, and an alternative to Ontario's suburban experiment.
https://strongtownstoronto.ca/
#Toronto #StrongTowns #StrongTownsToronto #Urbanism #WalkableCities #Housing #Transit
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RE: https://cosocial.ca/@showuptoronto/116426034360977115
I didn't know there's a Strong Towns Toronto group! Very cool.
Advocating for safe streets, incremental development, and an alternative to Ontario's suburban experiment.
https://strongtownstoronto.ca/
#Toronto #StrongTowns #StrongTownsToronto #Urbanism #WalkableCities #Housing #Transit
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RE: https://cosocial.ca/@showuptoronto/116426034360977115
I didn't know there's a Strong Towns Toronto group! Very cool.
Advocating for safe streets, incremental development, and an alternative to Ontario's suburban experiment.
https://strongtownstoronto.ca/
#Toronto #StrongTowns #StrongTownsToronto #Urbanism #WalkableCities #Housing #Transit
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Strong Towns ABQ is entering a new chapter 🌆 Join us Wednesday, April 15 at 6 PM at Flock of Moons (111 Harvard Dr SE) as we talk campaigns, organizing, restructuring, and ways to get involved. New here? Come through. #ABQ #StrongTowns #Urbanism #yimby #strongtownsabq #albuquerque
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Strong Towns ABQ is entering a new chapter 🌆 Join us Wednesday, April 15 at 6 PM at Flock of Moons (111 Harvard Dr SE) as we talk campaigns, organizing, restructuring, and ways to get involved. New here? Come through. #ABQ #StrongTowns #Urbanism #yimby #strongtownsabq #albuquerque
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Strong Towns ABQ is entering a new chapter 🌆 Join us Wednesday, April 15 at 6 PM at Flock of Moons (111 Harvard Dr SE) as we talk campaigns, organizing, restructuring, and ways to get involved. New here? Come through. #ABQ #StrongTowns #Urbanism #yimby #strongtownsabq #albuquerque
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Strong Towns ABQ is entering a new chapter 🌆 Join us Wednesday, April 15 at 6 PM at Flock of Moons (111 Harvard Dr SE) as we talk campaigns, organizing, restructuring, and ways to get involved. New here? Come through. #ABQ #StrongTowns #Urbanism #yimby #strongtownsabq #albuquerque
