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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social Working within the active transportation, environmental protection, affordable housing and placemaking sphere. Always advocating #BikeTO #TransformTO #BLM #TweetsAreMineByDefault
Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social PE. Dengineer. Safe network builder for people walking, in wheelchairs, cycling & driving. Train lover. Views my own - not speaking for any employer/board. Public sources only.
Dorian Moore, FAIA @dorianmoore.bsky.social Architect and urbanist dedicated to enhancing cities through observation,
documentation, and Implementation.
Kaid Benfield @kaidindc.bsky.social Environmental lawyer and longtime advocate of sustainable cities, towns, and rural areas. Author, People Habitat: 25 Ways to Think About Greener, Healthier Cities. Widely diverging interests, resident of Washington, DC. For more, see peoplehabitat.com.
Dr.BikeMom @drbikemom.bsky.social I ride my bike everywhere in a car dependent hellscape and flip off bad drivers.
Julie Witmer @witmaps.ca Cartographer - Julie Witmer Custom Map Design - witmaps.ca
I like cycling, gardening, reading, kayaking, and puzzles; interested in urban planning and community building, specifically in Waterloo Region
Bella Chu @isabellachu.bsky.social John Snow and safe street stan. Lover of 17th to 19th century cities but with more trees and less cholera. Not official record.
bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com Walking is a right; driving is a privilege. Not the other way around.
Defund, abolish, prosecute.
Oh, and I RT ducks.
#DriverNotCar
#PlowSidewalksToo
#WindshieldBias
Lyndsey Rolheiser @rolheiser.bsky.social assistant professor urban/real estate economics. cities, bikes, plants, dogs, cats. York U | MIT CRE | www.lyndseyrolheiser.com
Kylie @netwench.bsky.social Active travel campaigner.
Work in Comms.
New to Cambridge.
Married a Welshman.
Maori/kiwi immigrant.
Love: school streets, low motor-traffic neighbourhoods, cycle/walk infrastructure, parklets, climate action, Kidical Mass, 20mph, people-friendly streets.
Kea Wilson @keawilson.bsky.social Senior editor + advocacy journalist at Streetsblog USA covering the movement to end universal car dependency. Based in STL, reporting nationally. Tips to: kea@streetsblog.org or kwilson.52 on signal. Opinions are my own.
Brianna @briannaje.bsky.social Med student. Public health, urbanism, nutrition. Community gardener and community organizer. Housing and transit policy. Advocate for healthy and resilient communities. ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฉบ
๐Southern California โ๏ธ
๐๏ธ๐ @southbayforward.bsky.social & IE Urbanists
Bianca Walser @biancawalser.bsky.social I like safe streets, infill housing and trees. Find more ways to say yes. YIMBY, MeFite, Smithie.
(ambrosiamonkey over on the old place)
Anne Hawley๐๐ฉถ๐ค๐ค @annehawley.bsky.social ๐๐ฉถ๐ค๐ค Poster-crone for late bloomers. Writer. Editor. Bike rider. Portlander. She/her.
Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social Chartered Civil Engineer working in the world of active travel ๐ดโโ๏ธ ๐ Likes to talk about transport, urbanism, climate change, the environment and nature โค๏ธ Mum to two boys, a dog and a cargo bike. Laka insurance referral code: AYCD2
Anna Fahey @trufahey.bsky.social Thinktanking on housing + democracy + clean energy
Opinionsโall mine. Or yours, recycledโas also mine. Zero endorsements here.
#Housing #affordability talking points galore
๐๏ธ๐ฏโก๏ธ https://www.sightline.org/the-pro-homes-messaging-toolkit/
#Parking feed โฌ๏ธ
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Jerusalem Demsas @jerusalem.bsky.social yes, like the city | Editor TheArgumentMag.com | she/her
Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social Founder 350.org and Third Act, author The Crucial Years on substack https://billmckibben.substack.com/
Author of 21 books, beginning with The End of Nature
Armand Domalewski @armanddomalewski.bsky.social Cohost of @everybodygetspie, a podcast from the team that brought you YIMBYs for Harris
Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social Newsletter: http://publiccomment.blog/
Hire me: http://resnikoffconsulting.com/
Pre-order my book! https://bookshop.org/p/books/build-or-die-how-america-is-suffocating-its-cities-and-what-to-do-about-it-ned-resnikoff/8ae5ebca259e570a?ean=9781642834260
Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com Berkeley Rent Board Commissioner (@alfredtwu.net), California Democratic Party AAPI Caucus & CA Dem Renters Council Board, East Bay architect & commercial artist. Reblue/follow/like does not equal endorsement.
art: http://alfredtwu.com
Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social Same interdisciplinary scientist as on the other sites with the same handle. Chemistry, math, physics, meteorology, GIS, data whisperer.
Natural resources director, League of Women Voters of Los Angeles Co. She/Her
https://badmomgoodmom.blogspot.com/
The Needling @theneedling.com Seattle's Only Real Fake News
(Satire/Parody)
Have a hot headline tip? Send it to Submit@TheNeedling.com
TheNeedling.com
Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social NYT Reporter, #SkateTwitter enthusiast and @candacej superfan.
Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about zoning?
Max Dubler ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ @maxdubler.com AICP certified urban planner doing housing policy stuff at California YIMBY. I used to be much cooler. Tradeoffs are real. he/him
๐ San Francisco
Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com Digital Strategy for California YIMBY. Seattle resident. Personal account -- what you see here represents my own opinions, for better or worse.
Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social Seattle-based reporter, cofounder (with @joshfeit.bsky.social) and editor of PubliCola.com, and author of Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery
She/her, Latina, Texan
Welcoming Neighbors Network @welcomingneighbors.us A network of local organizations working to fix the US housing shortage. Our members win pro-housing policy change. We can help you do the same. welcomingneighbors.us.
Tony Jordan @tonyjordan.bsky.social Parking and local politics, mostly (and some dad-type jokes). President of the Parking Reform Network. Grist 50 Fixer.
Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social Personal account.
Sportsaholic, geek, ASOIAF addict, relentlessly curious, award-winning political consultant. You know something I donโt.
Currently: Strategic Communications Consultant to the Mayor of Seattle
@HacksAndWonks.bsky.social (on hiatus)
Liam Dillon @liamjdillon.com Covering housing in Los Angeles and California for POLITICO.
Shane Phillips @shanedphillips.bsky.social Housing guy. Researcher at UCLA Lewis Center, host of UCLA Housing Voice Podcast, author of The Affordable City, resident of Los Angeles.
Rian Watt @rianwatt.bsky.social ED @eoionline.bsky.social โ๏ธโข formerly ending homelessness @communitysolutions ๐ก โข former ED, current board @theurbanist.org ๐ โข board @futurewise.bsky.social ๐ โข opinions mine, bad โข curious โข he/him
Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social I plan cities for people & other living things. I focus on SEA, PDX, Utrecht, women who create cities, bikes, climate. I'm on Boards @bikeloudpdx.bsky.social @streetsalliance.bsky.social & volunteer @ BikeFlip + DeFietsmeesters in Utrecht. She/her. PhD
Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social 6โ7โ California State Senator representing San Francisco ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ โก๏ธ
Policy nerd & chronic legislative overachiever ๐ค
Running for Congress to protect our democracy ๐
Vote Nov. 3, 2026 ๐ณ๏ธ
Get involved โฌ๏ธ
https://linktr.ee/scottwiener
Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social Believer, skeptic, humanist, typist & dad. Trying to make places fairer as director of cities + towns for @Sightline.org, here in Portland OR. Views here: mine, all mine.
Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social Pedestrian
Reporting at The Urbanist as Contributing Editor
Transportation advocate
Probably covering a random public meeting
(they-them)
๐Puget Sound
https://www.patreon.com/typewriteralley
Jenny Schuetz @jennyschuetz.bsky.social Housing policy wonk. Forever bullish on cities. VP of Housing at Arnold Ventures.
Seattle Subway @seattlesubway.org All volunteer organization. We want what it sounds like we want.
Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social I share about walking, biking, great cities, & progressive politics.
I work for @streetsalliance.bsky.social (Seattle's walking, biking, and streets for people nonprofit), but these are my personal opinions.
Alliance for Housing Justice @aforhj.org ๐ค ๐๏ธ Building & supporting infrastructure for a powerful, grassroots-led movement to win safe, affordable, equitable housing for all.
๐ https://linkin.bio/aforhj
Emily Cunningham @emilycunningham.bsky.social Purveyor of New Localism, flower child, community builder, proud Howard alumna and Oakland resident. Here for the ๐๐ด, typos inevitable.
Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social Climate, writing, running, beasts. Valve turner. Host: https://sites.libsyn.com/459540/awabw
poetry: https://www.hummingbirdpoetry.org/books/her-animals-by-emily-johnston-2nd-ed
Making good trouble: troublemakerscommunity.org
YIMBY Democrats for America ๐บ๐ธ๐ฝ @yimbydems.bsky.social The Voice of Progressive Abundance. Build America. Defeat Fascism. Join us at The Festival of Progressive Abundance in Los Angeles from Friday January 30th to Sunday February 1st, 2026! https://progressiveabundance.com/
Metropolitan Abundance Project @metroabundance.bsky.social We're in the business of fixing cities.
amb @amb.fyi how can we stroppy strangers live together without doing each other too much violence? | homes not highways | born 350ppm | still got hope so i think weโll be fine in these disastrous times | he/they | www.amb.fyi
๐stj, pdx, or
Payton Chung @westnorth.com Card-carrying urbanist since 1998; housing developer, author, museum docent, board member, #climate voter. Opine solely for myself. Ex-CHI, BOS, RDU ๐๐๐ดโโ๏ธ๐๐๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Words @ggwash.org @citybuilder.bsky.social
Strong Towns @strongtowns.org We're changing *everything* about the North American pattern of development. Become a member today! strongtowns.org/membership
Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social I co-founded @cayimby.bsky.social to make California affordable and accessible for everyone.
Support pro-housing candidates: http://cayimbyvictoryfund.org
Leah Missik ๐บ๐ฆ @autumngales.bsky.social Climate, ะะขะ ะฅะะ, feminism, democracy, bikes, runs, music, +more. // Paul McCartney gave me an air hug. // WA policy at Climate Solutions // Jackson Foundation fellow // views mine!
Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com Itโs our city. Letโs build it up. ๐ฐ ๐น๐งฆ ๐๏ธ๐ฐ๐
๐ anthonyegill.bsky.social
๐ linktr.ee/spokanerising
More Neighbours Toronto @moreneighboursto.bsky.social Toronto's pro-housing movement.
More Neighbours in more neighbourhoods, with access to more jobs, more infrastructure, and more culture than ever before.
Rodney ๐ง๐ @chanface.bsky.social ๐๏ธ๐ Co-host of @dwelltime.ca, a transit podcast
๐๐ฒ Co-lead at @TriTAG.ca
Transit Politics & Planning | Housing | Cities | 24 | @uwaterloo.ca Planning | Toronto/Waterloo | ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ญ๐ฐ
East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social https://eastbayforeveryone.org 
Jesse Kanson-Benanav @jessekb.bsky.social Saying yes to homes for all across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as Executive director of @abundanthousingma.org | http://linkedin.com/in/jesse-kb
Cary Westerbeck @caryw.bsky.social Architect, developer, builder, placemaker, cyclist, Urbanist, planning commissioner seeking to build civilization...the neighborhood is the amenity. LGBTQIA+ & Black Lives Matter ally, keeping it real in Bothell, WA.
alex baca @alexbaca.bsky.social midnight at the laundromat and iโm staring at you pulling clothes from the dryer. doer of the politics of the urbanist pro-growth left. having fun in ward 1, washington, d.c., the best city in america.
Kim-Mai Cutler @kimmaicutler.bsky.social 
Henry Grabar @henrygrabar.bsky.social my next book is about why it's so hard to build. send me your thoughts!
rondezvousWA @ronpdavis.bsky.social Lefty dad writing about politics at rondezvousWA.com.
Meghan โHostile to Motor Vehiclesโ Arnold (she/hers) @meghancarnold.com ๐unapologetic advocate for public transit, pedestrian, & bike infrastructure | ๐ฃ๏ธabortion is healthcare | ๐จcreative community at adobe | ๐Santa Cruz (temporary) | left my โค๏ธ in SF | opinions mine
Jesse Piedfort @jessepiedfort.bsky.social I work for Sierra Club's national clean transportation campaign. Formerly director of Sierra Club WA. Love my e-bike, walkable cities, and getting my hopes up about the local baseball team. Pro-Housing.
Steph Routh (she/they) @stephrouth.bsky.social Running for East Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District At-large 2 position. Love dogs, long walks on the beach, community organizing, and policies that advance a survivable planet.
David J. Faber (๐งฆ) @davidjfaber.bsky.social 
Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social Austin urbanist
Portland: Neighbors Welcome @portlandneighborswelcome.org Housing is a human right. Fighting for tenants rights along with four floors and corner stores across Portland for all ages, wages and stages of life. ๐๏ธ
Catie Gould @citizen-cate.bsky.social Fighting against car dependency, one unused parking spot at a time. Senior researcher at @Sightline. Hot takes are my own.
Mason Thompson @masonthompson.bsky.social Mayor of Bothell. Because the world won't change itself. Curious about land use and transportation. Rides a bike to boring meetings.
Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social Author of 2 indie-press poetry books (Shops Close Too Early & The Night of Electric Bikes) https://www.joshfeitpoetry.com/. City planning columnist & cofounder (w/ @ericacbarnett.bsky.social) at https://publicola.com.
The Urbanist [Unofficial] @theurbanist.org.web.brid.gy Advocacy journalism for better cities.
๐ bridged from ๐ https://theurbanist.org/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/theurbanist.org
Kate Macfarlane @katemacfarlane.bsky.social Seattleite. Likes: maps, dogs, plants, ice cream, walkable cities. Dislikes: fascist takeovers, climate change, most zoning, beets
Hawking whistles since 2025 (@wawhistles.bsky.social)
@jesse-simpson.bsky.social @jesse-simpson.bsky.social 
AURA: An Austin for Everyone @aura-atx.org Austinites advocating for abundant homes, reliable public transit, walkability, & safe streets for all!
Daniel Herriges @dpherriges.bsky.social Urbanist advocate. Policy Director at the Parking Reform Network. Writer at Strong Towns. Co-author "Escaping the Housing Trap." St. Paul, Minnesota.
Nick @nicksattele.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ trains, bikes, etc.
Co-lead FixTheL8.com and @centralseattlestreetsforall.org
Seattle
Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org exploring, reading, noting, writing, gathering. mostly in: Cascadia, Western US, LDN; fairly nomadic. https://tmccormick.org
Doug Trumm @metropolitanglide.bsky.social Publisher of The Urbanist. Seattleite. Walk, bike, ride transit, housing abundance for all. Views here my own. ๐ถโโ๏ธ๐ดโโ๏ธ๐๐
Marko Liias ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ @markoliias.bsky.social He/him. I get to represent the neighborhood I grew up in the Washington State Senate. I also chair the Senate Transportation Committee.
๐ดโโ๏ธ๐ถ๐งโ๐ฆผ ๐ โด๏ธ ๐ ๐ โ๏ธ
Ashwin Annamalai @ignorantsapient.bsky.social ๐ก Advocate for housing reform | ๐จ๐พโ๐ป Tech Bro ๐คท๐พโโ๏ธ | ๐ธ Personal Finance Dude ๐ค |๐ถโโ๏ธ I walk a lot ๐๐พโโ๏ธ | โฅ๏ธ busses ๐, trains ๐๐ & Bikes ๐ด๐พโโ๏ธ | Oui, Je parle franรงais aussi ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ง
Waterloo, ON, ๐จ๐ฆ
Washington Renter (Laura Loe) @washingtonrenter.bsky.social (she/they)
Find me wandering somewhere in WA State.
Bass guitar, rabble rousing, worrying
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Posts from here for mutuals mostly.
d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ฌ๐พ @justupthepike.bsky.social maryland policy director @ggwash.org, your east silver spring civic association VP, pit bull parent, elder emo, just out here getting cuter. no growth has to mean less is less. they/them. https://linktr.ee/justupthepike
Paavo Monkkonen @elpaavo.bsky.social Housing scholar - California, Mexico, France, Hong Kong
Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social Seattle urbanista, interested in education, safe streets, and housing. Grew up in Baltimore. Hampshire College grad. GIS graduate student and bike mom. Former wetland biologist. I follow Seattle School Board meetings and yell at cars.
Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social Housing ๐ + transit ๐ + climate ๐
President: Peninsula Young Democrats
Lead Member: Peninsula for Everyone
Work: Greenbelt Alliance
Good opinions mine, bad opinions someone else's. YIMBY.
Hawaiสปi YIMBY ๐๐ค @handle.invalid 'Not In My Backyard' has made Hawaiสปi the most expensive state in the nation. We say Yes In My Backyard to inclusive, sustainable, and affordable housing. https://hawaiiyimby.com
Jenny Build Housing Silva @jrskis.bsky.social Sitting on a dock by the bay. ๐ก๐ฅ๏ธ MEHC is now Call Marin Home. YIMBY. @jcdjcd.bsky.social biggest fan.
Abundant Housing LA @abundanthousingla.bsky.social Building the movement to house LA.
https://linktr.ee/abundanthousingla
Abundant Housing Vancouver @ahvancouver.bsky.social We are a non-partisan group of advocates supporting more housing of all types for everyone in Metro Vancouver
Housing For All Is Hot @ahouse4all.bsky.social LA. Mutual aid, my dog, social housing, and organizing the working class. Married to my husband and revolution. I write sometimes. Views strong + my + my own.
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social 
Dan Bertolet @danbertolet.bsky.social I think it's good when cities are legal, and I work at Sightline Institute to make that happen. My takes on here, though, are no less than 100% mine.
Clayton Page Aldern @compatibilism.bsky.social ๐๐ฅ๐ง
Data reporter @grist.org, union ๐ช. Climate change, brain health, active inference, AI accountability.
THE WEIGHT OF NATURE is out now:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717097/the-weight-of-nature-by-clayton-page-aldern
Signal: aldern.01
Marina Bolotnikova @mbolotnikova.bsky.social Senior reporter for Vox thinking about factory farming & animal rights, ag, economics, science & its discontents, cities, housing, transit and โจideasโจ
marina@vox.com
~Skeptical of epistemic authority
I live in Madison, WI
Christian Britschgi @christianb.bsky.social Reporter at Reason Magazine covering urbanism, property rights, and occasionally heavy metal. Sign up for my housing newsletter! https://reason.com/newsletters/rent-free/ 
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social 
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.