Chris Gannon

Architect boppin around in Austin Texas

[Chris Gannon @Psuperfresh]

Talking housing

https://t.co/1QCKdVJC4r

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

@ReidChalker the overwhelming economic evidence shows us that building housing, including market rate housing, reduces rents---if you oppose building new housing you are hurting tenants. period. full stop.

arguing otherwise is the equivalent of climate denial at this point

[Chris Gannon @Psuperfresh]

@jamestalarico for Texas

[Chris Gannon @Psuperfresh]

There is no greater need for our rainy day fund than to invest in our public education

[Leyla Shams, Chai and Conversation لیلا‌شمس @justleyla]

Texas currently has 28.5 billion dollars in its 'rainy day fund.' AISD has a budget shortfall of 185 million dollars, and they're currently cutting every cost they can, selling all their building, laying off hundreds of staff.
This is disgusting and egregious @GregAbbott_TX

[Chris Gannon @Psuperfresh]

People are so hungry for a car-free walkable community

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Plans released for a $16 billion mile-long ship capable of carrying 80,000 people.

The 'Freedom Ship' would be home to about 50,000 people, with space for 10,000 tourists and 20,000 crew members.

"The Freedom Ship is envisioned as a permanently mobile city at sea designed for long-term residence rather than short-term travel," the company says.

The ship would be about 8 times the size of the current largest ship in the world, the Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas.

The plans include a 15,000-seat stadium, schools, colleges, shops, clubs, a water park, a music hall, museums, parks, and more.

The ship, which would run on nuclear, would be too large to dock and would remain in international waters.

Freedom Cruise International says it would go around the world every two to three years.

Insane.

[Chris Gannon @Psuperfresh]

fuck it, just leave it. our society is fallen, we're a thunder dome nation now.

[ABC News @ABC]

President Trump is floating the possibility of keeping the UFC arena on the White House South Lawn — built for a series of fights on his birthday and Flag Day — permanently.

Read more: https://t.co/PdI3ZarEYr

[Chris Gannon @Psuperfresh]

@YIMBYLAND maybe even…

[Chris Gannon @Psuperfresh]

Socialist developer?

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

YIMBYs.

Called socialists by right-NIMBYs
Called developer shills by left-NIMBYs

Which one is it, guys?

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

Housing units completed YTD 2026:

San Francisco: 377
Austin: 7,274

Guess which city has seen a rent *decrease* over the past 2 years...

[Chris Gannon @Psuperfresh]

@jeffcrawford375 Bang.

[Chris Gannon @Psuperfresh]

Austin mentioned

[sam @sam_d_1995]

Zohran just cited Minneapolis, Austin, and Auckland as cities that lowered housing costs via upzoning

certified ball knowledge, Auckland is a deep YIMBY cut

[Chris Gannon @Psuperfresh]

lol, did you develop your subdivision? Did you pave the freeway out of town? How was that your choice??

[Jankum @Jankum_]

@UrbanCourtyard Americans choose not to live like this. They don’t want to. And until we solve the issue of urban criminal hellscape America it isn’t happening. Whole reason the burbs and freeway exist. Mixed income and school choice would be tough hurdles in particular for families.

[Chris Gannon @Psuperfresh]

I mostly engage in the housing supply discourse on this website, but this is another one of those issues that once you see you can't unsee.

Get in with Antitrust reform.

[Chris Gannon @Psuperfresh]

Some thoughts on architecture and Antitrust reform

https://t.co/IY8HqbpBxF

[Chris Gannon @Psuperfresh]

Go read the article, tell me what you think!

[Chris Gannon @Psuperfresh]

Some thoughts on architecture and Antitrust reform

https://t.co/IY8HqbpBxF

[Chris Gannon @Psuperfresh]

Nationally we need robust Antitrust reform, (see @superwuster, @linamkhan, Sanjukta Paul) but in the meantime, architects need to follow Australia's model and organize for a Parker v. Brown state by state carve out for small firms.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The Republican Party quietly deleted their own ad attacking Ken Paxton's record on crime... because Paxton is now the Republican Party's nominee to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate.

Figured if the ad is important enough to delete, it's important enough to see...

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

Three years ago today, Ken Paxton was impeached by his own party for using his public office to enrich himself and his donors.