Ryan Kilpatrick

Housing Policy, Mobility & Economic Development. #affordablehousing #housingchoice #incrementaldevelopment

[Ryan Kilpatrick @RynKilpatrick]

“Successful communities raise the bar of prosperity without raising the entry fee.” -@clmarohn #strongtowns

[Ryan Kilpatrick @RynKilpatrick]

@moseskagan Check out @mrjasonowilson

[Ryan Kilpatrick @RynKilpatrick]

@Lanefab Do you have a basic floor plan for this building you can share? We’re pushing for code changes in Michigan and would love to share with legislators.

[Ryan Kilpatrick @RynKilpatrick]

@faraz_r_khan @brianwut @moseskagan Data shows sprawl style environments cannot pay for the infrastructure and services they demand (in most places). Rather than being honest with residents about what it costs to maintain, those towns keep spreading out to generate more revenue. It’s a Ponzi scheme.

[Moses Kagan @moseskagan]

Suburban-style zoning codes, with lots of parking & side & front setbacks, more or less prevent walkability.

Once you decide to force developers to build like that, you’re signing up for the whole program: strip malls, drive-throughs, endless freeway widening projects, etc.

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

It's silly to overlook bicycle infrastructure when half of American car trips are 0-3 miles long.

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

Single-family zoning doesn't guarantee that a neighborhood will never change. It just guarantees that it can only get more expensive.

[Hope 🦬💙❤️ @HopeisaBison]

As a Howard grad, I knew about our alum #KamalaHarris. I remember at one alumni club meeting talking about how her star was on the rise.

I also used to watch State of the Black Union every year on C-SPAN, and I became a fan forever when I saw this in 2006:

[Thomas DeFranco @thmsonline]

So final point. The new market rate housing being built in your high resource neighborhood IS NOT the reason rents are going up. Lack of market rate housing is. So be a good neighbor, support more housing in your neighborhood.

[Jason, @jasonc_nc]

It’s important to understand that new housing is constantly loaded with additional costs & obligations. The more of these there are, the higher the starting price for new supply to enter the market.

Much of the format around new housing is designed to pass expenses onto new entrants to subsidize incumbents and increase existing values without any economic value being provided.

[Ryan Kilpatrick @RynKilpatrick]

@jasoncoxnc 😳 this broke my brain a little. And you’re right.

[Ryan Kilpatrick @RynKilpatrick]

@antonia_mdprjct Just read the full email. Thank you so much for taking the time to put this together. It’s an incredibly valuable gift of your knowledge and experience.

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

Bicycling is a practical form of transportation when street networks are designed for bicycling to be a practical form of transportation.

[Ryan Kilpatrick @RynKilpatrick]

@DevaniAlkarim This a great rendering. Would love to see a site plan or floor plan if ever available.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

The top neighborhood is legal everywhere, while the bottom neighborhood is legal almost nowhere. We’ve convinced ourselves that everyone wants to live in the top image because that’s the only option zoning allows for.

[Charles Marohn @clmarohn]

Instead, we mandate a minimum amount of parking and force everyone to compete on that basis.

Who does that favor? (Hint: it's not the local small business.) 16/

[Charles Marohn @clmarohn]

In a world where we all get to decide for ourselves, there would be businesses that compete by having big parking lots on cheap land at the edge of town and others that compete on proximity by being within walking or biking distance.

That’s not North America. 15/

[Charles Marohn @clmarohn]

Want to build a 600 square foot starter home? No.

Want to rent out your spare bedroom to a college kid? No.

Want to build a small home in the backyard for your elderly mother-in-law? No.

Want to build a four car garage? Yeah, that you can probably do. LOL 9/

[Charles Marohn @clmarohn]

#3: Zoning Restrictions
People get to decide the kind of place they want to live in? Cracks open your zoning code.

This isn't about having a gun range or a rendering plant. Oh no. In North America, we tell EVERYONE how they have to live. 8/

[Ryan Kilpatrick @RynKilpatrick]

@RikAdamski But some orgs get trapped by those development fees and feel they have to do the next project to earn the fee, even if the costs don’t make any sense for the deal. I don’t know how often this happens but I’ve seen it a couple of times.

[Ryan Kilpatrick @RynKilpatrick]

@RikAdamski Most nonprofits have done the math. They earn a significant development fee on ground up construction. This pays for admin/overhead for a year and reduces the time they have to spend fundraising.

Dev fees can also be used for tenant services that the gov doesn’t fund.