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Chris Walter

@ChrisWPhoto

Software engineer, helping people build houses in their backyards. join us https://xitter.gq/t.co/wRS24EhZJq 🤩

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Joined February 2009
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At long, long last: All permits approve & closed ✅ House furnished & decorated ✅ Renter in place ✅ Two Homes One lot. 🏘 Infill housing FTW 🎉
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This explains so much of growing resentment in the west, especially France but also much of Europe. Young ppl are getting a really raw deal.
Jason, (@jasonc_nc) profile pictureJason,
@jasonc_ncOct 19
Grow up in a boom, then demand others live in artificial scarcity, pay more of the shared burden until you’ve extracted all you possibly can.
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Not 3 story, not 4 story, but honest to god SIX story townhomes going up in Eastlake right now. 7% rates got nothing on Eastlake optimism
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WSDOT, Steelhenge (520 Edition), 2026. Steel, soil, unexplained.
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This especially true for Seattle going forward. The future will not be like the past. Don’t mistake ZIRP, NIMBYism and an unprecedented tech boom for evidence that your real estate operator was actually talented.
m. stanfield (@resetbasis) profile picturem. stanfield
@resetbasisAug 11
For every dollar apartments returned to investors between 1978 and 2020, roughly 68 cents came from rent. The remaining 32 cents came from appreciation. What happened heading pre/post covid was the exception, not the rule.
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The Seattle software to barista pipeline is looking very strong
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Absolutely wild looking at the counter factual 😮 1970: We could have built a 47-mile heavy rail system for ~$1.2 billion Today: Sound Transit 3 (ST3) expansion is costing upwards of $54 billion for a light rail system that is slower than the heavy rail BART-style system
Vladimir Vlad (@VladSF) profile pictureVladimir Vlad@VladSFApr 20
Seattle rejecting a BART style heavy rail system not once, but multiple times has got to be one of the greatest transit what-ifs. On the flip side MARTA in Atlanta was the prime beneficiary of those federal funds.
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Every regulator in America including your local civil engineer in a “Technical Advisory Group” just keeps turning the ratchet up on cost. No one can help themselves, they always make building more expensive.
Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) profile pictureAlec Stapp
@AlecStappFeb 12
One of the most important statistics to be aware of: Since 1965, productivity in the construction industry has fallen by 50%. Productivity in the rest of the economy continues to improve, while construction lags further and further behind.
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Chris Walter retweeted
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Alec Stapp
@AlecStappFeb 12
One of the most important statistics to be aware of: Since 1965, productivity in the construction industry has fallen by 50%. Productivity in the rest of the economy continues to improve, while construction lags further and further behind.
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Brian Potter (@_brianpotter) profile pictureBrian Potter
@_brianpotterFeb 12
I'm working on a report that summarizes and expands the last several years of my work on construction productivity. This week, the first chapter: what are the overall trends in US construction productivity? construction-physics.com/p/t…
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Funny how often this is the case. My grandpa was the same.
Moses Kagan (@moseskagan) profile pictureMoses Kagan
@moseskagan29 May 2025
Replying to @moseskagan
My father is a multi-millionaire who has never, in his entire life, owned a new car
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Ezra is spot on. We need to start ignoring the ppl that made $1M houses normal in Seattle. “If Dems want to “Sister Soulja” some part of their coalition start with the parts that have made it so much more expensive to build and live where Democrats govern” -EK
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Let’s become the party of Abundance! And abundance is only possible if we unlock the handcuffs of insane permitting rules that block everything we want to do for 5-10 years (or more!)
Blake Allen (@Blake_Allen13) profile pictureBlake Allen
@Blake_Allen136 Nov 2024
Replying to @Blake_Allen13
I’m also NOT predicting 2028 or anything like that but: if permitting reform & bureaucracy reform are not in our policy response as a party this will come back again. Look at the massive plaudits Shapiro got in PA for his extremely effective reforms, it’s a model to follow
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I’m also NOT predicting 2028 or anything like that but: if permitting reform & bureaucracy reform are not in our policy response as a party this will come back again. Look at the massive plaudits Shapiro got in PA for his extremely effective reforms, it’s a model to follow
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The romantic future we’ve all dreamed of 😂
Vince Vatter (@VinceVatter) profile pictureVince Vatter
@VinceVatter16 Oct 2024
Replying to @d_feldman
ChatGPT always gonna agree with the user. The only solution here is for him to also use ChatGPT. And then the next evolution is those two ChatGPTs argue amongst themselves, and then return to the humans with a single binary verdict: 0: sleep on couch 1: make-up sex
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Large house on a large lot in a quiet cul de sac sounds like such a win. Until you realize this format of living almost precludes a whole class of serendipitous relationships and community. Whole thread is worth a read 👇
Stephanie H. Murray (@stephmurrayyyy) profile pictureStephanie H. Murray@stephmurrayyyy15 Oct 2024
Replying to @stephmurrayyyy @CartoonsHateHer
I think it is EXTREMELY difficult to build a village in the manufactured isolation of a car dependent American suburb.
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And I say this as someone who grew up in exactly this living arraignment. The only saving grace in my case is that I grew up in a household of 11 ppl so we kinda created our own village. But I do wonder how things would be different if I lived around dozens of kids my age?
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Wen Seattle?! I’ll always remember walking into the Pantheon on a rainy day and being mesmerized by the rain falling through the oculus and bouncing off the stone floor
Patricia Mou (@patriciamou_) profile picturePatricia Mou@patriciamou_18 Aug 2024
So good 📍 Harudot Coffee Shop, Thailand
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Pike Place Market Deep State 😂 It’s funny cuz it’s true 🥲😭
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👏! So deeply encouraging to see party and country put before the ambitions of one man.
Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) profile pictureEzra Klein
@ezraklein21 Jul 2024
An actual hero. This is what America First looks like when it’s a lived ethos, rather than a mask for narcissism and ambition.
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Why don’t we have this in Seattle? Seattle Freeze? Rain? Cars? Insufficient density of bars? Or perhaps Seattle is a collection of small neighborhoods and doesn’t quite qualify as a big city? 🙃
Collin Rutherford (@collin_ruth89) profile pictureCollin Rutherford
@collin_ruth8929 Jun 2024
Nashville is the best party city on Earth. Period.
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As a regular run club runner this feels way too on the money 😂
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