Another fantastic conversation. I really enjoyed this one. If you talk again, I'd love to hear thoughts on the Strong Towns movement.
A couple thoughts of my own that came up during the conversation: Federal housing funding has metrics for grantees that favor big block apartments over owner-occupied single family homes because impact is measured in number of units built. This actually seems to exacerbate the housing crisis by fostering a tenant class, and in addition disrupts the landscape of cities/neighborhoods negatively impacting local culture.
On the subject of vagrancy, I think the closure of the wilderness is overlooked. The option that existed for tens of thousands of years of just taking off to some unclaimed patch of land is gone. Civilization is mandatory. The grid is ubiquitous. We have removed the best option for individuals who self-select out of society. And so we have a transient population traveling on bikes with trailers and living in tents (instead of pilgrims with horse and wagon) forced into being a public nuisance while just trying to satisfy private necessities. No one is alarmed by the thought that people are camping peaceably according to posted rules in campgrounds all over the country. But you need to have met a certain threshold of civilation before access to that system is sustainably available.
Can you please upload an audio version along with your video version since I can’t click out of the page or app without closing the video, audio negates this. Thank you
You must be on a phone -- I didn't realize that substack audio persists when you exit / switch tabs? I'll put this on my paywall list of things to do and hopefully filter it down to the free people when I get it working. Not sure if I would have to double record OBS+audacity or convert mp4 to mp3 but it's a good idea, thanks
Another fantastic conversation. I really enjoyed this one. If you talk again, I'd love to hear thoughts on the Strong Towns movement.
A couple thoughts of my own that came up during the conversation: Federal housing funding has metrics for grantees that favor big block apartments over owner-occupied single family homes because impact is measured in number of units built. This actually seems to exacerbate the housing crisis by fostering a tenant class, and in addition disrupts the landscape of cities/neighborhoods negatively impacting local culture.
On the subject of vagrancy, I think the closure of the wilderness is overlooked. The option that existed for tens of thousands of years of just taking off to some unclaimed patch of land is gone. Civilization is mandatory. The grid is ubiquitous. We have removed the best option for individuals who self-select out of society. And so we have a transient population traveling on bikes with trailers and living in tents (instead of pilgrims with horse and wagon) forced into being a public nuisance while just trying to satisfy private necessities. No one is alarmed by the thought that people are camping peaceably according to posted rules in campgrounds all over the country. But you need to have met a certain threshold of civilation before access to that system is sustainably available.
Not familiar with the "Strong Towns" movement, but hopefully we can have a chat so you can explain it to me.
Can you please upload an audio version along with your video version since I can’t click out of the page or app without closing the video, audio negates this. Thank you
You must be on a phone -- I didn't realize that substack audio persists when you exit / switch tabs? I'll put this on my paywall list of things to do and hopefully filter it down to the free people when I get it working. Not sure if I would have to double record OBS+audacity or convert mp4 to mp3 but it's a good idea, thanks
You don’t have to double record, just extract the audio from the video recording then upload.