Co-Founder @americanhousing. Rebuilding the American Dream.
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Last year I decided I was no longer satisfied just posting about housing.
So I started a company with 3 other incredible dudes with the mission to build missing-middle housing at scale.
Introducing... The American Housing Corporation
It’s time to rebuild the American Dream.
For a half-century, America has critically under-built family-sized housing in our most dynamic cities and neighborhoods, rendering them childless and unaffordable.
It's time to save the American Dream.
Introducing The American Housing Corporation.
ALT The American Rowhome built by The American Housing Corporation
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There have been so many good Triangle Factory memes and I've been saving them all week.
Here are some of the best ones I've saved:
1. Samsung Factory
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I'm obsessed with this dude on IG whose whole bit is frantically fixing manhole covers that have been misaligned with street markings lol
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After going out with police to observe reports of possible drones, I was with the help of civilian pilots and others able to do deeper analysis and concluded that most of the possible drone sightings that were pointed out to me were almost certainly planes. Let me explain: THREAD
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Reminder that we built the Golden Gate Bridge in 4.5 years.
Today, we wouldn’t even be able to finish the environmental review in 4.5 years.
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You’re not gonna believe what happens to oil rigs…
The irony of a wind farm getting destroyed by the wind…
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This wind turbine was knocked down during an EF3 tornado, not standard winds. Video was filmed by the user below showing the aftermath of said tornado.
nitter.app/jordanhallwx/s
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We should buy Greenland for America’s 250th birthday in 2026. A little birthday gift to ourselves.
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It's so insane that digging a bunch of holes works so well at reversing desertification
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wtf I’m kinda obsessed with this.
They built Sim City on a beach in Albania
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The image is of a proposed Beach Urban Development concept project funded and designed by Oppenheim Architecture in Vlorë, Albania but these are merely concepts, not currently built nor has construction begun as of the date of this post. These renderings were produced by MIR.
designboom.com/architecture/o
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Bro the national parks are a straight up money printer.
We should have more of these.
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Man, he really is crashing out, isn’t he?
Just completely tarnishing his entire legacy and everything he’s built just to be seen as based by cat turd and company.
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It’s impossible to rebuild a high-trust society if this is how we treat people who actually need the assistance of said society and are willing to go on a limb to trust that people will do the right thing.
This is insane. Let the man free and give him a damn job.
A 24-year-old Augusta man was arrested for leaving his children—ages 1, 6, and 10—alone at a McDonald's while he attended a nearby job interview.
Community note
"In a supplemental police report obtained by OutKick from the Richmond County Sheriff's Department, police determined that Chris Louis, the father of three did not attend a job interview while leaving his kids at an Augusta McDonald's."
outkick.com/culture/father
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“with California’s weather” is a crazy thing to say about Florida
If Texas and California had a child, it would be Florida.
With California’s weather and beaches, and Texas’s business and tax-friendly climate, it attracts more billionaire residents and tourists than anywhere else.
How is Florida not universally recognized as the best state?
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> Need raw material
> Call US distributor
> Price has doubled due to tariffs
> Go to Alibaba
> Contact manufacturer of material in China
> Responds in 2min
> Material is half the price of pre-tariff materials from US supplier including shipping
This literally just happened to me
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RIP Pope Francis
Thank you for one of the hardest photos of a Pope ever taken.
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Squatting is bad and people should be able to kick squatters out of their house without issue.
The idea that this is controversial is insane.
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Insane fact that sounds fake, but it's true...
The Mississippi river basin has more miles of navigable river than the rest of the world combined.
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Public transit will fail if women and children do not feel safe on it.
No, “ignoring” anti-social behavior and harassment is not a solution.
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I did some digging into this project that they’re bragging about stopping…
Turns out this project was going to have 700 PERMANENTLY AFFORDABLE APARTMENTS! 700!
Don’t let these ppl fool you. For all intents and purposes, they’re full on anti-affordable housing. Outcomes matter.
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It’s time to have some real conversations about what humane mental institutions look like and what it will take to build them.
This is insane.
Sleeping subway rider burned alive on F train after crazed attacker tosses lit match on her: police sources trib.al/h7kTl7o
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I am the biggest Texas homer (y’all know that) but one of the biggest flaws about Texas is her lack of public land. 99% of her beauty is privately held.
Take it from me – Public land is a gift and you don’t realize how important it is until you don’t have it. Cherish it.
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If you’re gonna attack Zohran, bffr. There are so many targets, but my dude isn’t instituting sharia law lmao
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Texas tried to build a High Speed Rail back in the 1990s.
But Southwest Airlines killed it because they convinced the state that they would have affordable travel between the cities and free checked bags.
Now Southwest has neither...
...and Texas doesn't have high speed rail.
Southwest Airlines is ending its free checked bags policy for many passengers for the first time in its 54-year history. cbsn.ws/4ij9tye
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Reminder that if you see someone on the timeline or comments calling for civil war, there’s a 90% chance they’re either:
> A Bot
> A Foreign Adversary
> Both
act accordingly.
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My hot take is the schools with strong football programs will continue to thrive and the anemic little liberal arts schools will essentially all shut down.
The SEC will unironically become a bastion of education in this country
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Me: “Public transit should be safe for women and children.”
Totally not insane person:
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So you’re telling me we’re increasing our debt by trillions AND we’re selling off our public lands!?
Bro we’re getting shafted here.
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These idiots have no idea how screwed we would all be if the American population collapsed to 100 million.
EVERY SINGLE CITY would look like 2008 Detroit. Literal Armageddon.
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This is actually insane.
Teddy Roosevelt is rolling in his grave.
🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands.
Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
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It’s just so freakin cool that Pan Am used to run an actual route from the top of their tower in Midtown Manhattan.
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I can't believe America perfected suburban housing and then just… stopped building like this.
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The capacity of subways is unreal. The capacity of the widest freeway on earth doesn’t even come close to touching even a single line in NYC.
Katy Freeway: 300k
Lexington Ave Subway: 1.3M
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It's absurd that 40% of the buildings in Manhattan are literally illegal to build today.
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Get in loser, We’re reurbanizing America.
What if we converted all those vacant, decrepit strip malls around the country into new housing? 🏠
I wrote about the idea, which is not far-fetched at all
vox.com/the-highlight/240755…
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Today I learned that the Denver Airport occupies more land than the entire city of San Francisco. 🤯
I'm legit struggling to comprehend this.
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For every 10 likes this gets, I will ask ChatGPT to make this neighborhood more transit-oriented 🚄🚊🚇
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One of the crazy things to me about Florida is that they could have built a literal utopia by creating the Amsterdam of the tropics. Walkability, great weather, clearwater canals, the whole nine yards.
Instead, they chose to build suburbia, but with swamps.
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I love the boldness it took to use Montpelier, Vermont for this lmao
Democrats abandoned small-town rural America. They'll never win here again.
Community note
The town pictured is Montpelier, Vermont which voted for Joe Biden by a 79 point margin in 2020.
This exact photo can be seen on the Vermont Department of Tourism's page for Montpelier:
vermontvacation.com/places-to-visi…
cnn.com/election/2020/
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Yellowstone 2030
.@BasedMikeLee is secretly trying to sell 3 MILLION acres of America’s public land for development.
And it includes some of my favorite places, specifically ones in the pictures below.
Americans across the political spectrum are **overwhelmingly** against the sale of our beauty
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“It’s a staircase, how long could it take?”
UK bureaucrats:
After 10 years, I am proud to see the second staircase at Surbiton Station officially opened!
It is fantastic to see constituents and commuters using the staircase and the benefits it is already having on improving congestion. Thank you to everyone that has made this possible!
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Dog. Please stop flying other countries flags when protesting against deportation. It’s reallllllly not helping your cause.
Y’all should be rocking Old Navy USA tees, American flag bikinis, and flying the Stars and Stripes 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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In gonna be so for real right now. That’s exactly the person you want driving the train.
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I actually can’t handle the amount of aura this photo of Chicago is putting out
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It’s not about ICE being on your side.
It’s about every suburban mom and dad seeing videos of working folks wrapped in American flags getting gassed and saying “that’s just not right”
How do these people not understand this?
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When people hear me talking about fare evasion, they think I just want a bunch of cops standing around at every fare gate. Massive waste of resources. Way too expensive.
I just want these:
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Rent has literally fallen by 20% in Austin after a 3-year building spree of new housing. How can you even argue that YIMBY doesn’t work?
Are you just that ideologically broken?
I love how YIMBY's have totally failed at all of their stated aims for a decade now, in spite of passing a lot of legislation. And their response is always "we didn't YIMBY hard enough."
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Peter Thiel: "If you add more people to the mix and you're not allowed to build more houses because of zoning laws, then prices go up a lot, and it's this incredible wealth transfer from the young and the lower middle class to the upper middle class and the landlords."
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THIS is how we get back to building!
More than 100 high school kids are competing in a masonry competition in North Carolina and are crushing it.
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MINI TRUCKS ARE OFFICIALLY LEGAL IN TEXAS!! 🎉
if you need me, I'll be on Facebook marketplace for the remainder of the afternoon...
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