Passenger plane, designed by North American city planners and city councils.
(Also, economy seats pay an extra surcharge and take 4x as long to book)
Give a nerd a chart or a map and they will waste a day. Teach a nerd how to make charts and maps and they will waste the rest of their life.
Signs of life, balcony furniture spotted on tower 1 of Sen̓áḵw.
Current status: unittestmaxxing as I work on getting a very valuable but *extremely* messy batch of Canadian data systematically organized so it's easy and efficient to use.
Also a good reminder that Empty Homes Tax data offers a useful view into unadorned inventory. (As does the Speculation and Vacancy Tax data, but the 2025 municipal breakdown is not out yet.)
Who lives in new housing? I built this dashboard showing the share of people who moved in the past year who came from another metro, >100 miles away, etc. The main takeaway: People moving longer distances aren't attracted by new housing. Read more here: domainexpansion.substack.com/p/the-call-i...
May 2026 data is out today, showing a slight rebound in year over year travel of Canadian residents to the US across land borders. Most of the Trump effect is sticking, but there is slight slippage, both for same day and multi-day trips.
Good episode focused on transportation impacts of (transit-oriented) density. And more generally talks a lot about how increasing density rarely causes displacement of low-income populations. We looked into this for Canada some years back and found the same.
“Vox pivoted its message away from immigrants taking jobs and toward immigrants taking homes. Its leaders began blaming the country’s housing crisis on foreigners” — That’s how Housing Nationalism operates, as a platform to activate reactionary nationalism as @lausterna.bsky.social and I explained.
New asking rent data out today, here 2-bedroom rents across several metro areas. canviz.mountainmath.ca/plot?v=16754...
Using Census data, I built a dashboard that shows where people come from when they move into newly-built housing. It's mostly local. New housing doesn't attract rich people to your city.
With March data in, year over year change in travel to the US has been mostly stable. Curious to see where this goes, but for now this is consistent with changes in travel patterns to the US after the 51st state crazy-talk being here to stay.
Give a man a beer and he'll waste a day. Teach a man to brew and he'll waste the rest of his life.
-Mitch Warner, today at a collab with Temporal
