Jordon
New Mexico, En/Fr/Pt/Es, an MA and 2 BAs, book worm, swimmer, Democrat, Urbanist, video gamer, cyclist. Views are my own 🌈🇫🇷🇺🇲🇨🇦
- Reposted by JordonA beloved workers' rights organizer in Minnesota, known for *successfully* fighting against wage theft and labor trafficking, has been detained by federal immigration agents and is now locked up in New Mexico. His family is calling for his urgent release. inthesetimes.com/article/work...
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- Reposted by JordonThe status quo isn't just unaffordable, it's boring. Restrictive zoning blocks the charm and variety that makes houses feel more like homes. 🌹
- I'll be there! Commenting is easy and less anxiety-inducing than you think. Ask me about it if you'd like! And let's tell the world ABQ actually wants to fix its issues, be a welcoming place for everyone, and be a more sustainable steward of our land ♥️
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- It's been interesting to say the least what advocating for basic housing and zoning reforms provokes in some members of the community. Fear of change, racism, exclusion, gatekeeping in many forms, classism, open hatred, misinformation, ad-hominem attacks. All over duplexes. But they aren't "nimbys"
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- Reposted by JordonA Washington Post article suggests that, beyond a certain threshold, larger homes don't make people happier. Instead, well-being is correlated with affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods where they feel socially connected. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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- Corridors are great but it can't be all we do! open.substack.com/pub/abqurban...
- Reposted by Jordon“Survey after survey has shown that business owners overestimate how many customers drive to their stores vs walking or biking. In a 2012 Los Angeles study, more than half of the store owners on the bike-laned part of the boulevard thought most of their customers drove. The actual number was 15%.”
- Downtown Burque ❤️
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- Diane Alisa offers a very different perspective on Urbanism and planning than I'm generally used to. Has been an interesting read and provides a new way to think about our own suburbia here in #albuquerque open.substack.com/pub/abqurban...
- Reposted by JordonIf you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
- The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...
- Young people want to stay in Albuquerque — but we’re running out of places we can afford. The Pro-Homes IDO amendments are a chance to fix that. Add your name to support more housing options, walkability, and a future in ABQ: 🔗 forms.gle/WDYc8UksspgD... #abq #albuquerque #housing
- abqurbanist.substack.com/p/why-albuqu... When you lose sleep due to a dumb public meeting, write a 5am rant about it. ABQ City Councilors can/should ignore the NIMBYs
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These people are living in retirement communities and don’t even know it. It’s incredible. Student enrollment has fallen off a cliff all over coastal communities. Marin county’s median age is as old as Japan! - A lady tonight at a zoning meeting in ABQ said that a proposal to legalize townhomes was like being r*ped
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- I wrote another substack rant open.substack.com/pub/abqurban...
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- Reposted by JordonIn 1978, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors downzoned the city, banning multifamily homes in many areas and sparking a decades-long affordability crisis. 47 years later, on a 7–4 vote, they passed the Family Zoning Plan to finally begin to undo that mistake. The times, they are a-changin’!
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- Albuquerque next!!!
- Southern New Mexico isn’t waiting. Silver City legalizes multiplexes, ADUs, neighborhood businesses — proof that zoning reform is possible, popular, and rooted in our unique history. Albuquerque: time to catch up. Otherwise, we need the Roundhouse to act 👇 reimaginingalbuquerque.com/2025/12/01/w...
- Reposted by JordonOpinion: Parking minimums are expensive and hamper new housing. A new law in Baltimore City is right to do away with them.
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- Being approached to help write/edit state level land use legislation is honestly humbling and cool as heck.
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- NIMBYs in ABQ are mobilizing against pro-homes proposals to amend the zoning code, even engaging in character attacks and misinformation. Sign the open letter in favor of pro-homes amendments to ABQ's zoning code and comment in favor in January. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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- Finally wrote about nimbyism, urbanism, and grief in ABQ open.substack.com/pub/abqurban...
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- So pumped for @abqride.bsky.social to implement this. Just wishing we can expand our budget for late-night service AND some broader service expansions. ABQ gotta start thinking like the bigger city that it is
- @beck280.bsky.social is the best!!! A great win for New Mexico, and therefore, the world. Loved seeing Tammy win too. Gotta keep progress going at the local level when so much elsewhere feels very stuck/bad. Now onto December 9th. Let's give ABQ a better council that can learn from Cruces 😎🦅
- The politics of abundance are winning — from Albuquerque to Las Cruces and beyond. 🏘️ Ending exclusionary zoning and saying yes to homes isn’t just right, it’s popular. Read more → reimaginingalbuquerque.com/2025/11/05/t...
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- Teresa Garcia for District 3!!! Let's goooooo! And let's put Stephanie Telles into the council for district 1, while we're at it!
- I can't believe how the candidates for mayor of ABQ spent so much money to run. And half of them were like vanity runs
- Brian Sanderoff just called a run off between Keller/White. Wish we had instant run-off, but time to go give Keller term 3!
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- Beautiful, simple, affordable! Note that these are illegal in ABQ, even if adapted to Southwestern styles and palettes, because most of the city both bans townhomes and limits height to 26feet. Both of these can be changed! Write your city councilor to support the pro-homes amendments to the IDO!<3
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- Yo Las Cruces!!! Make sure you go vote for Becky Corran!!! Very few public servants in New Mexico as committed to solving our issues by focusing on upstream issues, equity, outcomes, and actually pulling through! #lascruces #newmexico #nmpol
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- ABQ's zoning board is meeting in 40 minutes to consider some potentially exciting zoning changes! Remember, housing people is more important than neighborhood character. Affordability is more important than design compatibility. And growth is good for neighborhoods and cities
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