DisabilitYIMBY: Intersections of Disability, Urbanism & Climate

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6/15/25: Interventional Radiology Took Me from You

I had minor surgery on Friday (with Interventional Radiology – a first for me) and am going to take the week off from the writing part of the newsletter. So, I leave you with lots of links; feel free to share your thoughts in the comments! In other news: The Department

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6/11/25: Data on Disability and Traffic Violence? In Your Dreams…

There’s a dearth of data, and especially granular data, about disability and traffic injuries and deaths. That needs to change.

Inside of a hospital room looking out a window with an aerial view of Oakland's downtown. Tree-filled neighborhood nearby, office and residential towers farther away.

6/2/25: Kaiser's my Reminder of Social Systems' Significance

Plus an urgent call-to-action for Californians at the end of the newsletter… Apologies for my absence. I've been battling a pressure sore since early 2024 (long story, trust me), and a few weeks ago, a backup home health nurse did a dressing wrong and got the sore infected

A black plastic Covid test machine. "Aptitude." One unlit line with a +. One line lit up white. One line lit up green with a negative sign. Container of blue fluid.

5/4/2025: Brevity… For my Cough…

I’m almost 3 weeks out from my first positive Covid test and finally tested negative a few days ago. Unfortunately, though, I have a lingering cough that’s been getting in the way of writing (voice dictation software + coughing = sad), so I’m going to keep things brief for this week.

Balcony view of an apartment neighborhood with several wood-clad six-ish story buildings with sloped rooms. Greenery and tables on the balcony; trees visible in the neighborhood.

4/28/25: Austerity, Inhumanity, and Timber 'hoods

Alex's note: I think it's important to be frank about the moment we are facing, so this issue will be more in line with my post from a couple weeks ago – "Trump 2.0 is a Disability Catastrophe (and it's Bad for Urbanism,

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Let's start with the good this time

What's good these days? Not everything is as doom and gloom as last week 's newsletter made it out to be. The Guardian has a nice feature on street tree-planting initiatives from London to Philly to Singapore. Community members come together to plant, tend, and replace street

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Trump 2.0 is a Disability Catastrophe (and it's Bad for Urbanism, too)

Apologies for the Gap between Posts (again) For most of this year, a pressure sore has forced me to spend about half the time that I'm in my chair just full-on tilted back like I’m at the dentist. That limited how many hours I could use my

A reporter from the Weather Channel looks at a charred adaptive stair lift going up a brick staircase to a burned-out home

Urban Form, Age/Disability, and Wildfire Evacuations in California

California’s insurance and land use policies, combined with our nation’s economic policies that punish PWDs, drive seniors and PWDs to disproportionately live in fire-prone areas that are difficult to evacuate.

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How Berkeley's NIMBYism Betrayed the Disability Rights Movement: Part 1

Berkeley is the home of the modern disability Rights movement. But anti-housing activism in the '60s and '70s made the town inhospitable to people with disabilities...

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DisabilitYIMBY News Roundup 12/23/24

Hello lovely readers! Apologies for my extended absence – as I mentioned in a prior newsletter, I had to focus on some health things and then catching up with the rest of life meant this sat on the back burner for a bit. When I started back on DisabilitYIMBY a couple

Roundup 9/25: City rankings and groundbreakings

WalletHub ranks disability-friendly cities, new housing for blind & visually impaired folks breaks ground in Vegas, and more...

Weekly Roundup 9/15/24

A trio of important articles lead the week

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