2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/3923I summarize recent work comparing relative distances measured to individual galaxies with independent methods. The comparisons include: ground-based surface brightness fluctuation (SBF) and fundamental plane distances to 170 galaxies, distances predicted from galaxy velocities and the inferred gravity field, HST SBF measurements to seven early-type hosts of Type Ia supernovae, and ties of the Cepheid distance scale to early-type galaxies. Independent calibrations for some methods provide interesting constraints on the Cepheid zero point.4 pages, contribution to the proceedings "A New Era in Cosmology", ASP conference series, eds. T. Shanks and N. MetcalfeAstrophysicstext