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Why have Democratic states and cities failed to solve the biggest problems ailing them? Great fun chatting with @ezraklein .

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The American love affair with homeownership needs to come to an end.

The Homeownership Society Was a Mistake

Real estate should be treated as consumption, not investment.

www.theatlantic.com

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absolutely, I do

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i get that we’re supposed to hate this but sorry you will never convince me that things were better when your options were the guy from church or your friends boyfriends friends 🤷‍♀️

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This is catastrophic

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Single family only zoning is officially dead in California. Pretty amazing.

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It’s not a tax on single people that it costs more to live alone!! Stop framing expensive, luxury lifestyles as normal! At no point have 20-somethings expect to afford a place on their own in a major city.

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Poor and middle income people are leaving the state in droves, often for Republican states without access to abortion care. California isn't a safe haven for women unless it's affordable for them.

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Abortion is legal in California. It will remain that way. I just signed a bill that makes our state a safe haven for women across the nation. We will not cooperate with any states that attempt to prosecute women or doctors for receiving or providing reproductive care.

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Did not have "Dave Chappelle NIMBY's affordable housing" on my 2022 BINGO card, but I also can't say I'm that surprised.

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Have yelled this fact at roughly 4 different people so far so glad I finally got to put it in an article.

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This is... a wild stat. 37 percent of all US children are subjects of CPS reports (28% of white children and 53% of Black children experience CPS involvement before their 18th birthday).

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wow this tweet just cured my imposter syndrome

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It’s so funny when I read academics (women) write about “imposter syndrome.” I had the exact opposite feeling, like I was the only insightful and serious person and everyone else was doing fake stuff. Seems like the imposter syndrome people should trust their instincts.

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This is right and it’s bad that being 90% vegan or vegetarian means that you’re no longer in the club. Would be a lot more valuable if 50% of people were vegan half the time than if just 2% of the population were vegan 100% of the time.

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some professional news!

Jerusalem Demsas Joins The Atlantic as a Staff Writer

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I live in a nice apartment building in DC and for the third time someone watching me walk out of my door has openly assumed I don’t live there. I know the discourse has moved past microaggressions but it’s underappreciated how self conscious comments like that can make people.

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New >> Anyone who argues that there are simply "too many people" should be required to specify by what means they intend on reducing the population.

The People Who Hate People

Of all the objections NIMBYs raise to new housing and infrastructure, perhaps the most risible is that their community is already too crowded.

www.theatlantic.com

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While everyone's arguing over who's a gentrifier, the segregationists are winning. My latest for @TheAtlantic .

The Real Villain in the Gentrification Story

It’s not young, upwardly mobile college grads.

www.theatlantic.com

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New >> When I came across this TikTok in my feed, I was vaguely annoyed at the disdain it held for new buildings. Then I looked into it and realized that the "gentrification building" the creator was complaining about was actually affordable housing.

Why does TikTok hate this affordable housing development?

The new multifamily buildings in your neighborhood actually slow displacement.

www.vox.com

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New >> "Who shouts the loudest wins*" is not a democratic system of government, but for too many things, it's the one we have. *bonus points if you have your lawyer on speed dial

Community Input Is Bad, Actually

Angry neighborhood associations have the power to halt the construction of vital infrastructure. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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dan reed 🦀🏳️‍🌈🇬🇾👋🏾

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there are about 100 people here supporting a new Chevy Chase library with affordable housing, chanting “if not here, where? if not now, when?” in response, CC residents are yelling “never!”, “somewhere else!” and “this will make it look like Anacostia!”

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Some problems are conceptually difficult — improving underperforming schools, helping people heal from traumatic life events — but homelessness isn’t one of them. We know how to solve the crisis — so why don’t we?

The Obvious Answer to Homelessness

And why everyone’s ignoring it

www.theatlantic.com

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the vibe of a coffee shop calling out my name for my order has gotten increasingly weird

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I've been thinking a lot about how the role of "overpopulation" and "degrowth" discourse provides the intellectual legwork for anti-immigration policies. "This country is full" is considered xenophobic on the national stage but "This city is full" is often said by Dem voters.

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What's astonishing about this recurring talking point is that there's absolutely no depth to it. Vacancy truthers have 0 rejoinder to the obvious questions: "are these homes where people need them to live?" and "how do you propose forcibly moving people from NYC to Idaho?"

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There are an estimated 600,000 homeless people in America There are more than 15 million empty housing units in America. Good morning

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ok so uber and lyft are just openly lying about arrival times for pickup right? has that been established yet?

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Black person: gets mortgage denied Pinker: well, was it really racism? or was it simply because the US government, banks, real estate agents and millions of Americans engaged in a multi-decade project of segregation and disinvestment?

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There’s a really awesome woman on TikTok who is refuting unhinged climate alarmism (e.g. all fish will be gone in 20 years) which has spread unchecked on that platform. It’s a really cool way of informing & empowering young people to believe there are solutions.

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Well, I guess that’s one way to indicate you’re not going to give a comment.

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Finally read the great @ConorDougherty NIMBY profile and one of the top NYT reader comments is just 👩‍🍳 😘.

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I know I shouldn't engage with this but people are dunking on someone for saying it's better to be a POC in the US than in Europe and I'd just humbly submit that we defer to migrants on this question.

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New >> Fake democracy meetings aren't going to save the climate.

Not Everyone Should Have a Say

To speed up permitting for energy projects, we’ll need to rethink community input.

www.theatlantic.com

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New >> "Permission slips to braid hair, permission slips to build affordable housing, permission slips to put solar panels on your roof … a country full of adults raising our hands waiting for someone to let us use the bathroom!"

Permission-Slip Culture Is Hurting America

Why should anyone need a license to braid hair?

www.theatlantic.com

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The use of progressive language to justify blocking housing for homeless people is galling. In 2019, 37% of SF's homeless population was Black, but delaying permanent housing is apparently a form of racial justice?

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Ambitious plan from Team Biden on housing out this morning! Their hope is that these reforms will lead to the construction of 1.5 million homes over the next 5 years. Still digging into the details but a few things I want to draw out:

President Biden Announces New Actions to Ease the Burden of Housing Costs | The White House

New Biden-Harris Administration Housing Supply Action Plan To Help Close the Housing Supply Gap in Five Years As President Biden said last week, tackling inflation is his top economic priority....

www.whitehouse.gov

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Arguably one of the most important inflationary problems facing Americans is housing costs, but it is consistently underrated in both "the Discourse" and by policymakers. Why?

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A HUD senior advisor wrote an entire thread on the causes of homelessness without mentioning the housing supply crisis one time. He then blames the tech elite for being willing to pay high housing costs and advocates that they refuse en masse. What?

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Policymakers *hate* her!! Learn how you could solve the housing crisis with this ONE WEIRD TRICK!

Tax the land

One radical idea to solve America’s housing crisis.

www.vox.com

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guy who accuses his girlfriend of doxxing his side chick when she confronts him about cheating

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It’s really lovely to watch someone just delight in how scientific achievement is making the world a better place in such a small and important way.

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Obsessed with Alison's reaction to vegan chicken nuggets 😂

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New >> Is Marc Andreessen a NIMBY?

The Billionaire’s Dilemma

Marc Andreessen says he’s all for more new housing, but public records tell a different story.

www.theatlantic.com

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I've actually never had so many people get mad about a housing piece of mine before so I guess I'll share it again.

The housing shortage makes housing discrimination much easier

As buyers scramble to prove they are "nice, normal people," the door opens to increased fair housing violations.

www.vox.com

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A few responses to some of the twitter hubbub around my article!

Not Everyone Should Have a Say

To speed up permitting for energy projects, we’ll need to rethink community input.

www.theatlantic.com

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the readers are all right

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this one is so crazy I'm struggling to believe it's real

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Shot: “Please slow down!” Chaser: “But no speed bumps!”

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Yesterday, I came across a peculiar public comment, signed by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen and Marc Andreessen, violently opposing updating the Town of Atherton's proposal to make it possible to build multi-family housing in America's richest zip code.

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this thread is what i mean when i say the gentrification accusation has devolved almost entirely into an aesthetic one. It's a million dollar property and someone turned it into 8 $1000/mo units and apparently that's "gentrification" for some reason

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all this talk of dire real estate trends reminded me to document the thing someone did to a perfectly innocent rowhouse in our neighborhood behold, the architect's rarebit fiend

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i truly could not give less of a shit about your "internal work". the only purpose of making you a better person from the public's perspective is how it could affect "big external actions" this type of thinking is how affluent progressive suburbs justify residential segregation

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There is a self-proclaimed progressive official in San Francisco who has personally been responsible for blocking more than 8,500 homes. Just a mindbogglingly terrible actor — I’m sure there are countless more who deserve similar scrutiny.

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I...worked on this story for a year...and...he just...he tweeted it out.

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States that are safe for trans people be like don’t worry you can come here! :) the rent is only $4,000 a month! :)

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That's right

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9) The alternative? The government should stop shoving everyone into homeownership. It should build tons of new homes without care to how it affects property values, it should make renting a real choice, and it should help low and middle income people diversify their investments

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It’s unfortunate that the two dominant foreign policy positions are: - Pro-long war with no end in sight - Rest of the world doesn’t matter If only “America should care about the rest of the world and pursue pro-global health/immigration/anti-poverty policies” was powerful.

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For Black History Month, Vox is publishing a big series on rethinking policy for Black America. I wrote 3,200 words on eradicating exclusionary zoning. It's a 3 step formula: Persuade, incentivize, and if all else fails, SUE THE SUBURBS. Thread (1/8)

America’s racist housing rules really can be fixed

More than 50 years after passage of the Fair Housing Act, it’s time to sue the suburbs.

www.vox.com

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New >> People want someone to blame for today's dumpster fire of a housing market. It feels terrible to be priced out of the market as a new homebuyer and BlackRock is a convenient scapegoat. But the real culprits aren't on Wall Street. (Thread)

BlackRock isn’t to blame for the dumpster fire housing market

The boogeyman isn’t who you want it to be.

www.vox.com

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Very exciting to join @ezraklein again and to have my face next to the phrase “$1.7 million toilet” on the NYT home page

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New >> Last year I wrote about the so-called “gentrification building” TikTok was hating on that was actually affordable housing. Now, the talented @ranjchak has turned my article into an amazing 10 minute YouTube video!

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love to visit friends in the ‘burbs!

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mind boggling that as ~40k people are killed by cars every year an article like this gets uncritically published being so reflexively baked into your worldview that you write a “publicly subsidizing private car ownership in NYC is actually good” article in 2021 is embarrassing

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New >> If Democrats in safe blue states are serious about wanting to protect abortion rights perhaps they should spend some time making it possible for working class women to move there.

The Right to Move Is Under Attack

Declining rates of interstate mobility show that many Americans are stuck where they are, consigned to the political decisions of governments they may profoundly oppose.

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The problem here is not that NIMBY's don't like to look at solar panels. The problem is that our political institutions allow those preferences to become law.

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The Delaware County Commissioners have approved a moratorium on solar farm applications in the county, so officials can consider concerns from local landowners.

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Ended up screenshotting almost every paragraph as I read this great piece on how parking minimums have destroyed American cities. (h/t @MichaelManvill6 )

How Parking Destroys Cities

Parking requirements attack the nature of the city itself, subordinating density to the needs of the car.

www.theatlantic.com

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Nationalize Intuit.

The IRS has a big opportunity to fix the way Americans file taxes

You shouldn’t need TurboTax to file your taxes. The IRS can and should make its own service.

www.vox.com

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I even saw one public official claim that because her anecdotal experience was largely people of color opposing new housing development, we ought to defer to that. This is, of course, the problem — the people who show up DO NOT REPRESENT THE MAJORITY.

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“…voters don’t do too little; the system demands too much. We have too many elections, for too many offices, on too many days. We have turned the role of citizen into a full-time, unpaid job. Disinterest is the predictable, even rational response.”

Americans Vote Too Much

No one can be a full-time political animal.

www.theatlantic.com

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10) If you want home values to go up that means you don't want homes to be affordable. Trying to do both is what gets us an absurd policy landscape where on the one hand we do all we can to prop up home values and on the other we subsidize demand driving up prices even more.

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California is attempting to destroy its best institutions and it’s a wonder to watch.

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BREAKING: UC Berkeley must slash admissions by thousands after state Supreme Court sides with neighbors who sued.

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Lots of people believe that California's homeless population is coming from somewhere else -- drawn in by weather, or liberal policies. I hope (probably against reason) that this study finally puts that to rest.

The Root Cause of the Homelessness Crisis

Researchers at UC San Francisco have released the largest representative survey of homeless people in more than 25 years.

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This morning, I conducted an experiment: On my scooter ride from my home to the office—Capitol Hill to Dupont—I counted every person I saw and noted whether they were wearing white after Labor Day. The result: 103 were, 61 not, for a (ludicrous) rate of 87% fashion rule-breakers

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State capacity is downstream of ideological commitments example 282,989.

Governor Josh Shapiro

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To expedite the rebuilding of I-95 and cut through the red tape, I issued a disaster declaration allowing the Commonwealth to immediately draw down federal funds and move quickly to begin the repair and reconstruction process.

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New >> I went to Minneapolis to find the fake environmentalists -- instead I met a bunch of real ones. On the culture war brewing inside environmentalism:

The Culture War Tearing American Environmentalism Apart

In Minneapolis, the housing shortage has fractured the green community.

www.theatlantic.com

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This, from @ezraklein 's new column, is so important. So much of the cost of NIMBY-ism (sorry, "community input") is hidden! Affordable housing is built not just based on where its inhabitants need it but to avoid opposition is another engine of segregation/cost overruns.

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Hey folks is it “neoliberal” to want enough affordable housing in places where people want to live? p.s. institutional investors have been clear that low supply is a key driver of their future investments.

(((John Mirisch 🌸)))

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And yet your neoliberal take on housing relies on the Market for “solutions” and further empowers Wall St and corporate landlords who only care about ROI. As if the further commodification of housing will stop the evictions. Maybe it’s time for anti-speculation housing policies.

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on my last day at Vox, my greatest accomplishment 🥲

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the french ambassador wanted to see Dune early so he engineered an international incident to make it happen. respect the game.

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In NYC, Black population only increased in neighborhoods with very high levels of new construction according to new city planning tool. (h/t @hslatkin , @Union_Tpke )

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New >> In 2020 DC planted 35 trees on a small, publicly owned hill, kicking off one of the strangest controversies I've come across when reporting on local government.

Trees? Not in My Backyard.

A story about three trees, an angry “community,” and power in Washington, D.C.

www.theatlantic.com

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this phenomenon will be the subject of a later piece but the accepted cognitive dissonance of American housing policy where people talk about how concerning housing affordability is and in the same breath laud rising home values is interesting to watch

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Excited to announce that I'm coming on in a permanent role as a Vox policy reporter! Have loved every minute of working here and can't wait for more. Send housing news/policy/intrigue as well as interesting new research you think I should cover to jerusalem.demsas @voxmedia .com.

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another day, another paper showing the absolutely devastating effects of remote schooling on children

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The mayor of a +41 Biden city opposes refugee resettlement because of a lack of affordable housing. Pro-refugee/immigrant sentiment among Democrats is going to erode if local officials continue acting like the housing supply crunch is a natural fact rather than a policy choice.

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N.J. Mayor: No Afghan Refugees...Until We Recover From Ida Elizabeth has been center of refugee resettlement for years. But @MayorBollwage , a Dem, says after city was devastated by Ida, with 100s displaced, housing supply is limited & public resources are too strained. 1/4

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if there were no more luxury cars what would rich people drive?

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So weird that he was charged when his car was the one that killed the victims.

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Andreessen's viral 2020 essay "It's time to build" castigated the US for its failure to build sufficient housing and the costs it has imposed on regular people.

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New >> In 2020, a lot of people were making a lot of predictions. Some of it was helpful, much of it was wrong. In my first for @TheAtlantic I look back at some of the predicted catastrophes that weren't. (Thread)

Why So Many COVID Predictions Were Wrong

The eviction tsunami never happened. Neither did the “she-cession.” Here are four theories for the failed economic forecasting of the pandemic era.

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Homeownership's conceit was that it made people more invested in their country and community. But often, what we're seeing is the opposite. In my first for @thegoods , I try to explain why.

Homeownership can bring out the worst in you

It’s the biggest thing you might ever buy. And it could be turning you into a bad person.

www.vox.com

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do you think Berliners know they’ve destroyed their neighborhood character? someone should tell them 😔

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@TheAtlantic I refuse to get into the details of the latest twitter blowup but the most astonishing thing is that the people most responsible for gentrification get to avoid everyone's ire altogether.

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what a nightmare

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love this story because it so cleanly exposes how homeowners hand wringing about “investors” is actually just an excuse for unleashing anti-renter sentiment

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The Atlantic is publishing several of my essays (with a new introduction) in a book this fall! On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy will hit the shelves just in time for you to argue with your various relatives over the holidays.

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i’m old enough to remember people telling me free fares wouldn’t trade off with other transit investments

◥◤Kriston Capps

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The D.C. Council is planning to fund fare-free bus service by eliminating infrastructure upgrades. Note that killing the K Street planning project and canceling bus improvements doesn't actually deliver enough money, so other cuts will need to happen

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Andreessen knows the pro-housing arguments. He's made them! But building enough housing won't happen because people rationally conclude it's in their best interests. It will happen when the decision-making levers are removed from local government.

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But the conflation of aesthetic concerns and the very serious policy issues of displacement and housing affordability under the same banner of "gentrification" is harmful. For example, historic preservation can be weaponized to oppose affordable housing!

When Historic Preservation Clashes with Housing Affordability

And what Seattle can do to better balance the two and create more homes for everyone.

www.sightline.org

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Jerusalem

@JerusalemDemsas

2 years

The community input process is bad and largely responsible for our housing crisis and our lack of mass transit and renewable energy infrastructure. It's time to get rid of it.

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Jerusalem

@JerusalemDemsas

2 years

@mattyglesias Every time I walk down the street I see empty cars. Did you know there are more cars than households in the US? Please get out of GM's pocket...

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Jerusalem

@JerusalemDemsas

1 year

Surprisingly large turnout at this pro missing middle housing rally in Arlington this snowy Saturday

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@JerusalemDemsas

2 years

Making leftist spaces so insulated from differing ideas does a disservice to progressive ideology. If you think my critique of our community input processes in this country can only come from privileged oil developers, it’s you who is out of touch.

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@JerusalemDemsas

2 years

This statistic is attributed to a Roosevelt Institute report which does not in fact say this.