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Urban economist @BrookingsMetro . @Jennyschuetz @urbanists .social. She/her. …

Washington, DC

Joined September 2017

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Jenny Schuetz

2 years

Three of these neighborhoods would be illegal to (re)build in most parts of the US today. Tell me again how *reforming* single-family-exclusive zoning is "one size fits all"?

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@WNNProHousing

Welcoming Neighbors Network 🏗🏘👋

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The more successful pro-housing advocates become, the more we'll hear accusations of "one size fits all solution." We ought to get in front of that. That's why our refrain is "housing options." Americans love options. We need to remind people this is about VARIETY & CHOICES.

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Jenny Schuetz

2 years

Paper straws and reusable grocery bags can’t begin to compensate for the environmental harms of bad land use.

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Tonight my urban econ class covered one of my favorite topics: Why does the US spend a bunch of money subsidizing wealthy homeowners when most low-income renters get no housing assistance? It’s not economically efficient & it definitely isn’t equitable.

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Jenny Schuetz

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Marin County homeowner who bought her home 40 years ago for $100k doesn’t think California has a housing shortage-and that her personal preferences should govern housing policy for the entire state. With all due respect, no.

Twilight of the NIMBY (Published 2022)

Suburban homeowners like Susan Kirsch are often blamed for worsening the nation’s housing crisis. That doesn’t mean she’s giving up her two-decade fight against 20 condos.

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Apparently people have very strong feelings about tiny apartments. Just because you don't want to live in a tiny apartment, or ride the bus, or whatever, doesn't mean nobody else should be allowed to. Different preferences are not an affront to humanity.

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Jenny Schuetz

2 years

I am missing middle housing, coming to destroy your neighborhood character.

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“We’re full.” “There’s no room for more housing.” Um…

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1 year

Let's try this again: Reserving >60% of land for luxury single-family homes is crowding out renters in all economically strong US metros. Widespread apartment bans *also* block LIHTC projects & make it hard for voucher recipients to find apartments.

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Bloomberg CityLab

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A luxury apartment boom is crowding out affordable housing in Austin

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To be clear: “I should have the opportunity to voice my opinion to my elected officials” and “elected officials should always adopt the policies I want” are two different things (but which NIMBYs often conflate).

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Jenny Schuetz

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If I could magically legalize one housing type everywhere in the US, it would be townhouses. They're extremely efficient in land use per home, have relatively low construction costs/sf, work for rental & ownership, & fit nicely with other styles.

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Here’s where Prince George’s County could ban townhouses

Update: The Prince George’s County Council decided at a committee vote on Friday, June 17, 2023, not to bring the proposed townhouse ban to a full Council vote on the original timetable. The bill’s...

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I’m thrilled to announce today’s release of my book, Fixer Upper: How to repair America’s broken housing systems. A short thread on why I wrote the book and what I hope it will add to public debates:

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Fixer-Upper | Brookings

Practical ideas to provide affordable housing to more Americans Much ink has been spilled in recent years talking about political divides and inequality in the United States. But these discussions...

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If you don’t provide street parking, no one will visit local businesses.

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Jenny Schuetz

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Manhattan would be so much greener if we redeveloped Central Park as single-family homes with yards & 2-car garages, then tore down lots of apartment buildings. More affordable, too.

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Jenny Schuetz

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Kindness is everything. If you didn’t buy a home here 20 years ago, tough luck.

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triangleblogblog

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Spotted in Chapel Hill

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As my students very astutely discerned, our not-very-efficient-or-fair housing policies mostly reflect political power, plus inertia of the status quo, plus some weird historic pathway dependence. All of which are very hard to change!

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Jenny Schuetz

2 years

NIMBYs who co-opt language of small-d democracy to preserve their neighborhoods in amber—imposing enormous social costs to others—should have to answer the question: If a majority of your community voted to allow more development, would you accept that result as legitimate?

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Jenny Schuetz

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That people prefer their communities not to change is understandable. That they want the value of their major financial asset (homes) to increase is also completely rational. But don’t pretend this is about high-minded civic principles.

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IJURR: “YIMBYs think markets can fix everything that’s wrong with housing.” Me, a YIMBY:

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Jenny Schuetz

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Secretary Pete should upzone all land w/in one mile of Amtrak stations to allow for as-of-right moderate density mixed use development. More apartments, more coffee shops, fewer parking lots. [stares at Charlottesville, Culpeper, Manassas…]

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Jenny Schuetz

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After what feels like forever but is really < 2 yrs, my book heads to the printer tomorrow! Fixer Upper: How to repair America's broken housing systems--coming to bookstores near you Feb 2022. Sneak peek at contents...chapter titles may contain spoilers.

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Here, fixed the headline for you.

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Jenny Schuetz

3 years

"financialization" & "commodification" of housing are joining the list of terms (gentrification, neoliberal) that people toss around to signify Something Bad w/out bothering to define what they mean. I find this profoundly unhelpful in discussing actual concrete policy choices.

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Jenny Schuetz

3 years

This election was obviously a referendum on “abolish the suburbs”. The people have spoken, and they want MORE apartments!

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Jenny Schuetz

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Legalize corner stores & coffee shops everywhere.

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Jonathan Berk

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28% of daily trips are commutes to or from work. 50%+ are for daily needs like groceries, meals, entertainment, socializing and other errands. We need to dramatically rethink our land use patterns & zoning to enable more people to choose to live closer to their daily needs.

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Jenny Schuetz

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Yes, these studios are tiny, but…new construction for $340-630 per month, in high-amenity neighborhoods with great subway access. It’s amazing what flexible zoning can do.

A 95-Square-Foot Tokyo Apartment: ‘I Wouldn’t Live Anywhere Else’ (Published 2022)

Meet the young Japanese who have decided to live in a shoe box.

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Jenny Schuetz

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Look what showed up on my doorstep today!! Actual printed books!!!

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Jenny Schuetz

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Periodic reminder: one of the most effective tenant protection policies is a high rental vacancy rate.

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Jenny Schuetz

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(I not so secretly hope that after graduation, my students become advocates for radically better housing policies.)

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Jenny Schuetz

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We build city streets like freeways and cars like armored trucks. How did we think that would play out?

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Jenny Schuetz

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After reading today’s NYT piece, I’m convinced 80% of accounts that post “all YIMBYs are white male developer shills” are actually Russian trolls.

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Jenny Schuetz

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Legalize houses, coffeehouses, and coffeehouses that serve breakfast tacos everywhere.

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Jonathan Berk

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This popular little coffee shop in Austin, Texas serves up some of the best coffee and breakfast tacos in the heart of a low density residential neighborhood with no off-street parking. It would be prohibited in most American neighborhoods today. 🌮 ☕️

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“We support affordable housing, but…” Yeah, sure. The most telling line in this piece: “People aren’t feeling in control of the process.” Affluent white Chevy Chase homeowners expect to be in control, to be deferred to at all times.

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D.C.’s Chevy Chase neighborhood in uproar over affordable housing

The city wants to update the design and amenities of Chevy Chase’s community center and library and add affordable housing on Connecticut Avenue NW.

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Jenny Schuetz

2 years

Suburban/exurban land use is killing the planet. Leaving from Dulles, landing in Denver. Just, yikes.

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Jenny Schuetz

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Call me a radical Lefty, but I think residents of wealthy communities shouldn’t be allowed to use the police power of the state to prevent lower-income people from becoming their neighbors.

@RBReich

Robert Reich

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Call me a radical Lefty, but I think the government should act immediately to combat the climate crisis when wildfires are raging out of control, thousands are displaced, the sky turns orange, and people are struggling to breathe.

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Jenny Schuetz

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If your city’s iconic, lovely, useful existing buildings are illegal under the current zoning code…rewrite your zoning code.

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Jenny Schuetz

4 years

2019 was an exciting year for housing/land use policy. In case you were distracted by trivialities (say, the final season of GoT), here's a brief recap of key trends & events.

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Jenny Schuetz

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Want developers to earn lower profits? Allow development as-of-right, through transparent & consistent rules. (Complex discretionary development processes favor experienced, well-connected developers with deep pockets & make it harder for small, new firms to compete.)

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Jenny Schuetz

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Prohibiting any structures *except* single-family detached homes on uniformly large lots is quite literally a one-size-fits-all approach to housing.

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Jenny Schuetz

4 years

Very excited that @TheEconomist has special report about housing...clearing my Saturday afternoon to read it! "housing policies have made [capitalism] unsafe, inefficient and unfair. Time to tear down this rotten edifice and build a new housing market that works."

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Jenny Schuetz

4 years

Best way to prevent displacement in low-income, Black, and Latino neighborhoods? Build more market-rate ("luxury") housing in neighborhoods that are already wealthy and white.

@hanlonbt

Brian Hanlon

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Urban Institute gentrification study: insufficient housing supply leads to upper-income people buying homes in lower-income neighborhoods.

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Dear single family homeowners in large cities: please read this editorial & think seriously about it. Reforming zoning doesn’t take away your home. But you aren’t entitled to turn your nhood into a gated community w public subsidy. via @NYTOpinionded

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Opinion | Americans Need More Neighbors (Published 2019)

A big idea in Minneapolis points the way for other cities desperately in need of housing.

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Jenny Schuetz

2 years

Curious about all the things that are wrong with housing, and how to fix them (if we can muster the political will)? Sure you are. Take a listen to my convo with @ezraklein :

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Opinion | Why Housing Is So Expensive — Particularly in Blue States (Published 2022)

The urban economist Jenny Schuetz breaks down America’s housing crises, the policies that could fix them and the politics standing in the way.

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Jenny Schuetz

2 years

Just unbelievable. Long-standing Berkeley homeowners forcing the state's flagship university to withhold new admissions rather than allow more housing. Cities are not gated communities and shouldn't have this much power to harm broader economic & social well-being.

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🏳️‍🌈 Lori Droste

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Students across the nation and world are receiving these letters this morning.

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Many suburbanites benefit from implicit housing & transportation subsidies as well as unpriced environmental externalities. Also homevoters in low-density, high-amenity urban neighborhoods refuse to allow more housing, driving up rents. All policy/political choices.

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Helaine Olen

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Many people like suburban living. They just don’t admit it — at least on this site— because they don’t want to seem uncool.

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Jenny Schuetz

3 years

Investments in public transit (better bus service, upgrades to rail networks) are key to reducing GHGs. You know what else would help? Making it legal to build apts, offices, & stores close to the public transit infrastructure we *already* have. Land use policy is climate policy.

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Jenny Schuetz

2 years

NIMBY homevoters win, California's broader well-being suffers. Again.

@SaraLibby

Sara Libby

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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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Jenny Schuetz

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Echoing @JerusalemDemsas : maybe our land use/housing policies shouldn’t depend on ordinary citizens spending 4 hours after work on a Tuesday night debating the intricacies of zoning codes?

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Allison Wrabel

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We're at more than four hours of discussions/comments at the Albemarle County Planning Commission meeting on the rezoning request for the second phase of the Southwood Mobile Home Park redevelopment, and I've forgotten how to function at in-person meetings past 10 p.m.

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Jenny Schuetz

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Is this dressed-up triple-decker: (a) luxury housing contributing to gentrification, (b) parasitical apartments spoiling neighborhood character, (c) both a and b? (Love the door color.)

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Jenny Schuetz

2 years

Proposed SCOTUS litmus test: what are your views on overturning Euclid?

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Jenny Schuetz

5 years

To be clear: zoning isn't the reason poor families can't afford housing. By all means, let's fix zoning, but we should also increase federal housing subsidies for poor families.

@HousingWire

HousingWire

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Trump signs executive order to tackle lack of affordable housing

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Jenny Schuetz

3 years

New moderate density development in Rockville MD, mixture of SF detached, row houses, low rise apartments. Most of these would be illegal to build in my DC neighborhood. Makes perfect sense, right?

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Jenny Schuetz

2 years

Low-density zoning in high-income neighborhoods is essentially home value insurance, provided by local governments, at the expense of people who didn’t buy homes there 20+ years ago.

@allyschweitzer

Ally Schweitzer #NPR

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"Changing the zoning after the fact pulls the rug out from under all those people who bought houses based on promise of neighborhood stability enforced by the zoning in place." (end quote)

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Jenny Schuetz

2 years

There is a *ton* of new development around the Silver Line stations between McLean and Reston, which is great to see.

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Jenny Schuetz

4 years

What's even sexier than impeachment hearings? Eliminating single-family-only zoning, of course! By legalizing "gentle density", cities can improve hsg affordability & chip away at racial & economic segregation. New piece w/ @alexbaca @pmcananey explains:

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“Gentle” density can save our neighborhoods | Brookings

While high-rise apartments in strategic locations should be part of the solution, single-family neighborhoods could easily yield more housing—and more affordable housing.

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Jenny Schuetz

4 years

Tax vehicles by size and weight. Make drivers internalize their social costs.

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Jenny Schuetz

2 years

If you oppose supportive housing in your community, don’t complain about encountering homeless people in public spaces, parks, sidewalks, etc. Every person needs a place to stay.

@BiancaNBCBoston

Bianca Beltrán

@BiancaNBCBoston

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Attendees are overflowing into the hallway at a community meeting regarding the proposed conversion of a Dorchester hotel into supportive housing for people who have experienced chronic homelessness. @NBC10Boston

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Jenny Schuetz

3 years

To anyone freaked out by #EconTwitter today: There are lots of intellectually stimulating socially useful well-paid careers that are not tenure-track academic jobs. Most don’t require PhDs (let alone Econ PhDs from top 10 schools). You’re going to be fine. Breathe.

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Jenny Schuetz

2 years

Affluent homeowners fretting that a few duplexes in their neighborhood will spell the end of the world as we know it remind me of Obamacare opponents arguing that the ACA would destroy private health insurance altogether. It's just gaslighting.

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Jenny Schuetz

2 years

So are apartments in most neighborhoods. Which is much worse for climate impacts than a few plastic straws.

@ebwhamilton

Emily Hamilton

2 years

@josiahstevenson Plastic straws are banned :(

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Jenny Schuetz

5 years

“Build more housing” may not be the entire solution but it’s certainly a huge piece of the solution.

@jenloving23

Jen Loving

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2500 people applying for 46 units.

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Jenny Schuetz

3 years

PS the road to addressing structural racism and climate change runs through land use reform, and requires many bus & bike lanes.

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Jenny Schuetz

1 year

So many thoughts on this terrific--yet somewhat worrying--piece... First, it's great that the US has a bunch of cities that are attractive places to live & work! Much better for people & businesses than countries w/ only one dominant metro (ahem, UK).

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Coastal Cities Priced Out Low-Wage Workers. Now College Graduates Are Leaving, Too.

Educated workers are increasingly migrating away from the country’s most expensive major metros — and have been since before the pandemic.

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Jenny Schuetz

4 years

I'm late to this party, but is way more frustrating to work with than Factfinder.

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Jenny Schuetz

2 years

Coming Feb 22:

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@AOC

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

2 years

What are some of your favorite books / resources about housing?

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Jenny Schuetz

3 years

idk who needs to hear this, but if you want to exercise control over what your neighbors build on property that they own, you can (a) buy that property yourself or (b) move to an HOA. (yes, I'm subtweeting my neighborhood listserv again.)

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Jenny Schuetz

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Did PBS cause resurgent urbanism? The impact of Sesame Street and Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood on children’s perceptions of optimal housing density, transit, and mixed residential-commercial land use

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Jenny Schuetz

2 years

Waking up Monday morning to see Team Biden has released a Housing Supply Action Plan has me doing (figurative) cartwheels of joy. Some quick reactions:

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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....

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Jenny Schuetz

3 years

We’ve certainly wasted too much time debating “luxury” apartments, while ignoring the fact that single family homes on expensive land are the ultimate luxury housing.

@nohousingcrisis

nohousingcrisis

@nohousingcrisis

3 years

We don't have a housing crisis, we have a luxury crisis.

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Jenny Schuetz

5 years

Poor families in US literally have to win the lottery to receive housing assistance. That's the policy choice we've made.

@JakeVigdor

Jake Vigdor

5 years

@NickKristof @OppInsights The Seattle Housing Authority last admitted families to the waitlist by lottery in early 2017. 21,500 families competed for one of 3,500 spots on the waitlist. 84% of families in need walked away empty handed. Similar story in King County.

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Jenny Schuetz

10 months

Putting it as politely as possible…”local control” is a handy excuse to build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything.

@BrookingsInst

The Brookings Institution

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California homeowners and local governments have a long history of asserting the right of local control over housing development. @j_gill1 and @jenny_schuetz provide an overview:

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Jenny Schuetz

3 years

We've been trying to tell y'all that bad zoning is at the root of (almost) all problems, but even I didn't have "shipping container height limits (!!) obstructing global supply chains" on my 2021 bingo card.

@sharatganapati

Sharat Ganapati

@sharatganapati

3 years

I didn't see this coming; but apparently the congestion at the port of LA is because of bad zoning rules.

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Jenny Schuetz

5 years

Transportation policy is climate policy. Land use policy is climate policy. Housing policy is climate policy.

@FrontierTony

Tony Dutzik

5 years

Finding ways to reduce unnecessary solo car trips can make a difference in addressing global warming. But to really move the needle we need systemic changes that give more of us the opportunity to drive less and live more.

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Jenny Schuetz

6 years

Look at those tall buildings and narrow streets destroying neighborhood character!

@NathanNWE

Nathan Lewis

6 years

#streetoftheday Tubingen, Germany.

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Jenny Schuetz

3 years

STOP widening highways. Just stop.

@washingtonpost

The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

3 years

The dismantling of Black communities for highways is not just a thing of the past. In a planned highway widening project a few miles north of Charleston, 94 percent of displaced residents live in communities mostly consisting of Black and Brown people.

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Jenny Schuetz

4 years

Look at those gorgeous violations of building height, setbacks, and minimum parking requirements! 14/10 should be legal to build everywhere.

@ROAarchitects

Robert Orr, FAIA, FCNU, FSY

4 years

Vernazza is one of the 5 centuries-old villages that make up the Cinque Terre, on northwest Italy’s rugged Ligurian coast. Colorful houses surround its small marina. The Santa Margherita di Antiochia Church has a bell tower topped by an elegant cupola. C…

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Jenny Schuetz

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The longer I spend outside academia, the more bad academic writing annoys me. Just say what you mean as simply and directly as possible! Obfuscation is only your friend if your ideas are bad.

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Jenny Schuetz

3 years

13/10 Should be legal to build by right everywhere.

@tim_in_dc

tim_in_dc

3 years

alley dwellings c. 1900. capitol hill!

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Jenny Schuetz

5 years

@Noahpinion Rent control is politically popular because it blames greedy landlords for high housing costs. But it lets renters' real enemies - NIMBY homeowners - off the hook too easily.

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Jenny Schuetz

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While we're floating progressive policy ideas...politicians should stop viewing renting as the tenure of last resort, & create better pathways to economic opportunity, stability, & wealth-building for both owners and renters. My latest blogpost:

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Jenny Schuetz

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New policy: emails from male PhD students, post-docs, or academics that start "Dear Ms. Schuetz" will go directly into the spam folder. Y'all know better.

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Jenny Schuetz

4 years

Some time we should talk about wealthy suburbs that *choose* not to install public water & sewer systems, then use their absence as reason not to allow more/denser housing.

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YIMBY! Durham

4 years

🚨 #VERMONT SENATE UNANIMOUSLY PASSES #MISSINGMIDDLEHOUSING REFORM 🚨 ✅5400sf lot MAXIMUM where sewer is present ✅ Re-legalizes fourplexes ✅ Decouples parking from housing State Preemption is proceeding at a pace even I didn't think possible.

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Jenny Schuetz

1 year

Second week of class, my students have already figured out that DC should relax zoning, tax land, and install better bus and bike infrastructure. My work here is (almost) done.

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Jenny Schuetz

2 years

Also: it’s better to build abundant housing during “normal” times than wait for an international crisis and suddenly realize there’s no slack to accommodate refugees. Or, you know, people who are already here & cost-burdened.

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Tom Coale

2 years

If you welcome refugees, but don’t support more housing because the schools are too crowded, I would genuinely like to understand your position better than I do right now.

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Jenny Schuetz

2 years

How to create a housing crisis in two easy steps: Step 1: Assign veto power over land use to existing residents. Step 2: Prohibit building apartments on the vast majority of land. Gosh, why don’t we have enough housing??

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Michael Andersen

2 years

This is a brewing disaster for tenants across the US. Starting to build more apartments now will be too late to prevent the disaster, but it could at least end it.

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Jenny Schuetz

3 years

California’s lousy housing outcomes have very little to do with markets and an awful lot to do with politics and policy choices. Correctly diagnosing the problem makes it slightly more likely that we’ll get better outcomes.

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Jenny Schuetz

2 years

@jenniferdoleac Also maybe don't go to strip clubs with your students while attending conferences.

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Jenny Schuetz

1 year

Cities have lots of family-sized homes, but many are occupied by 1-2 person households. We haven’t grappled with how to enable/encourage older adults to “right size” their housing—some can’t find (or afford) smaller homes in their communities. Also: Prop 13 in CA.

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Rachel Cohen

1 year

NEW: Cities are losing families with kids, and not all want to decamp to the suburbs. But even in cities that are adding new housing, developers are mostly building one and two-bedroom apartments. I wrote about what needs to happen beyond zoning reform

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Jenny Schuetz

3 years

What if, instead of allowing wealthy homeowners to deduct their property taxes from federal income taxes, the IRS levied taxes on Prop 13 subsidies received by wealthy CA homeowners?

@nytimes

The New York Times

3 years

Diane and her late husband moved to the Bay Area over 30 years ago. Since then, she has watched the area change: “It’s overcrowded now. It used to be lovely, you know — you had space, you had no traffic. Here it was absolutely a gorgeous place."

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Jenny Schuetz

4 years

"California’s housing problems...are rooted in intransigent local politics, not a lack of money". Dead on target from @ConorDougherty .

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Why $4.5 Billion From Big Tech Won’t End California Housing Crisis (Published 2019)

Efforts by Apple, Facebook and Google to address the California housing crunch must contend with the forces that created it.

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Jenny Schuetz

2 years

It’s less important whether you define the problem as “deregulated zoning” or “excessively strict zoning”, as long as we agree on what changes are needed. Make it easier to build more homes, especially moderately priced homes, in places where people want to live.

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Jenny Schuetz

5 years

How can you show me That your love is immense? Reform your zoning To allow housing more dense. How can you assure me That your love is true? Build many apartments, But single-family homes, just a few. #econvalentines

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Jenny Schuetz

4 years

Zoning is a form of government control that limits the rights of private property owners. Zoning bans on multi family housing are racist.

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Jenny Schuetz

3 years

Roses are red, Fourplexes are adorable. Let’s revise DC’s zoning To make housing more affordable. #ZoningValentines

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Jenny Schuetz

3 years

Hm, looks like demand for apartments is outstripping supply. You know what would help? Making it legal to build apartments in more places.

@robnock_

Rob Warnock

3 years

Obviously supply-and-demand is a factor. If we plot our vacancy index on top of that national rent trend you'll see... exactly what you would expect to see. A brief spike at the start of the pandemic but a long, accelerating decline since. (2)

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Jenny Schuetz

3 years

If you truly believe that legalizing duplexes (duplexes! The horror!) equates to “deregulating CA’s housing market”, try reading the zoning code of any CA city or county. Unfettered markets are still a long way off.

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Jenny Schuetz

1 year

For my midterm this year, I asked ChatGPT to write couple paragraphs on pros and cons of homeownership, then asked students to fact-check, revise, and add citations (from class reading list). Great way for them to hone their plausible BS-detecting radar.

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Jenny Schuetz

2 months

Cancelling the rest of today's schedule so I can watch this on repeat. "What if we built all kinds of homes?" 🥰

@GovTinaKotek

Governor Tina Kotek

2 months

My housing production bill is making its way through the legislature, but I’m not losing sight of what’s most important: Oregon needs to build more housing – now.

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Jenny Schuetz

5 years

Maybe big cities should build more apartments? Preferably on the land they're currently reserving for single-family homes?

@chrystie_swiney

Chrystie

@chrystie_swiney

5 years

For the 4th consecutive year, big #cities in the US saw their population of #millenials shrink. This is because cities have become too expensive for all but the wealthiest. This will stifle innovation, creativity, diversity & have other negative effects.

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Jenny Schuetz

5 years

Obviously the president is a closet urbanist. shutting the border is a highly effective tactic in the War on Cars.

@kdziczek

Kristin Dziczek

5 years

I don’t know why we’re talking about avocados & strawberries (as much as I love both), when the whole flipping auto industry could be shut down in a matter of days if we close the US-Mexico border.

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Jenny Schuetz

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I have a dream that America's suburbs and cities will one day allow housing that is affordable to people of all incomes.

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