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Rents are declining nationwide because the United States is building more housing. www.apartmentlist.com/research/nat...
February 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Rents are declining nationwide because the United States is building more housing. www.apartmentlist.com/research/nat...
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🚨BREAKING🚨 KATHY HOCHUL AND ZOHRAN MAMDANI ANNOUNCE PUSH TO REFORM OUTDATED “ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW” LAWS THAT BLOCK HOUSING
NIMBYS OFFICIALLY FRAMEMOGGED BY HOUSINGMAXXING GOVERNOR AND MAYOR
NIMBYS OFFICIALLY FRAMEMOGGED BY HOUSINGMAXXING GOVERNOR AND MAYOR
February 10, 2026 at 5:21 PM
🚨BREAKING🚨 KATHY HOCHUL AND ZOHRAN MAMDANI ANNOUNCE PUSH TO REFORM OUTDATED “ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW” LAWS THAT BLOCK HOUSING
NIMBYS OFFICIALLY FRAMEMOGGED BY HOUSINGMAXXING GOVERNOR AND MAYOR
NIMBYS OFFICIALLY FRAMEMOGGED BY HOUSINGMAXXING GOVERNOR AND MAYOR
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One house turns into 17 homes in Seattle. (2014➡️2017)
February 8, 2026 at 6:35 PM
One house turns into 17 homes in Seattle. (2014➡️2017)
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Many people are saying the public sector should operationalize urban land rents.
"Turn every government agency into a real estate developer" sounds a lot more like the East Asian approach to social housing than the European approach. But hey, if talking about Vienna instead of Hong Kong seals the deal... 🤷
February 2, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Many people are saying the public sector should operationalize urban land rents.
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Vacancy rate go up, rent go down.
Believe it or not, there are dozens of non-profit "housing" organizations who collectively receive hundreds of millions of dollars per year from billionaire philanthropists who simply do not believe the law of supply and demand.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Believe it or not, there are dozens of non-profit "housing" organizations who collectively receive hundreds of millions of dollars per year from billionaire philanthropists who simply do not believe the law of supply and demand.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
January 28, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Vacancy rate go up, rent go down.
Believe it or not, there are dozens of non-profit "housing" organizations who collectively receive hundreds of millions of dollars per year from billionaire philanthropists who simply do not believe the law of supply and demand.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Believe it or not, there are dozens of non-profit "housing" organizations who collectively receive hundreds of millions of dollars per year from billionaire philanthropists who simply do not believe the law of supply and demand.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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“San Francisco taxes new housing at about the same rate that it taxes cigarettes.” www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open... by @dbroockman.bsky.social
If S.F. Mayor Lurie wants affordability, he should stop taxing new homes at the same rate as cigarettes
OPINION: If Mayor Lurie wants to deliver on his promises of affordability, he should San Francisco from putting sin taxes on new homes, David Broockman writes.
www.sfchronicle.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:23 PM
“San Francisco taxes new housing at about the same rate that it taxes cigarettes.” www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open... by @dbroockman.bsky.social
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It's funny to me, how many people seem to think that NIMBYism in California is principally a fiscal zoning phenomenon. Basically all of the Los Angeles downzonings were finished by the time Proposition 13 took effect.
January 26, 2026 at 1:04 AM
It's funny to me, how many people seem to think that NIMBYism in California is principally a fiscal zoning phenomenon. Basically all of the Los Angeles downzonings were finished by the time Proposition 13 took effect.
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I'm standing at the corner of Market & Van Ness in #SanFrancisco, atop a subway station and next to a bus rapid transit stop. Still thinking about the retired planner who vowed to block 984 homes here, so he can preserve a defunct car dealership and his faded memories of a few shows he saw in 1971.
January 21, 2026 at 6:50 PM
I'm standing at the corner of Market & Van Ness in #SanFrancisco, atop a subway station and next to a bus rapid transit stop. Still thinking about the retired planner who vowed to block 984 homes here, so he can preserve a defunct car dealership and his faded memories of a few shows he saw in 1971.
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🎯🎯🎯 "If Los Angeles is exempted from SB 79...Metro will continue building expensive infrastructure through low-density neighborhoods while ridership lags, housing costs soar, and access to homes near transit remains scarce. That is not a transit success story. It is the status quo, reinforced."
Read @marvistavoice.bsky.social breakdown of Metro push to gut state law (SB79) that facilitates housing near transit stations marvistavoice.org/metro-seeks-...
Metro Seeks Carve Out From State Housing Law Designed to Override Local NIMBY Opposition - Mar Vista Voice
At a January 15 meeting of Metro’s Executive Management Committee, Metro quietly advanced a legislative position that would weaken a state law whose central purpose is to take land use control away fr...
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January 16, 2026 at 5:48 PM
🎯🎯🎯 "If Los Angeles is exempted from SB 79...Metro will continue building expensive infrastructure through low-density neighborhoods while ridership lags, housing costs soar, and access to homes near transit remains scarce. That is not a transit success story. It is the status quo, reinforced."
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America has a housing shortage. Every single housing proposal you see that is not "build more housing" will have the primary effect of pushing up the prices of existing housing, and is therefore, in reality, a plan to enrich current homeowners. In conclusion, build more housing.
President Trump will issue a plan next week for letting Americans tap their 401(k)s for a down payment on a home, a senior White House official said Friday.
Trump Plan Would Let Americans Use 401(k)s for Down Payments on Homes, Official Says
President Trump will issue a plan next week for letting Americans tap their 401(k)s for a down payment on a home, a senior White House official said Friday.
on.wsj.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:11 PM
America has a housing shortage. Every single housing proposal you see that is not "build more housing" will have the primary effect of pushing up the prices of existing housing, and is therefore, in reality, a plan to enrich current homeowners. In conclusion, build more housing.
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There are only 2 real policy responses to a housing shortage. You can either get to work building enough housing for everyone or start making a list of the types of people you want to exclude. I know which side I’m on.
HUD Secretary Scott Turner: "100% of rental demand in California and New York is because of illegal immigration"
January 16, 2026 at 5:57 PM
There are only 2 real policy responses to a housing shortage. You can either get to work building enough housing for everyone or start making a list of the types of people you want to exclude. I know which side I’m on.
Pretty wild that there is no coverage in major American media of what is either the most transformative technological breakthrough since the steam engine or the most embarrassing business failure since the Segway.
It seems that Estonia's Donut Lab solid state battery company has found itself at the crossroads of history. Wow.
January 16, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Pretty wild that there is no coverage in major American media of what is either the most transformative technological breakthrough since the steam engine or the most embarrassing business failure since the Segway.
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Begging and pleading with more blue state politicians to figure this out. There's been a lot of progress, but red states are still on track to outgrow blue states before the next Census. (And no, that is not going to inexorably turn those states blue.)
YIMBYism is power politics because enacting it makes places more affordable & attractive to live and because power follows people, both in economic terms and in terms of political representation.
Welp, pigs have flown and Indiana Republicans have gone full YIMBY iga.in.gov/legislative/...
January 8, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Begging and pleading with more blue state politicians to figure this out. There's been a lot of progress, but red states are still on track to outgrow blue states before the next Census. (And no, that is not going to inexorably turn those states blue.)
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A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.
January 6, 2026 at 5:18 PM
A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.
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“Deregulation with socialist branding” is no-sarcasm the most fascinating political development of the last decade. Will this work? Fuck if I know but I’m entranced.
January 2, 2026 at 12:28 AM
“Deregulation with socialist branding” is no-sarcasm the most fascinating political development of the last decade. Will this work? Fuck if I know but I’m entranced.
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"America’s Housing Crunch Has the Wrong Villain" www.aei.org/economics/am...
"Institutional investors aren’t the cause of housing distortions but a response to them."
"Institutional investors aren’t the cause of housing distortions but a response to them."
December 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"America’s Housing Crunch Has the Wrong Villain" www.aei.org/economics/am...
"Institutional investors aren’t the cause of housing distortions but a response to them."
"Institutional investors aren’t the cause of housing distortions but a response to them."
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I would love to see the state become a developer and start building housing itself. Not whatever bullshit study bills have been passed so far.
December 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I would love to see the state become a developer and start building housing itself. Not whatever bullshit study bills have been passed so far.
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It’s been half a century and it seems like this still isn’t widely understood.
(from Robert Caro, 'The Power Broker', Vintage: 1975, p. 897)
(from Robert Caro, 'The Power Broker', Vintage: 1975, p. 897)
![Even before the war, of course, some urban planners had begun to see largely because of the effects of Moses' creations that building more traffic facilities would not in itself cure traffic congestion. These planners had said the Regional Plan Association had been saying it since 1929 and, after the opening of Moses' creations during the 1930's, w ith increasing urgency that the movement of people and goods In a great metropolitan region required a balanced transportation system, one in which the construction of mass rapid transit facilities kept pace w ith the construction of roads. During the last two or three years before the war, a few planners had even begun to understand that, w ithout a balanced system, roads not only would not alleviate transportation congestion but would aggravate it. Watching Moses open the Triborough Bridge to ease congestion on the Queensborough Bridge, open the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge to ease congestion on the Triborough Bridge and then watching traffic counts on all three bridges mount until all three were as congested as one had been before, planners could hardly avoid the conclusion that "traffic generation" was no longer a theory but a proven fact: the more highways were built to alleviate congestion, the more automobiles would pour onto them and congest them and thus force the building of more highways —which would generate more traffic and become congested in their turn in an inexorably widening spiral that contained the most awesome implications for the future of New York and of all urban areas. The only remedy that could check that vicious spiral was the coordination of new highways with new mass transit facilities– […]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4d7yazerbjhjwnwfgi4tv7q/bafkreieazhjjvr5ha3rdble7h6dwrgatwvhsd6pbr7frfwcqjawt4ck6eq@jpeg)
December 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
It’s been half a century and it seems like this still isn’t widely understood.
(from Robert Caro, 'The Power Broker', Vintage: 1975, p. 897)
(from Robert Caro, 'The Power Broker', Vintage: 1975, p. 897)
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Call it Schrödinger's affordable housing project — both dead and alive at the same time.
Now after nearly a decade of dispute the fate of a 120-unit, low-income apartment building along the iconic canals in Venice Beach may affect all development in LA
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Now after nearly a decade of dispute the fate of a 120-unit, low-income apartment building along the iconic canals in Venice Beach may affect all development in LA
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
‘Dead’ to City Hall, but funded by the state: The high-stakes fight over a Los Angeles affordable housing project
State housing officials could limit Los Angeles' access to funds and strip it of some zoning authority over its efforts to block low-income housing in Venice.
www.politico.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Call it Schrödinger's affordable housing project — both dead and alive at the same time.
Now after nearly a decade of dispute the fate of a 120-unit, low-income apartment building along the iconic canals in Venice Beach may affect all development in LA
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Now after nearly a decade of dispute the fate of a 120-unit, low-income apartment building along the iconic canals in Venice Beach may affect all development in LA
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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Courtesy of my sister-in-law
December 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Courtesy of my sister-in-law
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If the worst single-family house in your n’hood costs over $1 million, then your n’hood should be zoned for apartment buildings.
(It’s pretty much that simple)
(It’s pretty much that simple)
December 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
If the worst single-family house in your n’hood costs over $1 million, then your n’hood should be zoned for apartment buildings.
(It’s pretty much that simple)
(It’s pretty much that simple)
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On the theme of, "American planners regulate the wrong things," we should have much stricter regulations on noise-proofing apartments. It's the sort of issue regulation is meant to handle: it's difficult for most consumer to assess it before making a decision, and it really impacts qualify of life.
4-plex going up a few blocks from me. Gonna see about getting a showing when it's done. If we can see 2 adjacent units at the same time I'll bring a lil Bluetooth speaker to test the acoustic performance between units.
There aren't offset studs between units, so I figure it will perform poorly.
There aren't offset studs between units, so I figure it will perform poorly.
December 15, 2025 at 6:05 AM
On the theme of, "American planners regulate the wrong things," we should have much stricter regulations on noise-proofing apartments. It's the sort of issue regulation is meant to handle: it's difficult for most consumer to assess it before making a decision, and it really impacts qualify of life.
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US building codes requiring two stairs in multifamily buildings: not only worse living environments, but also more dangerous in fires! What a combination.
Consultants contracted by Minnesota found that an eight-story single-stair building with 6,000 sq. ft. per floor (building 4) has dramatically lower fire risk than a same-height code-compliant two-stair building with a larger floor plate (building 1) www.dli.mn.gov/sites/defaul...
December 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
US building codes requiring two stairs in multifamily buildings: not only worse living environments, but also more dangerous in fires! What a combination.
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No such thing as an "Orphan Lot" any more.
Single stair stacked flats can fit on small lots (like this 50x70 corner lot). This could be 12 small 1Br, or six family size flats.
Just allow 50% lot coverage and 3FSR and away you go.
Single stair stacked flats can fit on small lots (like this 50x70 corner lot). This could be 12 small 1Br, or six family size flats.
Just allow 50% lot coverage and 3FSR and away you go.
December 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
No such thing as an "Orphan Lot" any more.
Single stair stacked flats can fit on small lots (like this 50x70 corner lot). This could be 12 small 1Br, or six family size flats.
Just allow 50% lot coverage and 3FSR and away you go.
Single stair stacked flats can fit on small lots (like this 50x70 corner lot). This could be 12 small 1Br, or six family size flats.
Just allow 50% lot coverage and 3FSR and away you go.
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