Glad to see Trump is taking care of the important things, like renaming a mountain, trying to annex Canada, and attempting to buy Greenland.

I was worried he would focus on trivial matters like grocery prices, Ukraine, and Israel and Iran.

“These empty-nest households are concentrated in more affordable markets, where housing is already more accessible — not in the expensive coastal job centers where young workers are moving and where more homes are most desperately needed,”

www.cnbc.com/2024/12/24/z...

having these populations segregated is bad though - we should encourage more families to live downtown by encouraging 3+BR homes in dense neighborhoods and provide more studios and 1BRs in the burbs.

New Zealand took on its housing crisis at the federal level, challenging the idea that “housing politics is local.” For "Good on Paper," Jerusalem Demsas speaks with the housing-policy expert Eleanor West about what New Zealand and America have in common.

Here’s one for “no lab leak.”

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If the old guys are going tieless, then it’s time for the cool kids to do the opposite

Since NIMBY judges are playing Calvinball with the law & inventing pseudo-legal reasons to block pro-housing policy, it's good to see local leaders fight back against their garbage decisions.

This is the direct result of our current land use paradigm, which inhibits new infill housing growth in existing cities & suburbs, instead shunting sprawl development into areas with climate hazards (wildfires, floods, etc.).

Solving the insurance crisis will require ending exclusionary zoning.

yes this is an aggressive subtweet but if you think "we need to fix the housing crisis by decentralizing jobs out of cities" you are making a stupid ask because it not only requires MORE federal redistribution to rurals but also getting city govs to unilaterally sabotage their economies

Friendly reminder that, while far from a panacea for our housing needs, if you live in a high cost area like me, those new “luxury apartments” you’re opposing because they aren’t “truly affordable” are probably cheaper to live in than your house would be to buy now.

ggwash.org/view/93183/w...

If we want to understand why we're losing moderate income folks, why young ppl move elsewhere, why elementary school enrollment rates are down - look no further than our housing stock, where the avg SFH size has exploded and the avg price for ALL residential is damn near $900k

On Tuesday, I traveled from Washington, DC to the suburbs of Reading, PA to spend Thanksgiving for a few days.

The impact of going from a walkable urban area to a car dependent suburb on physical activity is very real. Let’s just say that I’m thankful for elliptical machines!

Sign of the times

Finally, I can understand why opponents of Missing Middle in Arlington are so upset.

Thank all that is holy for Bluesky 🦋

Dune: Prophecy doesn’t feel like an HBO show…it feels like a SyFy show with an HBO budget. The vibes are much closer to The Expanse and the Battlestar Galactica reboot. #dune

Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) is proposing new housing legislation. “The Prefabricated Housing and Zoning Enhancement Act of 2024 (PHAZE Act), which would tackle housing shortages across the United States by reforming zoning and encouraging new building efforts.” adamsmith.house.gov/news/press-r...