Yoni Appelbaum
@yappelbaum.bsky.social
Deputy Executive Editor, The Atlantic. Author of "Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity." https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/700580/stuck-by-yoni-appelbaum/
Can money buy a president love? Trump seems determined to find out, perhaps as early as tonight:
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
$1,776 Checks for the Military
The president is considering bonuses for many service members.
www.theatlantic.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Can money buy a president love? Trump seems determined to find out, perhaps as early as tonight:
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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My Murdered Friend Eli
He was killed doing the work he’d dreamed of.
www.theatlantic.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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I love this essay.
It’s not Hanukkah until we joke about this & point out that the original latkes were ricotta pancakes because there were no potatoes yet in Europe
December 14, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I love this essay.
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Reminder: Mayor Alyia Gaskins will join journalist and author Yoni Appelbaum for a public forum on housing affordability and zoning reform tonight at the Lyceum.
Mayor Gaskins, Atlantic editor to discuss housing affordability at Lyceum
Free event to explore zoning, discrimination and housing policy
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December 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Reminder: Mayor Alyia Gaskins will join journalist and author Yoni Appelbaum for a public forum on housing affordability and zoning reform tonight at the Lyceum.
"The Pentagon’s top watchdog has concluded that the information Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared in the chat could have put the mission, U.S. personnel, and national security at risk had it fallen into the wrong hands."
Detailed, exclusive reporting: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Detailed, exclusive reporting: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Hegseth Risked Endangering Troops With Signal Messages
An inspector general report finds that the defense secretary violated his department’s policies.
www.theatlantic.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"The Pentagon’s top watchdog has concluded that the information Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared in the chat could have put the mission, U.S. personnel, and national security at risk had it fallen into the wrong hands."
Detailed, exclusive reporting: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Detailed, exclusive reporting: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
There's something uniquely satisfying about kind words from a writer whose own books you've enjoyed. Thanks to
@vermontgmg.bsky.social
for including me on this list: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/my-favorit...
@vermontgmg.bsky.social
for including me on this list: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/my-favorit...
November 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
There's something uniquely satisfying about kind words from a writer whose own books you've enjoyed. Thanks to
@vermontgmg.bsky.social
for including me on this list: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/my-favorit...
@vermontgmg.bsky.social
for including me on this list: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/my-favorit...
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Related:
This is a great section from the book “Stuck” about how new homes kept getting new features at breakneck speed, and they all *made life easier*:
This is a great section from the book “Stuck” about how new homes kept getting new features at breakneck speed, and they all *made life easier*:
November 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Related:
This is a great section from the book “Stuck” about how new homes kept getting new features at breakneck speed, and they all *made life easier*:
This is a great section from the book “Stuck” about how new homes kept getting new features at breakneck speed, and they all *made life easier*:
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👀 @alyia4alx.com and @yappelbaum.bsky.social will discuss Zoning for Justice and Affordability, hosted by @homeofva.bsky.social at the Lyceum in Old Town
Mon. 12/8, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Event is free but space is limited:
homeofva.org/events/lets-...
Mon. 12/8, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Event is free but space is limited:
homeofva.org/events/lets-...
Let's Talk About Housing: Zoning for Justice and Affordability - HOME of VA
We'll examine how exclusionary zoning laws artificially constrain housing supply, driving up costs and perpetuatingsegregation. Our panel, including Yoni Applebaum, journalist and deputy executive edi...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
👀 @alyia4alx.com and @yappelbaum.bsky.social will discuss Zoning for Justice and Affordability, hosted by @homeofva.bsky.social at the Lyceum in Old Town
Mon. 12/8, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Event is free but space is limited:
homeofva.org/events/lets-...
Mon. 12/8, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Event is free but space is limited:
homeofva.org/events/lets-...
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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law and order: sandwich crimes unit www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Law and Order: Sandwich Crimes Unit
Serving justice to sandwich-wielding offenders takes expertise.
www.theatlantic.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
law and order: sandwich crimes unit www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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We published our 100th episode! Listen for some fun lore about the Housing Voice hosts, answers to listener questions, and the announcement that we'll be reading Stuck for our first book club, with author Yoni Appelbaum joining us for the last episode in that short series.
This week on #UCLAHousingVoice, we're celebrating 100 episodes!! The hosts reminiscence on their favorite episodes (like @shanedphillips.bsky.social 1st pick) and answer listener questions. Also, we have updates on our book club!
As always, thanks for listening! 🎧 www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/10/22/1...
As always, thanks for listening! 🎧 www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/10/22/1...
October 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
We published our 100th episode! Listen for some fun lore about the Housing Voice hosts, answers to listener questions, and the announcement that we'll be reading Stuck for our first book club, with author Yoni Appelbaum joining us for the last episode in that short series.
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"Some of the critics seems to view the artificial costs of mobility as an argument against mobility, when removing those artificial costs is the whole point of the book." Further thoughts on @yappelbaum.bsky.social's "Stuck," and against localism as an ideology:
Localism Must Not Be an Ideology of Soil
A critique of the localist critique of Yoni Appelbaum’s “Stuck”
thedeletedscenes.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"Some of the critics seems to view the artificial costs of mobility as an argument against mobility, when removing those artificial costs is the whole point of the book." Further thoughts on @yappelbaum.bsky.social's "Stuck," and against localism as an ideology:
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One of the most interesting things in @yappelbaum.bsky.social's Stuck, is the idea that people join groups most when they can live where they want.
September 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM
One of the most interesting things in @yappelbaum.bsky.social's Stuck, is the idea that people join groups most when they can live where they want.
NEW: Kamala Harris passed on her top choice for a running mate—Pete Buttigieg—because it would've been “too big of a risk” for a Black woman to run with a gay man, she writes in her book, @jonlemire.bsky.social reports:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Running Mate Kamala Harris Didn’t Dare Choose
“I love Pete,” she writes in her new book. But picking a gay man would have been too risky.
www.theatlantic.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:20 AM
NEW: Kamala Harris passed on her top choice for a running mate—Pete Buttigieg—because it would've been “too big of a risk” for a Black woman to run with a gay man, she writes in her book, @jonlemire.bsky.social reports:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Many of our land use / building codes are rooted in exclusion + prejudice, even if they are facially anodyne and widely accepted as common sense today
Case in point: early 1900 fire safety reforms were primarily designed to ⬆️ the cost of tenements / MF apts (old and new) to reduce immigration
Case in point: early 1900 fire safety reforms were primarily designed to ⬆️ the cost of tenements / MF apts (old and new) to reduce immigration
September 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Many of our land use / building codes are rooted in exclusion + prejudice, even if they are facially anodyne and widely accepted as common sense today
Case in point: early 1900 fire safety reforms were primarily designed to ⬆️ the cost of tenements / MF apts (old and new) to reduce immigration
Case in point: early 1900 fire safety reforms were primarily designed to ⬆️ the cost of tenements / MF apts (old and new) to reduce immigration
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Strongly recommended for pro-housing people (and even more for people who aren't yet on board): Appelbaum, Yoni. Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity. Random House, 2025. Moving exerpt attached. #a2council
September 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Strongly recommended for pro-housing people (and even more for people who aren't yet on board): Appelbaum, Yoni. Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity. Random House, 2025. Moving exerpt attached. #a2council
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"When the Dust Bowl set off an exodus out of the Great Plains, 300k migrants showed up in California, a place seen as the land of opportunity. The welcome was not warm."
This was talked about a bit in the book "Stuck" by @yappelbaum.bsky.social:
This was talked about a bit in the book "Stuck" by @yappelbaum.bsky.social:
September 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"When the Dust Bowl set off an exodus out of the Great Plains, 300k migrants showed up in California, a place seen as the land of opportunity. The welcome was not warm."
This was talked about a bit in the book "Stuck" by @yappelbaum.bsky.social:
This was talked about a bit in the book "Stuck" by @yappelbaum.bsky.social:
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From Stuck! by @yappelbaum.bsky.social, some great history on U.S. building codes and Lawrence Veiller's work on tenement laws:
August 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
From Stuck! by @yappelbaum.bsky.social, some great history on U.S. building codes and Lawrence Veiller's work on tenement laws:
1. In the decades before Prohibition, many municipalities experimented with license-laws, regulating the sale of alcohol. Such licenses swiftly became the most valuable things dispensed by government, with profoundly distorting consequences.
One noteworthy fact about local control of land use in Los Angeles is that it's why City Councilmembers keep going to prison.
As it turns out, land use rules that are so complex that you need special permission from the Councilmember to build ~anything create irresistible incentives for corruption!
As it turns out, land use rules that are so complex that you need special permission from the Councilmember to build ~anything create irresistible incentives for corruption!
August 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
1. In the decades before Prohibition, many municipalities experimented with license-laws, regulating the sale of alcohol. Such licenses swiftly became the most valuable things dispensed by government, with profoundly distorting consequences.
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You will never think of Jane Jacobs the same way again after reading this book:
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The section of Yoni’s book “Stuck” that is about Jane Jacobs is an essential read:
August 16, 2025 at 4:05 AM
You will never think of Jane Jacobs the same way again after reading this book:
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August 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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We used to be a country, a proper country
July 30, 2025 at 12:37 AM
We used to be a country, a proper country
"On its own accord, Grok dug up the demographics of previous winners of Nobel Prizes in the sciences—disproportionately white men—and determined a set of “good_races”: white, caucasian, Asian, East Asian, South Asian, and Jewish."
July 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
"On its own accord, Grok dug up the demographics of previous winners of Nobel Prizes in the sciences—disproportionately white men—and determined a set of “good_races”: white, caucasian, Asian, East Asian, South Asian, and Jewish."
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I talk to Yoni Appelbaum on declining mobility and the future of American economic growth, how the abundance movement is changing the tenor of this debate, and some solutions on how to help Americans live where they want and build a more prosperous future: riskgaming.substack.com/p/how-jane-...
How Jane Jacobs got Americans stuck
Yoni Appelbaum on the real villians behind our housing and mobility problems
www.riskgaming.com
July 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I talk to Yoni Appelbaum on declining mobility and the future of American economic growth, how the abundance movement is changing the tenor of this debate, and some solutions on how to help Americans live where they want and build a more prosperous future: riskgaming.substack.com/p/how-jane-...