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While I do think AOC's comments on zoning have improved, her conversion on this issue is also much exaggerated. reason.com/2024/09/24/c...

Austin and San Francisco getting the same amount of money in the second round of "YIMBY Grant" awards says a lot about how well-conceived this program is

What I wrote about the Austin reforms when they passed in December 2023. The above data is from Feb to August 2024. reason.com/2023/12/12/h...

We have new permitting data on the results of Austin's 'missing middle' reforms. Over 200 individual units permitted 6 months after implementation. That would make it more productive than Minneapolis', PDX's missing middle reforms were even a year out.

It’s actually not good news that a third of Boston’s new units are income-restricted. That's a sign that a huge share of development is dependent on subsidies and/or smaller, marginal projects where market-rents can't absorb affordability mandates getting taxed/regulated out of existence

Startling topline figure from this year's homelessness census. Almost the entire increase in homelessness over the past 17 years occurred between 2023 and 2024. Obviously, that masks a lot of annual ups and downs, but still

What a surprise. Another local government uses its land use regulations to harass a local church trying to help the homeless.

Last month's cover story was an expose on how bad a second Trump term would be. April's was all about him going to prison. If the argument is you can't make accurate libertarian critiques of Harris because Trump is worse, just say that instead of lying about how we're supposedly pro-Trump

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