Dave Warren
@davecwarren.bsky.social
Strategic research at IJ. Alum of UWGB, Ohio State, Brookings Metro Program, and Indiana University. YIMBY / hater of harmful laws. All views my own.
Slightly diminish a band: 9,999 Maniacs
Slightly diminish a band: The Beach Toddlers
Slightly diminish a band: All American Waitlisted
August 13, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Slightly diminish a band: 9,999 Maniacs
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I note, incidentally, that this very deep concern about “erasing history” seems not to apply to purging books or classes that focus on unlovely aspects of that history. Just monuments honoring treason in defense of slavery.
August 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I note, incidentally, that this very deep concern about “erasing history” seems not to apply to purging books or classes that focus on unlovely aspects of that history. Just monuments honoring treason in defense of slavery.
So Trump is gonna pardon them extra hard this time?
Kristi Noem: "The more that people conduct violence against law enforcement officers? Boy. We're gonna hit 'em back. And we're gonna hit 'em back harder than we ever have before."
June 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
So Trump is gonna pardon them extra hard this time?
Dan Savage is GGG on housing and zoning reform!
I'm going to re-up this. Every Dem in the country needs to study the messaging here, especially "progressive" NIMBYs in Seattle. Want to stick it to landlords? Allow for the construction of more housing. Want to fight displacement? Build more housing.
We’re fixing Atlantic Avenue! This is what a comprehensive community-led rezoning looks like 🏠
May 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Dan Savage is GGG on housing and zoning reform!
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Just finished "Abundance" and that fact that any of it is controversial just illustrates how hosed the Democratic Party is. Building more homes, generating more clean energy and developing a mass transit network is the easiest and most obvious thing that blue states ought to be doing right now.
May 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Just finished "Abundance" and that fact that any of it is controversial just illustrates how hosed the Democratic Party is. Building more homes, generating more clean energy and developing a mass transit network is the easiest and most obvious thing that blue states ought to be doing right now.
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It's funny to think that fighting chain stores in cities used to be this righteous progressive cause. Sorry if it offends your aesthetic sensibilities, but quality chains are what makes a neighborhood attractive to normal people.
May 17, 2025 at 2:38 AM
It's funny to think that fighting chain stores in cities used to be this righteous progressive cause. Sorry if it offends your aesthetic sensibilities, but quality chains are what makes a neighborhood attractive to normal people.
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When vacancy rates rise, rents fall. It's the most robust finding in housing. If you want housing costs to fall, you have to build.
April 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
When vacancy rates rise, rents fall. It's the most robust finding in housing. If you want housing costs to fall, you have to build.
NY/NYC politics are the most ridiculous politics.
The healthcare workers of 1199SEIU proudly endorse Andrew Cuomo for Mayor of New York City.
#linkinbio for our full statement: digital.1199seiu.org/3YOW89f
#linkinbio for our full statement: digital.1199seiu.org/3YOW89f
April 27, 2025 at 4:15 AM
NY/NYC politics are the most ridiculous politics.
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A lot of people are very wrong about due process these days. We at @reason.com made a video to help.
Due process protects unpopular people—because the government doesn’t always get it right. Pass it on.
Due process protects unpopular people—because the government doesn’t always get it right. Pass it on.
Due process is having a moment—and the Founders are rolling in their graves.
@billybinion.bsky.social explains:
@billybinion.bsky.social explains:
April 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
A lot of people are very wrong about due process these days. We at @reason.com made a video to help.
Due process protects unpopular people—because the government doesn’t always get it right. Pass it on.
Due process protects unpopular people—because the government doesn’t always get it right. Pass it on.
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They even got to Mr. Rogers.
April 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
They even got to Mr. Rogers.
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Some of us always meant it, but yeah, I was just commiserating with an old Reason colleague about what a disappointing eye-opener the Trump era has been. If we’re not all-hands for this, if we can’t see an authoritarian emergency this obvious, who are we even kidding?
The failure of libertarians to pick the right side in this has exposed their whole thought system. A principled libertarian attack on limiting government overreach would be welcome at this time. Put no such thing exists. Libertarian just means selfish.
April 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Some of us always meant it, but yeah, I was just commiserating with an old Reason colleague about what a disappointing eye-opener the Trump era has been. If we’re not all-hands for this, if we can’t see an authoritarian emergency this obvious, who are we even kidding?
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“If you commit a crime there is no due process” is the most upfront way of saying “we don’t believe in innocent until proven guilty anymore.” In other words to be accused of a crime is to be guilty of it. Madness
March 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
“If you commit a crime there is no due process” is the most upfront way of saying “we don’t believe in innocent until proven guilty anymore.” In other words to be accused of a crime is to be guilty of it. Madness
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Can we stop talking about the need for “mitigation” or “community benefits agreements” when building new housing.
The new housing is the benefit.
The new housing is the benefit.
March 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Can we stop talking about the need for “mitigation” or “community benefits agreements” when building new housing.
The new housing is the benefit.
The new housing is the benefit.
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None of this should be legal. There is no valid public health or safety purpose to such rules. A few states have already banned these sorts of ordinances.
This is an example of how Objective Design Standards, which are part of zoning, make buildings look like patchwork. Dublin (which does do a good job of building housing) has 42 pages of ODS www.dublin.ca.gov/DocumentCent...
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March 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
None of this should be legal. There is no valid public health or safety purpose to such rules. A few states have already banned these sorts of ordinances.
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The north-east is full of good liberals. They recycle, they listen to NPR, they have 'Resist!' bumper stickers. But god help you if you want to build a duplex in their neighborhood
March 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The north-east is full of good liberals. They recycle, they listen to NPR, they have 'Resist!' bumper stickers. But god help you if you want to build a duplex in their neighborhood
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god bless the midwest
February 23, 2025 at 1:17 AM
god bless the midwest
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Smart @alonlevy.bsky.social post on why building code reform is important, but zoning reform is more urgent for getting family size apartments. Seattle allows six-story single-stair buildings, but they’re mostly full of studios: pedestrianobservations.com/2025/02/21/y...
YIMBY First, Building Reform Second
Last night I asked the American building reform advocates on Bluesky about different layouts and why developers don’t build them. I got different answers from different advocates about why th…
pedestrianobservations.com
February 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Smart @alonlevy.bsky.social post on why building code reform is important, but zoning reform is more urgent for getting family size apartments. Seattle allows six-story single-stair buildings, but they’re mostly full of studios: pedestrianobservations.com/2025/02/21/y...
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Cambridge shows us what it looks like to take your housing crisis seriously
I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge.
We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style
Here’s the details 🧵
We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style
Here’s the details 🧵
February 11, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Cambridge shows us what it looks like to take your housing crisis seriously
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The only sustainable way to bring down rents is to build a lot more housing. If you really want to stick it to the landlords who are increasing rents in the aftermath of the fires, build a lot more housing and force them to compete for renters—not the other way around.
awful to see that mass destruction of homes caused a huge spike in rents, but it does follow that building a huge number of new homes would cause them to fall www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Rent rose by 20 percent across L.A. County after fires. That’s illegal.
Rent for single-family homes across Los Angeles County rose by almost 25 percent, and even more in certain areas, according to a Washington Post analysis.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 26, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The only sustainable way to bring down rents is to build a lot more housing. If you really want to stick it to the landlords who are increasing rents in the aftermath of the fires, build a lot more housing and force them to compete for renters—not the other way around.
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When you build more homes, the price of housing goes down.
January 19, 2025 at 2:44 AM
When you build more homes, the price of housing goes down.
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Yeah, the Austin construction boom is mostly large, multi-family complexes.
No idea how much of this is infill (my guess is a lot of the Austin apartment boom is replacing vacant lots, which is kind of infill), but the "it's all single family sprawl" stereotype isn't really true anymore
No idea how much of this is infill (my guess is a lot of the Austin apartment boom is replacing vacant lots, which is kind of infill), but the "it's all single family sprawl" stereotype isn't really true anymore
January 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Yeah, the Austin construction boom is mostly large, multi-family complexes.
No idea how much of this is infill (my guess is a lot of the Austin apartment boom is replacing vacant lots, which is kind of infill), but the "it's all single family sprawl" stereotype isn't really true anymore
No idea how much of this is infill (my guess is a lot of the Austin apartment boom is replacing vacant lots, which is kind of infill), but the "it's all single family sprawl" stereotype isn't really true anymore