When I search Matt Yglesias’s feed on X I see several tweets in support of congestion pricing going back several years.

I’m only about 20 pages in, but I’m curious if this book is on your radar.

I think the questions of how we achieve abundance and for whom is where we see stronger left/moderate/right divides rather than abundance vs. scarcity.

With YIMBY often being free market-oriented, there’s a leftist strain of anti-YIMBYism that is concerned with the gentrification that market-based housing solutions might create. I suppose these folks are still pro-abundance, but prefer non-market based solutions.

I agree with that as well, but the left/moderate framing still gives me pause. YIMBYism (housing abundance) in SF is moderate coded and anti-YIMBY is left coded. I think hiding in there at least in this issue is a question of whether free markets are right path to housing abundance.

I agree that we should be pursuing an abundance agenda over maintaining scarcity. I’m curious who and what you have in mind when you bring in the moderate vs left framing here.