Not just ignores; Trump looks annoyed that the collapsed guy is drawing attention away from him

Ugh, huge missed opportunity.

Another message is the importance of planners and builders working together, which starts with taking each other's concerns seriously. John and Andre's partnership led to big changes both locally and at the state level. Hopefully it can serve as a model for others!

A key message from the report and interview is that our codes and standards should be in better proportion to the scale of the project being built. A triplex is much more like a single-family house than a 100-unit apartment building, and our codes should reflect that. Today, they mostly don't

A lot of obstacles to building missing middle housing came about at a time when adding expensive mandates had no real impact because middle-scale housing was prohibited by zoning. Now that it's being legalized, these technical barriers are becoming more relevant www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/11/05/1...

This conversation was based on John's report, Beyond Zoning, published by @stephenjacobsmith.com's Center for Building in North America, and is based in large part on lessons learned from Andre's Malone Park Commons project www.centerforbuilding.org/publication/...

Interesting! I always thought there was some limit to how much you could borrow, regardless of repayment expectations. Maybe I'm thinking of a restriction that applies to cities but not states?

I'm sure others will/have addressed the other reasons this statement is unhelpful or misleading, but I'll just note that if cities had committed 20 years ago to lowering prices a tiny amount, consistently, then today homes would cost less than half what they currently do.

France, with its cost rental system, produces essentially the same number of units as LIHTC despite having a 1/5 of America’s population and providing much lower subsidies.