Micah Sherman
@shermanmicah.bsky.social
Co-own and operate ravengrass.com
Work on policy in the cannabis space.
Used to design and build housing, probably will again soon. Have opinions about housing policy as a result.
Work on policy in the cannabis space.
Used to design and build housing, probably will again soon. Have opinions about housing policy as a result.
Reposted by Micah Sherman
Many people seem to think that having 85% of bus service costs funded by taxes is fine and sensible, but that 100% would be crazy and wasteful. But I have yet to hear someone explain the principle that makes one number bad and the other good, or whether some other number might be better.
September 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Many people seem to think that having 85% of bus service costs funded by taxes is fine and sensible, but that 100% would be crazy and wasteful. But I have yet to hear someone explain the principle that makes one number bad and the other good, or whether some other number might be better.
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the most fascinating aspect of 'China shock 2.0' is how China's industrial policy got American capital to transfer technology in exchange for short-run profits in Chinese markets, w benign approval of American political elites who thought they could bully China like they did w everyone else.
August 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
the most fascinating aspect of 'China shock 2.0' is how China's industrial policy got American capital to transfer technology in exchange for short-run profits in Chinese markets, w benign approval of American political elites who thought they could bully China like they did w everyone else.
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reposting a deleter more clearly: the parts of this ep where a guest makes assertions about abundance in SF are factually incorrect. abundists in SF defended Airbnb, opposed rent control, & were hostile to redlined communities facing displacement. Their electeds antagonize homeless ppl constantly
The Abundance debate & discussion you didn’t know you needed with @isabellamweber.bsky.social, Malcolm Harris, @pewilliams.bsky.social. The book; the discourse; the underlying economic and political questions; the actual but mystified capitalist social relations. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/actu...
Actual Abundance w/ Isabella Weber, Malcolm Harris, Paul Williams
Featuring Isabella Weber, Malcolm Harris, and Paul Williams on Abundance. A debate and discussion of: the book; the discourse; the underlying economic and political questions of how we make the afford...
www.thedigradio.com
July 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
reposting a deleter more clearly: the parts of this ep where a guest makes assertions about abundance in SF are factually incorrect. abundists in SF defended Airbnb, opposed rent control, & were hostile to redlined communities facing displacement. Their electeds antagonize homeless ppl constantly
The solution to the housing affordability crisis is simple.
Build the legal and financial infrastructure that supports building distributed, locally determined, non market social housing. Do this at the same scale we do so for market housing and we are able to solve our problem.
Build the legal and financial infrastructure that supports building distributed, locally determined, non market social housing. Do this at the same scale we do so for market housing and we are able to solve our problem.
May 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The solution to the housing affordability crisis is simple.
Build the legal and financial infrastructure that supports building distributed, locally determined, non market social housing. Do this at the same scale we do so for market housing and we are able to solve our problem.
Build the legal and financial infrastructure that supports building distributed, locally determined, non market social housing. Do this at the same scale we do so for market housing and we are able to solve our problem.
Reposted by Micah Sherman
👀👀 love this from @mayorwu.boston.gov
"Instead of just having investors be the only ones who could buy a triple decker and then rent it out, or 'condo-ize' it, now families will be able to own their piece of it," Mayor Michelle Wu
www.boston.gov/departments/...
"Instead of just having investors be the only ones who could buy a triple decker and then rent it out, or 'condo-ize' it, now families will be able to own their piece of it," Mayor Michelle Wu
www.boston.gov/departments/...
Co-Purchasing Housing Pilot Program
The Boston Home Center, in partnership with the Housing Innovation Lab, is piloting a new loan program to support households coming together to purchase multifamily homes in Boston. The pilot program ...
www.boston.gov
May 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
👀👀 love this from @mayorwu.boston.gov
"Instead of just having investors be the only ones who could buy a triple decker and then rent it out, or 'condo-ize' it, now families will be able to own their piece of it," Mayor Michelle Wu
www.boston.gov/departments/...
"Instead of just having investors be the only ones who could buy a triple decker and then rent it out, or 'condo-ize' it, now families will be able to own their piece of it," Mayor Michelle Wu
www.boston.gov/departments/...
It would be more accurate to say that our franchising of bank money creation nearly exclusively to private institutions allows for private investment to crowd out public spending and limit what options regular people have to provision themselves.
The opposite of what most claim.
The opposite of what most claim.
May 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
It would be more accurate to say that our franchising of bank money creation nearly exclusively to private institutions allows for private investment to crowd out public spending and limit what options regular people have to provision themselves.
The opposite of what most claim.
The opposite of what most claim.
How much of what we think of as success in society and the market was really just success at manipulating financial accounts and leveraging real estate values?
I think the answer to that question will tell you a lot about how we evaluate and elevate those in charge of society.
I think the answer to that question will tell you a lot about how we evaluate and elevate those in charge of society.
May 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
How much of what we think of as success in society and the market was really just success at manipulating financial accounts and leveraging real estate values?
I think the answer to that question will tell you a lot about how we evaluate and elevate those in charge of society.
I think the answer to that question will tell you a lot about how we evaluate and elevate those in charge of society.
Did you know that at public housing authorities throughout the country there are differing opinions about how to do the job and some of them are agents of private real estate interests while other remain dedicated to non market solutions?
They often disagree with each other.
They often disagree with each other.
May 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Did you know that at public housing authorities throughout the country there are differing opinions about how to do the job and some of them are agents of private real estate interests while other remain dedicated to non market solutions?
They often disagree with each other.
They often disagree with each other.
We still don't have any way to modulate financial resources to build non market housing for those who need/want it.
That means we don't have the required tools to solve the housing affordability crisis.
We need public banks and to end faircloth. Nothing else is enough.
That means we don't have the required tools to solve the housing affordability crisis.
We need public banks and to end faircloth. Nothing else is enough.
May 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We still don't have any way to modulate financial resources to build non market housing for those who need/want it.
That means we don't have the required tools to solve the housing affordability crisis.
We need public banks and to end faircloth. Nothing else is enough.
That means we don't have the required tools to solve the housing affordability crisis.
We need public banks and to end faircloth. Nothing else is enough.
10 foot tall Mallow plant starting flowering
May 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
10 foot tall Mallow plant starting flowering
If bank lending and credit creation, the terms and access, is not at the center of your analysis and solution set to the housing affordability crisis then you're not being serious about what's going on.
Let's start being serious about the issue and leave behind the market fundamentalist confusion.
Let's start being serious about the issue and leave behind the market fundamentalist confusion.
April 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
If bank lending and credit creation, the terms and access, is not at the center of your analysis and solution set to the housing affordability crisis then you're not being serious about what's going on.
Let's start being serious about the issue and leave behind the market fundamentalist confusion.
Let's start being serious about the issue and leave behind the market fundamentalist confusion.
An article supposedly about the class politics of housing that never mentions tenants as an active participant in the story only as consumers. Doesn't mention banks or credit.
Hollow media navel gazing.
Nothing to do with housing policy. Tells you nothing about what matters.
Terrible piece.
Hollow media navel gazing.
Nothing to do with housing policy. Tells you nothing about what matters.
Terrible piece.
New from me in @thenation.com: A YIMBY theory of power and a rejoinder to critics who argue that YIMBYs are blind to class/corporate power www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A YIMBY Theory of Power
Pro-housing advocates offer an analysis of class relations that is more sophisticated and has more explanatory power than the one held by many critics of the “abundance agenda.”
www.thenation.com
April 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
An article supposedly about the class politics of housing that never mentions tenants as an active participant in the story only as consumers. Doesn't mention banks or credit.
Hollow media navel gazing.
Nothing to do with housing policy. Tells you nothing about what matters.
Terrible piece.
Hollow media navel gazing.
Nothing to do with housing policy. Tells you nothing about what matters.
Terrible piece.
I've realized what's so frustrating about the N/YIMBY debate is that it has nothing to do with housing development and costs.
It's a discussion about media framing. It's a disagreement about rhetoric and who's telling the media narrative.
It has nothing to do with housing.
It's a discussion about media framing. It's a disagreement about rhetoric and who's telling the media narrative.
It has nothing to do with housing.
April 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I've realized what's so frustrating about the N/YIMBY debate is that it has nothing to do with housing development and costs.
It's a discussion about media framing. It's a disagreement about rhetoric and who's telling the media narrative.
It has nothing to do with housing.
It's a discussion about media framing. It's a disagreement about rhetoric and who's telling the media narrative.
It has nothing to do with housing.
One of the shallowest pieces of housing writing I've seen in a long time.
Time to write about ideas on what to do, so tired of the endless blathering about who's under what label.
Pointless blather that adds nothing to any discussion.
Time to write about ideas on what to do, so tired of the endless blathering about who's under what label.
Pointless blather that adds nothing to any discussion.
my buddy @resnikoff.bsky.social off the top rope with some actual class analysis www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A YIMBY Theory of Power
Pro-housing advocates offer an analysis of class relations that is more sophisticated and has more explanatory power than the one held by many critics of the “abundance agenda.”
www.thenation.com
April 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
One of the shallowest pieces of housing writing I've seen in a long time.
Time to write about ideas on what to do, so tired of the endless blathering about who's under what label.
Pointless blather that adds nothing to any discussion.
Time to write about ideas on what to do, so tired of the endless blathering about who's under what label.
Pointless blather that adds nothing to any discussion.
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Everyone needs to stop saying Yimby and just say what they actually think about policy etc… it’s a chameleon term that means whatever the speaker wants it to. Enough!
April 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Everyone needs to stop saying Yimby and just say what they actually think about policy etc… it’s a chameleon term that means whatever the speaker wants it to. Enough!
The role of state and local public banks in building a resilient ecosystem of investment irrespective of the business cycle and national politics should be obvious to all right now.
We need state and congressional delegations to run on distributed, coordinated, public finance.
We need state and congressional delegations to run on distributed, coordinated, public finance.
April 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The role of state and local public banks in building a resilient ecosystem of investment irrespective of the business cycle and national politics should be obvious to all right now.
We need state and congressional delegations to run on distributed, coordinated, public finance.
We need state and congressional delegations to run on distributed, coordinated, public finance.
I've been saying for years, there are so many case studies in the legal cannabis industry about monopsony and oligopsony. Lots of opportunities to study it, pricing info available via public records, huge datasets, lots of experimenting and changes.
Americans are about to learn the term monopsony
"Albertsons tells suppliers to eat the cost of tariffs: ‘We are not accepting cost increases’" fortune.com/2025/04/25/a...
April 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I've been saying for years, there are so many case studies in the legal cannabis industry about monopsony and oligopsony. Lots of opportunities to study it, pricing info available via public records, huge datasets, lots of experimenting and changes.
The function of federal taxes is to limit inequality and remove money from circulation.
If we don't tax the rich to reduce their power over everyone else then federal taxes aren't performing their function.
Tariffs can never replace federal income taxes because that's not the point of those taxes.
If we don't tax the rich to reduce their power over everyone else then federal taxes aren't performing their function.
Tariffs can never replace federal income taxes because that's not the point of those taxes.
April 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The function of federal taxes is to limit inequality and remove money from circulation.
If we don't tax the rich to reduce their power over everyone else then federal taxes aren't performing their function.
Tariffs can never replace federal income taxes because that's not the point of those taxes.
If we don't tax the rich to reduce their power over everyone else then federal taxes aren't performing their function.
Tariffs can never replace federal income taxes because that's not the point of those taxes.
A bill I've been working on in the Washington legislature just passed its concurrence vote in the senate. It'll try to prevent a recent trend of illegal coordination between retailers. We need fair markets and this will get us a bit closer.
April 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
A bill I've been working on in the Washington legislature just passed its concurrence vote in the senate. It'll try to prevent a recent trend of illegal coordination between retailers. We need fair markets and this will get us a bit closer.
Non market social housing is the tool to solving the housing affordability crisis. It's also a tool in solving the ecological crisis.
In the US, we need the ability to add capacity for NMSH in the existing business ecosystem of financing, planning, design, and construction.
In the US, we need the ability to add capacity for NMSH in the existing business ecosystem of financing, planning, design, and construction.
April 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Non market social housing is the tool to solving the housing affordability crisis. It's also a tool in solving the ecological crisis.
In the US, we need the ability to add capacity for NMSH in the existing business ecosystem of financing, planning, design, and construction.
In the US, we need the ability to add capacity for NMSH in the existing business ecosystem of financing, planning, design, and construction.
All I really want out of life is a simple, public, distributed financial instrument that can be used to build social housing.
There's a lot of work to be done and all of this market bullshit is a waste of time.
We need actual alternatives, so we can ignore it and still live.
There's a lot of work to be done and all of this market bullshit is a waste of time.
We need actual alternatives, so we can ignore it and still live.
April 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
All I really want out of life is a simple, public, distributed financial instrument that can be used to build social housing.
There's a lot of work to be done and all of this market bullshit is a waste of time.
We need actual alternatives, so we can ignore it and still live.
There's a lot of work to be done and all of this market bullshit is a waste of time.
We need actual alternatives, so we can ignore it and still live.
Brief summary of the last 10 years of my life.
Me: If changes aren't made to empower cultivators to be successful the Washington cannabis industry will fail.
Lawmakers and regulators:😐
Me: is failing.
Them:😐
Me: has failed.
Them:😐
Me: If changes aren't made to empower cultivators to be successful the Washington cannabis industry will fail.
Lawmakers and regulators:😐
Me: is failing.
Them:😐
Me: has failed.
Them:😐
April 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Brief summary of the last 10 years of my life.
Me: If changes aren't made to empower cultivators to be successful the Washington cannabis industry will fail.
Lawmakers and regulators:😐
Me: is failing.
Them:😐
Me: has failed.
Them:😐
Me: If changes aren't made to empower cultivators to be successful the Washington cannabis industry will fail.
Lawmakers and regulators:😐
Me: is failing.
Them:😐
Me: has failed.
Them:😐
It's telling that these people care only about efficiency and nothing about effectiveness.
March 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
It's telling that these people care only about efficiency and nothing about effectiveness.