Laura Wolf-Powers
@wolf-powers.bsky.social
Prof of urban policy and planning, CUNY Hunter College (not implicated in my posts). Currently thinking about how govt policy can discourage the private extraction of land rent. Proud supply skeptic.
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Are you saying you doubt the correlation between supply and prevailing rents or just that there is a disconnect between market supply and lower income brackets?
Alden and Colburn suggest higher vacancy rates are correlated with lower rates of homelessness. What’s your take?
Alden and Colburn suggest higher vacancy rates are correlated with lower rates of homelessness. What’s your take?
October 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Are you saying you doubt the correlation between supply and prevailing rents or just that there is a disconnect between market supply and lower income brackets?
Alden and Colburn suggest higher vacancy rates are correlated with lower rates of homelessness. What’s your take?
Alden and Colburn suggest higher vacancy rates are correlated with lower rates of homelessness. What’s your take?
1. The latter, in that actors with monopoly control of desirable land are always gong to profit maximize 2. Dereg/upzoning actions hailed as unlocking supply and bringing rents down serve mainly to increase the price of land/development sites, bc capitalization
October 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
1. The latter, in that actors with monopoly control of desirable land are always gong to profit maximize 2. Dereg/upzoning actions hailed as unlocking supply and bringing rents down serve mainly to increase the price of land/development sites, bc capitalization
Also I am not against adding supply I just think there are better ways than knee-capping local officials. For every NIMBY council member there is one who leverage their power to get more affordability and insist on infrastructure to support new residents
October 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Also I am not against adding supply I just think there are better ways than knee-capping local officials. For every NIMBY council member there is one who leverage their power to get more affordability and insist on infrastructure to support new residents
Rents have not fallen in Austin for people in low income brackets. It is actually v hard to find a case where more supply, on its own, has moved the needle.
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October 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Rents have not fallen in Austin for people in low income brackets. It is actually v hard to find a case where more supply, on its own, has moved the needle.