Unfunded inclusionary zoning mandates are de-facto taxes on new housing that worsen the housing shortage because they require homebuilders to rent or sell a percentage of their new homes at a loss.
Funded inclusionary zoning, on the other hand, is a great tool to economically integrate new housing.
Traffic Engineering: 2026 Edition 📖
Winners: The people of Oklahoma.
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
My brother hiked the AT in 2004 I think. Never done it myself but have done Katahdin and the Knife's edge with him
I have a new piece in The Argument.
We haven't (yet?) seen AI affect the labor market by increasing number of people who are unemployed - but there's reason to believe it's contributing to a stagnant labor market by making firms less willing to hire.
www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-tinder...
At some point in the last two years, probably before, he realized he had no chance to ever win a Democratic Presidential primary
The bombings will continue until the morale improves.
Remember what I said about how, when Trump is flailing, they start inserting a fake, fictional Trump into their stories, who is acting rationally and sanely?
Shoutout to everyone in the national media who has spent months glazing this guy and treating people who suspect he’s a legit ideological antisemite like they’re hysterical
Amazing how many people are so determined to deny that Republicans have any power or agency that they will just tweet out that they would fail a junior high civics class
This is Buddy. He does hydrotherapy to stay strong and live forever as all good boys should. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (TT: doggiesbeautysalon)
wrote about the very different progressive media approaches to Platner and Stratton, and how anti-establishment branding tends to overwhelm all other issues—which is bad for advancing progressive policy and tends to hurt candidates who aren't white men. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/platner-vs...
Denver's had more 60° days this winter than Myrtle Beach. Yes, you read that right.
60-degree days since Dec. 1:
Denver: 40 (average: 12)
Huntsville, AL: 35 (avg: 32)
Nashville: 31 (avg: 24)
Myrtle Beach, SC: 31 (avg: 40)
Charlotte: 26 (avg: 26)
Bonkers.
#COwx
This is murder. ICE routinely deposits released detainees far from their home just to be cruel. It’s standard practice. To do this to a blind man on a wet cold winter day in Buffalo is to know you are potentially sending him to his death.
"The project of greening the world’s energy systems certainly feels as if it has been thrown into reverse. But by the most straightforward measures, that’s simply wrong. There is more green stuff being installed than ever"
"We are dealing now with an allegation that the president of the US raped and sexually assaulted a child and is now using his DOJ to try to cover that up."
If you want to understand latest Epstein revelations, @leahlitman.bsky.social explains them clearly on our pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2070...
I had a lot of fun getting to ask Senator Bennett and Attorney General Weiser questions about housing policy this past weekend. See where your future Governor stands on housing.
Hey, it was a different time, all the way back in (checks notes) 2021.
Is it 1995?
Have you read Part One of @ketanjoshi.co's two-part series unpacking the collapsing core case for gas?
Don’t miss it – read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4tMX4sE
According to Kristi Noem, when you name-call government officials like this, you are encouraging other people to assassinate them—and that is treason.
You can count on the Supreme Court ruling against Trump when they want to save him from himself.
Colorado’s housing + transit future is on the ballot. Join YIMBY Denver and allied housing + transportation groups’ forum with Phil Weiser and Michael Bennet. Fri Feb 21, Denver Athletic Club. Doors open at 12:50, event starts at 1:20. RSVP today!
www.eventbrite.com/e/gubernator...
Understandable.
New in PN: "Just making s**t up" — @volts.wtf sounds off on the EPA
“How the f**k are they going to do that? If you can get the Supreme Court to rule carbon is not a danger to public health, it will mark the point at which they have abandoned all pretense, because that’s just a flat out lie.”
This is, bluntly, incredibly dumb. The Inflation Reduction Act didn't put us on par with the rest of the world, it had us leading the word, temporarily. The fact that environmental groups just go hummed its ending is exactly why it's hard to take any of them seriously
Biden was the most economically progressive president since LBJ at least, he pursued a full-employment economy at huge political risk, it worked spectacularly.
And what happened is that the entire progressive universe decided that he must not have done any of it, or else he would have been popular
