“You say the ICE agent is bleeding internally. Doesn't everyone do that? Usually it's only a problem if the blood’s on the outside”
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“You say the ICE agent is bleeding internally. Doesn't everyone do that? Usually it's only a problem if the blood’s on the outside”
Big year for stater home bills.
Florida’s bill caps min. lot sizes at 1,200 square feet (!) and apply strict scrutiny to zoning laws (!!).
Mass. has a starter home ballot initiative that would cap lot sizes at 5k square feet. Internal polling shows 65% support!
reason.com/2026/01/13/t...
Latest: A Border Patrol officer threatened a legal observer in Key Largo, Florida with arrest today for following him. Exchange captured on video.
I interviewed the observer, too. reason.com/2026/01/12/v...
Florida’s Live Local Act flew under the radar when it passed in 2023. Almost 3 years later, there’s 52,000 Live Local units in the pipeline per Florida Housing Coalition’s tracker. Obvs pipeline units are just that. Even so, that’s got to make it one of the most productive YIMBY bills ever.
I think there's a pretty obvious tension between wanting to encourage more private development and staffing up your administration with communists who despise anyone who makes money off said development reason.com/2026/01/06/t...
My wrist hurts, just because
“The proposed amendments would mandate new S.B. 840 apartments with an outdoor Olympic-sized swimming pool, pedestrian trails, and masonry walls of between eight and 10 feet tall.” 😳
In California, cities like to thwart new housing with affordable housing mandates.
Texas cites thwart new housing with luxury housing mandates.
The result is the same; less construction, higher prices.
The ways that Texas NIMBYs are finding to make apartments more expensive to build are are funnier than what coastal NIMBYs come up with reason.com/2025/10/14/t...
by @christianb.bsky.social
If the Trump administration wants to use military power, it should seek authorization from Congress, says Sen. Rand Paul.
Yes
No
"I like an escalator because an escalator can never break; it can only become stairs. There would never be an 'escalator temporarily out of order' sign, only 'escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.'" — Mitch Hedberg
Dinesh D’Souza too
As Reason has consistently covered, most such "middle housing" reforms —whereby single-family-only zoning is replaced by zoning that allows duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes— typically yield at most a few hundred new units in their first years. That's because these reforms only allow a few extra units to be built per property. In some cases, these reforms haven't even allowed for more buildable floor area, meaning a new triplex would have to be no larger than a single-family home it would replace. Often, "missing middle" reforms still retain other rules about setbacks, parking, and impact fees that limit them even further. If a reform only allows a little more housing to be built, one would expect that only a little bit more housing does get built. Low-yielding "middle housing" reforms aren't, therefore, proof of a failure of deregulation. They're a failure to deregulate.
@christianb.bsky.social on whether YIMBYism or post-neoliberalism is needed to get housing built reason.com/2025/08/19/a...
N: Anchorage
E: Guam
W: Oahu
S: Queenstown, NZ
So far there’s been 7 applications for SB 9 projects in the Palisades. For Newsom and Bass, that’s dangerous overdevelopment.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass declare NIMBY martial law to prevent wildfire-ravaged properties from being turned into duplexes.
I wrote up the supply portions of the new Senate housing bill for the newsletter. Basically it’s a bill of a million tweaks, with many of those tweaks focused on shifting existing federal grant spending toward higher-growth jurisdictions reason.com/2025/07/29/o...
Look at what they did to my big brutalist boy.
I’m very supportive of speed cameras in the abstract but cities do also just use them as ATM machines
Evaluation of Minneapolis’ reducing zoning constraints in suggests that deregulation reduced housing costs by 15-23%—even without adding a lot of new units, because density alone may reduce construction costs. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
This is democracy manifest
“What was everyone’s favorite cartoon character from when the oceans were still alive?”
If you’re ever traveling between DC and Baltimore, the MARC train is still BYOB
This is a war crime
For sure, both I’m sure are a factor. Better tech for tipping, new incentives for tipping
I think the tipping explosion was because of inflation. It’s one way restaurants could keep sticker prices down.
