The killer thing is that little blue truck is blocking the box! Heβs the one not following the rules!
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The killer thing is that little blue truck is blocking the box! Heβs the one not following the rules!
Michelle Wu seems like kind of a disaster for housing in Boston β very little progress on land use reforms, and supporting a quite draconian statewide rent control regime (rent hikes that can be below inflation, vacancy controls, only a 10-year exemption for new construction)? Yikes
laylalawgisiko CITY COUNCIL MEMBER LUSTIN BRANNAN ENDORSES LAYLA LAW-GISIKO for city council LAYLA LAW-GISIKO 8 laylalawgisiko I'm proud to have Justin Brannan's support. He has fought for public education. I will be a champion of public schools in our great district.
Layla Law-Gisiko η½θΎθ reposted fuelgrannie @fuelgrannie β’2d Replying to @jmaxmann openly and wrongly Yimbro Bingo ... NIMBY! JUST BUILD MARKET RATE Austin I'm fine with leveloper profits Supply and Demand cor Comparison
Layla speaking with Sliwa and Paladino
this is so embarrassing. why is @justinbrannan.bsky.social endorsing our fuelgrannie retweeting local NIMBY gadfly for city council when she literally stood with Vickie Paladino and Curtis Sliwa at a protest against the affordable housing ballot measures
Definitely more of a red state thing (but then again Waymo is big in CA). But the possibility of speeding up projects - reducing local externalities and financing costs - seems like potentially a big deal.
This is potentially a huge deal for construction costs @brianpotter.bsky.social @stephenjacobsmith.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
The end of last year was also really low, with the days long no murder streak and a 38% decline in December (from the previous December)
Probably some random variation in this, but NYC's murder rate continues to decline quickly this year, following last year's big decline. It's *70%* lower than at this time last year www.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/...
Every homeowner should be barred from future votes on housing since the potential for gain is far higher than Jesse Zwick's piddly ass nonprofit salary.
Getting to do this lecture -- which sought to provide a structural explanation for why urban public services in America struggle despite the high productivity of our private sector -- was such a thrill! law.yale.edu/yls-today/ne...
OPINION TODAY featured podcast β
@samuelmoyn.bsky.social and @profschleich.bsky.social speak with @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social about his new book, The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America.
(Digging a Hole)
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A new pod episode! Come for the nudist beach scenes from the 1920sβstay for fights over the material foundations of 20th-c liberalisms.
π¨π¨New Pod!! π¨π¨ We have @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social on the pod!!! @samuelmoyn.bsky.social and I talk with John about his amazing and must read new book, The Radical Fund podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
Lol, @profschleich.bsky.social was so real for pointing out a lot of housing in New York is ancient (and often kind of shitty): NYC actually does a GREAT job preserving (old as hell) housing!
I really appreciate the point from @profschleich.bsky.social that focusing on modest reduction in ULURP process length is misguided, as difficulty and time to prepare for ULURP is determined by the requirements of the process. The charter amendments will improve the full approval process.
Really excited to deliver this lecture on political and structural explanations for the (lack of) quality of big city government services and regulations. Open to the Yale community. On October 27th, register now! law.yale.edu/yls-today/ne...
Worst take in this column was the prediction heβd be successful in Albany.
With proper link - i wrote this www.slowboring.com/p/eric-adams
Slow Boring forecast that Eric Adams might accomplish good things or housing or might devolve into an orgy of corruption.
Turns out it was both.
www.slowboring.com/p/the-path-f...
Our Latest Podcast: Won't You Take Me To YIMBYTown?
Recorded before a live audience at @yimbytown.bsky.social 2025! With @profschleich.bsky.social @andrewdfine.bsky.social & Ari Bargil of @ij.org!
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π¨New Pod!!π¨Sam Moyn and I kick off a new season of Digging a Hole by talking with the great Bob Bauer about the law and politics of executive power podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
Who isn't at those community board meetings where people line up to oppose developments? @profschleich.bsky.social explains why NIMBYism is so successful: it's about who attends versus who is actually impacted. This is democracy meets housing policy.
www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/loc...
Out today: The Fall of Affirmative Action, by Justin Driver www.amazon.com/Fall-Affirma...
Justin Driver's new book is out today -- as smart and spicy a set of arguments as you'll find anywhere. One of our most essential public intellectuals. A must, must, must read. www.amazon.com/Fall-Affirma...
"This brazen gambit should fail β for two reasons. First, the ballot language is plenty clear. Second, the BOE has no power to reject proposed charter revisions."
I think the commonwealth desperately needs procedural simplification to help upzoning stick in addition to the legal perseverance @profschleich.bsky.social recommends: www.theargumentmag.com/p/yimbys-bea...
I'm not there, but this one seems to be "debate your critics" on whether abundance is just neoliberalism (of which Cass is not a fan!)
The Kawhi case provides an almost full justification for why David Fontana and I called for the creation of "The Basketball Court," modeled on Meta's @oversightboard.bsky.social
to interpret league rules papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The complex interpretations of the NBA Constitution, evidentiary issues, and concerns about bias make the case for taking interpretative responsibility out of the hands of the Commissioner and putting it in the hands of a private-Court like institution papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I have a new column out in @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social about the forces and people who will make or break a Mamdani administration www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/mam...
I have a new column out in @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social about the forces and people who will make or break a Mamdani administration www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/mam...