I disagree. The court decided nothing except that 'exactions' imposed by a legislative body can, in principle, be challenged as unconstitutional takings.

All the meaty questions were left for another day.

I’m really worried that the urgency of doing something on transmission has not broken through with Democrats in Congress.

slowboring.com/p/friday-grab-…

2024 California Housing Legislation Highlights Bill Tracker is here! Major topics this year include lowering costs and faster approvals, homeownership, mobile homes, tenant protections, and student & school employee housing.
tinyurl.com/2024housingbil…

Every time I’m stuck in a traffic jam I am baffled that congestion pricing isn’t seen as a more common sense idea.

Wouldn’t it just obviously be better for your city to have fewer traffic jams + a lower sales tax?

It’s great work. Apply!

Years ago I tried to distinguish environmentalists from 'climate hawks' for exactly these sorts of reasons.

'It's pretty clear what's going on: students who feel impotence in the face of the horrors in Gaza are taking it out on a symbolic representative, i.e., their Jewish Dean. There's a word for that, and it's not one that reflects well on them.' -Brian Leiter https://universeodon.com/@BrianLeiter leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2024/04…

I’m a huge supporter of strong preservation for the rural coast (one Sea Ranch is more than enough), but it’s high time we treat the urban coast as…urban.

It’s appalling that the CA coastal commission & “environmentalists” stand with suburban NIMBYs again this.

Looking forward to this! I’ll be previewing a new study with Clayton Nall and Stan Oklobdzija about what policies the mass public thinks would make housing more affordable, and how voters trade off housing vs other policy preferences. Paper coming soon!

Remember how big the interconnection queue for new generators was last year? Guess what – it’s 30% bigger now! It is now TWICE the capacity of currently operating power plants.

See the annual “Queued Up” report from Berkeley Lab at emp.lbl.gov/queues. Thread!

This is 100% right. It's not hard to ban phones; we're just too timid to do it.

San Francisco!

Our coalition’s push to expand the citywide rezoning with strong city planning principles — ex. apartments in wealthy neighborhoods near transit, parks, and college campuses — has sent almost 9,500 letters! 😱

Help us get to 10k today: actionnetwork.org/letters/expand…

If you're in New Orleans and are interested in housing policy, come to a conference I helped organize this Friday from 1-6pm at NOCHI. Admission is free and open to everyone. I'll be talking with Jenny Schuetz, Chris Elmendorf, Michael Manville and M. Nolan Gray at 5pm!

Our first meta paper is out!! This paper combines our first 110 completed reproductions/replications. This is joint work with 350+ amazing coauthors.
We summarize our findings below.
econpapers.repec.org/paper/zbwi4rdp…

30% of 5k poli-sci + econ studies reanalyzed did not replicate. Maybe not as bad as social psych but shows high value in just gently kicking the tires on published analyses.