Despite a previously unthinkable increase in immigration, both legal and illegal, restriction is still a minority opinion in the United States. A lot of 'present levelers' just don't really care about the level.

The Atlantic is publishing several of my essays (with a new introduction) in a book this fall!

On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy will hit the shelves just in time for you to argue with your various relatives over the holidays.

📚🚨: Announcing ON THE HOUSING CRISIS by Jerusalem and ON HEROISM AND COWARDICE by Jeffrey Goldberg, coming September. Both are part of our Atlantic Editions imprint with Zando, featuring journalism by Atlantic writers: zandoprojects.com/imprints/atlan…

I'm in a meeting about a dog park renovation (...) where the administrators outnumber community members maybe 4 to 1. I'm living through the hell that Jerusalem warned you about

I've been working for a year to measure, for the first time, the effect of lawful crossings of the US Southwest border on unlawful crossings.

My study just came out at Peterson Institute —> piie.com/publications/w…

With a less technical summary —> piie.com/blogs/realtime…

taylor urbanism arc confirmed

girls rock

wrote something really important theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

not every negative opinion is a hot take. sometimes being a hater is indeed the dominant cultural orientation toward something. stop stealing hot take valor

Excellent podcast with Ezra Klein & Jerusalem on why it's so hard to build in the US. Especially interesting on the political economy of state & local governments. nytimes.com/2024/04/16/pod…

'People when they're asked questions at different levels of government, respond with different parts of themselves.' --Jerusalem

Outstanding line at the beginning of a great conversation with Ezra Klein

Listening to ⁦Jerusalem⁩ talk with ⁦Ezra Klein⁩ about the $1.7m toilet, at the $1.7m toilet.

Very exciting to join Ezra Klein again and to have my face next to the phrase “$1.7 million toilet” on the NYT home page

Before the pandemic, few mortgage holders ever held fixed rates a full point or lower than what they could get on a new loan.

By Q4 2023, nearly 70% of U.S. mortgage holders were locked in *three points or more* below what the market was offering.

nytimes.com/2024/04/15/ups…

If your profile begins with you physically chasing your subject down a hallway, you've earned my attention.

Read Elaine Godfrey on Matt Gaetz: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

We may control the media, banks, and space lasers, but we apparently forgot to plant anyone on supermarket buying teams.
Grocery stores didn't know about Jewish leap year. So they stocked up on Passover stuff way too early, now face matzo glut:
wsj.com/lifestyle/pass…