Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers. bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-…

🏘️ Stop Playing Housing Games Some North Texas cities are rewriting zoning rules to block new apartments — raising costs + limiting choices for Texans. 📊 Texans deserve housing affordability, not zoning tricks. via Dallas Morning News 🙏 #TexasHousing #TxLege

The absurd length local governments will go to at the behest of NIMBYs and against property rights is truly astonishing.

More bedrooms = more babies. The great Bobby Fijan shares research showing how family-friendly apartments would boost the fertility rate in cities.

🏘️ Texans deserve real housing solutions. 👉 Convert empty offices into homes 👉 Cut red tape 👉 Expand choices for families Has this been proven? ✅ Yes. When Houston modernized its codes, 43% more townhomes + better affordability. Big thanks Genevieve Collins James Mayville

🏛️ New Hampshire JUST UNLEASHED energy. Texas’s turn … ⚡️ @GovAyotte signed HB 672 — letting ANY company safely generate & sell power off-grid without expensive and lengthy obstacles. In Texas: • New transmission lines: 5–7 years to approve • Generation queue: 150 GW+

This is what a PROBLEM looks like 👇 #txlege

🏘️ DID THE HOME ORDINANCE WORK⁉️ Ash Creek Homes is building 28 houses under Austin’s HOME Ordinance — cutting prices from $600K → $400K. It’s a real Major Housing Success. Via Sean Hemmersmeier Austin Business Journal #TexasHousing #TxLege

Yet another Texas city is trying to undermine state zoning reform by requiring any new housing made possible by those reforms include a bunch of absurd luxury amenities.

The shape of SB840 is starting to emerge. We're working on one of the first projects in Dallas to use SB840, it's a beautiful back-to-back townhome type we've been perfecting at Cedar A few lessons learned, especially as it relates to PDs: 1. Unlimited density is real.

THIS is how you CREATE population decline 👇 Texas chose a DIFFERENT route this legislative session DIFFERENTIATING itself from France’s ill guided policy decisions. #txlege

🏘️ #SB840 just opened 117,971 acres in Dallas for potential housing. Texas faces a 320K-unit shortfall, and Dallas alone is 80K homes short. Council Member Chad West: “If you don’t build enough at the top, the people at the bottom get hurt the worst.” Via Oak Cliff Advocate by

I'm way late to this one, but have to point out: In Texas, you see bumper stickers that say "Don't California My Texas," and yet that's exactly what some cities are doing through their creative efforts to skirt a new state law allowing multifamily on land zoned commercial. From

And kudos to Texans for Reasonable Solutions for pushing back on these things in cities across TX. Link: texastribune.org/2025/09/03/tex…

Energy Costs are a THREAT to the #TexasMiracle ✨ #txlege

Had a great time at the TAAHP Local & Municipal Affairs fall mixer, with an excellent panel discussion about DFW-area cities’ varied reactions to the SB 840 “residential in commercial” bill. If your plans to build have been thwarted, Institute for Justice would like to hear from you! #txlege

Particular shout-out to Brita Wallace of Texans for Reasonable Solutions for giving a great overview of how the bill works, and answering some incisive questions from the audience!

EYE 👁️ opening U.S. energy costs from Doug Lewin: Nominal retail electricity prices UP 23% since 2019 w/ inflation, but REAL prices flat & down 8% since 2010! NOW is the time for Texas affordability. #TXEnergy #ReasonableSolutions #txlege