It’s a sign of the decay of conservative policy development that nobody has ambitious reform legislation for these agencies, just this vague grade school notion of firing people.

Santiago is awesome, it had 4 metro lines 10 years ago, today it has 6 and in 10 years it will have 9. Low construction costs do wonders.

lol who did this

The Boise City, Idaho metro area has seen rents drop 6.2% over the past year after the local supply of apartments increased by about 1,600 units, or 5.3%. That topped the average supply increase among US cities of 2.1%, according to RealPage Bigger metro areas Austin, Phoenix

the fact that things like this can be done in a matter of days, but don’t happen until an emergency, is a perfect illustration of how so many infrastructure challenges are actually just political choices

Great news. Hope to see more of this. "Remove SAT scores" is one of those things that sounds superficially progressive, but actually just gives well-connected rich families an even bigger leg up. It's counterproductive and dumb.

The YIMBYs were right all along: building more housing is the only way to lower rents for everyone

Weird how the law of supply and demand applies to housing too

American cities made this kind of very inexpensive housing illegal decades ago on the assumption that poor people would get nicer housing as a result. Instead, millions of people were forced into overcrowded, expensive housing and hundreds of thousands were made homeless.

Austin Texas suddenly built lots of housing and now rents are down. Hm.

Sorry, world, this is not up for debate. Fahrenheit is just better for daily temperature. Both Celsius and Fahrenheit acknowledge the utility of measuring across 0-100 scales—Celsius just does it for water. But that’s useless for daily temperature, bc the air never boils.

San Francisco permitted six units of housing in January, which the San Francisco Board of Supervisors believed was so excessive they voted to restrict housing production even more

These binders aren’t just a waste of paper: The MTA is being forced to pause transit investments because revenue from Congestion Pricing is blocked in court! The real cost of NEPA reviews is the silent graveyard of projects that never get started. (🧵: 1/7)

"[I]n a lot of my work around this sort of liberalism that builds set of issues, I’ve come to understand ... the problem in the blue states is the default is set to make things hard, even when the politics want to make it easy."

it’s wild that coastal cities have spent years debating if YIMBY policies will lower rents, and Austin just… did it they streamlined permitting, upzoned most of the city, and eliminated parking mandates. Tons of housing is going up and rents are plummeting. YIMBY policies work

Amazing things can happen when supply is allowed to respond to demand.

I don’t think people are fully grasping how incredible it is that rents are FALLING in one of America’s most popular cities. We were told this wasn’t possible!

Rent in Austin is still falling more than 7% year-over-year because the city allows new housing to be built

We should celebrate more the contributions of Landscape Architects to our cities. We know the “starchitects” who design the iconic buildings. But most people experience and love the public spaces (designed by landscape architects) more than the buildings that mark the skyline.

Housing supply up, rents down — we love to see it