Last night, there were 2 more shootings at short term rental party houses in Houston. These are the 559th & 560th news reports I’ve found of shootings at STRs since May 2019 & the 3rd STR shooting in Houston in just 5 days. #EnoughWithThePartyHouses #HomesNotHotels #TXLege 1/4

Palm Springs capped Airbnbs, and look what it's done to home prices. Flat or declining.

BREAKING: President Trump announces steps to ban large institutional investors from buying single-family homes. "People live in homes, not corporations." - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸

YIMBY writer Kevin Erdmann makes a good point about what YIMBY policies don’t do open.substack.com/pub/kevinerdma…

Jon Brooks The housing problem isn't supply, it's allocation. We gave low rates for (small) investors to scoop up housing as an inflation hedge, second+ homes, or put them on Airbnb.

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“Build, baby, build” meets inequality. As Julie Z. Weil notes in The Washington Post, supply alone may not fix #affordability. Our Urban Studies Journal paper warned why: #inequality, not #zoning, does the damage. WaPo: washingtonpost.com/business/2026/… doi.org/10.1177/004209… doi.org/10.31235/osf.i…

Important Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco paper: What if supply constraints aren't driving housing price growth, and instead, increasingly wealthy people have bid up prices in certain metros? Construction has tracked well with population, but net income drives the divergence: frbsf.org/research-and-i…

Fantastic story, showing that #NotAllEconomists subscribe to the abundance view that zoning and regulation are to blame for unaffordable housing. Adding a few screen grabs for those who can't get behind the WaPo paywall. Key findings with links here: * Buchholz et al, LSE

"A major, unheralded source of Yimbys' success is the mainstream media’s virtual blackout of their critics," writes Zelda Bronstein. "So it’s newsworthy that The Washington Post reported on growing scholarly dissent from the supply-side housing agenda." 48hills.org/2026/02/finall…

The unaffordability of housing is primarily dynamics that are not solved, but exacerbated by deregulation: 1. Monetary policy designed to inflate it as an asset class 2. It has to be produced locally, so its price exposes income suppression that consumer products don't

Home builders are proposing new policies to the White House, looking for help to unload the biggest glut of housing inventory in 15 years wsj.com/economy/housin… via The Wall Street Journal Inventory glut??? But, but, but…the YIMBYs keep saying we have a housing shortage.

When Airbnb tourists pay 2-3x what renters pay, housing gets more expensive. Short-term rental investor Steve Nguyen saying the quiet part out loud: “The revenue stream dictates the value” ctvnews.ca/vancouver/arti…

The private market does a great job solving the housing crisis for the rich. The rest need government to step up. nytimes.com/2026/02/05/rea…

“A recent survey by left-leaning Groundwork Collaborative and Data for Progress found that nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the way to lower housing costs is through regulating corporate landlords and institutional investors.” And yet, the popular and economically sound

Cap rates for residential housing are completely thrown off by short-term rental income. These properties *were* valued on long-term rents. Airbnb drives up housing prices because it's an entirely different use for residential housing.

A teen is facing a felony charge after police say he fired a gun at his ex-girlfriend's birthday party at a downtown Austin @AirBnb. This is the 570th news report I’ve found of a shooting a short term rental since May 2019. #EnoughWithThePartyHouses #HomesNotHotels

I need YIMBYs to learn more about housing finance before they make claims about supply/demand outcomes in the housing market. It is the financialization of housing that has been the primary driver of rising rents and housing costs, not a lack of supply.

The YIMBYs, economics and urban planning professors, and other “experts” assured us this wasn’t happening. You mean to say they lied again?

Pretty interesting dynamic bc all the major yimby lobbying orgs are funded by a couple billionaires who are both heavily invested in AI. I bet we never see them call for housing over data centers, bc the endgame was always data centers