Great take from my fellow economist Jeff Tucker based on what we're seeing in the housing market 🔥

We just recorded an interview with Maxine Waters for our next episode of CAHousingPod. We talk about the looming eviction cliff, the chances of federal support for landlords and tenants and homelessness in L.A. Coming to your ear drums soon!

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Smoke from the wildfires raging across the state have turned the sky apocalyptic here in San Francisco. I have all my lights on because it’s so dark at nearly 9am.

The largest slum in the world contained Covid-19 against all the odds. Now the people of Dharavi need to survive an economic catastrophe trib.al/LerJaqK

And when will the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule be re-implemented??

We've outgrown football stadium-equivalents to help visualize the impact of U.S. Covid deaths. We're now up to ever-larger cities. Currently at equivalent of everybody dying in Buffalo, Reno, or Scottsdale. Will hit Madison soon. Newark, Lincoln, & Orlando just a few weeks away.

Best point of sale experience this holiday season? The turkey gobble when my card was accepted at Trader Joe’s.

Schumer tells Democrats he has secured in covid package $25 billion for a new emergency rental assistance program that would allow renters to cover past debts & related expenses as well, per Democratic aide familiar washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020…

I realize it is nostalgic to be concerned that mothers are leaving the labor market in droves due to childcare demands, but today moms are breadwinners. Their families equally rely on their income for survival.

Tell me you have a toddler without telling me you have a toddler. Songs courtesy of my Discover Weekly on Spotify

This month's column is a love letter to egg rice. Maybe it's gyeran bap to you, or tamago kake gohan, or nasi telur ceplok, or arroz a caballo, or just dinner. There's an @alexanderchee cameo in here, too, which makes me happy. My latest for NYT Magazine nytimes.com/2021/09/08/mag…

$TSLA to the moon.

This is everything. Many may find out that the Moderna <5 trial was extended/delayed through this article if they haven't been obsessing about it over Twitter like our household.

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Tragically, we've all become numb to Covid's death toll. Sometimes it takes a tangible comparison to shake us out of complacency. I had such a moment today, when Covid deaths in the U.S. hit 875,000. That, as it happens, is the population of my city, San Francisco. Staggering.

The coexistence of large data science ecosystems in both R and Python is a hugely costly coordination failure.

Wondering how Wind Chill is calculated? Here's a hand-dandy chart! For those more math oriented, note the equation! 👩‍🔬

For those looking for a very practical, applied course on A/B testing!