New evidence on the causal effect of unearned income on consumption, balance sheets, and financial outcomes, from @alexbartik, Elizabeth Rhodes, David Broockman, Patrick Krause, Sarah Miller, and Eva Vivalt nber.org/papers/w32784

Democrats of all stripes have a more favorable view of Obama than of Biden, but that's only because they didn't do an oversample of foundation program officers. policy.paradigm.xyz/writing/Dem-po…

Is it possible to change the minds of American voters? Derek Thompson and David Broockman discuss the process of political persuasion: open.spotify.com/episode/2cunoR…

15% of Americans consume over 8 hours/month of partisan television, including many who are not strong partisans; they mostly stick with their preferred channel onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

My coauthors and I are pleased to announce the publication of our new book tracing U.S. presidential campaign strategies from 1952 to 2020 using never seen details from internal campaign memos, ad buy data, and candidate visit records. a.co/d/gvIpgTx

CBS: "Many voters are still learning about Harris, creating a crucial test for the party this week. A third says they don't yet know what she stands for. Most voters think her views are similar — but not entirely the same — as Joe Biden's..." cbsnews.com/news/new-poll-…

Rents are lower and homes are more affordable when we build more homes. That’s why President Biden and Vice President Harris have put housing at the center of their economic agenda.

Unfunded IZ mandates make housing more expensive. It’s past time to abolish these counterproductive mandates.

It's a public health imperative to know what's going on with Novavax, our only non-RNA vaccine for COVID19/SARSCoV2. So FDA should shed as much light as it can. At minimum it should commit to a fair process. If the issue is with Novavax, then Novavax should reveal what they can.

The majority of the housing stock is owned by owner-occupants. The majority of the rental stock is owned by landlords with under ten units. Despite very low levels of concentration, landlording exhibits traits of a non-competitive market because land use limits entry.

The paper by Martin Vinæs Larsen & Niels Nyholt combines survey experiments w/admin data to show (1) that building height dominates other concerns about development & (2) that concerns about height ⬇️ *if project is sited near another bldg. of similar height* /2

That lesson might seem obvious, but it runs against the AFFH norm that calls for upzoning of suburban single-family-home neighborhoods. /5

This gets at one of my only disagreements with the YIMBY consensus. We YIMBYs rightly decry gov't requirements that reduce housing production. But AFFH *is* one: it reduces expected housing yield by forcing it into n'hoods that don't want it instead of n'hoods that don't care.

New in JPIPE: Michael Hankinson, A. Magazinnik & Anna Weissman find that construction union reps are more likely to attend public meetings to advocate for favorable labor agreements when the expected profitability of new housing developments is high. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…

After the November elections, SFPD needs a new police chief. No action can be done right now since the Peskin-Preston voting bloc still controls the Board of Supervisors. But in 2025, this should all change. New leadership is needed.

“Upzoning with strings attached” often backfires. #Seattle’s poorly-designed program has discouraged building smaller, missing-middle apartment buildings (e.g., fourplexes) in the locations where they are most needed: in mixed-use areas near transit.” 1/3

Dean Preston not only opposed the laws that made this affordable housing possible, he told local NIMBYs he deferred to them on whether it should be built and called for more community meetings first when the mayor proposed increasing height to 8 stories. nimby.report/preston

It tells us something positive that anti-housing politicians are now pretending to have helped facilitate housing

From our new issue: "Turnout Turnaround: Ethnic Minority Victories Mobilize White Voters" by Stephanie Zonszein (Stephanie Zonszein) and Guy Grossman (@guygrossman). #ASPRNewIssue cambridge.org/core/journals/…

I regret to inform you that the California state legislature is still not taking the housing crisis seriously.