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If we're going to have a "department of government efficiency", we should probably start with a conversation about how state DOTs spend billions of dollars of our money, and how little relationship it bears to the outcomes they claim to want. usa.streetsblog.org/2024/11/14/how…

This is an excellent thread, and a lot more sober-minded than some of the panicked reactions from Dems in the past week. Particularly appreciate the call to resist shallow economic populism. Bad ideas in the hands of a demagogue can win votes; they are still bad ideas.

New research on the behavior of large, institutional landlords in the rental housing market (and more evidence that they're associated with markedly higher eviction rates):

This is exactly right, from Charles Marohn. For a long time, Detroit homes were "too cheap to buy" (unless you had cash, or had no choice but to get into a predatory land contract). The focus here -- in policy and programs -- was largely on trying to create "comps" and / or raise

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The psychological distance from South FL to Atlanta is way more aligned with the actual distance if you make the drive in the winter, because there's a pronounced temperature drop. In the summer the same trip just feels interminable for no reason.

Debate time! New episode out with Chuck Marohn from Strong Towns and Nolan Gray with California YIMBY. I found them disagreeing here on X—which surprised me as I assumed they’d be on the same side—so I asked them on the podcast to hash out their ideas. It’s a great (and friendly)

Great urbanism is about proportions, not specific architectural styles There is a correlation between walkability & traditional architecture, but that's simply because that was the default pattern before the car You can have great urbanism with contemporary architecture, too!

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