the quality of local civic content that was spilling from the fingers of everyone who lived and voted during the golden age of local newspapers just communicates what a difficult task we have today

New bipartisan housing package from Tim Scott and Elizabeth Warren just dropped — and it's good!

Summary of the most important supply-oriented parts of the bill, including directing HUD to produce best practice zoning guidelines, streamlining environmental review, grants for places adopting pro-housing policies, manufactured housing reforms, and loan policy for multifamily.

"With statewide model codes, state housing targets, and a string of other laws, Oregon has done more than any US state to standardize zoning rules across cities." -Sightline Institute Any state want to disagree? Let's get some competitive energy going ... Link at 1st reply.

And so dies the conservative legal movement. We're in a new, unprincipled epoch.