Should note here that we're running out of those empty parcels. To keep this up in the next decade, we need to pivot harder into building homes where they already exist. x.com/dcyimbys/statu…

Two weeks ago, Marco Rubio said USAID “has little to show since the end of the Cold War.” Days earlier, a Lancet study estimated that USAID global health programs have saved 90 million lives—not since 1991, but since just 2001.

An absolute joke. Next we're going to ask Ford to study congestion pricing. If you live in ANCs 1D, 3A, 3C, 5D, 5E, 7D, or 8A, urge your commissioner to reject DCPL’s requests for funding. Check which ANC you live in at openanc.org.

New project in Midtown Atlanta: 🏗️ Going from a single story fire station to 282 units of mixed-income, financed by Atlanta Urban Development Corporation, the city's new revolving loan fund. It's not just Montgomery County—more supply coming despite the tough macro environment.

The only thing that keeps modern day Union Station from being great is the terrible land use choices around it

This article somehow both misunderstands the "YIMBY playbook" and confirms that upzoning is essential to building more housing.

I'll also plug this piece i wrote on how DC, Seattle, and other dense Blue cities have been building tons of housing per capita by rezoning former industrial/commrcial corridors. That land is running low now tho. Next step is upzoning for more urban infill substack.com/home/post/p-16…

The *scale problem* explains so much about American commerce/land use/transportation:/housing. We are missing something like the bottom half of the "scale ladder" for almost everything - streets, vehicles, homes, commercial spaces. thedeletedscenes.substack.com/p/backyard-cof…

I interviewed a clothing factory once who said he's excited to implement robotics AI. He said this will make US manufacturing more competitive against China. I asked, "And what happens when Chinese factories also implement robotics AI?" He said, "Oh, I hadn't thought of that."

In Singapore’s equivalent of the State of the Union address, the prime minister included an Apple-style presentation where he revealed specific redevelop plans for tens of thousands of new homes

My first piece at The Argument: Biden’s experiment with open-ish borders actually worked out pretty well economically. The bottom line is we’re going to need a lot more immigration in the coming years to fix our economic and fiscal problems. theargumentmag.com/p/actually-we-…

Over the long term, we shouldn’t have political gerrymandering in America, just a fair fight between Republicans and Democrats based on who’s got better ideas. But since Texas is taking direction from a partisan White House and gerrymandering in the middle of a decade to try and

Tariffs are going great, congrats to all the heterodox thinkers who had the courage to ignore mainstream economic advice.

I actually don’t think it’s at all besides the point, the core of free speech and a liberal society is precisely that I *don’t* need to agree with the hagiographic accounts of Kirk’s life and work to find his murder unacceptable and chilling.