One way to synthesize these two is to marry ‘build more housing’ with ‘tough on crime.’ You want to build condos? Awesome. You want to do hard drugs, graffiti, shoplift, or act aggressively toward others in public spaces/public transit? You go to jail.

On top of disincentivizing new housing supply, a huge problem with rent control is that it makes it much harder to move into an area if you want to work there. Upward social mobility is supposed to be a core American -and core progressive-value and this is inimical to that.

Rent freezes/rent control are grossly unequal in their function. They treat people who are already in a place as a special class that needs protection from market forces but treat newcomers as a threat and undeserving of sympathy.

This is a fantastic bill!

Omg, she actually did the Lord Farquaad meme, but about Medicaid and SNAP cuts.

So much that’s puzzling to me about left politics in America is the decision to treat hard-core Democrats who are dramatically more progressive than the median voter as if we are the primary enemy.

If apples were fruit. Then the name “apples” wouldn’t need to exist. You’d just call them fruit.

Senator Blunt Rochester has been great on housing for a long time. Back when she was in the House, she sponsored the Reducing Regulatory Barriers to Housing Act, among other helpful actions. I would love to see her gain more prominence.

Yet another example of how inclusionary zoning blocks more housing than it’s worth. More generally, it’s lesson that sticking it to business isn’t the way to achieve affordability.

Same.

This the kind of thing that Democrats should be able to unanimously and vehemently oppose.

Our economic policy is so, so strange and bad. A bizarre combination of hating trade and hating elites has led us to be furious about the fact our policies send low-value manufacturing work overseas ... while we target high-value science for destruction and send it overseas.

I like Section 8 vouchers. And, as long as you can build it at a reasonable cost, public housing makes sense too. That plus total-YIMBY is the way to go. Get out of businesses way on the regulatory side and then back it up with a robust welfare state.

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