“in the areas that we need housing the most, zoning and regulatory factors are responsible for the lion’s share of housing costs.” construction-physics.com/p/what-makes-h…

Watched "Escape from Alcatraz" last night, a movie about a foolish man who rejects the free housing given to him in a prime Bay Area location

One sobering indicator of the slowly metastasizing housing crisis is that problematic "Rent Burden" in the US before WWII was defined as rents over >20% of family income Today, a century later, we define Rent Burden at >30% of income and Severe Rent Burden at >50% of income 😅

what a great map

I find it funny how articles sometimes in the same exact newspaper will have radically different takes on what causes housing costs to change based on whether the framing is "what's happening in homebuilding these days?" or "this neighborhood is worried about development!"

With a toddler in the house I now end up going to the grocery store nearly every day for one reason or another and I'm going to venture a guess and say Europeans don't actually enjoy this

reposting for the morning crowd