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By far most successful affordable housing strategy in history has been allowing the maximum possible amount of market-rate housing.
By far most successful affordable housing strategy in history has been allowing the maximum possible amount of market-rate housing.
INTERACTIVE MAP & RESEARCH: How much of your city's new housing is priced affordable to low-income families? Probably more than you think! Glad to be in @metroabundance: metroabundance.org/how-inclusiona…
Homebuilding - it works!
Traffic deaths in CA are spiking & speed is a big factor. We need new approaches to help people drive safely. Our bill to require new cars to deploy technology alerting drivers when they’re driving >10 MPH above the speed limit passed its 1st committee. SB 961 will save lives.
Just imagine the horrors we were saved from thanks to this "decade of community advocacy": a 298 unit aging apartment building that would now be offering deep discounts to compete with other new housing downtown/waterfront; millions of dollars of foregone revenue over the years;
Just imagine the horrors we were saved from thanks to this "decade of community advocacy": a 298 unit aging apartment building that would now be offering deep discounts to compete with other new housing downtown/waterfront; millions of dollars of foregone revenue over the years;
Pro-growth policies can't prevent a surge in prices or rents when demand takes off. But YIMBYism is the difference between a few years of paying nosebleed prices and a lifetime of it.
With some more context: Austin faced a huge surge in demand and rents went vertical. Instead of merely flatlining at a new, higher level when demand moderated, the building boom (which was chasing the high rents) is actually reversing the spike.
With some more context: Austin faced a huge surge in demand and rents went vertical. Instead of merely flatlining at a new, higher level when demand moderated, the building boom (which was chasing the high rents) is actually reversing the spike.
The SF Democratic Party is now officially Pro Housing! Last week, I was honored to cosponsor a comprehensive resolution with @SFDemocrats, declaring for the first time that our party acknowledges we must build housing at all levels, reduce bureaucracy, and protect renters. 🧵
I'm thrilled to announce the launch of the Inclusive Abundance Initiative (inclusiveabundance.org) — a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization I founded last year that is dedicated to shaping America’s future through an abundance-focused agenda. More here: linkedin.com/posts/activity…
Word from advocates on the ground in Hawai’i is if the conference committees on the ADU bill don’t reach agreement ASAP, the bill is dead this year. Sending all positive vibes to chairs @stanleypchang & @LukeEvslin to stand strong against NIMBY pressure. hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/202…
Does the filtering process that YIMBYs are always talking about apply only to ancient apartments? No. This building was erected in 2014, and is advertising a studio for $2170/mo. That unit originally rented in August 2014 for $2265/mo. That is a 27% real decline in 10 years.
Partly why there are so many empty commercial spaces on Mission St and why Calle 24 is accused of being a protection racket masquerading as a cultural preservation org. A city can't function where dubious ring-kissing is opaquely layered onto a dysfunctional nest of laws.
Partly why there are so many empty commercial spaces on Mission St and why Calle 24 is accused of being a protection racket masquerading as a cultural preservation org. A city can't function where dubious ring-kissing is opaquely layered onto a dysfunctional nest of laws.
HB 1110 requires cities to upzone for middle housing, but does not require inclusionary zoning. IZ is particulary harmful to small-scale housing and Seattle data shows it. To avoid undermining HB 1110, Seattle must not impose IZ on middle housing. sightline.org/2024/04/18/sea…
Inclusionary zoning makes for exclusionary places.
Inclusionary zoning makes for exclusionary places.
Inclusionary zoning trades broad housing affordability for a handful of subsidized units. It is bad, counterproductive policy and we should stop doing it.
Inclusionary zoning trades broad housing affordability for a handful of subsidized units. It is bad, counterproductive policy and we should stop doing it.
“Allowing homeowner the opportunity to subdivide their property and build four to five new for sale homes will provide the city $4,922 to $8,932 in new property taxes — a massive increase!” @sdutOpinion @cayimby @mnolangray @louismirante @hanlonbt sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/commen…
Ban the box policies that prevent employers from knowing the criminal history until late in the hiring process have the unintended effect of increasing discrimination against Black applicants. A new study shows the same dynamic with eviction moratoria. Researchers sent rental…
Understudied: the fact that developers would rather build low-income housing with ministerial approval than expensive housing with full review is concrete proof that California's land use policy kills market rate affordable housing.
Understudied: the fact that developers would rather build low-income housing with ministerial approval than expensive housing with full review is concrete proof that California's land use policy kills market rate affordable housing.
This week on the @metroabundance podcast, @stan_okl and I discuss the politics of YIMBY, the folk economics of housing, and New Orleans. Enjoy! open.spotify.com/episode/15cXuY…
The thing you learn when you dive into most policy areas (for me zoning) is that institutions are in a deep state of decay, "experts" in most established spaces are lazy and self-serving, nobody cares if things work, and a motivated outsider can totally upturn the apple cart.
The thing you learn when you dive into most policy areas (for me zoning) is that institutions are in a deep state of decay, "experts" in most established spaces are lazy and self-serving, nobody cares if things work, and a motivated outsider can totally upturn the apple cart.
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@PEWilliams_ @TheStalwart hmm....i'm saying most YIMBYs (not you, obviously, but most) regard zoning reform as sufficient to make housing affordable and don't actually call for "building more housing until it's affordable"....isn't that exactly the perspective armlovich is expressing here?
In the vast majority of US cities, roughly two-thirds of new "luxury" apartments are naturally affordable to households earning 80% of the area median income. Is the market more "inclusionary" than inaptly-named IZ mandates? metroabundance.org/how-inclusiona…
INTERACTIVE MAP & RESEARCH: How much of your city's new housing is priced affordable to low-income families? Probably more than you think! Glad to be in @metroabundance: metroabundance.org/how-inclusiona…
The Coastal Commission’s allies say they should block market rate homes. The Commission implies they are pro-housing. But they’re opposing incentives for mixed-income infill buildings and described one with 117 affordable homes as enriching “billionaires and corrupt kleptocrats”
Second, Coastal Staff rotely repeat that the coast does not need more market-rate housing, which is false. They refer to the project above (which would build 117 homes affordable to low income people) as "padding the profit margins of luxury developers". Here's an example:
By far most successful affordable housing strategy in history has been allowing the maximum possible amount of market-rate housing.
INTERACTIVE MAP & RESEARCH: How much of your city's new housing is priced affordable to low-income families? Probably more than you think! Glad to be in @metroabundance: metroabundance.org/how-inclusiona…
@metroabundance #Takeaways: 1) Affordability policies are mistargeting, and may be failing to help poor families directly and (if IZ discourages production) hurting them indirectly.
@metroabundance In most U.S. metro areas - including expensive coastal ones - about a third of all newly built rentals are leased at a level that would be affordable to a family earning 60% AMI, which is in the range that HUD calls "low income" and many IZ programs target.
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INTERACTIVE MAP & RESEARCH: How much of your city's new housing is priced affordable to low-income families? Probably more than you think! Glad to be in @metroabundance: metroabundance.org/how-inclusiona…
Trigger warning⚠️ Do not read this if you're not ready to discover the extent to which unregulated, fully commodified new market rate apartments can immediately serve low-income 60% AMI households at LIHTC rents
INTERACTIVE MAP & RESEARCH: How much of your city's new housing is priced affordable to low-income families? Probably more than you think! Glad to be in @metroabundance: metroabundance.org/how-inclusiona…
"Louis Mirante, vp of public policy at the Bay Area Council, a pro-business advocacy group, has helped lead the effort to curtail the commission’s authority. It arguably hasn’t faced such a challenge since voters approved the Coastal Act of 1972..." politico.com/newsletters/ca…
The key bulwark against YIMBY overreach is that we're ultimately just unlocking individual freedom to decide how to use their own land w/o central control Combining Robert Moses' futurist optimism, with Jane Jacobs' faith in devolutionary emergent order, protects us from hubris
the people who want to kick me out of DSA because I think there should be more apartments are on a "nlrb are cops" tour so that's fun
For the cost of one EV discount, you could give NINE families 50% off a brand-new RadWagon. It's not the nicest bike out there, but it absolutely does the trick.
Moreover, if California just straight up copied Texas' housing policies and its tax policies, it would be a **far more** progressive state than it is right now. California talks a big game, but it's actually extremely conservative with policies that shrink inequality.
I have said this over and over and over and over again: if California adopted Texas' housing policies, it would become a completely unstoppable economic powerhouse. It would be eating Texas' lunch. California actively chooses to make itself poorer, to satisfy rich NIMBYs.
California's *only* problem is that it's too hard to build stuff. Too hard to build new housing. Too hard to build green energy. Too hard to build high-speed rail. Too hard because it requires too many approvals, too many community meetings, too many chances for NIMBYs to say no.
Texas is booming. They’re creating jobs, increasing wages, building green energy, and keeping housing prices in check. All things that California claims to want. Yet we continue to implement policy that achieves the opposite.
bolinas really is the perfect encapsulations of the challenges of anti-growth liberal environmentalism: shrinking population unable to sustain social services, rural layout not resilient to climate change, denial that tourists want to come leads to confusion when they come anyway
Here's a great visualization: Austin's rent relative to the country (@zillow's measure) is now the lowest it has been in at least a decade.
genuinely wild that one of the fastest growing economies in the country is seeing rents *decline*
Here's a great visualization: Austin's rent relative to the country (@zillow's measure) is now the lowest it has been in at least a decade.
Germany is becoming an interesting case study. Its new national dietary guidelines call for 75% plant-based foods, its per capita meat consumption is down 12% in the last decade, & it invested €38M into a protein transition last year Akin to Norway's early lead in EV adoption
After six months of vegan meats being at price parity to animal meats, the plant-based products have increased sales by 30% at Lidl Germany. plantbasednews.org/news/lidl-incr…