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New England is, again, burning significant amounts of oil and coal to keep the lights (and AC) on. Both fuels would have been largely displaced by natural gas by now—if the very green folks in Albany hadn't blocked pipelines for the past decade.

This Friday, Governor Gavin Newsom will sign the most transformative housing bill of a generation into law - AB 609, which formally recognizes new homes built in cities are good for the environment. Buffy Wicks is a hero for authoring the bill. And California YIMBY has the best team in the biz.

Exciting!

Though it does not outright endorse what David Roberts recently called the "craziest" position he'd ever heard--that dense housing near fixed transit is good only if it's deed-restricted for affordability--the letter certainly gestures in that direction. x.com/CSElmendorf/st… /11

No, it's even crazier: certain labor leaders are comparing a bill that would establish *wage floors* for construction workers--floors that are way above minimum wage--to "Jim Crow, slavery, and immigration raids." 1/2

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Sam Bray, who's been leading the charge against nationwide injunctions in the academy, has an excellent op-ed at The New York Times about yesterday's Supreme Court opinion.

HABEMUS TORT DEAN news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

Yale's loss, Ford Foundation's gain Ford Foundation’s New Leader Is From Yale Law School nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/…

A great appointment. And a great appointment for cities. She has done really super interesting work on the need for a more vibrant federalism and to evolve power from national and state governments down to cities and local communities: nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/… via @NYTimes

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Couldn't be prouder to share the NYC Charter Revision Commission's latest report. The Charter reforms outlined here would be a huge step forward to address our housing crisis - making it easier to build affordable housing faster, and in every neighborhood.

100%! Even-year elections are also a housing reforms, as I argue here vitalcitynyc.org/articles/the-m…

"The most interesting thing on the ballot this fall," according to David Schleicher. vitalcitynyc.org/articles/the-m…

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