People support housing density if they like cities. The YIMBY movement will go farther if it evolves into a broader “livable cities” coalition. Chris Elmendorf and David Schleicher show the way ⬇️

The answer here is nuanced: -It's unfair for zoning to ban her from building homes that meet FEMA's elevation and/or flood-proofing safety rules for her floodplain status. (That means either stilts or dry-floodproofing) -It is not unfair for FEMA to set those safety standards

YIMBYs should embrace a big-tent agenda focused on making cities more liveable. Why? Becuase people will support housing density if they like cities! We're already seeing groups like GrowSF adopt this approach.

“The Manhattan Institute but lib” (my words not the authors) is a kind of missing piece of the nonprofit/ideas firmament despite I think quite a bit of demand. Vital City kinds fills a City Journal esque role already

Awesome job opportunity for a YIMBY in NY 👇

Fun zoning fact: it’s illegal to build a 9-story apartment building across the street from this

Politics is politics, but I have to defend the Comptroller's office market reports These are the only free sources of sane, high-quality office market analysis providing summary access to extremely expensive private data I couldn't have written my Atlantic column without them

If you find Maine's vacation home statistics scandalous, you're gonna lose your mind when you find out what they put on their license plates & welcome signs

Nice to see fair & balanced coverage on how radicalism & unpredictability in housing policy can harm lender & investor sentiment We get wall-to-wall coverage of how Mamdani's vibes are spooking lenders; WSJ notes that Trump's HUD budget vibes are just as scary👇

Just read Vincent Rollet's incredible paper on effects of upzoning in NYC. Wow, wow, wow! If CA were a well-governed state, we'd be offering Meta-like pay to bring folks like Vincent into California HCD & Gov. Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation. 🧵/16, with the highlights.

Late breaking news: Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) have released a massive bipartisan housing bill ahead of a markup expected next week. Read the 315-page bill here: punchbowl.news/wp-content/upl…