Thrilled to announce today Rep. Scott Peters, Congressman Blake Moore, Brian Schatz, & Jim Banks are reintroducing the bipartisan Build More Housing Near Transit Act! The bill protects taxpayers & transit riders alike from federal transit grants to cities that ban housing near transit👇

Great piece by Jen Pahlka and Robert Gordon on some promising reform efforts in cities and states across the country. Leaders are making hard choices to prioritize outcomes for people over broken processes and the status quo. nytimes.com/2025/07/22/opi…

Awesome paper finding huge benefits from relaxing zoning constraints in NYC, even once you account for the big costs of redevelopment vrollet.github.io/files/city_str…

Rousing applause for Council members Andrew Friedson, Natali Fani-Gonzales, Kate Stewart and all YES votes on this reasonable proposal for more housing options in Montgomery County “County Council votes 8-3 to approve controversial zoning ordinance” bethesdamagazine.com/2025/07/22/wor…

Nearly everyone has given up on urban K-12 reform. Politicians no longer talk about it. There's but one city, Houston, attempting wholesale reform and early results are incredibly promising. Cities from across the US are starting to pay attention. In 2023, after years of falling

I’m shocked to discover an extremely expensive fire code requirement: -with no obligation to prove value, -that fails to consider negative outcomes, - and turns out to be a handout to a supplier & specialized vendors. This is true over and over in fire code above all others,

The analysis also confirms that mixed-use development at RFK without a stadium would take almost a decade longer to complete. That's been a big argument for boosters of the stadium: It can fast-track development on the entire site.

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Good dealmaking, time to get it done!

Interregional transmission is essential to reducing energy costs 💰 Per The White House Council of Economic Advisers: "Interconnecting the regional grids would alleviate regional congestion and provide insurance against high costs that grids encounter during extreme conditions."⚡️

The Westerman-Golden NEPA reform bill is first out of the gate for bipartisan permitting negotiations! Most notable: judicial review provisions are getting more sophisticated — which is a good sign for future negotiations. 🧵👇 x.com/ThomasHochman/…

The United States is abetting a world-historic atrocity nytimes.com/2025/07/24/wor…

Summary of the most important supply-oriented parts of the bill, including directing HUD to produce best practice zoning guidelines, streamlining environmental review, grants for places adopting pro-housing policies, manufactured housing reforms, and loan policy for multifamily.

Well, there goes that narrative

Deadline is today for Open Philanthropy Abundance and Growth Fund roles! See nested tweet for more.

We can choose to save lives or we can choose this

Facing a severe housing supply shortage, more and more state housing agencies are rolling out revolving capital tools to accelerate mixed- and middle-income housing production. Read about the Acceleration Fund in New York, who just threw its hat in the ring:

New: EPW Chair Shelley Moore Capito is headed to the floor to discuss permitting reform being a “high priority” for post recess, she tells me. The committee’s top Democrat Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is expected to join and make remarks as well on shared interest