ND Gov. Kelly Armstrong at @yimbytown.bsky.social : on any policy change, 20% of people will be cranky & loud against, 80% are supportive but busy living their lives & don’t speak up. Ignore the 20%. Turn off your social media. Find a compelling emotional hook to engage the silent 80%.

While the headline focuses on a particular element of testimony, @halliemiller.bsky.social does an excellent job throughout the piece addressing the subject of parking reform. #MDHousing www.thebanner.com/community/ho...

The highlighted quote is a good example of why trying to hash out disagreements in good faith with left-NIMBY orgs is exhausting and ultimately fruitless. The lead author on this report *knows* this isn't true, and he knows it because we had a whole exchange about this in the pages of Dissent!

this is fantastic news for Arlington, and hopefully reassuring to Montgomery County officials, who are considering a more modest version of the zoning reforms Arlington passed in 2023

Critics focusing on Abundance instead of Stuck and Why Nothing Works allows them to step around the premise that: 1) things weren't always this way; 2) housing has been more affordable when we've built more of it; and 3) unfettered veto-based populism makes govt do bad things.

We're really about to start playing peek-a-boo with hurricanes like the old timey days.

my buddy @resnikoff.bsky.social off the top rope with some actual class analysis www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Baltimore County needs leadership with fresh ideas, real experience, and the drive to get things done. We are One County. Ready for that kind of change? Let’s build it together. Join the campaign: nickforbaltimorecounty.com #NickStewart2026 #StewartForBaltCo #OneCounty

Community meetings are like direct democracy, but only if you're free at 5:30 pm on a Tuesday.

this is fantastic news! next step: the House floor. if you haven’t already, you can send your delegates a note asking them to support Housing for Jobs here ⬇️ ggwash.org/housingforjo...

Great to see Housing for Jobs move out of the House Environment and Transportation committee earlier today! Thank you sub-committee chair Delegate @robbynlewis46th.bsky.social and E&T chair Delegate @mkorman.bsky.social an for your work on this bill! #MDHousing

I love any chance to talk housing policy with @jemillerbalt.bsky.social. @govwesmoore.bsky.social and the #Maryland legislature have taken big swings to address the #Housing Crisis this session and many of those efforts are well on their way to final passage. open.spotify.com/episode/1q7Z...

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“Giving people a subsidy for a good whose supply is choked is like building a ladder to try to reach an elevator that is racing upward.” - @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social & @dkthomp.bsky.social, #Abundance

I never expected "we should build more of the things we need" to be a controversial take. #Abundance

JD Vance's brother says that building affordable housing is tantamount to American slavery.

"Taking pleasure in the suffering of others will get us nowhere...You will only root for the spread of Measles in the Trump +35 district until it reaches the Harris +10 district, and maybe one day reaches you in your bright blue state." bad-faith-times.ghost.io/the-leopards...

@yappelbaum.bsky.social's new book Stuck answers some of these questions. The answer is normally racism wrapped in classism.

Exciting new polling from @ggwash.org showing strong support for the tenets of @govwesmoore.bsky.social's Housing for Jobs Act. 60% of Marylanders believe allowing more homes will help create jobs, increase customers for local businesses and make homes more affordable. ggwash.org/files/H4Jpol...

The personal opinions of planners and staffers are one of the most significant and under-appreciated aspects influencing if your city builds or not.

In the most recent UMBC poll conducted by Maryland's top vibe-checker @mileahkromer.bsky.social, 63% of respondents identified the cost and availability of #housing as a "high priority". This outperformed taxes, economic growth, environment and transportation. marylandmatters.org/wp-content/u...

I want my children to grow up in a world where, as adults, they can have coffee at 3 pm and go to sleep at 9 pm.

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I'm adding @yappelbaum.bsky.social's new book Stuck to the list of books I recommend for those seeking to understand the #housing crisis. Rest of list (unranked): @jerusalem.bsky.social On Housing @shanedphillips.bsky.social The Affordable City @conordougherty.bsky.social Golden Gates

One day, hopefully soon, we will stop re-sharing the President's trolling social media posts that are intended to incite us.

A fundamental story of the last decade is that a lot of basically incompetent people got fed up by competent people telling them they were wrong, constructed a more welcoming alternative ecosystem of competency cosplayers, and then somehow turned the whole government over to them.

Maryland lawmakers are likely to be fine-tuning next year’s state budget all the way into the final days of the General Assembly session in April. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...

I love this idea.

Government has a "get stuff done" problem. A system of checks and due diligence that was intended to reinforce faith in government has instead created a cultural of cynicism around any attempt to solve the problems of regular people. #Housing www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

New episode. @tomcoale.bsky.social @georgemasonu.bsky.social t.ly/gaveq Music by 7 Door Sedan linktr.ee/ihppod @sunildasgupta.bsky.social

I'm excited about the YIMBY Act in Congress, but what about funding organizations to hold local govt accountable for the Fair Housing laws that already exist? My friend Sam Jacobson wrote about this last February, which was boosted by @mattyglesias.bsky.social in his column fas.org/publication/...

Definitely some wisdom to this. But also Democrats would in fact do better if progressives intellectuals, funders, and activists behaved consistently as if they knew this.

Bateman running the WA Senate housing committee is extremely positive news. Check out her appearance on Volts! www.volts.wtf/p/washington...

"Kamala Harris should have gone on Joe Rogan" is the new "Shaka, when the walls fell".

Such a mystery. Project A is heavily subsidized, all-affordable housing and gets built. Project B is not subsidized but is still required by NYC zoning to provide 25 percent of its units at way-below-market rents. Why might Project B not be financially feasible? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Is there a Polymarket for "Kid Rock is going to be in charge of ATF"?

I had the opportunity to join Jayne Miller's new podcast, Maryland Capital, to discuss Salim Furth's and my paper on the permitting of new housing. I appreciate that Jayne has already dedicated two shows to housing production. She gets it! #MDHousing open.spotify.com/episode/50As...

Dispiriting maps on the decline of housing affordability from 2000 to 2019. From Supply Skepticism Revisited by Been, Ellen, & O'Regan: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I think this is absolutely true, but the question is “Why are they so angry?” America is prosperous, life is by any historical standard very good, and yet our politics is defined by rage and resentment. What is pouring so much anger into the public mind?

public meetings rarely look like the public and Montgomery County is no different. over the past few weeks @jonrobinson2.bsky.social and I have analyzed who came out to "listening sessions" on a big zoning proposal this fall and you can see our findings here ⬇️ ggwash.org/view/97613/c...

This recent piece by @jerusalem.bsky.social offers a more self-interested reason for blue state lawmakers to allow more homes and make their states more affordable places to live: the Electoral College. #Housing #AffordableHousing #YIMBY www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

desperately want villeneuve to get the green light to do god emperor of dune for no other reason than to see him out leto ii on screen

This is what happens when you actually let developers build housing. In Austin, rent has dropped 15% from its peak and buildings are offering multiple months FREE! 🤯

We need to stop loading essential shelter with all of the other policy objectives we can imagine. We don't require green energy to include housing units, but think nothing of the reverse. We don't require new sidewalks to include housing, but new housing can't come without capital improvements. 1/2

Prediction: Considering the imports needed for things like electric vehicles (Musk), Trump's tariffs won’t be implemented in the way we expect. Rather, we’ll see broad tariffs with discretionary waivers and exclusions that the Administration will use to extort political support and graft.

I co-wrote this paper with Salim Furth at the Mercatus Center titled: How to Streamline Housing Permitting in Maryland. We include 10 recommendations for how to make it easier to build housing to meet the demand for essential shelter. #Housing #YIMBY #MDPolitics www.mercatus.org/research/pol...

It's really odd that people expect a large share of new housing to be within financial reach of poor or even moderate income households. Only about 0.5-2% of housing in most cities is less than a year old. I've never lived in a new house and may never, and that's probably true for most people.