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Social democrat in the streets, liberal Georgist in the sheets. Mariah Carey stan & Marie Kondo enthusiast. YIMBY/NUMTOT/aspiring DILF. Zillennial (28) | 🏳️🌈
New York, NY | he/him
Joined May 2020
My first Substack post! Vacancy taxes have gotten some more attention in housing policy. Do they work?. The verdict: vacancy taxes have modest benefits, but do not remotely achieve what building new housing does. They are also often poorly targeted! 🧵.
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RT @besttrousers: I really don't get this framing. The policy impacts of non-cash programs are also Not Great!.
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RT @maiamindel: It's funny that the people who this view is most commonly associated with aren't progressives, they're like, Milton Friedman.
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RT @mateosfo: If you want to know where we're headed if we continue to allow NIMBYs to dominate our urban politics in the United States --….
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RT @JosephPolitano: LA has completely failed at a local level to build enough housing, which is why the state government has to force them….
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RT @StatisticUrban: He was totally right on this one. Banning driverless trucks would be insanely dumb.
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RT @besttrousers: "In the 2024 election, the American people demanded lower prices. What is postliberalism giving us? Tariffs, gutted biome….
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The funny thing is that they could have just said “being outdoors is probably fine especially if you aren’t standing literally on top of each other and are maybe wearing a mask” and been fine because two weeks later that’s exactly what the directives for summer 2020 were anyways.
What are the best examples of scientists using the mantle of a claimed "independent authority of science to arrive at data-driven conclusions" to give weight to contested moral & political claims?. Things like the 2020 "why BLM marches are an exception to lockdowns" open letter
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RT @PEWilliams_: If you've wondered what's going on with the LPO, you're not alone. We spoke with project applicants and former staff to b….
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Somewhat related but this is why I am Proportional Representation’s strongest warrior. Yeah parties will eventually sort themselves into two roughly even competing blocs. But I never have to deal with US-style primary ideological debates ever again. Peace on my feed.
I really like this articulation!. One of the effects of the US party system is that liberals and leftists often see each other as inferior versions of themselves, not as genuinely distinct, sincere ideological blocs. This has a lot of downstream effects.
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Top 5 fields to study for enlightenment:. 5. Geography.4. History.3. Economics.2. Physics.1. The Blade.
I have come to believe that economics is the single most useful field for understanding the world. It’s very far from sufficient on its own, and many other fields are indispensable. But it forces you to think of scarcity, trade-offs, incentives, equilibria, and marginal effects.
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RT @j_kalla: Seems like an important update to this claim: using the voter validated CES, if everyone had voted, Trump would have done slig….
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Seems like an important update to this claim: using the voter validated CES, if everyone had voted, Trump would have done slightly better
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RT @maxdubler: The NIMBY three step: “I participated in the public process and did not get my way” becomes “I was left out of the decision….
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RT @GoodGuyGuaranty: This is truly the missing link for American cities - commercial spaces where the overhead is small enough that a busin….
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RT @besttrousers: Maybe you disagree with it, but this is the consensus of the field so it is at least debatable. .
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RT @JustinWolfers: It's almost too perfect when the only "analyst" supporting EJ Antoni can't even read a pie chart correctly.
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Y’all may laugh, but terrible backronyms are part and parcel to American news and political culture
MSNBC is changing its name to MS NOW (My Source for News Opinion and the World). Not a joke.
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