1/ Housing is the defining issue of our time. As California's average home prices approach $1 million, @CSElmendorf and Ed Glaeser, America's leading urban economists, call on California to stop the vetocracy and BUILD. MORE. HOMES. 🇺🇸 From today's @latimes:

No city or county should have an absolute veto over such projects. CA already recognizes this principle in the energy context. It's time to extend it to housing. 2/2 link:

My op-ed w/ Ed Glaeser in today's @latimes argues that CA needs a state-level permitting framework for housing projects of statewide significance, like @CAForever. 1/2

7/ Full OpEd here:

6/ Fortunately, Suisun City dreams big and is evaluating @CAForever as the Suisun Expansion. @CSElmendorf and Glaeser's big idea is that if Suisun and other cities want to build the future, California should empower them, without the NIMBY vetocracy that's ruining California.

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5/ @CSElmendorf and Glaeser recognize that California is still missing millions of homes, production is not increasing, and we need new tools. @CAForever could make a major contribution.

4/ @CSElmendorf and Glaeser explain why @CAForever's scale is good – density needs early subsidies to create "an urbanism that soars." Scale allows us to improve schools and public safety, mitigate traffic, and build a real city. Scale aligns us with the community.

3/ @CSElmendorf and Glaeser call @CAForever an "audacious effort to operationalize the last 30 years of research in urban economics". @CAForever can be the canvas where all the best ideas of city building happen, at a scale that matters. Paging @hanlonbt @mnolangray

2/ @CSElmendorf and Glaeser clearly articulate why the @CAForever can be a "stark break" from exurban sprawl. @CAForever is not suburban Woodlands - it's Brooklyn on the Sacramento River.

.@Shawn_Regan at @CityJournal follows @ashleevance, @juliasteinberg, @slatestarcodex, and many others to call the question. @CAForever is California's ultimate test, and will become a symbol of either its renaissance, or its inability to build. We're on team renaissance.

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at Cedar, we're building autonomous architectural systems with taste warm light, heavy materials, cozy composition, these are the most important things to scale and the abundance every American deserves

Because most people haven't experienced either Waymo or Tesla FSD (i.e. punching in a destination and the car just taking you there with zero human intervention), they don't understand the implications of AVs. Society is about to have a big reboot. Transportation as a service

Robert A.M. Stern was a genius who brought classic architectural beauty back to great American cities. His buildings will stand for centuries after he’s gone. May he rest in peace.

@jansramek The first time I've seen someone comparing shipyards sizes in a video like this. Kudos to you! I'm trying to spread awareness about the shipyard size differentials as well! The shipyards in Asia dwarf ours.

@jansramek Build more ships. Grateful to call California and Solano County home. This community’s heritage in service, shipbuilding, and Travis AFB runs deep. Time to reclaim our role in protecting the nation. Let’s do This !😎✅😎

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BUILD. MORE. SHIPS. 🇺🇸

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