I fully support Rachel Cohen's ideas here about turning our many abandoned malls into housing. Amy Casciani, a longtime real estate developer whose corporation built housing across seven states, watched.
I don't know if this is an important enough supreme court decision to trigger commentary from Paul or Scott, but a decision of some interest to those of us who.
In the last decade or so, the status quo of near-total deference to local governments on housing and land use policy, leading to exclusionary policies that create economy and middle.
As I've said many times, those who respond to the housing and homelessness crises by saying BUILD BUILD BUILD are just pushing a simplistic talking point that serves to diminish.
Rachel Cohen with a great piece on how California YIMBYs got unions on board. Today, though, a major sea change is happening across California, with some unions now either actively.
The housing issue is complex. So is the homeless issue. Both of these things are more complex than most people believe. I will leave the homelessness issue for a future.
This sort of thing is going to get more and more common. For decades, the assumption among people who want to move to the Southwest is that the government won't.
Annie Lowrey has a pretty good essay on the housing shortage. She rightfully makes the point that the biggest issue is a lack of new building. I can certainly accept.
