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Update: Lyman Stone’s analyses (by Claude) make the program look potentially more impactful than we initially thought. It’s first-cut work and the standard errors are big, but it’s possible that the New Homes Bonus…
My favorite conference of the year is always the Urban Economics Association annual meeting, which is small, collegial, and technical. In 2024 and 2025, I published my notes on interesting papers. I think I…
What’s permanent about the “housing crisis” (or should we call it the “housing Cold War”?) and what’s new in the past decade? I enjoyed a wide-ranging conversation with Aziz Sunderji – see the whole…
Thanks to Infrastructure Lab at the National University of Singapore, there’s now a global atlas of every (??) data center built or proposed, as well as a catalog of active legislation, including across US…
Andrew Miller at Changing Lanes recently re-posted his 2025 article, “The 50% problem.” He’s positively inclined toward self-driving cars, but recognizes that there will be real growing pains. In this article, he predicts that…
On June 23, Congress passed its first big, standalone housing policy bill in a generation. The bill, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, is a salad of small reforms and previously-introduced bills. One…
If the 2010s were the decade that urbanists “discovered” zoning as a major force in American cities, the 2020s are the decade of discovering all the non-zoning restrictions and regulations that restrict housing construction…
Every so often I read tweets complaining that the wrong kind of housing is being built. Some complain that there aren’t enough houses being built, because houses are supposedly more family-friendly. Others complain that…
One argument for height limits and similar regulations is that high-rise apartment buildings generate more greenhouse gas emissions than low-rise apartment buildings, because the former category of buildings have more “embodied carbon”- that is,…
Every so often I read a claim that the housing crisis is caused not by supply or demand, but by inequality. It occurred to me today that I should dig up information on inequality…
