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David Schleicher

@ProfSchleich

3 years

A bad journalism about cities checklist: ✔️Wildly misunderstands the relationship btwn housing supply and prices ✔️Suggests new parks are bad ✔️Says increasing density increases emissions (b/c it focuses on local emissions rather than per capita global)

Why “greening” cities can make gentrification worse

Urban renewal under the guise of “going green” isn’t working — for the environment, or for residents

www.salon.com

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David Schleicher

@ProfSchleich

2 years

An intermediate California appellate court embraced a view that economic growth -- of any kind -- is an environmental harm that needs to mitigated because it draws new people into an area with limited housing. This is the upside-down good-is-bad world created by housing scarcity

Chris Elmendorf

@CSElmendorf

2 years

The court says that homeless people cause (or are?) an environmental problem, and that bringing more students to Berkeley increases demand for housing and may displace existing residents, driving some into homelessness. Ergo, an EIR for a long-range student enrollment... /19

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David Schleicher

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Despite a few dead-enders, this is the expert consensus "Exclusionary land use and zoning policies constrain land use,...inflate prices, perpetuate historical patterns of segregation, keep workers in lower productivity regions, and limit economic growth."

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10 months

I'm pretty confident this will be reversed and the laws will be upheld, but it's worth noting that state trial courts -- from Montana to Minnesota to New York -- are central parts of NIMBY politics.

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@mattyglesias

10 months

It’s just wild the shit we allow courts to do in this country. Oh both houses of the state legislature voted for it and the governor signed it? Well too bad!

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David Schleicher

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3 years

I have a new paper out, “Exclusionary Zoning’s Confused Defenders,” . The piece reviews articles by some prominent legal academic critics of zoning reform and finds their arguments…. wanting (1/11)

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@ProfSchleich

2 years

The academic consensus that the only real solution to a housing crisis is increasing supply is even beginning to penetrate the hardest nut to crack: the deeply provincial New York City Council

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@ProfSchleich

4 years

Hi everyone! Quick news: @samuelmoyn and I just launched a new podcast: Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast

Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast

www.diggingaholepodcast.com

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@ProfSchleich

5 years

The belief that homeowners are something other than an interest group is very important to their power

Market Urbanism

@MarketUrbanism

5 years

Every candidate takes real estate money. They take the most subsidized, the most undertaxed, the most destructive kind of real estate money: NIMBY homeowner money

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@ProfSchleich

3 years

Telling this story from the perspective of annoyed residents is an insane framing - housing growth on the UWS is very slow, its population has been falling (even pre-Covid) despite high prices. And it is extremely well supported by transit.

Condo Fatigue on the Upper West Side (Published 2021)

Residents and preservationists have tried to stop three new towers, but so far, the developers are winning.

www.nytimes.com

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@ProfSchleich

3 years

Amazing “Gimmie Shelter” podcast on the Berkeley CEQA lawsuit. The most interesting bit was the implicit assertion of authority by the neighborhood activist, that he and the courts should get to decide questions like where the university should build housing.

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2 years

So great to see the academic consensus that NY suburbs need more housing in such a bracing column

Opinion | The Era of Shutting Others Out of New York’s Suburbs Is Ending (Published 2023)

Zoning laws have shut out Black Americans and others considered undesirable from thriving suburbs for too long.

www.nytimes.com

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@ProfSchleich

4 years

Glaeser’s line on this is terrific: “Humans are a destructive species. We need dense cities to keep them out of nature”

James Medlock

@jdcmedlock

4 years

@SpeakingBee @mattyglesias I love nature and I love immigration and population growth. One reason for housing density is so we can keep the nature around cities preserved

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4 years

Car dealerships’ political power is a difficult thing to explain for those committed to arguments that industrial concentration or firm size leads to power in a straightforward fashion, as it is their spread and small size (in every district) that makes them so formidable.

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@ProfSchleich

4 years

The only two American institutions that have proved themselves in this crisis are the Federal Reserve and the NBA

Taisu Zhang

@ZhangTaisu

4 years

Thus far, the greatest display of technocratic competence in pandemic management on American soil has very likely been the NBA. Congratulations to the Lakers, but even more congratulations to the league for actually making the bubble work. Whoever wins the Election, take notes.

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@ProfSchleich

4 months

On congestion pricing: The nationalization of state and local politics has jumped from voters caring more about national politics to actual *Governors* caring more about national politics than state policy.

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@ProfSchleich

5 years

I appreciate @Richard_Florida sharing this paper, b/c I wouldn't have necessarily come across it on my own. And it is *horrible* but in an interesting way. A tweet storm

‘Build More Housing’ Is No Match for Inequality

A new analysis finds that liberalizing zoning rules and building more won’t solve the urban affordability crisis, and could exacerbate it.

www.bloomberg.com

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@ProfSchleich

4 years

Well, at least NYC's unemployment rate is so low that no one will miss these jobs ... Oh, wait, what, the unemployment rate is 19.9%? Seems bad

Progressives Defeat Brooklyn Project That Promised 20,000 Jobs (Published 2020)

The developers behind Industry City abandoned a rezoning proposal after left-leaning Democrats raised concerns about gentrification.

www.nytimes.com

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@ProfSchleich

5 years

Allowing density is the single best climate policy a city can adopt.

Market Urbanism

@MarketUrbanism

5 years

Truly unhinged @MASNYC report tries to link their fight against development in rich neighborhoods with the fight against climate change

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@ProfSchleich

1 year

Great news: Another land use decision by NYC's most NIMBY trial judge, Arthur Engeron, this time about 250 Water Street, gets reversed on appeal

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David Schleicher

@ProfSchleich

5 years

This @nytimes editorial on the housing plans of the Democratic Presidential candidates is quite sound. I wish, though, they'd apply the same pro-supply logic in their own backyard, to NYC and NY State politics, where it would matter much more

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@ProfSchleich

1 year

Look what arrived!! Out on newsstands soon!

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5 years

It's becoming a bit cliche to note this, but if a rich person really wanted to help in American democracy in a tangible way, she would do so by stopping local papers like this from closing

Dying Gasp of One Local Newspaper (Published 2019)

The Warroad Pioneer, a pillar of its small Minnesota town, ended its 121-year run with bloody marys, bold type and gloom about the void it would leave behind.

www.nytimes.com

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@ProfSchleich

4 years

This @EvanMast2 paper shows that, as theory predicted, cities with districted city council elections permit less new housing than cities with at-large city council election, matching @msgHankinson and @asyamagazinnik 's findings,

Warding Off Development: Local Control, Housing Supply, and NIMBYs

Local control of land-use regulation creates a not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) problem that can suppress housing construction, contributing to rising prices and potentially slowing economic growth. I...

research.upjohn.org

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@ProfSchleich

4 years

That thing where how the NYTimes being wrong about something you know about effecting your assessment of other pieces, but in reverse - @ConorDougherty ’s piece on housing markets and population shifts is excellent

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@ProfSchleich

3 years

It's really bonkers, but captures the really weird ideas surrounding "eco-gentrification" or "just green enough." Rather than embracing new housing supply so that more can enjoy them, they are worried that cities might have too many amenities and be too nice

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@ProfSchleich

2 years

My new book, In a Bad State: Responding to State and Local Fiscal Crisis, is available for pre-order! (It’s out in May). Much, much, much more on this in the near future, but here’s a preview thread… .

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3 years

The press and First Amendment scholars are now realizing what people involved in land use have long known: New York’s trial level courts are full of judges barely constrained by settled law and eager to impose their policy preferences

Judge Upholds His Block on New York Times Coverage of Project Veritas (Published 2021)

The New York State judge also ordered The Times to turn over physical copies and destroy any electronic versions of documents a lawyer prepared for the conservative group.

www.nytimes.com

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@ProfSchleich

4 years

@swinshi If you’ve cooked the argument with the assumption: why assume “state” is the unit that should make decisions? If you start there, something like the Senate/EC is inevitable. But that’s what the argument is about!

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1 year

Look at this project by two @YaleLawSch students! A lack of media coverage of local government has contributed to lower rates of participation in local elections, less split ticket voting, and higher local borrowing costs. This might provide the beginning of a solution.

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@ProfSchleich

5 years

This otherwise very good article about the endorsements of NIMBYs made by Bernie Sanders's political organization somehow missed the fact that Michael Weinstein, LA's arch-NIMBY, is one of his major housing policy advisors,

Is Bernie Sanders a NIMBY?

He has a plan to build more housing, but he's helped to elect candidates who have pushed for the opposite.

www.motherjones.com

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@ProfSchleich

5 years

Update: the @nytimes offered a correction: "An earlier version of this article misstated the nature an effort in Minneapolis to encourage construction of multifamily housing. The city eliminated single-family zoning, it did not ban single-family homes."

David Schleicher

@ProfSchleich

5 years

"Minneapolis recently moved to rezone most of the city to ban new single-family homes" Umm....That's not what happened at all. @nytimes

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The part that bothers me the most is not the economic illiteracy or the adoption of a bizarre scarcity mindset -- it's the focus on local emissions as the standard for how "green" something is. That's both bad and truly widespread and part of government policy.

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@ProfSchleich

2 years

The weirdest thing about this @nytimes piece is that it imagines most reductions in the # of units are happening in new buildings. In the neighborhoods it discusses, almost all reductions in units are caused by combining apartments in existing buildings

Taller Towers, Fewer Homes (Published 2022)

New boutique condo towers, some with fewer apartments than the buildings they replace, are squandering high-density sites in Manhattan, urban planners say.

www.nytimes.com

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@ProfSchleich

2 years

A few people have already started asking whether the dissolution of Reedy Creek violates the Contract Clause, so I figured I’d lay out the issues for people. (1/21). It's an interesting question involving a wild story!

The Contractual Impossibility of Unwinding Disney’s Reedy Creek

There’s been a lot of talk about whether Florida lawmakers can legally dissolve Disney’s Reedy Creek Improvement District, but there’s one basic reason why Florida can’t dissolve it—it promised bond...

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@ProfSchleich

2 years

The great Bob Ellickson's big zoning book drops October 18th! @mollyxbrady @RickHills2 @hanlonbt @anikasinghlemar @MarketUrbanism @JerusalemDemsas @mattyglesias

America's Frozen Neighborhoods: The Abuse of Zoning

www.amazon.com

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@ProfSchleich

5 years

The lack of productivity growth in the construction sector is one of the great unexplained economic questions.

Marginal Revolution

@MargRev

5 years

Something is wrong with construction

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1 year

I have an essay in the @TheAtlantic about the end of the era of flush state and local budgets and how we should react to it,

The Era of Flush State Budgets Is Over

What comes next?

www.theatlantic.com

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@ProfSchleich

2 years

Am very much enjoying ⁦ @mnolangray ⁩’s terrific new book.

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4 years

Ugh. Many cities taking on a lot more debt to expand convention centers is, uh, not something I had on my bingo card for 2020.

Nobody Is Going to Conventions. Convention Centers Are Growing Anyway. (Published 2020)

The pandemic is intensifying the competition among cities, which are rushing to build bigger, more alluring event spaces.

www.nytimes.com

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David Schleicher

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5 years

Excellent ⁦ @mattyglesias ⁩ piece citing my tweets about federalism and Coronavirus Trump’s federal response to coronavirus is nowhere to be found - Vox

America has no federal response to this crisis

Trump is playing president on television instead of doing the job.

www.vox.com

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@ProfSchleich

2 years

"Historic preservation not only gave this process of hyper-gentrification an imprimatur of political and legal legitimacy it might otherwise have lacked, but also continues to enable it in the present day." Excellent @JakeAnbinder

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5 years

"“It’s not that we’re hoity-toity. Oh, no. We’re very liberal. Very progressive. Very accepting." This @washingtonian story about the "yellow shirt" NIMBY movement in Reston, VA is wild

The Very Uncivil War Going Down in America’s Most Civil Suburb - Washingtonian

Looking back on it, the night 900 people marched into South Lakes High School was probably the moment when things got out of hand in Reston. There was the preposterous number, for one. And how most...

www.washingtonian.com

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2 years

Just so we're clear, the logic of this opinion suggests that reductions in air pollution are a harmful environmental impact that needs to be mitigated. Better air is bad for the environment, sez California court!

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@ProfSchleich

5 years

For greenhouse gas emissions, "Building efficiency is not enough; density apparently matters a whole lot more."

Why Building Density Matters as Much as Building Efficiency

We'll always have Paris.

www.treehugger.com

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@ProfSchleich

5 years

This @NewYorker piece on housing markets is almost comically awful, as it pretends to review the literature on housing and growth but actually somehow misses all the parts that didn't emerge from geography departments and stray blogs,

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@ProfSchleich

5 years

This excellent piece by @cmhrrs *destroys* that @TexasTribune article that said Houston was actually more expensive than New York, an argument that made no sense on its face. But this is very comprehensive about its many, many flaws.

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@ProfSchleich

3 years

The Buckhead Secession is one of the most interesting political fights in the country and is an advertisement for why lawyers who care about housing policy, segregation, policing and the practice of democracy need to take a class in local government law

The Housing Proposal That’s Quietly Tearing Apart Atlanta

Secession efforts by Buckhead residents are gaining momentum as the city proposes zoning changes to create more apartments and affordable housing.

www.bloomberg.com

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@ProfSchleich

4 years

"If the city ... elects to obstruct new development because a few people want to protect their views, or because a historical preservation commission prefers parking lots to apartment buildings, its rivals ... will blow past New York."

Opinion | Does New York Still Want to Be the Capital of the World?

A fight over a lower Manhattan development project pits the city’s future against its past.

www.wsj.com

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@ProfSchleich

4 years

YLS students did an amazing job during this Woodbridge hearing challenging the "faux environmentalism" that opponents use to oppose density. It's an amazing model of how to respond to bad environmental arguments for single-family only zoning

Town Plan & Zoning - 03/18/21

Special meeting. Agenda:https://www.woodbridgect.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182021-1922We neglected to update the list of commission members. Kathl...

www.youtube.com

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@ProfSchleich

3 years

Never has it be so clear how the combination of land use regulation and environmental litigation can be used by settled homeowners to strangle the future …

Sara Libby

@SaraLibby

3 years

BREAKING: UC Berkeley must slash admissions by thousands after state Supreme Court sides with neighbors who sued.

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5 years

Oy! Systematically making it harder to use what zoning capacity there is in New York by slowing ZLMs and encouraging downzonings is a insane policy in the context of a housing crisis.

New bill seeks to fight ‘overdevelopment’ by alerting communities to rights transfers

The advanced warning could give locals a leg up in challenging projects

ny.curbed.com

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@ProfSchleich

4 years

That @jakebackpack would slam someone for not having done the reading, and then argue that housing supply does not effect prices, w/o mentioning that there is a huge academic literature that shows that he is wrong, is somewhere between funny and awful

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2 years

By the logic of this opinion, any project that increases interest in moving to an area is an environmental harm that needs to mitigated. This includes projects that directly reduce air pollution, as air pollution surely makes areas less attractive.

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@ProfSchleich

6 months

The patience to respond to clearly wrong ideas slowly and with as much generosity as possible is a wonderful trait

Stephen Hoskins 🔰🏗️🧦🪩

@GeorgistSteve

6 months

Patrick Condon's housing model is wrong. But it's wrong in some pretty interesting & pseudo-Georgist ways. So let's go through them. 🧵

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"“It’s ironic that the wealthy neighbors of this church, who have multimillion apartments, who have windows overlooking this space, are claiming that they are the little guys,” he said."

Why Mark Ruffalo and Wendell Pierce Are Fighting for a Crumbling Church (Published 2023)

Congregants of the West Park Presbyterian Church, a Manhattan landmark, want it torn down and replaced by condos. Celebrities are joining the fight to save it.

www.nytimes.com

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@ProfSchleich

5 years

This piece In @UrbanAffairsRev is a *doozy,* somehow using avowedly politically left principles to argue in favor of exclusionary zoning in rich suburbs (or at least to criticize any effort to change these policies) .

Rethinking Exclusionary Zoning or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love It - David Imbroscio,...

Everybody, in the academic/activist world at least, seems to hate exclusionary zoning (EZ). In this intervention, I question this prevalent sentiment, especiall...

journals.sagepub.com

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@ProfSchleich

3 years

This is a terrific column, highlighting the conflict between the interests of conservation-minded local chapters of environmental groups and the demands of decarbonization, with some amazing examples of faux-environmental NIMBYism employed against clean energy projects

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼

@Noahpinion

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Our environmental organizations were designed for an era when smog and sprawl were the issues of the day. They are increasingly getting in the way of fighting climate change. A guest post by @Nowooski .

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"Minneapolis recently moved to rezone most of the city to ban new single-family homes" Umm....That's not what happened at all. @nytimes

Cities Need Affordable Housing, but Builders Want Big Profits. Can It Work? (Published 2019)

Using government subsidies, tax credits and zoning changes, municipal leaders are encouraging developers to incorporate affordable housing into mixed-use projects.

www.nytimes.com

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11 months

Seen in NYC! Seeds of a popular movement to reform the city’s bizarre scaffolding laws?

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2 years

@MarketUrbanism This is a classic example of why per capita emissions is a bad thing to target. Aluminum smelting is in Iceland due the cheap and clean electricity, but it still produces a lot of Co2 (just less than it would elsewhere).

How Iceland is undoing carbon emissions for good

Carbon emissions are causing climate change – so rather than sending carbon dioxide into the sky, in Iceland, some are turning it into stone.

www.bbc.com

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4 years

What should the federal government do if an llinois or Connecticut or Chicago is on the edge of defaulting on its debt? I have a new draft piece up that discusses the history and theory of federal responses to state and local budget crises. (1/20)

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4 years

"In a growing city, change is a constant."

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The idea: @thelocallens uses AI to review the minutes and videos of uncovered local meetings — zoning boards, boards of education, etc.— and writes up stories about them, which citizens can read directly and, importantly, journalists can use to identify stories and build upon

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Ooh, Treasury regs interpreting the ARP rule that state and local governments cannot use federal aid to cut taxes are out. TLDR: They are *very* sensible, responding to the federal interest in avoiding future bailouts while respecting federalism concerns

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This is, at core, what the fight over CEQA is about - the rights of neighbors to challenge elected/appointed govt officials about their decisions, and effectively assert authority over these decisions

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One of the academic points people make about exactions (including things like CBAs) is that they are payoffs to whomever is politically powerful, not necessarily genuinely local concerns. This is usually disguised a bit, but San Francisco just.... says it.

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@ProfSchleich

4 years

To US transportation policy experts and politicians, building a colossally expensive tunnel underneath a major sound is somehow considered more reasonable and less "hare-brained" than a train going kinda near some adorable historic towns.

It has been slow to arrive, but high speed rail could be coming

The centerpiece is a high-speed trunk line from New York City to Boston. But instead of following the existing shoreline right-of-way like the last doomed plan, the proposed new route would track to...

ctmirror.org

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Yes! Even per capita emissions is a bad metric for states (if much much better than total). If low emissions states attract population, it will often lead to that person reducing their emissions, but increase per capita emissions in the state. Still good for the climate!

Matthew Yglesias

@mattyglesias

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Many state governments want to take action to address climate change, which is good. But state-level emissions targets don’t make sense and fuel bad NIMBY instincts.

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I'm have a column in @mattyglesias 's Slow Boring today about the promise and peril of an Eric Adams Administration, and the relationship between machine politics and housing production....

The Machine Man

The case for and against Eric Adams

www.slowboring.com

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@ProfSchleich

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One of the amazing and horrifying things about local politics is that people often actually say exactly what they think: "To me, it’s too much density. It’s putting too much in a little area. To me, this is ghettoizing Westport.” @anikasinghlemar

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A reminder: given per capita emissions levels in NYC v the suburbs/other regions, the best thing by far NYC can do to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is to allow more housing to be built in the city so more ppl can live there

Dana Rubinstein

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It's Earth Day, which means politicians have to come up with green things to announce. De Blasio's is that NYC is going to sue Big Oil. "We're going to go at them," he says. The suit will be in state court.

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As with much public infrastructure, we will not see much new public housing - no matter how needed - during a state and local fiscal downturn unless the drivers of high public construction costs are addressed

The Solution to the Affordable Housing Problem That No One Wants to Discuss

There are new ideas for fixing this. And one very old one.

slate.com

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@ProfSchleich

4 years

I am extremely excited about the amount of research about why it's so expensive to build train lines in the United States. Not only the amazing @NYUMarron project led by @ericgoldwyn @alon_levy but many other projects as well

A Growing Body of Work on Infrastructure Costs Sets the Stage for Meaningful Change - The Eno...

October 2, 2020 - When the current setbacks from COVID-19 inevitably subside, successful regions will still need high performing transit in the future. This is all the more reason why Eno’s ongoing...

enotrans.org

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@ProfSchleich

5 years

This is excellent, particularly as applied to playgrounds. Shaded playgrounds are a major, major amenity.

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2 years

Another terrific @JerusalemDemsas piece, on the case against the case against super-tall towers. Unassailable

Let the Rich Have Their Supertalls

American cities need to grow up.

www.theatlantic.com

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@ProfSchleich

4 years

The failure to build enough housing during the boom will stand as a central policy failure during the bust, as housing prices don't fall as fast as incomes.

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@ProfSchleich

4 years

The failure of @IngaSaffron 's column is common to most architecture columnists drafted to write about cities: they care about aesthetics more than they do about economy/housing prices, and don't explain how they make trade-offs

Housing advocates see denser buildings as an answer to affordability. But not all density is good...

Two notorious projects help us understand the difference between density that enhances a neighborhood and projects that big-foot their surroundings.

www.inquirer.com

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@ProfSchleich

2 years

The anti-crypto @ben_mckenzie feed has been amazing over the last few days.

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David Schleicher

@ProfSchleich

4 years

"I prefer the term U.H.B...It's an acronym of urban haute bourgeoise."...."No, no, I think it's a useful term. The fact that it sounds ridiculous could be part of its appeal." @samuelmoyn @WhitStillman @michaeldweiss

CNBC

@CNBC

4 years

Biden defines $400,000 a year as 'wealthy.' In big cities, it only makes you upper middle class

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David Schleicher

@ProfSchleich

3 years

I am perfectly open to the position that this or that project is bad. But it should be incumbent on people with this ideological stance to say where *exactly* else development should go.

Michael Kimmelman

@kimmelman

3 years

Glad NYC City Planning just voted to reject 560 Franklin Avenue, the tower project that would have blighted @BrooklynBotanic . We need more affordable housing, desperately, but we didn't need this.

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David Schleicher

@ProfSchleich

3 years

Pass it on: @CSElmendorf for the California Supreme Court

Scott Shafer

@scottshafer

3 years

State Supreme Court Justice Mariano-Florentino "Tino" Cuéllar is leaving the court to head up the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Here's our interview with him about his life and career. Another big appointment for Gov. Newsom.

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David Schleicher

@ProfSchleich

10 months

Solow, even in death, wins again. What an obit kicker!

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@ProfSchleich

2 years

The only silver lining in this black cloud of an opinion is the great @CSElmendorf 's constant monitoring -- a true public service

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@ProfSchleich

1 year

Really nice @kristoncapps piece on builder's remedies in MA and CA, highlighting the benefits and limitations.

Housing-Strapped States Reach for a Fraught Fix: the ‘Builder’s Remedy’

State laws that allow developers to sidestep local zoning rules have been implemented in California and Massachusetts — but affluent suburbs often resist.

www.bloomberg.com

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David Schleicher

@ProfSchleich

5 years

This fits the story many have told — eg @joshchaffetz @brendannyhan — that the administration is weak, rather than strong, seeking to avoid responsibility and blame rather than assert control.

Trump Is an Authoritarian Weakman

Coronavirus would be the perfect opportunity for an autocrat. Trump isn’t taking it.

www.politico.com

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David Schleicher

@ProfSchleich

5 years

Wait, is something happening in the news to distract people from their usual high levels of interest in the history of railroad, municipal bonds, and local government law in Connecticut?

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David Schleicher

@ProfSchleich

2 years

Just read the Huntington Beach complaint. It's *bonkers* If I were the city attorney, I'd be worried about Rule 11 sanctions....

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David Schleicher

@ProfSchleich

4 years

Must read: This really excellent piece by @SamWinterLevy and Bryan Schonfeld on how America's housing and land use crises look in a comparative perspective, and on how the U.S. is really falling behind other countries

America’s Exceptional Housing Crisis

How the rest of the world tamed runaway home prices

www.foreignaffairs.com

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David Schleicher

@ProfSchleich

5 years

The new SB50 exception process is a zoning budget: "In order for a city’s plan to qualify and substitute for SB50’s specific provisions, a city will have to re-zone to add an amount of new zoned housing capacity equal or greater to what SB 50 will provide"

Working to Pass SB 50 in 2020: New Amendments and New Support

It’s 2020, and that means SB 50, our landmark housing bill legalizing apartment buildings and affordable housing near jobs and public…

scott-wiener.medium.com

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David Schleicher

@ProfSchleich

5 months

Houston breaks people's brains. Yes, it's not entirely unregulated, and yes there is a lot of private land use regulation through covenants, but it genuinely allows more housing construction-both in the suburbs and the city-than other big jurisdictions.

Houston area led nation in issuing building permits for housing in 2023

kinder.rice.edu

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David Schleicher

@ProfSchleich

3 years

Something can increase local emissions (or even local per capita emissions) and still reduce global emissions. People who move from, IDK, Connecticut or Iowa to NYC may use more GHGs than the average existing resident, but allowing them to move will reduce total emissions

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David Schleicher

@ProfSchleich

4 years

In NYC, even developers pretend not to understand supply and demand. “In the city, we overbuilt like crazy and we had bad leadership. We were growing to the point where nobody could really afford to live here.” via @NYTimes

The Billionaire Behind Hudson Yards Thinks New York Is Too Expensive (Published 2020)

Stephen Ross, a friend of President Trump, talks about politics, philanthropy and his pet peeve: wastefulness.

www.nytimes.com

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David Schleicher

@ProfSchleich

3 years

The Biden Administration should stress the "reform occupational licensing" part of its competition agenda in its inflation messaging. Unlike other parts, it's clearly directionally correct (i.e. would lead to lower prices) and is supported by its critics

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David Schleicher

@ProfSchleich

5 years

People sometimes want housing markets to be complicated, and at local levels they are (with negative and positive externalities, shifting demand for n'hoods and the like). But at the level of larger markets, they are just not *that* complicated,

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David Schleicher

@ProfSchleich

1 year

This was a terrific conversation! Check it out on Monday!

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸

@AndrewYang

1 year

Monday on Yale Law Professor @ProfSchleich joins to talk his new book “In a Bad State” about responding to local budget crises, why local government doesn’t get the proper attention, trends in commercial real estate and much more. ⬆️🇺🇸

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David Schleicher

@ProfSchleich

4 years

Today's most ridiculous campaign proposal. Let's not build more housing or offices in New York City, let's build ... farms. In New York City. Farms. In New York City.

Dana Rubinstein

@danarubinstein

4 years

. @ericadamsfornyc wants to reestablish an "agrarian economy" in New York City

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David Schleicher

@ProfSchleich

5 years

With the demise of SB50, it is worth dwelling a bit on why state-level reform is so important. A new Bob Ellickson paper (!!!) shows does this by showing that local governments around the country never rezone already developed areas.

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David Schleicher

@ProfSchleich

3 years

Economists, legal scholars and nat'l politicians have developed a broad agreement that over the last 40 years, land use policy in our richest regions has become too strict, and that state governments ought to intervene to reduce local governments’ exclusionary practices.

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David Schleicher

@ProfSchleich

5 years

Rarely can the theme of an (terrific!) essay be captured by a correction: "An earlier version of this essay misidentified the author’s stepfather as her mother’s third husband; he is the fourth. The article has been updated." @MollyJongFast

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David Schleicher

@ProfSchleich

4 years

There's a *lot* to like in this plan: "Rezoning efforts such as those in SoHo, NoHo, and Gowanus are a good first step; a Donovan administration would seek to identify other high-opportunity areas across the city where bulk and use restrictions can be modified ..."

Shaun Donovan

@ShaunDonovanNYC

4 years

As Mayor, I will build on the progress we made during the Obama-Biden Administration and work closely with my friends in Washington and here at home to ensure that every New Yorker has access to affordable, healthy, and safe housing.

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