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@JerusalemDemsas
Nov 14 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
New >> California and New York are projected to lose up to 8 electoral votes in 2030. Texas and Florida are projected to gain 8.

If Kamala Harris had to compete with that map, even winning Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin wouldn’t have saved her. Image
Population migration to red states from blue ones isn’t an act of God, it’s the direct result of failed housing policies in Democratic led states. Image
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And yet as Democratic governors jockey to lead the #resistance to Trump, none have tied their party’s waning influence nationally to the decisions by state and local officials to restrict the supply of housing. Image
Full article theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

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Jan 18
New >> I went to Minneapolis to find the fake environmentalists -- instead I met a bunch of real ones.

On the culture war brewing inside environmentalism:

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
The housing crisis is dividing the environmental coalition. The pressure to build is coming into conflict with laws and values skeptical of development.

In Minneapolis, residents have overturned years of pro-housing laws by suing under a '70s environmental law.

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Supporters of pro-housing policies (YIMBYs, and some environmental groups) often view their opponents as "fake environmentalists."

But what I found were two different versions of environmentalism, battling it out for dominance. Image
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Aug 8, 2023
New >> In 2020 DC planted 35 trees on a small, publicly owned hill, kicking off one of the strangest controversies I've come across when reporting on local government.

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
The first I heard about the trees is when Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White introduced an emergency resolution to remove three trees in his ward.

The argument? Apparently the trees constituted a public safety risk and could negatively impact property values.
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I needed to see these trees for myself.

I assumed there would be some glaring problem, maybe not one that required removal, but *something* to make me understand why this would even reach the desk of a DC Councilmember. Here's a picture of one of the offending saplings. Image
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Dec 20, 2022
The American love affair with homeownership needs to come to an end.

theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
The article is long, so I'm going to pull out just a few points into this thread.
1) Making long term bets on real estate is tricky business. During the 1990s, Cleveland's home price growth outpaced San Francisco's. I'm a believer in cities but remote work is eating away at central business districts... how confident are you? Enough to bet all your savings?
Read 13 tweets
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Dec 12, 2022
Some problems are conceptually difficult — improving underperforming schools, helping people heal from traumatic life events — but homelessness isn’t one of them.

We know how to solve the crisis — so why don’t we?

theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
First, rebuttals of the common beliefs that homelessness is *caused* by mental illness, drug abuse, the weather, or social programs.
tl;dr if any of those factors were causing homelessness, places with higher rates of drug abuse for instance would see more homelessness — they don’t! theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Read 9 tweets
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Nov 23, 2022
New >> Three rules for thanksgiving: Don’t bring up politics, religion, or housing policy.

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
New research from @ClaytonNall, @CSElmendorf, and @stan_okl indicates that 30-40 percent of people that building new homes would *increase* the cost of housing!
This, according to their findings, is not a general confusion with the effect of increased or decreases supply. When it comes to other industries, respondents tend to get the right answer!
Read 7 tweets
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Oct 23, 2022
A few responses to some of the twitter hubbub around my article!

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
First, I want to say that the heated conversation replicates many of the problems I address in my article — namely how unrepresentative the people engaging on twitter are.
If I total up the texts, emails, DMs and private comments from people within and outside the climate space, the feedback leans positive — folks who aren’t sure of their final opinion but are interested in points I raise/are increasingly concerned about sluggishness in the system.
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