Cole Perry

Regional Airport Enthusiast • Aspiring Grocery Chain Proprieter • Sub-Urban Theorist • CRE Data Afficionado

[Cole Perry @ColePerryTN]

Dunkin' is almost everywhere these days, but its cradle is the Northeast. MA's 8th Congressional District, for instance, has an absolutely astonishing 151 @dunkindonuts locations. That's 1 for every 5,249 people!

[Cole Perry @ColePerryTN]

A lot of people wrongfully believe that the US is prosperous because of our built form and not in spite of it.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

I sometimes feel like I’m going psychotic when people tell me the top 10 biggest cities in the worlds largest economy shouldn’t have good transit.

[Cole Perry @ColePerryTN]

Glad he’s saying this, but YIMBYs should be careful before taking a victory lap. If these upzonings come bundled with prevailing wage mandates, convoluted CBAs, and aggressive affordability requirements, they may as well be a ban.

[sam @sam_d_1995]

Zohran just cited Minneapolis, Austin, and Auckland as cities that lowered housing costs via upzoning

certified ball knowledge, Auckland is a deep YIMBY cut

[Jay Parsons @jayparsons]

It's interesting that American consumers can appreciate that Costco is profitable b/c they have the scale/size to sell at lower price.

Yet, bizarrely, when it comes to rental housing, people assume that scale equals higher prices/rents.

Costco shows us that higher price do not equate to higher profitability. Same is true for apartments and single-family rentals. There is zero revenue on a vacant unit and therefore zero incentivize to price a rental unit too high that it sits vacant.

[Cole Perry @ColePerryTN]

These people genuinely believe a world in which corporations own a single digit percentage of housing is worse than one in which people are homeless.

[Dan Rivoli @danrivoli]

Max asks about Sen. Warren banning private equity and build-to-rent single-family home development

Lander backs ban, feels build-to-rent a recipe for authoritarianism - that nobody owns anything and we all rent from a few small firms - and anger toward private equity is real

[Christopher Koopman @ckoopman]

A dozen states did this to nuclear power in the ‘70s and ‘80s. It helped killed the industry for forty years. Many states have repealed those measures since 2016.

Applying the “will of the people” to infrastructure is how you get a country that can’t build anything.

[Jay Parsons @jayparsons]

How's this for irony?

Stock prices for the single-family rental REITs fell when President Trump pushed a ban on institutions buying houses and they fell again when the Senate passed ROAD to Housing.

The REITs then took advantage by buying back their own stock at the reduced prices -- using capital (or at least partially) that likely would have otherwise gone to new construction of build-to-rent homes had the stock prices been higher.

A good reminder that slopulist housing policy targeting "Wall Street" inevitably hurts American families most.

[John Martin @JohnMartin929]

THE MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES ARE GUARANTEED ONE OF:

AJ DYBANTSA
DARRYN PETERSON
CAM BOOZER
CALEB WILSON

OHHHHHHHHHH MY GOD

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

It is beyond stupid to pretend like the housing crisis is the fault of AirBnb. At the absolute most they are a tiny, tiny contributor.

The root cause of the housing crisis is generations of politicians who made it impossible to build housing. That's it. That's the whole thing.

[Cole Perry @ColePerryTN]

Hardly the important detail here, but I believe Cohen actually lives in the new 5th!

[toddstarnes @toddstarnes]

BREAKING NEWS: Tennessee State Sen. @BrentTaylorTN announces on The Todd Starnes Show on @Mighty990KWAM that he is running for the newly created Ninth Congressional District. Bye, bye, Steve Cohen!

[Cole Perry @ColePerryTN]

@Biggiessmallesq @samhardiman @mklowery @jbsmileyjr @DrMarieFeagins @crimcourtclerk @AssessorBurgess @ShelbyVote Working on it!

[Cole Perry @ColePerryTN]

If you're just tuning into Memphis politics: the Democratic Primary for Shelby County Mayor was last night.

@mklowery emerged from a crowded field that included @jbsmileyjr, @DrMarieFeagins, @crimcourtclerk, and @AssessorBurgess!

Data from: @ShelbyVote

[Cole Perry @ColePerryTN]

@htmldon Individual strength map leads me to believe that she and Kuhn cannibalized a lot of one another’s voters.

[Cole Perry @ColePerryTN]

The candidate strength map implies, simply, that @mklowery had the broadest appeal.

[Cole Perry @ColePerryTN]

And just wait until you read about who was in that TN-07 2002 R Primary!

[Steve Gill @TheGillReport]

Fun fact:
The last time Tennessee Democrats controlled redistricting they enacted this map that connected Shelby County with Williamson, Davidson, and Montgomery counties. The same party complaining about the new map that extends all over West Tennessee linking Williamson to Memphis did this.

By the way, Democrat Congressman Cohen who is leading the objections to the GOP map was state Senator Cohen (D) at the time. He voted for this!!!

[Cole Perry @ColePerryTN]

Well... Sometimes you're not wrong, just early!

[Cole Perry @ColePerryTN]

@Dem_Soc_Dem_S @BillLeeTN To be honest, why they didn’t crack it into 4 this time is a mystery. It would have lasted beyond a decade.

[Andy Masley @AndyMasley]

This was fun to write

[Cole Perry @ColePerryTN]

I’ve also voted for him dozens of times in Tennessee

[Cole Perry @ColePerryTN]

Sad to see Mr. Else is a carpetbagger. I proudly cast my ballot for him for NYC mayor and every single local court position!

[VoteHub @VoteHub]

North Richland Hills Mayor Election

>95% Reported:
🔴 Jack McCarty - 4,467 (78.1%)
⚪️ Literally Anybody Else - 1,255 (21.9%)

[Cole Perry @ColePerryTN]

Please, for the love of God, stop the revisionist history about this guy. No individual bears more responsibility for the Memphis area’s decline.

[Cole Perry @ColePerryTN]

Arsonist returns after 40 years to say he hopes the fire department can get things under control. More at 10.

[Action News 5 @WMCActionNews5]

Former mayor, school supt. Dr. Willie Herenton says he supports state intervention of MSCS https://t.co/qe2CZ18tIH