DensityMatters🇺🇸🥑🌐🔰⚓️

Some guy. YIMBY. Build more transit. More high-skilled immigration. ✝️⚓️. 🚅🚀🌃

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

The grocery store thing continues to be a pointless, stupid idea whose only saving grace is that it's only going to be a handful of stores and a moderate waste of money rather than a lot of stores and a gigantic waste of money.

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@upzonenj Newark Penn

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

In a parallel world with better California governance, the San Francisco Bay Area or Greater Los Angeles would have been obvious candidates for the high-tech manufacturing boom. Instead, the American Pearl River Delta seems to be happening here.

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

@mxduki ahhhhh i watched a bullshit video from more perfect union and am convinced data centers are soooo scarrryyy ahhh

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

Throwback to the MTA’s Program for Action, the 1968 subway expansion plan.

It was cancelled in the 70s from the city’s fiscal crisis, and it took almost 50 years for half of one of the proposed 10 new routes to finish

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@upzonenj Bunch of NJ Transit lines are suspended in addition to the light rail issues.

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@bscholl The other problem is they don’t dim enough if the sun is coming directly through the window.

[Jerusalem @JerusalemDemsas]

Three months ago, @brianschatz caught a ton of flak for standing against a moronic provision in the ROAD to Housing Act that could have undermined the entire bill.

Strong efforts by political groups and policy wonks ultimately vindicated him, saving this bipartisan, pro-housing bill from the jaws of slopulism.

Despite the freak-out from the populists -- in addition to being good policy -- this will likely end up as a straightforward political win for every elected official who voted for it.
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@charlescwcooke @IVMiles What about the Fed?

[Alex Armlovich @aarmlovi]

Darkly funny that a different, more independent public utility commission, the NYC Water Board, voted for cost-based increases of 6%

But there are risks to highlighting hypocrisy!

Push too hard & they'll just stack that board too, freezing water prices til the pipes collapse

[DensityMatters🇺🇸🥑🌐🔰⚓️ @ESupertalls]

@tszzl The models want to sophon lock adversaries?

[Charles Fain Lehman @CharlesFLehman]

One of the things that struck me reporting on Baltimore is how persistent the city's murder problem has been. While other cities see ebbs and flows, Baltimore's homicide rate has remained persistently high. In 2020, the murder rate was eight times the national average.

Why, then, did murder start dropping in 2023? Part of the story is doubtless whatever drove the national trends. But the interventions I reported on — focused deterrence, a new prosecutor — were part of a broader push by city leadership to take violence seriously. And it worked!

This is a theme I write about a lot. Violence is not an inevitable feature of urban life. We know what to do about it. Violence is a policy choice. Policymakers just need to take it seriously.
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@neoavatara You support a massive ground invasion?

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@ajlamesa Many such cases

[Kim-Mai Cutler @kimmaicutler]

Why has modular construction failed in the United States?

"Sweden has used prefabrication to deliver mid- and high-rise housing at competitive cost and high quality for decades, and the explanation has nothing to do with engineering. Sweden has a standardized national building code and, more consequentially, a Public Housing authority that has committed to enough repeat volume to give factories a reason to invest, improve, and stay in business."

"In our experience, the building code is as much to blame as land use policy. The U.S. has delegated code development to more than 20,000 local jurisdictions, each with its own byzantine requirements, making it nearly impossible to develop a standard product that can be sold at scale across state lines."

[Arram @arram]

Zoning adds $300 - 500k to the price of a home in cities with good jobs. High-speed rail takes 30 years to build. New drugs cost $2B. We pay 5-10x what peer countries do for the same infrastructure.

People call this "regulation." It isn't, exactly. It's stranger and worse. 🧵

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@crosstown_line They can just switch crews though

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@GasBuddyGuy @ajlamesa $6 in July? What do you think of the rumors that US will need gas rationing?

[Brandon Fuller @fuller_brandon]

Wegovy and Zepbound prices dropped 70% in 3 years. Why? People pay out of pocket. Healthcare gets cheaper when consumers spend their own money.

@ManhattanInst senior fellow @david_goldhill for @CityJournal
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