being born here should not be a new yorker criterion unless you want donald trump to count more as a new yorker than like half your neighbors. and frankly i wasnt born here but i am more of a new yorker than someone like vickie fucking paladino lol
@MoiraDonegan Why use workforce participation rate as a metric for how well a group is doing? Surely that number reflects a lot of complicated dynamics, including personal preferences?
@BigMeanInternet What people miss is that this is awesome. It's a world where the labs spend untold amount of capital creating a technology, but are unable to meaningful capture the value that technology creates. It's a really bull case for AI -- just not AI companies.
@hecubian_devil Another interpretation is that now that he's in a position where he's accountable for public safety, he's realized investing in the police is a good idea.
@JeffO773 I’d support consolidating the districts but paying lawmakers a lot of money is a good thing. $101k is not enough to attract the kind of talent we need in the legislature.
If someone owns land, they should have broad freedom to build whatever they believe there is demand for, whether housing, shops, offices, or something else, unless there is a genuine safety reason to say no.
@JonahKarsh@catvielma@ChicagoMPO Yea I don’t think this specific thing is the cause of their problems. But when a government with a history of disastrously bad housing policy adopts your favored idea, this isn’t something to trumpet.
@Tyler_A_Harper This really reads like the administrators just wished they worked at a tech startup. They’ve got “tech envy”.
I get that tech startups are cool, I’ve spent my whole career working at them, but shouldn’t a university administrator *want* to work at a university?
@JonahKarsh@catvielma@ChicagoMPO FWIW “England just implemented it country-wide” is really not an endorsement when you look at how terrible their housing outcomes are.
@JakeSheridan_ Who do you have in mind when you say “housing advocates love it”? I really don’t think that is true of most housing advocates in the city.
Setting aside that we haven’t seen anything “work” yet, it’s hard to see stuff like this as anything other than a total victory for my fellow Abundabros.
There’s no way someone like this would ever have conceded “removing onerous regulations” as a good idea even 3 years ago.
Zohran is proving why Abundance alone never works. You build more AND protect tenants from displacement. You remove legitimately onerous regulations on zoning and add new regulations to protect workers. The messaging is about affordability, not unleashing the private sector.
Both write about many sides of housing, but have a lot to say about the finance side. In this post I’ve looked at some of their big ideas and what they could mean for YIMBY efforts: https://t.co/TYS9yv742A
YIMBYs have been gaining ground in reforming zoning laws, but I don’t think we pay enough attention to how homes - both apartments and SFHs - are financed.
Two of writers I like for this are @MikeFellman and @KAErdmann, who I see as friendly critics of the YIMBY movement.