Alysha Gardner

Senior Policy Analyst @pschousing. She/her. Views are own.
NH ➡ UT ➡ DC ➡ CT
Housing is a human right.

[Jeff Stein @jstein_star]

👀 Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet on the SALT cap debate: "The benefit of SALT goes to the wealthiest people in these very blue states in the east and west coasts. I don't understand why Colorado's firefighters and teachers should be financing that"

[Jonathan Berk @berkie1]

Montana's winning housing reform strategy…

Make it easier to build here... to protect there.

[Tina Smith @SenTinaSmith]

So proud of the great work happening in Minneapolis, which shows that boosting housing supply helps make homes more affordable.

[Alysha Gardner @acgard10]

Any scholars doing recent research on the negative societal economic impacts of high rates of income inequality? Bonus if the research focuses on a need for more affordable housing.

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

I need every Democratic elected official in America to read this paragraph by @ezraklein

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

@PhillenniumLine @ezraklein https://t.co/NZwif6oJQZ

[Tom Corsillo (on BlueSky) @tomcorsillo]

We're seeing a lot of misinformation across Connecticut this election season re: housing, zoning, and local control, so I wrote for the CT Mirror about rhetoric vs. reality. Check it out.

https://t.co/TGRGmu01JR

[Bloomberg CityLab @CityLab]

A new book argues that road design, not driver error, is largely responsible for the surge in US traffic deaths https://t.co/7k1kj9jsPH

[Jed Kolko @JedKolko]

I was just the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs at the U.S. Commerce Department. Here's the economic research that was really helpful to us.

(Thank you @mattyglesias for the opportunity to guest-post!)

https://t.co/u3qbrTpM2O

[Ask a Manager @AskAManager]

I miscalculated. Men only account for 13% of the responses. Come on, men.

[Jacob Larsen 🇺🇸 🇩🇰 🇺🇦 @SLCPaladin]

This is a 🧵on the most expensive housing markets in the US right now based on current home price data, interest rates, and the prevailing wage in these states.

Here are the 5 most unaffordable housing markets:

1) California
2) Hawaii
3) Montana
4) Colorado
5) Utah

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[NotaBot @_NotA_Bot_]

Burlington’s new Zoning is mostly unprecedented in New England.

Really only comparable to ambitious reforms like Minneapolis and Sacramento.

Two buildings now allowed on every parcel, multifamily along major bus routes, 4-plexes allowed everywhere.

[Partnership for Strong Communities @PSCHousing]

The Affordable Housing Land Use Appeals Procedure allows homes affordable to low- & moderate-income families to be built when a town fails to approve the proposed housing despite it meeting local zoning regulations.

Learn more: https://t.co/2HZy84svHX

#HereForHousing

[Partnership for Strong Communities @PSCHousing]

"The Affordable Housing Land Use Appeals Procedure is an appeals procedure, not a housing creation policy. So when we say things like '8-30g has failed to produce housing' 8-30g is not a policy to create housing. It's a remedy for when towns are not creating affordable housing.."

[Pro-Homes CT @prohomesct]

WE HAVE A BILL NUMBER!!

Work Live Ride, now HB #5390, will help local governments create a post-sprawl future for CT that's more prosperous, equitable, and sustainable for everyone. Check out the link below and help us make it law!!! 👇

https://t.co/qHP1tHYRZ3

[Jay Parsons @jayparsons]

When you build "luxury" new apartments in big numbers, the influx of supply puts downward pressure on rents at all price points -- even in the lowest-priced Class C rentals. Here's evidence of that happening right now:

There are 12 U.S. markets where Class C rents are falling at least 6% YoY. What is the common denominator? You guessed it: Supply. All 12 have supply expansion rates ABOVE the U.S. average.

There's no demand issue in any of these 12 markets. They're all among the absorption leaders nationally -- places like Austin, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Atlanta and Raleigh/Durham, Boise, etc. But they all have a lot of new supply.

Simply put: Supply is doing what it's supposed to do when we build A LOT of apartments. It's a process academics call "filtering." New pricey apartments are pulling up higher-income renters out of moderately priced Class B units, which in turn cut rents to lure Class C renters, and on down the line it goes.

Less anyone still in doubt, here's another factoid: Where are Class C rents growing most? You guessed it (I hope!) -- in markets with little new supply. Class C rent growth topped 5% in 18 of the nation's 150 largest metro areas, and nearly all of them have limited new apartment supply.

Most new construction tends to be Class A "luxury" because that's what pencils out due to high cost of everything from land to labor to materials to impact fees to insurance to taxes, etc.

So critics will say: "We don't need more luxury apartments!"

Yes, you do. Because when you build "luxury" apartments at scale, you will put downward pressure on rents at all price points.

Spread the word.

[The Memes Archive @TheMemesArchive]

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