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[Owen Davis @odavis_]

Nice housing supply metaphor here in the new report from @PubEnterprise

[Paul E Williams @PEWilliams_]

Take a look at the historical multifamily production chart. The first half of the period, there's a lot of green. The second half of the period, a lot of red.

Zoom in on the green mountains and you'll find federal policies carefully designed to make the line go up.

[Paul E Williams @PEWilliams_]

Excited to welcome Liz Sidor and Parker Pence to the CPE housing team. As always, feel free to reach out to us with ideas on housing supply and innovation.

[advait @advaitarun_]

sentiment appreciated, but don't get it twisted: at @PubEnterprise we are reading political economy all the time

recent CPE book hauls from the team slack:

[Paul E Williams @PEWilliams_]

Excited to welcome Mitchell Smith to the CPE team as a Senior Associate for Transmission. Mitchell comes from DOE's Grid Deployment Office where he worked on accelerating large-scale transmission.

Funny enough, the grid is down and his power is out, so his first day is delayed.

[Daniel Kay Hertz @DanielKayHertz]

This (link in the thread) is one of the better summaries of at least one school of getting things done, and in my experience translates pretty well to the local level

[Paul E Williams @PEWilliams_]

Incredibly excited to announce that we're bringing Michael O'Connor onto the CPE team to lead our geothermal work. Mike is a geologist who spent the past few years at DOE and was a lead author of the Geothermal Liftoff report.

Be on the lookout for some exciting updates soon 👀

[Seattle Sounders FC @SoundersFC]

Cinema. 🎥

[Ryan @Rybread_26]

Tyler just pointed out to me that at the Council hearing right now, @MayorBowser is using "we" to refer to herself and developers and "you" to refer to the council and the voters.

[AG Brian Schwalb @DCAttorneyGen]

HOUSING WINS: We won appeals in two important housing cases in DC.

We successfully defended rent refunds for 2,500 tenants at Marbury Plaza in Ward 8.

And we upheld an order requiring developers to fix faulty construction that left a Ward 4 condo building to sway in the wind.

[Paul E Williams @PEWilliams_]

Add New York to the growing list of states deploying revolving capital to accelerate new, mixed- and middle-income multifamily supply.

It's not just Montgomery County, it's also GA, TN, MI, MA, NY, IL. Expecting a lot of pipeline and supply growth in the coming years.

[Paul E Williams @PEWilliams_]

Attention @YIMBYtown attendees: Get ready for the public enterprise panel, stacked with leadership from our friends at the state housing finance agencies who are leading the pack on accelerating housing production.

[Daniel Kay Hertz @DanielKayHertz]

Soft launch https://t.co/gdMqjCLxlV

[Chirag Lala @CtheLala]

We at @PubEnterprise are proud to publish this playbook for state economic development agencies with @charlesxjyang & @IndustrialStrat. EDAs can drive regional growth via 1) growing housing supply; 2) robust public financing; 3) permitting reform.
https://t.co/ZiykzUSGkM

[Paul E Williams @PEWilliams_]

Last week, California passed a landmark law exempting many infill housing developments from CEQA.
Here’s how we can do the same thing on a national level, exempting urban infill housing from NEPA.

[Center for Industrial Strategy @IndustrialStrat]

Reindustrializing America will take more than Beltway politics—state and regional economic development agencies are also key players

In this report w/ @pubenterprise, we show how EDAs can drive industrial growth through housing supply, innovative financing, and permitting reform

[advait @advaitarun_]

Thanks to @bradplumer for featuring me and CPE's work in the New York Times on Friday.

Until proven otherwise, this bill is NOT a victory for clean firm.

[Ashwin @ashwinwarrior]

Beyond the rental subsidy itself, one of the big advantages of Section 8 contracts is the stability of a 20-year contract with a consistent payment. A quick and sudden gutting of programs would have wide reaching effects on families and projects depending on those contracts.

[Ashwin @ashwinwarrior]

New from @PubEnterprise - examining the impact of cut to federal project-based rental assistance programs.
https://t.co/46jXSRXaey

[advait @advaitarun_]

Meanwhile, from the @PubEnterprise housing team, our Summer Fellow Benjamin Olarsch has put together this very well-researched and extremely bleak analysis of the impacts of the GOP's proposed cuts to HUD's Rental Assistance program!

The GOP is gutting affordable housing: