The book of March 2025 was Abundance. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are making a noble attempt to highlight the importance of solving America's housing crisis the only way it can be solved: Building houses in places people want to live, via repealing the rules that make this impossible. They also talk about green energy abundance, and other places besides. There may be a review coming.
Until then, it seems high time for the latest housing roundup, which as a reminder all take place in the possible timeline where AI fails to be transformative any time soon.
** Federal YIMBY**
The incoming administration issued an executive order calling for ‘emergency price relief’‘ including pursuing appropriate actions to: Lower the cost of housing and expand housing supply’ and then a grab bag of everything else.
It's great to see mention of expanding housing supply, but I don’t [...]
Outline:
(00:44) Federal YIMBY
(02:37) Rent Control
(02:50) Rent Passthrough
(03:36) Yes, Construction Lowers Rents on Existing Buildings
(07:11) If We Wanted To, We Would
(08:51) Aesthetics Are a Public Good
(10:44) Urban Planners Are Wrong About Everything
(13:02) Blackstone
(15:49) Rent Pricing Software
(18:26) Immigration Versus NIMBY
(19:37) Preferences
(20:28) The True Costs
(23:11) Minimum Viable Product
(26:01) Like a Good Neighbor
(27:12) Flight to Quality
(28:40) Housing for Families
(31:09) Group House
(32:41) No One Will Have the Endurance To Collect on His Insurance
(34:49) Cambridge
(35:36) Denver
(35:44) Minneapolis
(36:23) New York City
(39:26) San Francisco
(41:45) Silicon Valley
(42:41) Texas
(43:31) Other Considerations
First published: April 1st, 2025
Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7qGdgNKndPk3XuzJq/housing-roundup-11)
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