Housing Policy Analyst @niskanencenter β’ @awjustus.bsky.social
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Andrew Justusπ·πΌββοΈπππ retweeted
Jun 11
HUD's proposed rule today would remove the requirement for a steel transport chassis between the floors of multistory manufactured homes - it's narrower than the ROAD version, which would allow fully chassis-free homes, but could immediately save ~$5β$7k per multistory unit
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Andrew Justusπ·πΌββοΈπππ retweeted
May 29
we cannot look at housing or transportation in a vacuum. connecting them creates a flywheel effect where land value funds transit expansion
this was common sense a century ago, as subway lines were built in tandem with brand new neighborhoods. glad to see weβre bringing it back
May 28
New York State just authorized a land value tax that could generate billions of dollars for new transit.
For the @NiskanenCenter, @aarmlovi and I wrote about how the renewal of Β§ 119-r in the FY27 budget could unlock a virtuous cycle of infrastructure delivery in NYC.
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Andrew Justusπ·πΌββοΈπππ retweeted
May 28
Walkable cities don't just benefit transit users, often they are also the best places for Car enthusiasts
When driving isn't mandated for a commute, cars aren't treated like appliances, people will often own more fun and/or older cars to drive whenever they want instead
ALT not uncommon to find older cars street parked in philly like this BMW 2002
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Looking at just the NFL, we had 7.7m residents per team in 1970 after the merger, today it is 10.3m per team. Great for team owners, less great for fans seeking an affordable day out.
We need the antitrust and abundance people to ally against the pro sports leagues.
The nfl, nba, mlb, and nhl shouldnβt be able to operate as cartels that restrict the supply of top-level teams.
Itβs bad for fan affordability, stadium subsidies, and athlete labor markets.
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We need the antitrust and abundance people to ally against the pro sports leagues.
The nfl, nba, mlb, and nhl shouldnβt be able to operate as cartels that restrict the supply of top-level teams.
Itβs bad for fan affordability, stadium subsidies, and athlete labor markets.
May 25
I dunno, I think we just need an abundance agenda for experiences. These things can scale β look how many concert residency seats Las Vegas has added in the last 20 years. With different policy, Colorado could have way more skiable acres and hotel rooms. Etc etc
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Andrew Justusπ·πΌββοΈπππ retweeted
May 22
Unless factory built homes are judged by the same outcomes as site built ones: fire, durability, energy, inspections, etc and not a separate suspicion tax β¦ they cannot repeat assemblies, approvals & financing
Which eliminates all advantages of industrial manufacturing
May 22
From the White House EO in March
This was the clause I advocated for:
Factory or modular construction should be evaluated only on its merits & performance. Unfortunately, in many cities it is singled out for special scrutiny β¦ under the mistaken belief itβs all low quality
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It's hard to believe this conversation on car affordability doesn't include the Chicken Tax, our 1960s retaliatory tariff on truck imports. It's the most impactful import restriction in the auto industry and still shapes truck offerings in our market. 1/
May 21
I think the fairest summary of this argument is that @mattyglesias hates freedom and choice and the American Way.
theargumentmag.com/p/why-demβ¦
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Other automakers circumvent the tariff with creative engineering. Subaru added jump seats to the bed of the Brat pickup truck to classify it as a passenger vehicle. More recently, Ford shipped Turkish-built Transit Connect cΜΆaΜΆrΜΆgΜΆoΜΆ passenger vans with rear seats and windows. 5/
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The Chicken Tax is one reason new vehicles in the US are less affordable than we would like. Full-size light trucks average $66k transaction price, and we are only slowly seeing more CT-compliant small trucks, but we could have more w/o the Chicken Tax 6/6 marketplace.org/story/2026/0β¦
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I know people who live in all sorts of places, but theyβre not a representative sample of anything. So I donβt read too much into it.
May 18
It feels like everyone I know living in top east coast cities (NYC, Boston, DC, Philly) is either moving to Florida or thinking about moving to Florida.
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Excellent report out from Pew today on preapproved residential building plans. Preapproved plan catalogs allow entrepreneurial localities to cut development costs by a few percentage points and provide developers with significant time savings in delivering new housing.
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More streamlined permitting that comes from preapproved plan programs also benefit small developers who are less likely to be experts in navigating discretionary review processes and more interested in building small projects. 3/
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You can read the full report here: pew.org/en/research-and-analβ¦
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America's farmers and the White House agree. We need year-round E-15. Let's get it passed.
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MI's Prop A, like CA's Prop 13, is among the original slopulist property tax policies. A handout to existing homeowners, it imposes an unreasonable barrier to the development of new housing by arbitrarily shifting the local tax burden onto newcomers.
May 12
Proposal A's tax limit protected people from being taxed out of their home. But it also created unfairness and penalties against new construction. This matters a lot in Detroit, where tax rates are high and values used to be low.
mackinac.org/blog/2026/some-β¦
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Modern zoning is cooked. Loosely descended from English nuisance law, todayβs codified zoning laws micromanage harmless things like building facades or where people live, but let through genuine nuisances like excess noise.
May 10
This is what it sounds like living next to a data center. The video below was recorded at midnight, and the data center is situated next to 100s of residential homes.
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