Regional Airport Enthusiast • Aspiring Grocery Chain Proprieter • Sub-Urban Theorist • CRE Data Afficionado
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10 Feb 2023
Dunkin' is almost everywhere these days, but its cradle is the Northeast. MA's 8th Congressional District, for instance, has an absolutely astonishing 151 @dunkindonuts locations. That's 1 for every 5,249 people!
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Jun 3
A lot of people wrongfully believe that the US is prosperous because of our built form and not in spite of it.
Jun 2
I sometimes feel like I’m going psychotic when people tell me the top 10 biggest cities in the worlds largest economy shouldn’t have good transit.
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May 29
Glad he’s saying this, but YIMBYs should be careful before taking a victory lap. If these upzonings come bundled with prevailing wage mandates, convoluted CBAs, and aggressive affordability requirements, they may as well be a ban.
May 28
Zohran just cited Minneapolis, Austin, and Auckland as cities that lowered housing costs via upzoning
certified ball knowledge, Auckland is a deep YIMBY cut
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Cole Perry retweeted
May 28
It's interesting that American consumers can appreciate that Costco is profitable b/c they have the scale/size to sell at lower price.
Yet, bizarrely, when it comes to rental housing, people assume that scale equals higher prices/rents.
Costco shows us that higher price do not equate to higher profitability. Same is true for apartments and single-family rentals. There is zero revenue on a vacant unit and therefore zero incentivize to price a rental unit too high that it sits vacant.
May 26
Consumer Reports' recent review of the "Most and Least Expensive Supermarkets" confirms what we already knew:
There's Costco*, and then there's everywhere else.
consumerreports.org/money/pr…
*Fine, there's BJ's too, but it's less common/awesome.
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May 19
These people genuinely believe a world in which corporations own a single digit percentage of housing is worse than one in which people are homeless.
May 19
Max asks about Sen. Warren banning private equity and build-to-rent single-family home development
Lander backs ban, feels build-to-rent a recipe for authoritarianism - that nobody owns anything and we all rent from a few small firms - and anger toward private equity is real
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Cole Perry retweeted
May 13
A dozen states did this to nuclear power in the ‘70s and ‘80s. It helped killed the industry for forty years. Many states have repealed those measures since 2016.
Applying the “will of the people” to infrastructure is how you get a country that can’t build anything.
Nobody in America voted for data centers.
Nobody in America voted for AI.
Nobody in America voted for surveillance capitalism.
The entire fabric of our society is being changed without the will of the people.
Without a vote.
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Cole Perry retweeted
May 12
How's this for irony?
Stock prices for the single-family rental REITs fell when President Trump pushed a ban on institutions buying houses and they fell again when the Senate passed ROAD to Housing.
The REITs then took advantage by buying back their own stock at the reduced prices -- using capital (or at least partially) that likely would have otherwise gone to new construction of build-to-rent homes had the stock prices been higher.
A good reminder that slopulist housing policy targeting "Wall Street" inevitably hurts American families most.
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Cole Perry retweeted
May 10
THE MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES ARE GUARANTEED ONE OF:
AJ DYBANTSA
DARRYN PETERSON
CAM BOOZER
CALEB WILSON
OHHHHHHHHHH MY GOD
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Cole Perry retweeted
It is beyond stupid to pretend like the housing crisis is the fault of AirBnb. At the absolute most they are a tiny, tiny contributor.
The root cause of the housing crisis is generations of politicians who made it impossible to build housing. That's it. That's the whole thing.
May 8
Someone can certainly *make* a billion dollars. That’s not the same thing as earning.
Growing fast and disrupting markets also often means chasing and wielding market power, political influence, and scale.
Take Airbnb. They heavily lobby politicians against passing housing laws to protect working class residents because it’s bad for their business model.
Airbnb could not exist at its current scale and size without the housing market destabilizations, displacements, and exploits that are supercharging the evictions of working people everywhere from Puerto Rico to Jackson Hole.
Now young people are planning for a future where they will never be able to afford to own a home while others have 20 and live off renting it out to them at extortionate rates with zero protections. Yes, a tiny amount of people can make billions of dollars doing that. And millions of everyday Americans are bearing the cost.
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May 7
Hardly the important detail here, but I believe Cohen actually lives in the new 5th!
May 7
BREAKING NEWS: Tennessee State Sen. @BrentTaylorTN announces on The Todd Starnes Show on @Mighty990KWAM that he is running for the newly created Ninth Congressional District. Bye, bye, Steve Cohen!
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May 6
If you're just tuning into Memphis politics: the Democratic Primary for Shelby County Mayor was last night.
@mklowery emerged from a crowded field that included @jbsmileyjr, @DrMarieFeagins, @crimcourtclerk, and @AssessorBurgess!
Data from: @ShelbyVote
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And just wait until you read about who was in that TN-07 2002 R Primary!
May 6
Fun fact:
The last time Tennessee Democrats controlled redistricting they enacted this map that connected Shelby County with Williamson, Davidson, and Montgomery counties. The same party complaining about the new map that extends all over West Tennessee linking Williamson to Memphis did this.

By the way, Democrat Congressman Cohen who is leading the objections to the GOP map was state Senator Cohen (D) at the time. He voted for this!!!
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May 6
Well... Sometimes you're not wrong, just early!
21 Feb 2023
To be honest, why they didn’t crack it into 4 this time is a mystery. It would have lasted beyond a decade.
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May 3
Sad to see Mr. Else is a carpetbagger. I proudly cast my ballot for him for NYC mayor and every single local court position!
North Richland Hills Mayor Election
>95% Reported:
🔴 Jack McCarty - 4,467 (78.1%)
⚪️ Literally Anybody Else - 1,255 (21.9%)
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Apr 24
Arsonist returns after 40 years to say he hopes the fire department can get things under control. More at 10.
Apr 24
Former mayor, school supt. Dr. Willie Herenton says he supports state intervention of MSCS ebx.sh/x2zzpD
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Apr 24
Please, for the love of God, stop the revisionist history about this guy. No individual bears more responsibility for the Memphis area’s decline.
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Apr 23
There's actually a solution to this complaint that I call "stepping 100 feet to your right".
Apr 22
Buenísima idea tapar una perspectiva icónica de Nueva York con un superslender generico y sin carácter 🫶
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Cole Perry retweeted
Feels like 99% of politics today is proposing cute little tax breaks for niche bullshit instead of actually doing the hard work to make life more affordable
Apr 21
There's also currently a bill under consideration in the NY legislature that would give all dog/cat owners a $450 tax credit lol.
I love dogs. But we should not treat them like children.
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