Opinionist, YIMBY, prefer cycling to driving places, would like more housing to lower rent and increase options. Let’s build a better future. Pseudonym.
Joined July 2021
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really nice streetery in the Village last night. So sad we tore them out so 14th street and AdMo could have more parking spaces.
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Jun 13
It was such a relief this year when my son was able to join a convenient, free, school-based soccer team that just practices after school on the playground and plays other schools in the neighborhood on Thursday afternoons.
We need more “normal sports.”
Jun 13
The World Cup is spotlighting the global appeal of soccer but, here in 🇺🇸, kids' soccer is ticking down, probably as a consequence of:
✔️ Cost of play
✔️ Digital revolution
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Jun 12
DC has a housing crisis. And I know just how to fix it.
Build more. Preserve more. And reform broken systems.
Read my op-ed in @ggwash on how we move from slogans to solutions:
ggwash.org/view/103817/washi…
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Jun 10
I was struck by the tone of the Council debate today, which was framed as if we don’t collect ample revenue or have a progressive tax system. It’s fine to advocate for more revenue, but that advocacy should be rooted in the fact we already raise a lot of revenue.
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Jun 10
this is pretty neat, check it out. how does dc spend its money?
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The people who live in these giant mansions on Missouri Ave in DC are opposing a bike lane so that they can store their 4th car on the public street for free 🤔
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Jun 9
you never hear about in-kind benefit design or managed competition or scoring auctions or cost per qaly threshold or site of service neutral payments or the cost-benefit of the most generous medicaid expansion in the nation. are we getting good value for money? who knows.
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Jun 9
none of these are reasons why the government should step in over the private sector to build housing:
a) offer private builders tax abatements
b) doubtful dc has a risk-adjusted cost of capital (excl tax treatment )or efficiency advantage
c) streamline permitting for both?
Yes it can be more cost effective because a) no property taxes on publicly developed property (b) no need to generate profit, only need to cover costs with rents (c) permitting streamlined.
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yeah don’t think this is it. these are just inefficiently spent taxes. benefits for the few instead of rising the prosperity of all.
When the Council received the Mayor's budget, it proposed balancing our fiscal challenges on the backs of working families, educators, and residents struggling to get by.
Today, we approved a budget restoring funding for Pay Equity, housing vouchers, Access to Justice, and more.
ALT The DC Council FY27 budget secures $60M for the Pay Equity Fund, empowering early childhood educators to afford the cost of rent, groceries, and more while continuing to serve the District.
ALT The DC Council FY27 budget funds 442 new housing vouchers in addition to 243 turnover vouchers, keeping District residents housed amid skyrocketing housing costs.
ALT The DC Council FY27 budget reverses the freeze on paid family leave benefits, helping workers take the time they need to manage a health crisis or care for a family member in their time of need.
ALT The DC Council FY27 budget fully funds Access to Justice Grants, supporting residents facing eviction, domestic violence, foreclosure, debt collection, and other life changing legal issues.
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Jun 9
442 housing vouchers and paying a very specific group generously—who doesn’t think they deserve more—is such a strange way to run economic policy.
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urbanist slop hq on fire with the new claude fable
Jun 9
"cyclists don't pay for roads" buddy nobody pays for roads. the gas tax covers maybe a third, the rest is general funds, which means the lady on the bike is subsidizing your left turn lane. she should be the angry one
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Jun 9
love a politician cutting the ribbon on 11 affordable units like it's the hoover dam while 4,000 lottery applicants watch from behind a rope. great program for the 11. the other 3,989 can try again next year. we built a raffle and called it housing policy
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shockingly: banned in most of dc.
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Jun 9
dc is in the donut hole of wealth.
we’re still making many of the old mistakes resulting in urban flight.
interesting counterpoints in major cities (paris, nyc, etc).
it’s a matter of getting crime, transportation, and taxes right.
I wish the DC Council (and local media) appreciated the basic reality that we are a relatively poor jurisdiction embedded in a very prosperous region and can gain a lot of upside by just attracting marginally more rich people from the suburbs.
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To understand why housing people are talking about rent nonpayment you need to know that DC is the only jurisdiction where cash flow at low-income properties is negative.
The "I Hate Housing" position is watching affordable units go into mass foreclosure and doing nothing
isn’t it funny how the DC literati have all decided that the Tenant’s Rights position is actually an I Hate Housing position
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Jun 9
very interesting site going through statistically random lives of people. truly the human experience and many short lives historically.
Jun 9
actual link: random-lives.github.io/rando…
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Jun 8
This pretty much sums it up.
Houses. Are. Overpriced.
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Jun 8
One thing I don't get about real estate economics, is that RE people on here and in real life will swear rents would have to go up 15% for ANYTHING to pencil.
But then I walk around and see multiple buildings under construction that started after the 'bust'. So what gives?
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Jun 8
“Memphis and Washington, DC led the US in major metros with a YoY decline in domestic population over the last two quarters.”
“Net population change in major MSAs, according to Bank of America internal data (YoY % change, positive means net inflow, negative means net outflow).”
Jun 8
Not official Census data, but the Bank of America’s recently estimated Indianapolis and Salt Lake City are the fastest-growing US metros over the last 6 months. DC, LA, and Memphis shrank.
Easy to paint a picture rn of Midwest revival, visible in surging Midwest home prices.
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