Will Poff-Webster
@willpoffwebsterWorking for @brianschatz. Formerly @YaleLawSch, @BosCityCouncil, @MA_Senate Ways & Means, @jpprogressives, @orfonline. A city is not an accident.
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Ten or fifteen years ago it was popular to say that our physical environment hadn't changed much since the 1970s. But just since then, there have been a ton of major technological changes to our physical world: * drones are everywhere * ebikes are everywhere * security cameras…
Across the US, starter homes have disappeared. Gone are the days of townhouses and small-lot homes. That is, except in Nashville. To understand why the Music City has bucked the trend, I sat down with the authors of a new report on the obscure law making it possible.
C.S. Lewis with one of the most insightful paragraph ever written
imagine how much of an out-of-touch let-them-eat-cake elitist you have to be to look at this emblematic sampling of the agency’s work and then conclude that “consumers are no better off for its existence”
CFPB started under Elizabeth Warren less than 20 years ago, and consumers are no better off for its existence. Quite the contrary, actually.
The public housing authorities we work with build mixed income housing, and use the money they make from market rents to build even more affordable housing. It’s a very good thing, and builds publicly owned affordable housing even when the federal subsidies have run dry.
"ghosts aren't real, they would be very litigious" written by a Chinese philosopher 2,000 years ago is absolutely amazing
Would anybody like to know what month in American history had the largest number of housing units that started construction? October 1972. In fact, 1972 is the peak year for housing units built in America. We have never surpassed it.
Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention
An underrated benefit of democracy: Bad policies are often continued just because it’s too embarrassing for a regime to admit that it has been making a big mistake all along. This explains why Zero COVID or the One Child Policy were continued for far longer than they were…
France is of course only 5x as efficient as we are at building trains because their labor unions are so famously weak 🙄
I don't think Ezra Klein is ready for the level of union busting and environmental rollback required to build train stations as rapidly as we did in 1900.
you can laugh but this is how we build housing
Committee to approve fashionable clothing suitable for sale to Soviet women, Moscow (1947)
This is an important comment. Dems listen too much to "the groups" is being coded as an anti-leftwing view, but it's about a broader culture of coalitional cowardice that often doesn't have a strong ideological view one way or the other. It just doesn't want anyone inside the…
Whenever I hear about how Democrats listened too much to the left, I think often about the Loan Shark Prevention Act I worked on that AOC and Bernie introduced into Congress. It would put a 15% cap on payday and credit card loans. When we polled it, it was hugely popular…
There are currently more high-rises under construction in Miami than every west coast state combined. - Miami metro: 90 under construction with a population of 6.2 million - US west coast states: 53 under construction with a population of 51.5 million
The Death Star Program Office to face additional scrutiny from the Imperial Senate following the release of a report from the Office of the Imperial Director, OT&E which finds that deficiencies identified in the Death Star's Reactor Exhaust Management System remain unaddressed.
Empire Magazine reveals that Director Orson Krennic in this season of #Andor is in charge of raising money to build the Death Star and is behind on schedule and over budget.
It’s always bizarre to me how many believe, or claim to believe, that what primarily “complicates” a tax code—and, by extension, the tax calculation—is the rates at which given income is taxed, rather than the calculation of “income” subject to taxation.
Replace IRS with flat tax. Everyone pays the same rate above 50k. Your first 50k is not taxed, over 50k is taxed at 15%. Zero deductions, zero loopholes. Tax form is 4 lines:
Big day for getting America building again!
We’re at the launch of the Congressional YIMBY Caucus right now!
@marcmolinaro @RepMolinaroNY19 making a bold center right case for housing reform at launch of the bipartisan YIMBY caucus!
Sign of the times. Chronic high housing prices have brought us here: to a bipartisan YIMBY caucus in the U.S. Congress.
Woo! BIPARTISAN YIMBY Caucus launches in Congress with 25 members, led by @RepRobertGarcia Group will tackle housing crisis through deregulation, boosting construction & jobs. Great to see coastal cities leading on housing abundance after facing these challenges firsthand.
that there is money to be made in precisely optimizing the destruction of the attention span of its own people is an indictment of the western political economy imo
A gap in the work of the AI labs is that they don’t seem to see the next phase of AI as about management: how do we verify & control the work of flawed semi-autonomous AI agents. Current UX designs for agents are all about autonomy. We need to focus on feedback loops & check-ins
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