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Paul E Williams
@PEWilliams_
Bad answer + missed opportunity from
@ezraklein
. Zoning reform is at its core pro-competition—that's how it works. Today, only giant developers + big banks can sink money into a 5 year rezoning. The reason zoning reform works is it lowers barriers to entry for *more* projects.
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.@ezraklein responds to criticisms of his new book "Abundance" that are coming from the left.
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Aaron Lubeck
@aaron_lubeck
That’s exactly right. Central planning is pro-corporatism. Central planning is a prerequisite to crony capitalism. It's a huge problem that the party is so culturally committed to central planning.
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CM Goat Wrangler
@jletanaka
Right but as the interview makes clear fixing American markets is NOT
@ezraklein
’s project, though I’m sure that he wouldn’t mind if markets were fixed. My takeaway from Abundance was that the authors want to fix state capacity, and market efficiency would be a happy side effect
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Chris
@spobiker
Instead of letting big investors muscle our cities around,
@RepJayapal
should be making it easier for anyone who wants to build housing to do it
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Erik Bootsma🌸🇳🇱
@ErikBootsma
This has shades of what
@TPCarney
argued a long time ago, that regulation only favors the big businesses, who can absorb the cost in order to force out competitors. Deregulating building, via zoning reform, would allow many many more small developers to take part.
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mabellgottheillcommunication
@marksplainitall
Great counterintuitive point. I think Ezra and most on both sides of the YIMBY/NIMBY debate take for granted that the moment zoning relaxes is a big opportunity for big players. But current state is a huge moat for big players in perpetuity, which is worse over time.
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Bloop
@paulreed00
I enjoy your work. Curious on thoughts on replacing community consultations and other red tape with a paid, randomly selected panel of residents who are educated on major development projects and then approve (or not) plans a la
@Alex_A_Guerrero
's Lottocracy.
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Paul E Williams
@PEWilliams_
4 or 5 steps ahead of you buddy
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@PEWilliams_
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