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This is the key insight to 's book At launch, some housers who didn't know his work worried like, "oh boy, yet another YIMBY book capitalizing on the moment by someone who's not on the front lines" But it was the first to make this important, counterintuitive point
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There’s an intuitive sense that high mobility—that is, people frequently moving from place to place—diminishes the sense of community and social trust in a nation. But America has become lower-trust and more atomized at the same time it has become less mobile and more ‘rooted.'
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Job and housing scarcity, and lack of infrastructure and services drove 19th/early 20th century migration. As those improved in more places people no longer needed to chase them. This seems good.

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See, the problem here is that Nithya Raman wants to actually improve working people's material circumstances instead of holding a lot of meetings.
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"Instead of proposing actual solutions to the problem, they should 'build power' by 'challenging capital'" oh my god they admit it x.com/geesemagazine/…
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Of all the Western states, Nevada is the only one that has been stellar at water conservation. Clark County (home to Las Vegas) recycles nearly 100% of indoor water usage, allowing it to water landscaping for free. Runoff goes back to Lake Mead. They have no major agriculture!
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Dina Titus
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Today’s announcement that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation could cut Nevada’s allocation of Colorado River water by 70 percent amounts to a death sentence for Southern Nevada. We could not survive a cut of that magnitude. The BOR misled us last week in saying our allocation would
Change in rent over the last year in cities that make it easy to build housing: Austin: -3.8% Phoenix: -3.7% Houston: -2.8% Change in rent over the last year in NYC: +3.4%
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Can rent control fix the housing crisis? No. In fact, it could make things a whole lot worse. Find out more in my latest for @WSJFreeEx
Data Centers already use HALF of the water from the Colorado River. HALF!!! We have to ban Data Centers now!!!! Oh no wait. That’s alfalfa for cows.
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