The fine people of Grant’s Pass are fed up with homeless people sleeping in public, and are taking action to prevent it. Naturally, their first step must have been to repeal the laws making it illegal to build homes for such people. That would just be common sense, right?

I’ve been reading a lot about legislative efforts to address our catastrophic housing scarcity problem, and found myself struggling to keep track of all the attempts. I figured someone must have made a database of them all. But evidently not! So I made one:

Proposal: after repealing mandatory off-street parking requirements, go a step further and impose a significant annual fee on curb cuts.

Walking around downtown Oakland last night I found myself thinking, as I often do, “where are all the people?”

Lately, when I walk around the city, I often hear myself thinking, “Land value tax fixes this.”

I see YIMBY legislative wins reported and discussed on social media regularly.

Reading and thinking a lot about housing policy lately, I’m finding myself ever-increasingly YIMBY-pilled.

Nice study out of Harvard JCHS, more evidence for “filtering”:

Thirty busybodies shouldn’t have the power to use the courts to strangle democratically enacted policies.