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Very important question: If YIMBY/Abundance is winning in California, why isn't the state building more homes? Brian Hanlon (@hanlonbt): "The main reasons we don’t have housing come down to three basic things." - First, zoning. It’s illegal to build dense housing even when there’s demand. - Second, streamlining and permits. Even if the housing is legal to build, getting approval can be time-consuming, uncertain, and expensive. - Third, costs: not just higher labor costs, but also govt-imposed costs, like inclusionary zoning and parks fees I would add: The most recent YIMBY wins have coincided with a high interest rate environment and a Trump immigration policy that especially affects places like CA that rely on foreign-born workers. That said, interest rates are national and CA's building crisis is special. https://t.co/dApRt9C805
A useful bit of recent information from housing expert Neal Hudson in his FT piece on issues facing housing: "even the government’s own modelling for the Future Homes Standard shows it will miss its 1.5 million housebuilding target by 400,000". #ukhousing...
Cincinnati’s Insanely beautiful train station had the capacity to see 216 trains daily, and only sees six now per week. Six. Ohio’s whole budget has a few million for rail, and hundreds of millions for the Cleveland Browns stadium.
The renovation of the Providence train station looks so good and will greatly expand capacity.
Back when I worked at Fortune in early 2022, as it became clear the Pandemic Housing Boom was nearing its final inning, I suggested to readers that a quick-and-dirty metric to follow in the post-pandemic period would be active inventory...
National Housing Inventory growth has slowed from the peak of 33% YoY last year to now, just 4.67% However, be mindful that the year-over-year comps are a big variable here. Just like it is with Florida's negative YoY inventory...
I had the privilege of touring the newly rehabilitated East River Tunnel 1, which took 13 months, on time and on budget, to go from a 115-year-old tunnel to one that’s state of the art. Our country still has the...
If it weren't the builders paying down rates, housing permits would be worse today. We will never build housing the way people want because we aren't a supply-first economy; the demand curve needs to align with it, and rental vacancies...
There’s no reality in which this country can do incredible things like this and then fail to build high speed rail, nuclear power and green energy.
A dumb idea you're all going to hate: at this point, they should just prioritize opening this as operational Central Valley high-speed rail as soon as possible. The extension from Merced to Stockton/Sacramento is easy, and at least as useful...
In downtown Houston, an empty lot next to a light rail station becomes 375 housing units... April Fools! TxDOT actually knocked these apartments down to widen a highway. The top image is the after.
California HSR just released an interim plan to connect Los Angeles once the SF-to-Central Valley alignment is finished, rather than waiting to complete 28 miles of tunnels. The catch? The interim connection takes nearly 2 hours via existing Metrolink tracks,...
This is great. The Midwest built some truly insane urban freeways, and is now taking the right approach on removing them: don't replace them with a giant dead park, or a dangerous boulevard, but a multimodal corridor surrounded by a...
Akron just released its plan to demolish its hardly used inter freeway belt to make room for 4,500 homes and re-stitch the street grid. Please please please make this happen.
Lennar—America’s second-largest homebuilder—had to spend $62,700 on incentives per average home sale last year Back in 2022, that figure was $17,300 via @ResidentialClub
Connecting Madison and Milwaukee via rail is painfully obvious. The Hiawatha West service is a must, and I am glad Amtrak is working to get it across the line over the next few years. Thoughts?
