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RT @___frye: what’s the 240-character explanation for why it’s so expensive to build new houses nowadays? is it regulatory capture? shifti…
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Quote tweet · Sep 14, 2021"the root cause of escalating costs is overwhelmingly regulatory, rather than budgetary, in nature".…Reply · Dec 7, 2022@Pathless110 lol, this is ChatGPT take… but it’s mostly just housing that’s expensive and we’re working on that w YIMBY reforms!Reply · Sep 25, 2022@jshekhr Lol at “just build more houses” when our current local political debate is over whether to allow more housing units to be built everywhere……Reply · Dec 10, 2021@hmmm1776 @anonwithnumbers @mattyglesias Particularly when the expensive necessities they cite when arguing their case are supply-constrained by…