Rents are declining in major U.S. cities due to increased housing supply, with Austin cited as a policy success. California faces housing shortages despite a national YIMBY movement advocating for more housing. The debate centers on the need for increased housing construction to address affordability issues.
And of course, it’s in San Francisco. Thanks Gavin… #WeveGotAStateToSave https://t.co/cEilPAcSwr
The world needs more housing. Aka, we NEED more developers. It’s a pretty simple concept. Want more affordable housing? Allow for developers to build more housing. Incentive it. Support it. Supply and demand is a magical thing!
Under our interest rates, materials cost, and similar labor costs Dallas did more multifamily homes than California. California has terrible policies on fees, housing approval processes, and zoning. Streamlining with prevailing wage + 20 percent IZ/fees = few unsubsidized homes. https://t.co/YHIthGjGLp
What does it look like to build more housing? https://t.co/rHOxLNAQcy
Governor Newsom created the California homeless crisis. He wasted $24 billion and has no idea what happened to the money. Now he wants SCOTUS to stop police from breaking up hobo camps on public land. So he can push his problem off on local communities. https://t.co/6F7iiICCJu
Newsom’s California in Biden’s America. https://t.co/a1X65WLngL
For those comparing today's housing market to past eras as justification that current high prices will stick, here's one thing that is wildly, glaringly different IMO, a credible argument for the status quo needs to somehow explain how this extreme can sustain https://t.co/bEiphPsHXw
Would YOU live in California? https://t.co/lLqx2WxHZG
I’ve seen in tweeted that more housing would solve inflation. In the long term, sure, we need to do better on that in order to sustain max economic potential. But in the short term, where are you getting the labor, material etc, for a major housing production level shift?
Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom says California is a “model” for how the country should deal with homelessness. In reality, California enables filth, squalor, and open-air drug use. How long can CA last before they drive the tax base to red states? https://t.co/v1QLoRrhiu
I noticed that people who move to Berkeley are usually NIMBY because they want to preserve the beauty they see. But people raised in Berkeley tend to be YIMBY because they realize its unfair that this life has been purposely limited to just 110,000 people for 50 years. https://t.co/FFQqOY84UR
Texas is building homes. California isn't. Newsom talks big, but that's it. https://t.co/1qRAZnHwmD
We need to bring the Texan way (YIMBY housing policy, no state income tax) to places that are actually nice to live in
Meanwhile, in most of California and in several urban centers, like San Francisco, people (and the @sfbos) are still in denial about the basic idea that we have a 50+ years long housing shortage and that we need to act with aggressive urgency to reverse this problem NOW https://t.co/TzkIKAupuP
Housing prices falling in metros is a *good* thing This is a success story both for policy and market driven urbanism https://t.co/mXC7GFDJTg
Housing prices falling in metros is a *good* thing https://t.co/mXC7GFDJTg
The rise of the YIMBY: Americans struggling to find cheap housing form pro-development groups to infiltrate public meetings and vote yes to new high-rises https://t.co/ry28jUdEpa https://t.co/8Fu6NAXWeB
The YIMBYs want to rewrite the planning rules, scrap heritage overlays and start a housing revolution. And they have the ear of government. https://t.co/48iBY1DU41
We've set ourselves up with a situation where a powerful constituency (homeowners) considers housing being abundant and affordable to be a policy failure. https://t.co/xbusQSXs5K
So the solution to the housing problem is to build more housing.. But if they ARE building more housing it’s a fear inducer. 3rd and more likely scenario - we’re all idiots pretending to be smart. https://t.co/XuDWCoI2Rd
Exactly right. Austin’s relatively cheap housing is a good thing! More jurisdictions should be like that. https://t.co/zLRIoMmnhb
“We think demographic demand for housing is 1.86M/yr…if you match that up against how many homes can actually be delivered…given land/lot shortages… we haven’t built that many homes/yr for ~ 15-20 years now… = a persistently undersupplied housing market” JBREC & @EricFinnigan
YIMBY was born in SF, out of the fire of the worst housing crisis in America, from an article written by @kimmaicutler A policy solution born out of extreme need The local knife fight in a phone booth gives people the words to fight for the right thing everywhere. https://t.co/0uVps94o0I
YIMBY is a national movement now. I think YIMBY was the missing piece in @DLeonhardt's (excellent) article on the new bipartisanship. The struggle for housing transcends party lines. https://t.co/Dfv6MqAiBg
People are flocking from CA to TX & FL, but does high cost of living mean CA is actually the "Rolls Royce" of states? 🚗🏡 Dive into this debate! #CaliforniaDream #HousingMarket Scott Sumner at #EconLog: https://t.co/ecTBJ78hzs
"housing oversupply" Get used to this becoming the mainstream understanding.....3 years after we figured it out https://t.co/fETKsSjRSf
Lawless California https://t.co/rpNbLdWwy6
The YIMBYs are coming, to the suburbs https://t.co/7PprTO2f1U
The YIMBYs are coming, to the suburbs. That is, they are saying yes to more housing in Greater Boston. https://t.co/LxX4q28dsN
Pennsylvania struggles to get more housing built to relieve a statewide shortage. https://t.co/7xv4rSnaRL
The growth in Austin’s housing supply, leading to lower housing prices, is a massive policy victory. And yet there are pundits who claim it’s a terrible thing. https://t.co/4XnEuV0W6A
Great job @GavinNewsom! Climate change amirite??! https://t.co/WqVDwXiYim
"You can see from the number of homes built by decade compared to the population increases we’ve experienced the only way to fix the housing market is by building more houses" https://t.co/AMKqVkNkrk https://t.co/UbXfUuRknH
Rents Are Plunging In These Major U.S. Cities https://t.co/9bSRBYT3tS