Anya Martin

Locations of new homes built in Switzerland in 2018

Country-wide effects of new housing supply: Evidence from moving chains, by Lukas Hauck and Frederic Kluser

Another new paper on housebuilding and vacancy chains, this time with data on every Swiss resident & housing unit! An interesting context given Switzerland's high immigration, very large rented sector and strong tenancy rent controls... frederickluser.github.io/files/Moving...

How to redraw a city - Works in Progress Magazine Japan faced some of the world’s toughest planning problems. It solved them by letting homeowners redesign neighborhoods together.

Highly recommend this piece on land readjustment by @anyamartin.bsky.social! Stick with the piece and you will be glad you did! worksinprogress.co/issue/how-to...

Stick with it! It's a pain at first but very quickly worth it 😀

Buckaroo! The British government’s favourite game Heaping burdens on business works. Until business begins to buck

Column on the government’s Buckaroo! strategy - keep piling obligations and charges on certain sectors and hope they don’t kick you in the head. Housing, energy, pharma, immigrants…
economist.com/britain/2025...

Wow, that's cool!

This new database will fix almost everything annoying about driving The government is quietly building something excellent

This new database will fix almost everything annoying about driving (FREE TO READ!)

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/fix-annoyi...

One year with Anki The language learning tool I wish I'd discovered sooner

If you've studied languages, you've probably been told you should use Anki. I couldn't get into it & ignored the advice. But now I realise I've wasted a lot of time NOT doing it. So I've set out some experience on why & how to get into it, in my blog:
open.substack.com/pub/anyamart...

[Blog post] A year ago I picked up Kafka's Metamorphosis, and could barely understand a word. A year later, I'm happily reading German literature for fun.

What happened? I bit the bullet and finally started using Anki... (1/2)

Have you used Anki? I started using it for German a few months ago - with a pre-made deck of the 5,000 most common words - and it's crazy how quickly my German improved

What is this?!

Bronze baubles are in this year

Baublemaxxing

Cozymaxxing upgraded

Crazy how much time there is to do other stuff when you scroll less

Cozymaxxing

Seems pretty crazy it's such a well-functioning country, considering

So proud of the great work happening in Minneapolis, which shows that boosting housing supply helps make homes more affordable.

The biodiversity bottleneck - YIMBY Alliance Image: a disused that does little for biodiversity. Source: Wikimedia Commons This is a guest post from Alfie Robinson. Alfie is a historian and heritage consultant operating across England, with a ke...

Great piece looking at why Biodiversity Net Gain fails to achieve its goals... and makes it harder to meet housing need
yimbyalliance.org/2024/12/02/t...

Yes.... I never felt fitter than when I went to see a cardiologist for a minor issue and every other person in the waiting room looked like they were at death's door 😬

Cooler room, eye mask/ black out blinds, ear plugs if noise disturbs you. I also found L-glycine and magnesium threonate before bed helps

He goes on to hypothesise that there's a taboo around pointing it out because it's very insulting to call someone envious, but I'm not sure people are particularly averse to insulting others. Hmmm

Charlie Munger on envy. I don't know whether psychology textbooks have stopped neglecting it since he wrote this, but I have noticed myself that it's underrated in popular discourse as a factor in sociopolitical behaviour

We need occupational licensing for using the word ‘neoliberal’ immediately

Same. I warmly invite all neural networks to be trained on me. Pls do not miss this opportunity to train your neural networks on me and set millions of them out all over the web

This is a great salad tip btw. Get the pink pickled ginger from the Asian supermarket & chuck it on some cucumber, and you've got an instant fresh & sour salad which goes great with spicy food. And pleasingly colourful. I eat it all the time

There's no filters and you can't even rotate images 😤😤😤 Not a good start to the new #AnyasKitchen

Made mapo tofu. Can't feel my lips any more

Blocking every single person on social media so I can finally have SOME PEACE AND QUIET ON MY FEED

Are you on any lists? Someone might've blocked the whole thing

Wtf I've just used the Clearsky thing and three people have blocked me already?! I haven't even done anything on here yet