Emily Hamilton

For years, I've been wondering (sometimes aloud) why Ukraine kept speaking of demands for 'territorial' concessions and not 'abandoning real people to authoritarian foreign occupation' concessions. Glad to see this important change in framing of the choices being forced upon them by appeasers.

New UCLA Report Looks into the High Cost to Build Parking - Streetsblog Los Angeles For new apartments, the research found that building required parking adds roughly $50,000 to $100,000 per unit, and disproportionately increases the cost to build smaller apartments

"What's more expensive: a new car or a new parking space?

As of 2025 a new car costs, on average, about $50,000.

A new UCLA study finds that a new parking space, on average, costs even more."

Specifically, these figures refer to structured or underground spaces, & do NOT include the cost of land.

Yeah, “free” country we have where some places don’t let you choose your housemates. The rules that prevent this are called occupancy restrictions, and they generally set a limit on unrelated people living together.

Yes, that's a big limitation

And PadSplit provides more generalizable data about the type of affordability rooming houses can deliver: www.padsplit.com/impact/

I think allowing single-family houses to become rooming houses is an underrated tool in the housing affordability toolkit.

Like lots of young people in DC, I spent a few years of my 20s in this type of housemate situation, paying rent far below what I would have had to pay for a studio apartment.

I would like to see policy going further to get rid of occupancy restrictions (including owner occupancy restrictions) entirely and to get out of the business of regulating lease length.

That said, I'm glad to see any chipping away of occupancy regulations.

This Connecticut bill would require localities to allow single-family homeowners to be allowed to rent out at least three bedrooms as long as the lease term is at least six months: legiscan.com/CT/bill/SB00...

I Was Promised a Girlboss War And all I got was Trump bombing Iran like a dog

This is the Oren Cass policy agenda:

“A revenge fantasy wherein a bunch of useless girlbosses are told the party is over and it’s time for them to battle with each other to marry some guy in the trades to survive.” www.cartoonshateher.com/p/i-was-prom...

It’s nice to go to sleep in the warm cocoon of the nuclear vaporization zone

An agent to supervise the agents

There’s no denying Codex is extremely useful, but I predict it will usher in a huge surge in ~spreadsheet errors~

It’s like an enormous army of somewhat untrustworthy research assistants. It’s long and tedious work to check this army’s work, especially if you’re not already a good coder

So glad to hear it!

But if they want to walk to school, they're going to have to tramp across a field and a bunch of drop-off lanes, rather than being able to take a sidewalk to the front door like civilized people could.

It's not just large sites that make schools unwalkable. Forest Middle School in Forest, VA is a pretty absurd 74 acres. Nonetheless, some kids are close enough to it to walk and live on the right side of Forest Rd.

I've looked at hundreds of school sites, and Cartersville Georgia's Woodland High School, clocking in at 150 acres, is one of the biggest I've seen.

I like that book too, but it doesn’t make me want people who are super obsessed with the Ancient Greeks to be in control of *too* much

I think there’s a strain of the New Right that’s made up of people like the kids in The Secret History. Except in The Secret History 5/6 kids are doing the reading and in this part of the New Right it’s 1/6 at best.

As part of my quest to better understand the New Right, I really enjoyed Laura Field’s Furious Minds.

How Zoning Won In 1926, the Supreme Court’s Euclid decision enshrined zoning in US cities. On its 100th anniversary, academics gathered to reflect on the landmark ruling’s mixed legacy.

"Just like some believe all zoning is racist, these property rights defenders say all zoning can be seen as a regulatory taking in violation of the 5th Amendment."

¿Por qué no los dos?

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No I’m an economist

I think this rare case may be an exception to the unconstitutionality. A locality could create an IZ ordinance only for projects that are net housing reductions.

New housing construction improves affordability, so there is no nexus between building new housing and being required to provide income-restricted housing.

This vacancy chain process that happens when new housing is built (even in Honolulu!) is why, in my opinion, mandatory unfunded inclusionary zoning is unconstitutional.

Haha either works

Oh man, good to know. I don't know the full extent of our damage yet, but I do know there are lots of tiny pieces, such as heads, involved.

Ahhhh

Yes but there are 567,893,630 to have them

You can’t come up with a list of things you have to tell people not to do until they reveal the list to you

Never leave your kid alone in the bathroom lest they figure out how to remove the plug from the drain and stuff it full of legos all the way down to the p-trap @pipedreaming.bsky.social