Matthew Larsen

Denver area followers: Many have tried to get pro-housing-supply messages out via new media, but few have mastered it like Justine Underhill. Find out how she does it! www.eventbrite.com/e/justine-un...

Denver area followers: Many have tried to get pro-housing-supply messages out via new media, but few have mastered it like Justine Underhill. Find out how she does it!
www.eventbrite.com/e/justine-un...

Denver area followers: Many have tried to get pro-housing-supply messages out via new media, but few have mastered it like Justine Underhill. Find out how she does it!
www.eventbrite.com/e/justine-un...

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On July 30th, find out if a Land Value Tax could really solve all of our land use problems in Colorado. www.eventbrite.com/e/1471491543...

YIMBYs, socialists, neoliberals, conservatives, tax lovers, tax haters - come to this event on July 30th at 6:30pm to find out about the Land Value Tax, an exciting way to encourage infill development and more affordable housing, and arguably the only way to tax without creating a deadweight loss.

YIMBYs, socialists, neoliberals, conservatives, tax lovers, tax haters - come to this event on July 30th at 6:30pm to find out about the Land Value Tax, an exciting way to encourage infill development and more affordable housing, and arguably the only way to tax without creating a deadweight loss.

I am so straight I have never had an opinion on the aesthetic value of anything except buxom women.

Yeah if I recall correctly potatoes were able to deliver calories in weather and situations where grains could not thrive, in effect enabling meaningfully more population growth in Europe.

On July 30th, find out if a Land Value Tax could really solve all of our land use problems in Colorado. www.eventbrite.com/e/1471491543...

If you want those feelings of dread to ever fade, the Democrats need to have solidarity across a party with a tent big enough for charismatic socialists and trans-skeptic, Israel loving center-rightists.

housing theory of everything undefeated

I know they had a terrible slow order after a derailment along a long freeway running section that basically every line uses. I believe it increased trip length by like 10-20 minutes. I wonder if that is part of the reason?

The Seattle area runs 14% less bus service today than it did in 2019. The region grew by 3% in that time. We’ve got to get back to running more frequent transit.

That’s going to take more investment from the City, State, & County. Great research from @urbaninstitute.bsky.social & @yonahfreemark.com

That wasn’t how it worked in Bozeman.

Note I said building _enough_ luxury housing.

Has Bozeman’s rental market finally flipped? A glut of new ‘upscale’ developments is driving prices down from pandemic highs; city officials hope the surplus will have far-reaching effects in one of the state’s most expensive places to live.

Building enough luxury housing lowers prices: montanafreepress.org/2025/06/23/h...

If I dug them up, I could find at least 5 recent peer reviewed papers showing supply increases lower prices. How many can you find showing the opposite?

At the risk of getting yelled at, this is part of why I keep saying blue state NIMBYism is a travesty for democracy. When we make it so that low-income immigrants, LGBTQ people and pregnant people can't afford to live where they want, think about what they end up being subject to.

We were too young to care much about prosperity/politics. To contrast childhood years in the 70s and early 80s,I’d bring up more freedom for kids to roam around, being bullied as an unremarkable part of junior high school, “gay” and “retard” as the top 2 insults. But politics was the next decade.

The late 80s and then Clinton & the 90s were the politically formative experience for Gen X. It was a pretty good decade overall for the US. Peace, prosperity, no pandemic, no financial crisis. Probably encouraged us to believe the system can work, relative to prior or subsequent generations.

I have no doubt that software tells airlines to raise prices on less competitive routes, but the problem there is the lack of competition, not the software. I think that probably applies to apartment rentals too.

Perhaps the legal system should move faster, but that needs to be weighed against whether price setting software is inherently and hopelessly bad, or if it has benefited the public. Arguably many of the lowest price tickets on airlines would not exist but for sophisticated pricing models.

So seems like the legal system was working as it should to prosecute collusion, and that algorithmic price setting software has value beyond collusion. Good reasons not to outlaw it.

Seems like #2 would be prosecutable under current law. Despite #1, airlines all still use price setting software. So seems like there is value to them without collusion, and outlawing anything in that software category for real estate could easily be excessive.

Maybe the arguments against RealPage are just not that compelling? Airlines use far more sophisticated price setting software in a far more concentrated industry. Why hasn't anyone gone after their price fixing?

All the best posters are still on Twitter if they are anywhere. This place's justified reputation for left wing intolerance doesn't help. The lack of an algorithm to juice interaction is also an issue, although otherwise it's the best platform from a technical standpoint.

Try Arbitrary Lines by M Nolan Gray, the Color of Law by Richard Rothstein, Order Without Design by Alain Bertaud

The principle: eliminate bad regulations and retain good ones.