🔰 Here's the basic case for turning property taxes into a land value tax (LVT), as presented to the Colorado Commission on Property Tax back in January 🧵

LVT shifts:
🔰 boost business activity & construction of multifamily housing
🔰 are neutral for the typical homeowner, tend

We sink so much money and economic potential into subsidizing empty parking lots and highways out to suburbia.

Absolutely ridiculous waste on a massive scale.

Couldn't agree more with this thread...

Including the conclusion that we're all likely to continue paying through the nose with public taxdollars for increasingly unsustainable car infrastructure.

Unfortunately, U.S. voters are unlikely to get over their carbrain anytime soon.

The people most responsible for creating the housing crisis in the Bay Area—rich NIMBYs—are the same people who scream blue murder about homelessness, a problem they helped create.

Hey guys! Everything is great. Crime is down. Wages are up. Inflation ex-shelter is only 2.2%. Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok usage are all down. Gen Z is making more money than their parents. We can still get cheap Chinese EVs from Mexico.

I think I'll take a walk! ☀️🏘️🌳🚶😊

Today I wrote about the weird politics of housing abundance.

It's not a cause with traditional left-right battle lines, and that's a good thing.

It's also why we should forcefully reject attempts to drag YIMBYism into the Omnicause. 🧵

Moving forward, we’re going to need all staff to enter all their time under appropriate grants codes in the least user-friendly anti-UX system that our IT team could possibly create. And then we will talk to you like you’re an idiot when you make mistakes.

'Environmental Law and the Things We Need to Build' w/ Prof. Dave Owen of UC Law San Francisco, June 11 6:00-7:30 - libraryca.libcal.com/event/12472857 (virtual program).

Sounds like Prof. Owen has some insights on CEQA that housing folks may like hearing... CA State Library

If we think real estate developers are making too much money, we should tax their incomes and redistribute that wealth instead of worsening the housing shortage and making everyone poorer by taxing new home construction.

The front page of the LA Times this morning has a photo of a young boy living in a tent on Skid Row. Meanwhile, Councilwoman Katy Yaroslavsky Councilwoman Katy Yaroslavsky is pushing an ordinance that would make housing for this young boy much harder to build.

You aren’t a more “realistic” person if your entire life is about telling other people how bad things are.

God help us