Assemblywoman @katiebrennan.bsky.social with a fantastic op-ed on the need for state-level YIMBY reforms in New Jersey
www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/06/op-e...
>renames it to the Department of War
>names himself the Secretary of War
>fights one war
>loses
At last, a review of the patchwork of state and local regulations that delay projects and drive up costs needlessly
Erling Haaland 2 - Iraq 1
Norway is a one man team. Let’s see how deep that’ll get them in this tournament.
I am so grateful that my parents weren’t monarchists.
If they were, I might have not been able to see past the brainwashing to see what a disaster US military action in Iran would turn out to be.
Matt da Silva
Yashar Ali 🐘
The Lead Paint Theory of Anti Gentrification holds that activists can prevent displacement and preserve housing affordability by preserving neighborhood disamenities and blocking investment in quality of life improvements like parks, bike lanes, and libraries. It does not work.
We’ve never had a lawmaker as clear-eyed as Brennan on the barriers to housing affordability in New Jersey. By-right approvals, single-stair reform, ending parking minimums, ADUs. It’s all in here.
And yes she’s down for enforcing and strengthening our best-in-the-nation tenant protections too, but you can’t protect tenants in apartments that don’t exist.
Supply in the bedrock of housing affordability.
Matt da Silva
How did the US add housing from 2000 to 2020?
In the New York region, ~1/2 of homes were added in neighborhoods that already had >5000 units/sq mi: high-density areas.
But in regions like Dallas & Phoenix, almost all units were added through sprawl.
An investigation: www.urban.org/research/pub...
Metro areas like Houston & Phoenix grew at a much faster rate overall, than regions like New York & Washington DC.
But this was not the case in those regions' already developed neighborhoods. There, the New York & DC regions grew *more quickly* than the equivalent areas in Houston & Phoenix!
Matt da Silva
This produces what we might call the paradox of housing supply growth: Regions with the fastest growth in supply, typically in the Sunbelt, often actually grew *less quickly* in their existing neighborhoods. Those fast-growing regions are simply growing through sprawl www.urban.org/research/pub...
