David Broockman
David Broockman
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David Broockman
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1978: SF NIMBYs downzone SF, banning 180,000 potential homes Less than a decade ago: the YIMBY movement is born in SF This week: the SF BOS voted to make over *HALF A MILLION* new homes legal, counteracting the '78 downzoning by >3x Thank you!
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Senator Scott Wiener
@Scott_Wiener
SF Board of Supervisors is poised today to approve a strong housing plan (housing element) that plans for 82k new homes in next 8 years: 3x the # of homes planned for in the last plan. This transformative moment didn’t happen randomly. We changed state law to MAKE it happen:NEW wSkeptics say partisan TV doesn't matter b/c few watch, viewers extreme anyway & they watch other news w/ new data, we show this is WRONG 1 in 7 Americans watch >8hrs/mo partisan TV They're not already extreme They're in echo chambers osf.io/b54sx/
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New study from UCLA finds that: - 5-unit buildings aren't feasible in SF no matter what the City does - 10-unit buildings only become feasible if the City cuts fees to almost zero escholarship.org/content/qt0211
NEW: inwe report a treasure trove of data from inside dozens of campaigns’ own experiments on persuasion The data reveal experimentation at a vast scale that is revolutionizing campaigning challenges academic theories & could have implications for democracy
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Today I filed a challenge withto's candidate statement. In it, he claims he "voted to approve 30,000 new homes." Almost all those homes are made up---& City data shows they're not "approved" either. Dean: stop being a NIMBY, and stop lying to voters.
A great article on the non-profit industrial complex's takeover of---and failure in---cities like SF. In my view one of the biggest questions in urban politics is why cities outsource public services to underperforming nonprofits.
Coddling NIMBYs is not the answer Eliminating their veto is
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Noah Smith 
@Noahpinion
A good overview of why Japan builds so much housing. It's all about zoning and centralized control of land use. sightline.org/2021/03/25/yes
My students are not pollution, and an *environmental law* shouldn’t force them to drive from an hour away to come to class.
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Senator Scott Wiener
@Scott_Wiener
The Court of Appeal just issued an absurd & dangerous ruling that people are pollution & CEQA requires evaluation of the type of people who will live in proposed new housing. We’ll shortly introduce legislation to put an end to this nonsense. Stay tuned. latimes.com/california/sto
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nimby.report/preston is updated with's vote to block homes at 1151 Washington Street. Dean's updated housing record: - 30,071 people's homes opposed - 8,563 people's subsidized homes opposed - his district has only built about *ONE* home/day since he took office
I'm honored to be on the list of amazing scholars selected as 2024Fellows! I'll be continuing my work on how boiling down people's views to a left-right continuum warps our understanding of polarization, bringing it to the elite level.
SF gov: housing isn’t possible to build anywhere right now, it’s not our fault Seattle:
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Buildhomez
@buildhomez
The podium for Seattle House is nearing completion, and it's ginormous. The podium itself is 11 stories containing hundreds of apartments. The dual-tower project will have 1,131 units and a residential floor area of 889,149 sqft. All on just 1/2 of a block in Denny Triangle
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NEW w&: Every political scientist learns in grad school that voters use interest group ratings to help hold elected officials accountable The problem is...we don't actually know this! We find reality is not so encouraging...cambridge.org/core/journals/
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NEW PAPER wA recent APSR article, "Moderates", argues Americans with a mix of liberal & conservative views are actually centrist. We show that it relies on a flawed method & its conclusions are therefore unreliable. We welcome feedback! osf.io/ma2fs/
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Banning investors from owning homes does not affect home prices---but it does *increase* rents. Yet another NIMBY policy gimmick to distract from the obvious solution---build more housing---to bite the dust.
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Matthijs Korevaar
@MKorevaar_
NEW PAPER : Do investors raise housing costs, crowd-out first-time homebuyers, and change neighborhoods? My non-twitter co-authors and I study this question by tracking the impact of ban on buy-to-let investment. We can do so almost in real-time! A (1/14)Show more
