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www.greaterwrong.com
Anyone who's visited downtown San Francisco has seen streets like this one: The US is the richest country on Earth, excluding small states like Singapore with <10 million people. And the Bay Area is one of the US's economic hubs. Why do we see stuff like this? I'll try to break it down quickly. First, San Francisco is obviously an expensive place to live. Do housing costs predict high homelessness? They do! R^2 = 0.69 is really good. (This is a regression on US states, data from here and here. Washington, DC is a high outlier; removing it raises R^2 to 0.73. High outliers include DC, Washington, Nevada, Alaska and New Mexico; low outliers include Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Virginia, although the first might be an artifact of DC being... |
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jakeseliger.com
Arbitrary Lines is a very good book, and one whose subject shouldn't discourage you; as the author admits: "At surface level, zoning is an impossibly boring topic, even by the terms of public policy debate." The boredom is part of the point, though: because it's boring, most people don't get fired up about change. The... |
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onefinaleffort.com
When messaged well upzoning can be a popular policy. |
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patriotpost.us
The question is, "Is it possible to hate Donald Trump but not the average American?" |
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