Texas is now crushing California in clean energy.

Chart includes solar, wind, nuclear, hydro, and biomass.

One question only: where’s the feasibility and p(dev) analysis?

Everything else is window dressing.

The left theory of change that says 'vote against normie Dems, cause the fascist to win, enjoy the socialist revolution that ensues' has never once worked & most people who indulged later regret it. newrepublic.com/article/181660…

Mechanical Turk greatly lowered the costs of running experiments. Instead of generating new knowledge, researchers used it to publish false positives. So depressing and embarrassing.

Glad to see that this important bill moving on to second house.

AB 1893 would limit scale of CA builder's remedy projects while reducing legal uncertainty and--I hope!--increasing economic feasibility.

Amendments in 2d house should be laser-focused on feasibility.

“We find that 95.80% of total residential land area in California is zoned as single-family-only, severely constraining the spatial possibilities for denser and more affordable housing.”
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One of the biggest puzzles with housing affordability is why construction productivity growth is so low.

This paper by an all-star team suggests an answer: housing regulation lowers scale of builders, limiting incentives to invest in innovative technologies.

Texas builds.

California doesn't.

To increase home affordability, remove regulation that mfg homes must be permanently attached to their chassis. Reg has kept mfg homes out of many NBHDs. With 50% lower cost, this would be game-changer for many families.

My Op-Ed in WaPo: rb.gy/yrd9wd Hoover Institution

Great thread on the economics of upzoning, with an interesting conclude noting on the politics too.

Excited to release my first working paper - Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy and I analyse the impacts of zoning reform on housing supply in Lower Hutt. You can find a copy of the paper here: auckland.ac.nz/assets/busines… . A thread /1

Eager to read this.

My latest column: Post-COVID, hundreds of thousands of CA youth aren’t in school or working. No one knows where they are or what they’re doing. 25% of kids actually enrolled in school are chronically absent.

CA needs to treat this like the emergency it is.sfchronicle.com/opinion/emilyh…

I do not understand people’s concerns about whether that social media experiment was ethical, based on the results (big gains for the treatment group). What if those tweets had backfired bc the papers weren’t that good/polished and got torn apart online? And I’m confident most of

Big US cities generally lack parties or clearly understandable factions that a) split the population; and b) compete over the issues the city itself. Chicago seems to be developing what is in essence a local political party through the development of CTU nationalreview.com/2024/05/the-ch…