Montgomery County partnering with Metro Forward to turn a parking lot into apartments - let's do even more at our BART stations, we can't let the east coast outshine us here!

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The Census estimate of apartment units permitted but not yet started is sitting at 2x the prior 20 years’ average. From 2000 to 2020, stalled projects averaged about 60k units per year. Today, stalled projects sit at about 120k units per year—after peaking at 160k units per year.

Not going after Joe Weisenthal here--It is good to be careful w/short snapshots of partial equilibrium outcomes!

Austin built the most in the country last decade, but Q_d growth was so strong that it took a long lag for housing completions to catch up. It's a complex time path

Congratulations Arizona on some amazing housing wins this session ✨streamlined zoning approvals, increased ability to convert commercial to residential via adaptive reuse, ADUs and middle housing ✨ y’all are making some of my urban planning dreams come true!

Very exciting to see the broader housing finance industry take note of Montgomery County's Housing Production Fund. Housing agencies are keenly aware of the growing need for tools that can produce at significantly increased volume—the HPF is one such scalable and replicable tool.

The Guarantee asks us to imagine an America where housing, health care, a college education, dignified work, family care, an inheritance, and an income floor are guaranteed. Discuss with Natalie Foster and Tressie McMillan Cotton on May 21 at CBH. RSVP: bklynlib.org/44c43il