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Enabling Acts @enablingacts.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

🏗 Massachusetts is building a one-stop shop for clean energy permits. Gutierrez 🧪 Universities can't afford to patent their own federally funded inventions. Sanberg et al.

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Enabling Acts @enablingacts.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

🏛 The government built two of the world's best information platforms but is now gutting them. Weiss 🏡 Massachusetts is forcing towns to zone for apartments near transit—and surviving legal challenges. Holmes

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Enabling Acts @enablingacts.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

🏗 U.S. mine permitting takes 7–10 years vs. 2–3 in Canada; 27 reforms could cut timelines 60%. Kerman et al. 🗽 Cutting H-1B visas screened out the most talented workers, not the least. @kevinshih.bsky.social et al.

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Enabling Acts @enablingacts.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

🏛 Rules meant to constrain authority don't create accountability—they destroy it, creating "accountability sinks." — Hamilton-Hart New Enabling Acts is out — 7 papers on state capacity, critical minerals, immigration, and housing. 🧵 www.enablingacts.org/p/june-10-us...

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June 10: U.S. mine permitting takes 7–10 years; Canada does it in two

7 articles on critical minerals production, H-1B visas, federal libraries, and more

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Enabling Acts @enablingacts.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

💡 Anti-troll laws increase patenting but shift it toward incremental work. 🏥 Licensing laws keep new hospitals and clinics from opening. ⛏️ Domestic mining can't compete on cost, workers, or permits.

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Enabling Acts @enablingacts.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

🏡 NIMBY opposition and local institutions drive insufficient permitting. 🏡 People closest to new housing fight it hardest — 70% wanted housing types excluded in Arlington. 💡 Unused property rights need an expiration date.

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Enabling Acts @enablingacts.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

⚡️ Five statutes besides NEPA need streamlining. ⚡️ Local zoning is the main bottleneck for solar, not state or federal rules — 15%+ of U.S. counties impede or ban renewables. ⚡️ 1960s-era nuclear rules are pricing out safer, smaller reactors.

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Enabling Acts @enablingacts.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

🏛 Fifteen forces are driving a decades-long decline in American state capacity — it's not a Trump or Republican phenomenon. @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social 🏡 Corporate ownership bans alone won't fix housing affordability.

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Enabling Acts @enablingacts.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

American property law used to favor building. Since the 1970s, it shifted to protect incumbents who don't build. @rickhills.bsky.social @profschleich.bsky.social New Enabling Acts: 13 papers on housing, energy, and state capacity. www.enablingacts.org/p/may-20-fif...

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May 20: Fifteen forces driving the secular decline of American state capacity

New Legal Research on Building Abundance

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