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Paul Williams

@pewilliams.bsky.social
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Executive director, Center for Public Enterprise (publicenterprise.org) Brooklyn, NY

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Chirag Lala @cthelala.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The bipartisan permitting bill would be the most significant reform to grid governance in decades! I published an analysis of the bill where I discuss the new federal frameworks for planning, cost allocation, and permitting. Ditto public finance! publicenterprise.org/the-bipartis...
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The bipartisan permitting bill gets transmission right
The transmission and grid provisions in BAAJA are ambitious, going beyond the provisions of 2024’s EPRA bill. Most importantly, BAAJA gives FERC more statutory cover to take aggressive actions on grid...
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Henry Grabar @henrygrabar.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
cool job alert!
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Paul Williams @pewilliams.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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Paul Williams @pewilliams.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I am looking for the nation's foremost modular housing respecters. We need someone to lead our modular consortium in the northeast, in collaboration with state housing finance agencies, to scale up modular across the region. If that's you or someone you know: publicenterprise.org/careers/depu...
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Deputy Director, Offsite & Modular Housing
Deputy Director, Offsite & Modular Housing Job Type: Full-Time, RemoteDivision: HousingReports to: Director of Housing Compensation: $105-$120,000; commensurate with experience Description Th...
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Paul Williams @pewilliams.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I am looking for the nation's foremost modular housing respecters. We need someone to lead our modular consortium in the northeast, in collaboration with state housing finance agencies, to scale up modular across the region. If that's you or someone you know: publicenterprise.org/careers/depu...
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Deputy Director, Offsite & Modular Housing
Deputy Director, Offsite & Modular Housing Job Type: Full-Time, RemoteDivision: HousingReports to: Director of Housing Compensation: $105-$120,000; commensurate with experience Description Th...
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Paul Williams @pewilliams.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Tagging people who might have applicants in mind, or might be willing to share: @henrygrabar.bsky.social @amyliz.bsky.social @jayparsons.bsky.social @erikapoethig.bsky.social @profschleich.bsky.social @stephenjacobsmith.com
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Deputy Director, Offsite & Modular Housing
Deputy Director, Offsite & Modular Housing Job Type: Full-Time, RemoteDivision: HousingReports to: Director of Housing Compensation: $105-$120,000; commensurate with experience Description Th...
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Paul Williams @pewilliams.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I mean I guess but Bynum also signed to this www.thepromisetoamerica.com/signatories/...
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JANELLE BYNUM — PTA
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I hope everyone who is engaged in federal housing policy reads this @pewilliams.bsky.social report and takes notes. publicenterprise.org/report/raisi...
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Raising the Housing Investment Level
Raising the Housing Investment Level, Part II: The History and Future of Multifamily Investment Policy
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Paul Williams @pewilliams.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
A little treat for the georgists
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Paul Williams @pewilliams.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
@stephenjacobsmith.com I double dog dare you
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Paul Williams @pewilliams.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Report here (and if anyone tells me you can put links in the top post on here, I will block you) publicenterprise.org/report/raisi...
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Raising the Housing Investment Level
Raising the Housing Investment Level, Part II: The History and Future of Multifamily Investment Policy
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Paul Williams @pewilliams.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Combined, these policies could get us out of the shortage once and for all. We have raised the housing investment level before, and now—with so many cities and states reforming their zoning laws, opening the door to housing—is the time to do it again.
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Paul Williams @pewilliams.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Fortunately, there are lessons that can be learned from 1968-73 and 81-86, when Presidents Reagan, Nixon and Johnson made the housing production line go up. The GSEs, FHA, HFAs, FHLBs and tax depreciation are all powerful levers we can pull to achieve that result again today.
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Paul Williams @pewilliams.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The housing shortage is big, and getting out of it will take a long time. For multifamily, we would have to jump from 350k to 600k homes per year (which we haven't done since the 80s) and maintain that level through 2033. The timelines are much worse for lower production levels.
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Paul Williams @pewilliams.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Take a look at the historical multifamily production chart. The first half of the period, there's a lot of green. The second half of the period, a lot of red. Zoom in on the green mountains and you'll find federal policies carefully designed to make the line go up.
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Paul Williams @pewilliams.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The time has come to raise the housing investment level in this country, just as we did in the 1960s and 1980s. We have a new report out this morning laying out just how high housing production numbers need to go—and for how many years—to dig us out of the shortage.
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advait @advaitarun.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I am slowly working on a thesis for why the US is dogshit at scaling up cleantech and, frankly, I think it's going to make nobody happy??
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Paul Williams @pewilliams.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
As many of you know, CPE’s work focuses on the public investment side of housing, energy, and other infrastructure. Our panel at the Abundance conference was appropriately titled “Finance: The Missing Pillar of Abundance?” The space was packed—standing room only.
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Paul Williams @pewilliams.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
As many of you know, CPE’s work focuses on the public investment side of housing, energy, and other infrastructure. Our panel at the Abundance conference was appropriately titled “Finance: The Missing Pillar of Abundance?” The space was packed—standing room only.
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advait @advaitarun.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
My favorite part of writing this report—but also the most worrying part—was explaining why we do NOT believe the LPO can currently finance new nuclear reactors. We looked into Vogtle's project finance and argue it was a "financial anomaly" that will be impossible to replicate:
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advait @advaitarun.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
The Loan Programs Office now has an "Energy Dominance Financing" program. How does it work? What can it do for developers? And what more does it need from the DOE and Congress to continue to support new clean energy technologies? @publicenterprise.bsky.social: publicenterprise.org/report/whats...
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What's next for the LPO?
Read the full report here. Executive Summary The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, now made law, looks better for the Loan Programs Office than what the Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee ha...
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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 17/07/2025
Here, @pewilliams.bsky.social @jeffhauser.bsky.social & Marshall Kosloff model an Abundance-populist synthesis. Hint: it's a lot easier when you root Abundance in the local YIMBYism that inspired it, which the national conversation often distracts from. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...
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561 | Jeff Hauser vs. Paul Williams - Debating What the Abundance Agenda Gets Right and Wrong
Podcast Episode · The Realignment · 07/15/2025 · 1h 1m
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Elizabeth Wilkins @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Just heard @pewilliams.bsky.social explaining that the grassroots YIMBY movement knows unleashing supply requires major zoning reform and cutting red tape, and also ensuring private actors act for public good. Nuance doesn’t get clicks but it does get stuff right. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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561 | Jeff Hauser vs. Paul Williams - Debating What the Abundance Agenda Gets Right and Wrong
Podcast Episode · The Realignment · 07/15/2025 · 1h 1m
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Paul Williams @pewilliams.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Most of my gcs are on Twitter
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Paul Williams @pewilliams.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Last week, California passed a landmark law exempting many infill housing developments from CEQA. Here’s how we can do the same thing on a national level, exempting urban infill housing from NEPA. New report from Aaron Shroyer for @publicenterprise.bsky.social:
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Paul Williams @pewilliams.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Last week, California passed a landmark law exempting many infill housing developments from CEQA. Here’s how we can do the same thing on a national level, exempting urban infill housing from NEPA. New report from Aaron Shroyer for @publicenterprise.bsky.social:
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Paul Williams @pewilliams.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
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Infill Nation: Reforming NEPA to Build More Housing
Read the full report here. Imagine if the Inflation Reduction Act had included the housing supply provisions from the House-passed Build Back Better Act. Based on the magnitude of the investments, ...
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Chirag Lala @cthelala.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Our own @pewilliams.bsky.social co-wrote with @scientistsorg.bsky.social on state derisking of clean energy projects! Thread 1/ This is part of an ongoing CPE research on state capacity improvements for doing project development! Next report coming soon on state EDAs. fas.org/publication/...
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De-Risking the Clean Energy Transition
As federal uncertainty grows and climate goals face political headwinds, a new coalition of subnational actors is rising to stabilize markets, accelerate permitting, and finance a more inclusive green...
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Paul Williams @pewilliams.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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Paul Williams @pewilliams.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Toplines from HUD section of Trump proposed FY26 budget: Sections 8, 9, 202 and 811 all eliminated and replaced by much smaller state block grant. Elimination of HOME+CDBG. Elimination of the Pathways to Removing Obstacles program, which helped cities do zoning/permitting reform.
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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
My colleague and I just published a report on the implications of the market structure of Enhanced Geothermal (EGS) on policy options for stimulating the sector. publicenterprise.org/report/commi...
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Committing to the Drill Bit
Committing to the Drill Bit: Derisking Enhanced Geothermal's Unique Market Structure
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 28/04/2025
The Public Utility Commission of Texas approves first ultra-high voltage (745 kV) transmission lines in the state to help power electrification of the Permian oil patch. 🔌💡
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Chirag Lala @cthelala.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Published a report arguing for Western states to collaborate on the deployment of enhanced geothermal technologies. This "Mountain West" consortium ought to pursue regulatory harmonization and cooperation on various development issues. publicenterprise.org/report/enhan...
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Enhanced Geothermal Consortium for the Mountain West
Read the full report here. Next-generation geothermal technologies are at the frontier of energy development in the United States. Drawing on drilling techniques developed during the shale boom, en...
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John Jay Economics @johnjayeconomics.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
John Jay econ alum @pewilliams.bsky.social makes the case that to bring down housing costs, we have to address supply.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Mark Carney, asked about housing: "We need to build affordable housing at a scale we haven't seen since the second world war. My government is going to do that." He suggests an announcement on this is coming in a few days.
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Elizabeth Wilkins @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Love @pewilliams.bsky.social and his take on how we can shape housing markets to produce more supply. So pleased to partner up.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
More new pro-housing content from @rooseveltinstitute.org, this time courtesy of the great @pewilliams.bsky.social! www.firesidestacks.com/p/the-musica...
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The Musical Chairs Theory of Housing
For hundreds of years, thousands upon thousands of New Yorkers all moved on the same day. Moving Day, which fell on May 1 each year, coincided with near-universal annual lease renewals from landlords ...
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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 25/03/2025
Imagine a game of musical chairs—but it’s NYC’s housing market. @pewilliams.bsky.social breaks down why we have to stop playing the game and add chairs: Supply is key to affordability. 🏠 #FiresideStacks 🔥 www.firesidestacks.com/p/the-musica...
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
As I noted, Roosevelt will be doing more work on housing going forward. Today we have a great guest post from housing expert and fellow JFI alum @pewilliams.bsky.social !
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Boosting housing supply helps increase the odds that housing voucher holders find a home to rent where they can use their voucher.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
This is such a key point. Fundamentally to solve the housing crisis we need more redistribution and more housing.
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Hannah “Charles Barkley” Pechan @hpechan.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The reason I champion more housing is not because I’m a free market developer shill (I’m not). It’s because the ethos of “there’s not room for more” always hurts our poorest neighbors the most. Zoning reform won’t solve affordability but without it we can’t make real progress.
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
This is insane — hopefully forever banishes the myth that expanding supply does nothing for low-income people
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Paul Williams @pewilliams.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Read the full piece from Roosevelt here: www.firesidestacks.com/p/the-musica...
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The Musical Chairs Theory of Housing
For hundreds of years, thousands upon thousands of New Yorkers all moved on the same day. Moving Day, which fell on May 1 each year, coincided with near-universal annual lease renewals from landlords ...
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Paul Williams @pewilliams.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
As Chirag says: more supply means more effective redistribution. A family given a housing voucher in a supply constrained market often never finds a home.
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Chirag Lala @cthelala.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Smart writeup from my colleague @pewilliams.bsky.social on how housing shortages impact the efficacy of voucher programs. More supply = more successful redistribution! www.firesidestacks.com/p/the-musica...
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The Musical Chairs Theory of Housing
For hundreds of years, thousands upon thousands of New Yorkers all moved on the same day. Moving Day, which fell on May 1 each year, coincided with near-universal annual lease renewals from landlords ...
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 10/03/2025
Today's Siena College poll shows a dramatic turnaround from a December poll. Now, more NYC residents think that congestion pricing should stick around compared to those who want Trump to end the life-changing policy. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/03/10/s...
"More NYC Residents Support Congestion Pricing Than Oppose It"

Bar graph comparing Siena College polling data of NYC residents from December 2024 to March 2025.

December 2024: 32% Support congestion pricing, 56% oppose it.
March 2025: 42% support congestion pricing, 35% oppose it.
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Paul Williams @pewilliams.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
They construct the indices by word-searching newspapers for the word “uncertain” www.policyuncertainty.com/us_monthly.h...
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Economic Policy Uncertainty Index
We develop a new method to measure economic policy uncertainty and test its dynamic relationship with output, investment, and employment. We find that, since 2008, economic policy uncertainty in the U...
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