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Rob Ripperda @robripperda.com · 10/02/2026
#YIMBY posts are a little light this morning on the house passage of H.R.6644 - Housing for the 21st Century Act
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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Half of the United States' population lives in these 144 counties. Explore: walkerke-county-popu...
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Rob Ripperda @robripperda.com · 30/12/2025
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‘Can You Print a House?’: God, Robots and the U.S. Housing Crisis
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
"per square foot, affordable housing cost more 1.5 times as much to build in California as market-rate housing" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
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Opinion | America’s Housing Crisis, in One Chart
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Daily Stoic @daily-stoic.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” ― Epictetus
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Jenny Schuetz @jennyschuetz.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Tireless Mercatus team @salimfurth.bsky.social @ebwhamilton.bsky.social @charlescgardner.bsky.social just dropped 18 (!) strategies for state govts to increase housing supply. Love the ideas to limit "lawsuits of questionable merit" [ahem, Virginia]. www.mercatus.org/research/pol...
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Housing Reform in the States: A Menu of Options for 2026
Although state legislatures took unprecedented strides toward releasing the housing supply from its regulatory straitjacket in 2025, most pro-housing policies have not yet been adopted in most states....
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Gotta re-legalize starter homes on small lots, encourage more experimentation with manufactured housing and other construction modes, restore fiscal discipline to bring down interest rates
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Sara C. Bronin @sarabronin.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
National Zoning Atlas again informs advocacy - this time on manufactured housing reforms in Texas. Our Legislative Brief on Senate Bill 785 used NZA data on 824 jurisdictions, finding 44% would be affected. A link to the Brief (& other uses of NZA data by advocates) up at zoningatlas.org/advocacy!
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ADVOCACY — National Zoning Atlas
The National Zoning Atlas is empowering advocates by equipping them with the tools and information they need to create change in their communities.
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Rob Ripperda @robripperda.com · 02/06/2025
What a great legislative session for attainable housing Texas just had! SB 785, which ensures most TX cities zone at least one district for by-right manufactured housing, is headed to the Governor's desk. 🧵
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Pretty concerned about ye olde budget deficit situation with inflation still a bit above target and interest rates rising
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 20/05/2025
If Republicans pass their megabill, the record will arrive even sooner — putting America’s debt at more than 113 percent of the size of its entire economy. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
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U.S. Debt Is on Pace to Set a Record. (The Data Goes Back to 1790.)
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
When vacancy rates rise, rents fall. It's the most robust finding in housing. If you want housing costs to fall, you have to build.
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Rob Ripperda @robripperda.com · 24/02/2025
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Companies are coming to Texas to develop a new generation of nuclear reactors
The state is aggressively pushing to deploy the next generation of atomic energy that would power big industrial operations.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 21/02/2025
I know everyone is upset about single family homes being bought by investors and rented out, but I can’t get that mad about it because they give families who don’t have a $100,000+ down payment or cannot qualify for a mortgage the opportunity to live in single family neighborhoods with good schools.
if you somehow start building 1000s of homes without addressing these issues, those same homes will still get snapped up and freeze out first time buyers who (going back to wealth inequality) don't have the resources to outbid investment.
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YIMBYLAND @yimbyland.com · 15/02/2025
You don’t need therapy, you just need a neighborhood you can walk in.
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YIMBYLAND @yimbyland.com · 28/01/2025
America if we taxed land instead of improvements on the land
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Vitalik Buterin @vitalik.ca · 24/01/2025
On the risks of politician coins:
The risk of politician coins comes from the fact that they are such a perfect bribery vehicle. If a politician issues a coin, you do not even need to send *them* any coins to give them money. Instead, you just buy and hold the coin, and this increases the value of their holdings passively.

Furthermore, there is deniability: holding the coin is, in terms of financial effect, a linear combination of donating to the issuer and gambling. Hence you can have the intention of doing the former but when challenged claim that you are doing the latter.

You can even hold the coin privately, and show that you are holding it to whoever you need to show; you do not need any zero knowledge proofs, you just send a test transaction.

This is all risky to democracy, for reasons very similar to what I wrote in https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2021/08/16/voting3.html , https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2020/09/11/coordination.html and elsewhere. TLDR: the economic arguments for why markets are so great for "regular" goods and services do not extend to "markets for political influence".

I recommend politicians do not go down this path.
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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 19/01/2025
My story: www.axios.com/2025/01/19/d...
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Donald Trump is the newest crypto billionaire
His $TRUMP wealth overshadows Truth Social and his real estate holdings.
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Rob Ripperda @robripperda.com · 08/01/2025
Every little bit helps www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2025...
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Density proponents encouraged by HOME six-month progress report - Austin Monitor
The city of Austin’s Development Services Department has released its six-month report on the early outcomes of the Home Options for Mobility and Equity (HOME) Phase 1 initiative. A memo released last...
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Gurwinder @gurwinder.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
25 USEFUL CONCEPTS TO HELP YOU GET THROUGH 2025 Thread:
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Rob Ripperda @robripperda.com · 04/01/2025
Bet you didn't expect to see the largest builder of HUD-Code manufactured homes on this list. www.architecturaldigest.com/story/sustai...
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11 Sustainable Builders to Know From the AD PRO Directory
Whether you're renovating or building from the ground up, these sustainable home builders have the expertise to create an eco-friendly dream house
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Rob Ripperda @robripperda.com · 24/12/2024
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Additional Manufactured Housing Could Benefit Millions of U.S. Homebuyers
At a time when the U.S. housing shortage has caused home prices to soar, removing the barriers that prevent more manufactured housing from being built is vital. Improving access to these modern mobile...
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Rob Ripperda @robripperda.com · 18/12/2024
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MIT spinout Commonwealth Fusion Systems unveils plans for the world’s first fusion power plant
MIT spinout Commonwealth Fusion Systems has announced plans to build the world’s first grid-scale fusion power plant in Chesterfield County, Virginia.
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Rob Ripperda @robripperda.com · 02/12/2024
America’s Biggest Apartment Owner Takes a Leap Into Modular Homes - www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
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