Yves here. Note that this article originally had the unduly anodyne headline, “Housing affordability is reshaping Europe’s social fabric.” What is surprising is that that authors tell us that few studies have been made of how unduly costly housing hurts the public. So this analysis is more important that it might seem. By Jean-Jacques Hallaert,…
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Along with Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in last month’s elections, New York City also approved three housing-related ballot proposal. Together, these will make it somewhat easier to adjust land-use rules to allow for new housing development, by reducing the City Council’s ability to block zoning changes. I am glad the proposals passed, for reasons similar…
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Readers of this blog know I have a book coming out later this spring — Against Money, officially out on May 7. Plenty of money-related content coming between now and then. But today I’m writing about a different book: Dear Mother, a collection of poems by Laura Tanenbaum, just out from Main Street Rag. Laura…
Part the First: Jessica Wildfire on Apathetic Americans. As a paid-up member of the Professional Managerial Class who came from a thoroughly working-class background, I tend to hear and see things differently from most of my colleagues. An enduring theme among them is “They just don’t seem to care…” Not exactly. From Heads Above Water:…
Last week, the Rent Guidelines Board voted for a freeze on the rent for New York City’s one million rent-regulated apartments, fulfilling one of Mayor Mamdani’s defining campaign promises. There has been plenty of discussion of the decision, both supportive and critical. But there’s one aspect of it, of particular interest to me, that has…
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Remote-controlled cockroach swarm can now breathe underwater New Scientist 2 people arrested after hanging a banner about ‘the power of love’ on Empire State Building antenna AP Supersonic Flights Over Land Closer to Reality Under US Plan Bloomberg. Too much flyover country between Wall Street and Silicon Valley. Climate/Environment Copernicus Marine and Copernicus Climate Change:…
Every year, I try to write a post about books that I’ve read in the past year. This time, I found myself writing so much about some of the books, that the post was getting unmanageably large. So I’ve split it in two. This is part one; part two will follow. Geoff Eley, Forging Democracy:…
