Thursday, October 6

Movie Reviews, fellas. Movie Reviews

Matthew Yglesias
Another new frontier is pro-housing politics without urbanism — promoting small lot suburbanism, ending trailer bans and anticompetitive HUD code rules to build cheap structures on cheap land.  

All they lives, they watched tv and movies, and talked about them.  Watcher, talkers, not doers. Stick with what you know?  I don't want any of the talking heads -- with no background in construction, engineering, or government planning -- involved with ... throwing up the new homes they've suddenly realized we need while adding uncounted millions of new families to America's burgeoning infrastructure.

We got no room for all the millions of people we don't see who need warm places when they are not at work or in public places.  Suddenly, pundits advise we throw out all the rules of structural stability to quickly house the masses?  That's your historical solution to the immigration numbers crunch?

But these aren't people returning from a world war, to a world of prosperity, Matt.  If we don't build on solid foundations now, you're just pushing your social costs further down the road.  It's not so easy -- like the journolists did with journalism -- to just tear up the rulebooks and declare yourselves the experts.

Housing is costly, and it takes time and investment.

The Bigs in America today haven't yet come up with the warehouse solutions to family homes the way they have with the schools, food industry, and prisons. Somehow, I do not think Matt Pundit and his band of merry wisemen have the practical brains to build a treehouse, much less a structure that will safely house humans.  Call it a hunch.

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Oh, look out Texas and Wisconsin men and homeowners!  Matt the BigIdeasGuy is coming for ya houses and zoning laws!  lol, did he give this talk at aspen and pocket some pay for hisself?  Don't break in, go through the front door, Matt.  Safer that way, all around. No free passes for dumb asses.

But we also need to break into some new areas — what does Red State YIMBY politics look like? Probably more free market cheerleading and less talk about climate change and desegregation — preempt zoning in Austin & Madison to own the libs?