@clcr_27 @JamesSurowiecki @AllisonNuushuuz @PolitiBunny If a driver’s license is sufficient for a SS card then why isn’t it sufficient to vote?
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Casey A
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Casey A
@CaseyAndersonPB
Land Use | Transportation | Local Government | 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱🇹🇼
Silver Spring, Maryland Katılım Şubat 2012
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@JamesSurowiecki @AllisonNuushuuz @PolitiBunny A DL is sufficient for that. Stop trying to make this harder than it actually is. So sorry you had to take half a day to go get a new SS card. Have you ever been to a DMV? Maybe we shouldn’t require DL because it’s takes too long. 🤡
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For shits and giggles, I decided to see just how hard it would be to replace my birth certificate, Social Security card, AND my marriage license, since Democrats think women are too stupid to figure it out.
Here's how it went:
1. Birth certificate: Contacted the health department of the county where I was born. They OVERNIGHTED a certified copy to me the next day - total cost, $14.
2. SS Card: Contacted Social Security on their site. They asked if I was sure I needed the card, since I 'won't likely be asked for it.' I went ahead and got it - took five business days to arrive - total cost, $0.
3. Marriage License: Went to the 'vital docs' site of the county where we were hitched. Filled everything out online, arrived in three days - total cost, $5.
It cost less than $20 to obtain all three certified/legal documents, and it took less than five business days to receive them. Note: if I had lived where I was born or married, it would have been a day. Tops.
Anyone telling you this is too hard or unfair is lying and hiding the real reason they want to stop Voter ID.
I know you guys knew that already... lol
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@WealthChakraa @pastasnack_e The reason this kind of housing doesn’t get built is that it is illegal under the zoning codes of most jurisdictions in the U.S. - it has nothing to do with what developers want or are willing to do
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You're onto something real here
The gap between "living with parents" and "mortgage/lease commitment" is where people actually develop socially. But it's not profitable enough for developers and landlords have zero incentive to build community infrastructure.
Shared kitchens, common areas, events that costs money without extracting maximum rent. So instead we get studios and 1-beds. Isolation built in.
It exists in some European cities. We just chose the extraction model.
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Lots of people's social & romantic lives could be vastly improved if it was normal for young adults to live in college dorm-style accommodation in city centres until they were ready to set up home properly. Why doesn't this exist? I think there would be a market for it!
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Casey A retweetledi
the best anti-displacement tool is an abundance of housing. you can’t get priced out of a market with enough supply. every city that built aggressively saw rents stabilize. every city that restricted supply saw rents explode. the data is not ambiguous. build the buildings
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Seems entirely reasonable to believe that in general the president does not have a lot of influence over gas prices in the short term *unless* said president does something like starting a war in the Persian Gulf
Lydia Moynihan@LydiaMoynihan
Just a reminder: The media said it wasn't Biden's fault when gas prices spiked because they're "set globally" — they called it "Putin's price hike." When prices were low under Trump, they said he "doesn't deserve credit" because presidents "can't control gas prices." But now that prices are up under Trump they’re happy to blame him.
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Casey A retweetledi
Allowing more homes to be built is the best way for cities and states to bring down housing costs.
Just look at Austin, TX.
After a series of regulatory reforms, housing supply skyrocketed while rents fell faster than in any other large U.S. city. pewtrsts.org/4sPviud
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Interesting to see DC’s very conservative draft land use map so widely panned - planners are accustomed to anti-growth political blowback but they don’t get it nearly so often - or so hard - from the YIMBYs
Dennis Sendros (formerly Cocktological Evenings)@Cocktological
DELETE THE SMALL SCALE RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD PLACE TYPE
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@burkehenryt No, it appears to be premised on the idea that politics is not just about ideological conflict but also (and perhaps more importantly) about how to allocate public resources as effectively and efficiently as possible - which seems like a reasonable idea
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This whole candidacy appears to be premised on the idea that politics is fake and that there aren't actual tradeoffs in municipal governance, we just need someone with experience at Deloitte and defense contractors to "care" about "common sense" governing. It's driving me insane
Rini Sampath@RiniSampath
It’s very disappointing to see leading mayoral contenders communicate like this when our infrastructure is crumbling, there’s rats everywhere, trash doesn’t get picked up on time in this city, we don’t have grocery stores, a failing 911 system, and missing tax dollars across our programs. How things continue to feel and why I will keep talking about the need to fix the basics:
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@jameshohmann So why have none of the bad things you predict for congestion pricing in DC happened in NYC?
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Hard to overstate how self-destructive this regressive tax hike would be on the capital city. That’s why Mayor Bowser is sounding the alarm. But the two leading Dems running to replace her are embracing it to pander to degrowthers. Embarrassing for DC.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…
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A DC study explored charging a $10 flat fee every weekday to drive into the city or 60 cents *per minute* for driving downtown. Consultants hired by the city estimated D.C. could raise between $122 million to $667 million in annual revenue, depending on how extreme the policy.
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@beyonddc @tobinjstone Yes! Most overlooked benefit of bike infrastructure is that it is complementary to transit
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I just don’t think this is really true for DC. We have a world class metro system, and I’d guess 95% of residents would rather take the temperature controlled metro during the summer and winter months rather than bike. It’s fine to advocate for expanded bike lanes but we should be realistic about what they will accomplish in a city like DC.
Andrew DeFrank@andrewdefrank
The problem with bike lanes is that we're so close to unlocking SO MANY MORE benefits. Only when you have a truly protected network will people who would otherwise never bike give it a try. There's nothing "responsible" about getting cold feet on the one yard line.
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@squshy7 @mattyglesias @owenslindsay1 Can you identify a company that owns 10,000 houses in any one jurisdiction?
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@squshy7 @mattyglesias @owenslindsay1 Do you think a company that owns 400 or 500 or 1000 houses can control prices? Considering that a city like Richmond Virginia has more than 100,000 housing units it’s hard to see how owning this many units would affect rents even if they were all in one place
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In the end, Twitter just didn’t have the votes. Sen. Warren overwhelmingly passed the most pro-housing bill in decades.
Not a single democrat joined Schatz and Wall Street.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
BREAKING: The Senate has passed the biggest housing affordability bill in 30 years, and it includes a ban on investors buying single-family homes. The bill passed 89-10.
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@squshy7 @mattyglesias @owenslindsay1 There’s no evidence - or even a plausible reason to suspect - that owning 1000 or even 10000 units poses any threat to competition - we’re not “right up against” anything
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@CaseyAndersonPB @mattyglesias @owenslindsay1 I'm not sure why we would want to skirt right up against "can it control prices"? Is the per unit investment cost that much less for, say, a 10k unit developer than a 350? So much so that we're ok w/ less competition?
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@savanarola5 @JeremiahDJohns Both large and small landlords have to deal with tenant turnover, and both have the same incentives to reduce it - they both lose money on empty units
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@JeremiahDJohns Utterly categorically false. Corporate landlords have lots of units that turnover anyway so they are free to much more aggressively raise rents and nickle and dime tenants. Small LL bend over backwards to keep tenants happy because lose a tenant==100% vacancy for that unit
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There's a giant fight about institutional investors building homes to rent.
The part I haven't seen anyone mention is that giant companies are MUCH better landlords on average than small mom-and-pop landlords. It's not even close. As a renter give me big > small any day.
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@bfryereplyguy @oren_cass Does he think it should be illegal for Hertz and Avis to buy cars and rent them out? Or for auto dealers to lease cars to customers?
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@oren_cass Corporations can’t drive cars, only people can. Ban rental cars!!!!
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No, it means Perdue Farms should sell chicken to people instead of eating the chicken itself.
Oh wait, it doesn't make sense to say that Perdue Farms would eat the chicken, because corporations aren't people. Idiocracy indeed.
Alex Tabarrok@ATabarrok
What does “Homes are for People, Not Corporations” even mean?–this is a slogan for the Idiocracy era. “Food is for People, Not Corporations,” so we should ban Perdue Farms and McDonald’s? marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
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@JacobAShell @ProfBootyPhD *Some* owners are voting to prevent *other* owners from making the highest and best economic use of their property - which also operates to the detriment of many non-owner residents/voters
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Here's the theory-level question yimbies havent answered: why should 10 million ppl who want to be in, say, Boston for totally banal, horde-like reasons get to have a say about what the future shape of that city will be, rather than the people who own the city? What is yimbies' larger polticial theory which disfavors the preferences of owners (who want Boston kept "artificially" small and pricey) and favors the preferences of this vast abstract horde?
I could see a communist answer to the question: the owners of the city should lose their ownership because they're now "historically obsolete"'...a state apparatus dominated by workers' organizations should grab all the land...etc etc etc. Sure. But last I checked, yimbies arent communists! They say they believe in capitalism. And if you're taking capitalist property rights seriously, then why arent you taking seriously owners' rights to do what they want with the physical environment that they own? If what owners want to do is pool political resources to set up zoning laws they like, then this is just spirit of capital doing its thing, isn't it? Since when does big capital not get to set anything up as exclusive?
And BTW, in the "communist" version of the thought experiment, I am not sure the communist state would tear down historical Boston to put up giant housing boxes everywhere. Maybe they'd do that (producing the kinds of cities China has), or maybe they'd preserve it as some kind of "dialectical political symbol," like the Soviets did with St Petersburg (Petrograd) or Novgorod.
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@BretWeinstein You should cowboy up and just admit that you were wrong
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I don’t owe anyone an apology for supporting Trump. No one does. The Democrats didn’t run a credible candidate. They ran two insults to our intelligence. It was a de facto coup—rule by a cabal of advisors. Voting Trump was a patriotic duty even if a cabal now seems to control him
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@southBsouthwest @jayparsons 1. Apartment buildings are illegal in most parts of most places where housing is scarce 2. There are a lot of people who want to live in a house but don’t want to buy, and they lose out if the only rental option is an apartment
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@jayparsons won't corporations build large apartments instead of houses? this bill will shift construction type but why should it reduce quantity
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Housing expert John Burns on the ROAD to Housing Act: "The housing bill that will make affordability worse, not better."
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Sad but true that Northern Virginia has outperformed DC’s Maryland suburbs in job/income growth and still manages to keep housing costs in check (despite or maybe because they don’t have rent control)
Aaron Bergman 🔍 ⏸️ (in that order)@AaronBergman18
It’s wealthy but not extraordinarily expensive, mostly bc YIMBY There’s a reason I live in Arlington County instead of say Montgomery County, MD
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@Boenau @StreetsblogUSA Whenever I'm in a car, I hate cyclists. They run red lights, dodge around cars, and I've had three mirrors broken off for the terrible crime of driving in the center of a lane, doing the speed limit. Whenever I'm a pedestrian, I hate cyclists. Been run over twice. Fuck ALL of you
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