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Great WaPo article today: A new affordable housing project in Washington DC will cost $1.3m per unit—a price level that would make it impossible to add abundant affordable housing in any city. This isn't a one-off. In San Francisco and Chicago, affordable housing costs regularly exceed $1 million per unit — "resulting in fewer affordable housing units being built at a time of urgent need, housing experts say," per the article. I think this story is a good example of how the core arguments of Abundance, the book, are sometimes pitted against other ideologies in a way that's not helpful. A recent poll asked folks to choose between two political stories: one about corporate power and another about making govt work better. I think poll-testing messaging is fine, and it's good to know when some messages do better than other messages. But an objection I have to the poll's framing is that it created an illusion that antitrust and core abundance arguments (like: we should be obsessed with making it easier to build affordable housing affordably) exist in some zero-sum choice set. We're not going to get the antitrust left, DSA, other progressive factions, and abundance folks to agree about everything. But I hope we can agree that $1.3 million per downtown "affordable housing" unit is a clear policy failure—failing not only taxpayers, but also, above all, the poor!— that requires an all-hands-on-deck effort to fix. And I hope we can see that this sort of policy failure is indicative of a deeper failure of state capacity in liberal areas that deserves our attention. It's not that GOP-governed areas have no problems; they have many. But liberals have a responsibility to use their power to achieve good outcomes. We should want to make the places that we govern advertisements for our own cause, rather than marketing fuel for the opposition.









