Jared Jones

Allow data centers but only if 20% of the GPUs are set aside as “affordable” compute for low-income agents.

The Florida growth story is showing cracks, largely because of misaligned policy choices and a lack of a statewide vision, according to Jeff Brandes, a former Florida senator, founder and president of The Florida Policy Project. businessobserverfl.com/news/2026/apr/…

The whole corporate home-buying outrage is a classic red herring. It lets politicians & pundits point at "evil Wall Street" while dodging the real drivers of the housing crisis: zoning laws that block new construction, endless NIMBY regulations, local governments that won't let supply meet demand, and decades of bad policy that keeps building way below population growth. Corporations own a tiny fraction of single-family homes nationwide (under 3-4% in most analyses). Blaming them feels good, but it's a distraction from the actual fix. Yell about Blackstone all you want…until cities stop treating single-family zoning like sacred scripture, we will keep building the wrong products. We need to let markets work! #HousingCrisis #RedHerring

Quick and easy lens for people not well-versed in housing. When an “expert” uses per capita in housing supply conversations, rather than per household comparisons, you can safely ignore them. Measuring off the wrong metric is worse than none at all.

IZ satisfies planners who want to build subsidized housing but do not have the power to tax and spend to do so. Also, critically, IZ gives elected Democrats a way to pose as friends of the poor while satisfying their NIMBY constituents' desire to block neighborhood change.

The lowest hanging fruit in transportation engineering is still improving traffic signal timing. Most congestion is caused by intersection chokepoints, not the number of driving lanes, but current dynamic recalibration strategies are time and cost intensive. This effort in Metro Detroit to use GPS data to re-time signals improved traffic flow by 20-30% at a cost of just $2,500 per intersection per year. news.umich.edu/faster-commute…

@mattyglesias A range of context sensitive design standards (think the new urbanism urban-to-rural transect) developed through collaboration-based stakeholder engagement including existing residents, development-related industry groups, and conservation/historic preservation advocates

Love to see it! ❤️Most successful sea turtle nesting season in decades reported stpetecatalyst.com/most-successfu… via @stpetecatalyst

Whittier, Alaska- nearly the whole city lives in one building Coober Pedy, Australia- nearly the whole town lives underground in former mines Ganvié, Benin- in water, built on stilts!

The 4 lives lost in the Ybor City crash tampabay.com/news/crime/202…

Absolutely tragic. I feel for all the victims and their families. The blame lays fully on the driver - but when we share roads with drivers like this, we need physical separation/protection (bollards, anchored planters, etc.)

Maybe future issues will go into fertilizer- and irrigation-free native Florida lawns & landscaping. Lower maintenance, irrigation, and infrastructure costs would ultimately *help* the developer's bottom line.

Anyway... it's good article & series overall and worth the read. The big-bad-developer trope just really grinds my gears. Ultimately, they're one cog in the machine that makes the whole construction industry (and all its externalities) go round.

Another deep-dive piece in the TBT series on Florida's water quality issues. "Wasting Away: Florida lets big companies pollute with impunity. Waterways suffer" | TampaBay.com project.tampabay.com/investigations…

I know a lot of transit managers, and I can't find any who believe anything like this. They all know about the problem and want to help. The problem of US transit agencies is they are: 1. impoverished 2. bombarded by competing demands.

This is a pilot project by the City of Austin to dramatically bring down the cost of protected bike lanes

Small-scale multifamily is the next big wave in housing, and the biggest opportunity for infill development in decades. We’re hosting a live webinar next month on how single-stair design + new zoning reforms are unlocking it. From code to design and construction systems, we’ll cover it all. We'd love for you to join us, details in the reply 👇