Jen Fox

11/ The magic of great city living is having both jobs, shops, and entertainment and nature close by. By designing compact neighborhoods, we’ve been able to reserve more than a third of the area – over 5,000 acres – for greenways, parks, and greenbelts, incl. a huge central park.

Rents dropping across the country…

tokyo adds 100,000 housing units a year in a city of 14 million and rents are flat. we add 50,000 units a year in a country of 330 million and rents are up 30%. the japanese did not discover a secret. they just permit things. it's not a mystery. it's a choice

Both liberal and conservative states are covered in destructive SF zoning. Both liberals and conservatives are hypocrites about it: liberals, because they claim to support diversity and social advancement; conservatives because they claim to support the free market.

This is shaping up as the most consistent finding in housing studies: Building lots of luxury housing can reduce rents at the top of the market—but the people it helps most are renters struggling to afford even the least desirable units

For weeks we were told Parisians would punish the city’s street transformation. The election results tell a different story. Pluralistic ignorance: when many quietly support something but assume others don't. Safer and greener public space may be far more popular than we think.

The AI boom is sending San Francisco real estate into overdrive. • 16 homes sold for $5M+ last month, up 220% YoY • Condo prices +12% YoY, median $1.23M • Single-family homes +23% YoY, median $1.96M • Rents +14% YoY, fastest growth in the U.S. Source: wsj

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Subsidization of demand will continue until housing prices go down

Most literature on optimal taxation suggests that corporate taxes are among the worst kinds of taxes behind tariffs but progressives gave up on evidence-based policies over a decade ago.