Jackson Moore-Otto

Exciting that the House is taking the approach we suggested in our explainer, enacting protections for tenants rather than restricting rental options

The House's response to the Senate housing bill came out tonight. The House protects build-to-rent, removing the 7-year disposition requirement that discouraged housing supply for renters in the Senate bill. There are other good things in the House package, like a model single-stair building code. More to read through, but this is a good next step!

Ah, I see we are having our annual article where conservatives (rightfully!) praise Sweden's regulatory environment and efficient government, while also ignoring all these inconvenient facts about the country:

So it turns out that one of the landmark anti-YIMBY papers was based on a completely faulty machine learning algorithm that couldn’t even correctly identify the cities where reforms took place (From @resnikoff) publiccomment.blog/p/new-frontier…

How people trying to afford housing feel about the “Are we kinda being pricks by building no houses" guy:

“What would be better is if people built some fucking housing. People a lot smarter than me have been talking about it for years… We should all be vocal. Otherwise we think we’ve reached a consensus that we haven’t. When we speak out, we give permission to others to speak out.”

John Arnold is one of the great natural gas traders of all time. But over the past decade, he’s become an active and creative investor in clean energy and the power grid. He’s the chairman of Grid United, which is planning ambitious transmission projects that would knit the US power grid together. And he’s a major backer of @fervoenergy, the enhanced geothermal company planning an IPO later this year. I’ve wanted to have him on Shift Key for a long time. But now that Congress might be narrowing in on a permitting reform deal — which @Arnold_Ventures has long supported — it felt like time. This week on Shift Key, I’m joined by @johnarnold to discuss his view of the current energy crisis, what he learned when he went to China for the first time, and why he’s “very optimistic” we’ll get a permitting deal this year. Listen at Heatmap: heatmap.news/podcast/john-a… Or for free, wherever you get your podcasts: shows.acast.com/65bac3af03341c…

The US has an infrastructure costs problem. I testified to the Oregon legislature about how to build more for less. I said: 1. Pay more to retain the best engineers 2. Increase competition 3. Reform federal permitting 4. Improve data Full piece below👇

More of this, please!

I hear they have some good authors...some might even be talking about finance!!

Stay tuned for our playbook of 15 Weird Tricks to build transit faster and more affordably in the US, coming soon!

Elevated rail is fast!

It would appear that the cost of fare collection + enforcement is, in fact, lower than the additional revenue and benefits gained

Automated (driverless) operation of rapid transit is routine in many countries but no existing US rapid transit line has been converted to driverless. It could unlock a lot of frequency! Looks like @wmata in Washington DC will be the first.

amazing quote from a great article nytimes.com/2026/04/20/din…

The stats here are kind of remarkable. BART's new fare gates have led to a 1,000-hour decline in clean up time; 41% drop in crime; and $10 million increase in projected revenue. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/…

on this year's Tax Day we all need to embrace more tax positivity, every tax has its value - income taxes generate massive revenues - property and land taxes capture rents - consumption taxes are highly efficient - tariffs - carbon taxes are good for the environment

Here's the simplest way to understand the problem with the Senate’s build-to-rent provision: LIHTC homes are required to stay as affordable rentals for 30 years. But the ROAD bill says you have to sell to a homebuyer in 7.

To conservatives who object when some of us have suggested Trump is a fascist, and who complain when we point out much of real existing American conservatism has devolved into fascism, if you’re silent about Trump’s threat of genocide you’re proving the point you’ve objected to.

artemis ii is a marvelous accomplishment, literally going further than anyone has ever gone before, and the lack of attention it’s getting from the all corners—media & government & even social media—is stupefying