I design and build urban micro-communities. Big fan of fewer cooks in the kitchen.
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How long until an enterprising cartoonist creates a #RETwit comic book featuring all the "Guys"?
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DesignBuildGuy retweeted
"Local land use restrictions are the primary causes of the country’s housing affordability problem." @ebwhamilton
Join Emily Hamilton & me for a live chat about land use & housing reforms that help #BuildBetterCities.
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Tell us how you REALLY feel, Francesc!
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There's going to be a mass exodus of affordable rental property at 5-yr commercial debt rollover. Currently there's a huge delta between income value & homeowner value. Rates expand the delta.
It makes less sense to hold a rental (esp. an affordable one) after a 3x'n interest.
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Fn, A. We ran out of trees again.
xitter.cf/LumberTrading/status/1…
We need to be building 1.8mm+ SFH / year to come close to meeting demand.
I don’t believe we have enough lumber to supply 1.8mm home builds. Not even 1.6, IMO.
Unfortunately, we can only complete 1.3mm/ year. We definitely have enough lumber to supply 1.3mm.
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Not "Utopia"
Fyre Festival for Development, maybe.
Elon Musk is planning to build his own town on part of thousands of acres of newly purchased pasture and farmland outside Austin. His goal: a Texas utopia along the Colorado River. on.wsj.com/3kY8Ul6
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5/1 Texas Donuts buildings are the inevitable result of disallowing incremental development.
What do you #retwit folk expect for BTR debt terms, detached+townhomes, 150-200 units?
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A @Pittsburgh lawsuit takes aim at the Affordable Housing Industrial Complex and asserts that Inclusionary Zoning is a 5a "unconsititutional taking".
The case has the potential to end up at SCOTUS, and may be the first shot in the long "War on Euclid".
sites.law.duq.edu/juris/2022…
Planners who brag about reducing parking mandates do so with the grace of an abusive husband who seeks credit for beating his wife with less frequency.
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Fixing this requires re-defining "Stakeholder".
"Someone with an opinion" is not a Stakeholder.
You need 1 of 4 things to be a Stakeholder: Land, Money, Entitlment ability OR Tenancy.
If you offer NONE of these, you are "Someone with an opinion".
NYT: “Construction productivity has steadily declined over the last 50 years.”
The root cause is simple:
1) Too many “stakeholders” with input into a now-broken public permitting process;
2) Regulatory process & ordinances that have spread cancer-like into every step.
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