Boomers who spent decades prohibiting construction of everything except large single family houses in their communities lament that they can’t find anything but large single family houses in their communities as they try to downsize now.
Josh McCabe
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Josh McCabe
@JoshuaTMcCabe
Director of Social Policy at @NiskanenCenter | Sociologist | Always on the lookout for a worthwhile Canadian initiative | Views are mine
- Was it that you can’t learn anything by sampling on the dependent variable?
- My next pet project will be to liberalize state eyeglass prescription laws because getting an exam every year is a pain in the butt and I didn't realize most other states have longer durations.
- Unbelievable: There is a ship named the *Jones Act Enforcer* off the coast of Massachusetts right now prowling around wind power projects in progress to make sure no foreign ships move an inch while working to get more zero emission energy online.
- For every graduate student with imposter syndrome, there is a professor like this gaslighting them rather than acknowledge that some trendy theoretical concepts are just poorly defined in the literature.
- Replying to @JoshuaTMcCabeThese new units aren’t particularly fancy in terms of expensive amenities. They’re expensive because zoning keeps their supply artificially low in the face of high demand. You’re competing against lots of other boomers/zoomers for very small number of new homes in the community!
- Study confirms parents didn’t use their CTC to buy drugs in 2021: “There were no significant associations between advance child tax credit payments and changes in the probability or frequency of alcohol, cannabis, or illicit substance use among parents.”
- DOGE team, after they layoff everyone at the Bureau of Land Management:
- Harvard alum explaining difference between Harvard College and Harvard Extension School.
- I recently learned that 60% of Massachusetts towns with inclusionary zoning ordinances haven’t built a single affordable unit under their ordinances. Despite this, I still talk to lots of activists who think we should focus on increasing the required percentages.I has the receipts. Good job, lol. 40% of 0 is 0.
