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The currencies, they are exchangin'
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S.H.
Why is the Los Angeles City Council so corrupt?
Why does this keep happening?
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S.H.

May 2023

Is housing popular? Does it matter?
My thoughts on pro-housing electoralism
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S.H.

February 2023

Abolish the SALT Deduction
and most other federal tax deductions, if we're being honest
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S.H.

August 2022

Creating a Home Building Machine
Zoning reforms, building code changes, and other rules to create a finer mix of densities and uses in currently single-unit zoned neighborhoods
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S.H.
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July 2022

Low-income market-rate housing is possible, necessary, and desirable
Subsidized or social housing is good, but will not be enough
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S.H.

March 2022

“Starving Marvin" for localities
Or: why coastal NIMBYs and their enablers are responsible for poverty and advancing authoritarianism
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S.H.

February 2022

Parking
The method by which we take back our cities from cars
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S.H.
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January 2022

Open Borders
an Actually Good Idea
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S.H.

December 2021

Cities for children
Our system of urban design lets down children and teenagers; let's change that
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S.H.
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Why build here?
A response to people who believe we do not need to build in superstar cities
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S.H.
Overpopulation is not a thing
Talking about it distracts from the things we should be focusing on
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S.H.
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