The Land Use Attorney. their wilbe typos
Providence
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Dylan Conley retweeted
The easiest time to have kids is before 40.
But most Americans now can’t buy a home until after 40.
How about we stop messing around with crazy rules against building…
… so young people can instead mess around in their new homes and make some cute new Americans? 🇺🇸
Dylan Conley retweeted
9/ We want to be a platform for hundreds of builders. To do that, we designed a small parcel fabric where lots of people co-create a real city, not a monoculture. The building types we’re most excited about are row homes (👋@bobbyfijan) and courtyards (👋@urbancourtyard).
Dylan Conley retweeted
Charlie Munger has a famous quote: "Show me the incentives, and I'll show you the outcome."
Both political parties have made homeownership a key priority while decrying the rise of build to rent communities funded by Wall Street. One big driver is that the tax code is nearly twice as favorable if new homes are sold to investors vs. homeowners.
Today in the @washingtonpost I argue that by creating tax parity, we can incentivize developers to build hundreds of thousands of starter homes without the need for subsidies, creating 2-3 new good paying construction jobs for every home built.
Dylan Conley retweeted
On Thomas Jefferson's birthday, let's recall the grievances he wrote in the Declaration of Independence against the abuses of the Mad King.
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
Sound familiar? Makes me angry. Should make you angry too.
Dylan Conley retweeted
You can’t fix a housing market without a lot of private market rate development—I have a piece in the Boston Globe today along with Jennifer Hawkins.
bostonglobe.com/2025/04/09/m…
Dylan Conley retweeted
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200k/year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Dylan Conley retweeted
This tariffs thing is like if a whole tribe of high-follower accounts on Twitter were forced to defend the Luka trade.
Dylan Conley retweeted
Rezoning hearings are one of the things that brought me to believe there are truly evil forces at work in the world. Legally sanctioned control over another is terribly corrupting.
Thomas Jefferson:
"The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who permitting one half the citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriae of the other."
Dylan Conley retweeted
1982 vs 2025 custom home plan sets...
5 pages (dad) vs 500 ish (brother)
( my brother also a builder, just texted that to our siblings group) – at Rancho Cordova, CA
Dylan Conley retweeted
Low rent neighborhoods likely would not support denser, more costly construction modes because the rent you could charge just isn't enough.
The fight is really over already very high rent/price areas that would lend themselves to higher development.
Dylan Conley retweeted
The typical U.S. homeowner stays in their home longer now than they did 10 or 20 years ago.
Which city did this change the most? Providence
[Data: Redfin]
The typical U.S. homeowner stays put for roughly 12 years, nearly twice as long as in the early aughts.
That's largely due to baby boomers and older Gen Xers choosing to age in place–especially those who have a low mortgage rate or paid off their home.
redfin.com/news/homeowner-te…
Dylan Conley retweeted
Hmm so we had ZIRP in the 2010s and didn't build housing
Now we have 4-5% rates in the 2020s and we build a *little* more housing but not much
Red states face the same rates as blue states but build much more housing
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say...IT'S NOT RATES
Dylan Conley retweeted
The commentariat wants us to believe redistribution and abundance are different because they want us divided.
In the real world, they're the same thing: here's what happens when we try to redistribute in a low-supply market: families have to return their housing vouchers, unused.
Dylan Conley retweeted
Remember kids, trickle down economics is an economic theory whereas filtering of housing via new supply has been consistently proven in real places.
The belief housing is magically exempt from supply and demand is the housing equivalent of flat earthers.
Dylan Conley retweeted
The environmental review for congestion pricing in NYC was >4,000 pages and took more than three years to complete.
The problem isn't lack of staffing — it's that staff are required to conduct an absurd level of review.
Streamline the process and you won't need more people.
If Ezra’s complaint is just that environmental review takes a long time, then — much like with zoning and permitting review at the local level — the real problem he should seek to solve is the understaffing and underfunding of government agencies. That’s the primary reason those things take such a long time.
