2026-07-15
Aaron Shroyer and Sarah Brundage at NAAHL have the essential federal implementation guide for the ROAD Act . None of the law's ~47 housing sections are wholly self-executing: NAAHL counts 124 discrete implementation acti…
This Monday was the deadline for public comments on OMB’s proposed rewrite of the rules governing federal grantmaking. The response was immense, with more than 200k comments submitted over the past few weeks. As expected…
Does upzoning lead to new homes? Does it reduce the cost of homes? Michael Wiebe has an accessible review of the academic literature around upzoning in his living literature review, examining empirical studies on major u…
The great blogger known as owlposting has an awesome new podcast episode with Alex Rubinsteyn and Ben Vincent, two scientists who work on cancer immunotherapy, on ‘How to design a cancer vaccine’. The general idea behind…
It’s been a busy few weeks in transmission – at the close of June, 11 western states agreed to improve coordination and permitting for transmission across their shared footprint (much of the western grid outside of Calif…
Solar panels only generate power when the sun is shining, and everyone knows you can’t make the sun shine on demand. What the startup Reflect Orbital proposes is: maybe you can? Cofounded by a SpaceX veteran, the company…