2026-05-08
“ Are we kind of being pricks? ,” asked a resident at Marblehead’s annual Town Meeting this week in a video that went viral (full disclosure: I live here and serve on the Housing Committee). After four votes over three y…
Our existing processes for how we decide what is allowed when there is disagreement are a key reason its hard to build things in the USA today. Over the last week, Marc Dunkelman and Alex Mechanick wrote an interesting p…
Two recent pro-housing champion advocates make the case that zoning reform is working. First, Nolan Gray of California YIMBY goes deep on the California data in “ Where Are All the Cranes? ,” documenting how ADU permits …
Oliver Kim has a detailed review of a new book on Singapore’s public housing system that complicates the YIMBY movement’s frequent invocation of Singapore as a model. The country houses 76 percent of the population in hi…
I’ve been thinking a lot about the relationship between energy and growth lately, which is less clear-cut than you might expect. I’ll be writing more about this soon, but this set of papers on energy and development does…
Loudoun County, Virginia is notable for a few things. It’s the richest county in America by median household income , significantly richer than runners-up in Silicon Valley; it houses Dulles Airport and is thus the exurb…
Drug development fails 95% of the time, making biotech a brutal investment environment. So how does the industry keep the money flowing? Abhishaike Mahajan, also known as Owl Posting, has a great post on the financial en…
Many leading science funders have a stated goal of supporting ambitious, “high-risk, high-reward” research, or at least specific programs dedicated to that cause — to give a few examples: “ ARIA was built to… go after id…