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Thanks but if you google you’ll find otherwise

Yes exactly, for residential buildings up to a certain size. Which impacts safety basically not at all.

just getting tide of the ones that aren’t net beneficial, like double-stair requirements and too-high parking minimums.

Two things are true:
1. “numerous powerful industries shape the lion's share of most U.S. regs”
2. The barriers to housing supply are mostly caused by other actors.

IMO we weren’t talking about or working on #2 enough until Abundance.

In some cases yes; but with eg zoning and housing regs, corporations aren’t the problem. That call is coming from inside the house.

Didn’t they get these only recently?

No image says forgiveness better than a fully armed soldier

The word "moderate" has no shared definition, which causes a ton of confusion (see link).

I hope everyone adopts the Deciding to Win definition:

"Being moderate means taking popular, heterodox positions—not defending the establishment."
seeds.bluem.ventures/p/merquads-v...

In a sense, the report kind of bridges the gap between "abundance" liberals and their skeptics. It identifies regulatory sclerosis as a big problem while also seeking to reimagine a true progressive administrative state with New Deal-scale ambitions:

newrepublic.com/article/2023...

That’s a great sign!

Slightly expanded thoughts here: open.substack.com/pub/slifka/p...

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