Thanks for the insight!

third kind: poster (VP Vance, FHFA commisioner Pulte)

How good has plotnine gotten? I tried it a few years ago and thought it was at a good beginning but couldn't replace ggplot2, a sufficient reason for me to stay locked.

Also, no point arguing with obvious bad faith but I feel obliged to note that YIMBYs advocate for consistent, non-arbitrary, rule-bound development standards. Not for public servants to knock down whatever buildings they want with impunity to build a Bribe Cathedral.

And synethesizing social insurance too! Thank you Sir. 🫡

I hope it sparks a lot of debate, and that you check it out! 9/9 economicsecurityproject.org/work/afforda...

Meanwhile @vtg2.bsky.social and I have a discussion in @politico.com today that places the Framework a little more firmly in intra-Democratic policy debates.

(With a social preview image that strongly implies Ezra Klein was a White House aide.) /8

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

There's already some coverage:
@rcobooth.bsky.social wrote in @vox.com this morning describing our theory, and placing the Framework in this current political moment, while debating whether affordability can overcome just being another buzzword /7: www.vox.com/politics/465...

Check it out! There's the one-pager, an executive summary, the full report, and the pdf (linked here) We'll be building on this through the next year, excited to hear what everyone thinks. /6 economicsecurityproject.org/wp-content/u...

We pull from the leading thinking across the schools of thought on affordability (e,g, social insurance, populism, antimonopoly, and abundance) and shows how they all do contribute to finding the best answers.

And none will do it alone; the answer won't just be Abundance. /5

But even when markets work well, people may just not have the money they need.

That’s driven in part by inequality and big macroeconomic trends, but it’s also just built into how a market economy distributes income in our lives. Social insurance can fix these broken incomes. /4

With markets, corporate concentration and restrictive zoning each cost households an estimated thousands of dollars each year.

Estimates running that high show how poorly our markets are structured. Our Framework digs into the major arguments on how this drives costs. /3

There's good reason so much analysis on affordability is done sector-by-sector. But by stepping back, you can see commonalities across the biggest contributors, and that it's driven by bad market structures and mismatched spending.

Or: broken markets and broken incomes. /2

also, what an image. the president demolishing a portion of a humble people’s house to make room for his royalist monstrosity