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amyliz.bsky.social
Real estate geek | Flaneur | New Yorker | I love cities and nature
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submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

My take on CARES or any other relief that goes to anyone other than key Trump constituencies (e.g., farmers) is there’s no universe where it happens under a Mike Johnson-John Thune led Congress so it’s sort of pointless to argue about it.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Take Trump's supporters seriously, but not literally [when they say why they support him] www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

"Charity? Government programs? That pales in compassion compares to my solution, rounding em up and shipping em to other states."

submitted 28 days ago • 19 comments

This analysis makes a good case that L.A.'s so-called "Mansion" Tax - which is also levied on the sale of new multifamily housing - kills more than twice the number of rent restricted units as the revenue it generates can support.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

This article about people living in their cars in Frisco reminded me of when the city of Vail used eminent domain to stop the resort from building affordable housing for their staff. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/r...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Apology not accepted, REI. So disappointing. www.seattletimes.com/business/we-...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Remember, just last year, homebuyers were going to receive 25k? The birds were singing. The flowers were blooming. Today, the world seems gloomy.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

The WA House just passed what is arguably the strongest parking reform bill yet attempted in the U.S., SB 5184, on a bipartisan vote of 64 - 31 !!!!!!!!! Next stop, the governor's desk. Huge thank you to @jessdbateman.bsky.social and @davina425.bsky.social !!! www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/20/w...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

I was joking with a friend that I’m ready to make a deal with MAGA to liberate us from this man if I could figure out what they wanted. Higher taxes for government-funded make-work jobs at the sock factory? Done.

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

The MTA is now publishing a monthly breakdown of how many vehicles are driving into the Central Business District on average each month compared to the pre-congestion pricing baseline. We're at a 13 percent drop in March, pretty cool metrics.mta.info?cbdtp/vehicl...

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

Imagine we’re all on a boat in the middle of the ocean. A lot of people are arguing about who has the best seats on the boat, when what Trump is doing is taking the boat itself apart. If the U.S. economy failed, it would hurt everyone - rich and poor, American and not. Everyone.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

The endless reservoir of benefit of the doubt we give rich white men is shocking even to me. Anyway, the beatings will continue until we learn something (impossible).

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

It’s good for big 3 autoworkers to have a seat at the table that full throatedly fights for their interests. But sometimes their interests are at odds with everyone else’s (and not just the “PMC” - poor people. Other unions). It’s okay to admit that.

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Yeah, this rule went so far as to entirely cancel out the benefit of Biden’s signature policies in many cases (by making it more expensive to do the things they were incentivizing than they were before).

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

i wrote some about the left's weak opposition to what is possibly the most significant economic policy of our lifetime rosedubois.substack.com/p/the-left-n...

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Most important thing is that tariffs are causing GFC #2, but also worth pointing out: if (for example) you put a 10% tariff on Europe and the dollar value declines 10% relative to the Euro as a result, you’re also not getting any financial benefit from the tariff. So… what is the point here?

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

$5.8T in tax cuts for the wealthy should help with this!

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments