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My Touro Land Use Institute video podcasts with @kevinerdmann.bsky.social and @sarabronin.bsky.social are now online at www.youtube.com/@michaellewy...

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Cities and Test Scores

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Building new homes at the top of the market induces at “moving on up” effect that quickly creates vacancies in the least-expensive homes. Conversely, blocking new housing in high-demand places makes wealthy people move into and renovate existing, once-affordable homes, raising prices.

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www.planetizen.com/blogs/133882...

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Useful evidence for those that insist we need better public transit before pricing driving. Pricing driving improves public transit.

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mainstream narrative.

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Is NYC's congestion fee a regressive tax? No. Driving into Manhattan is expensive even w/o the fee, so very few low-wage workers do it. Plus the money will be used to improve the transit systems they do use paulkrugman.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...

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It's not just NYC commuters who don't drive -- we must remember there are #nondrivers everywhere and we need to start building communities that don't require car dependency. Read my Q&A in Yale Climate Connections: yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/amer...

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In which I respond to the "outer borough people all drive" argument against congestion pricing marketurbanism.com/2025/01/06/l...

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Urban planning peeps: is there a website out there that lists the number of census tracts every major city has? (I realize that I could go to data.census.gov and count the number of tracts from a list, but that is kind of time-consuming).

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My @planetizen.bsky.social posts for the year are at mlewyn.wordpress.com

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My marketurbanism.com posts from 2024 are collected at mlewyn.wordpress.com/2024/12/29/m...

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latest @planetizen.bsky.social blog post www.planetizen.com/blogs/133431...

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This disproves the common claim that only foreign oligarchs can afford super tall condos.

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school overcrowding is a pretty poor excuse for NIMBYism shelterforce.org/2024/12/03/f...

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NIMBYs believe in Schrodinger's high-rise: it ruins the neighborhood both by attracting homeless drug addicts and by attracting Russian oligarchs who will buy condos and never live in them

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This just as valid a vision of the American Dream as a house with a white picket fence.

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An op-ed I wrote a few years ago, criticizing left-NIMBYism www.theamericanconservative.com/socializing-...

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a collection of my old op-eds mlewyn.wordpress.com/2024/11/21/s...

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My old "Car-Free in..." pages for Atlanta, Buffalo, Cleveland, Jacksonville and Kansas City are now available as a group at mlewyn.wordpress.com (with URLs if you want to see the original pages)

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webpage from my 2021 political campaign mlewyn.wordpress.com/2024/11/21/t...

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mlewyn.wordpress.com/2024/11/21/t...

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Because Bepress (my repository for all my work other than the most scholarly articles) is going out of business, I have downloaded my old speeches to mlewyn.wordpress.com/2024/11/21/s...

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What do I think of Duffy's DOT nomination? I divide Trump nominees into 3 tiers: 1) good (Burgum) 2) seems like an OK person but not expert enough to get this particular job in a normal GOP administration 3) seems awful. Duffy is a tier 2 pick- could be much worse!

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In this post, I argue that the election results might (and I emphasize the word "might") not be as bad for transit as Dem-leaning transit advocates think. www.planetizen.com/blogs/132579...

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Good weekend to recirculate this one.

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Since NYC just decriminalized jaywalking I thought I would post my article which talks (in part) about that issue works.bepress.com/lewyn/125/

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my new article on complete streets policies works.bepress.com/lewyn/266/

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How I managed to turn my campaign for Manhattan Borough President into a small article (and numerous Youtube videos) works.bepress.com/lewyn/251/

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My criticism of attempts to treat "longtime residents" as identical with "poor people" in discussions on land use issues works.bepress.com/lewyn/263/

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My article criticizing "green amendments" works.bepress.com/lewyn/262/

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My article about poll data on new housing works.bepress.com/lewyn/255/

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my review of Bryan Caplan's new book on housing policy works.bepress.com/lewyn/265/

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Kind of a co-review of two books by @jerusalem.bsky.social and James Burling www.planetizen.com/blogs/132108...

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My latest Planetizen book review, of a guide to sustainable development www.planetizen.com/blogs/132197...

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This is my first post on Bluesky. I'm going to try to use it to post my serious law/planning stuff, since I'm mostly using Twitter to play at being a political junkie.

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This nyt article on parking minimums is 🎯 "The requirements aren’t just arbitrary near the subway; they are arbitrary everywhere because a prescribed ratio can never be just right for every lot." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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