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salimfurth.bsky.social
Mostly on the old site. Housing nerd. Personal views only. It's a free country.
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Zoning is broken in the Twin Cities as local communities have an over-reliance on PUDs. Rep. Mike Howard, citing @salimfurth.bsky.social's research: "If the deviation is at almost 100% level, that's not a deviation, is it? That's the norm." www.mercatus.org/research/sta...

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Read Daniel’s thread on the geographic variation in how new housing impacts a market. Supply effects are likely strongest beyond any municipality’s borders. But as @salimfurth.bsky.social has argued, we might’ve overfocused on micro-scale, 250 meter price impacts marketurbanism.com/2023/03/02/x...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Harder question: Which city has the *smallest* gap between what tourists and locals experience?

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

for *decades* marc elrich has ran on stopping development and by now the consequences should be obvious: we keep raising property taxes because the county's tax base isn't growing. marc got what he wanted, and all of montgomery county is paying for it

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Urbanist econ students: want to produce cool teaching videos for us this summer? MRU has 25% market share in high school econ teaching. learn.mru.org/fellowship/

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

One thing I learned in this panel is that it is often weirdly complicated and difficult to deal with 2-4 unit buildings in Chicago. Despite their prominence here, there can be serious bureaucratic complexity to build or rehab them.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

What. A. Week. Lots of movement on housing reform in MN: House and Senate Housing Committees pass: Starter Home Act, Light Touch Density and Residential in Commercial. Parking ban: clears Senate Housing Aesthetic ban clears House Housing. All of these are part of the Yes to Homes Agenda.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

How do housing shortages affect family and household demography? Long story short, @jensvb.bsky.social & I offer a cultural explanation and find evidence that housing shortages largely explain variation in how people live together across Canada from 1981-2021. homefreesociology.com/2025/03/11/h...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Rep. Kozlowski presents HF 2018 - Transforming Main Street Act (RICZ) - Revitializing our downtowns with new residents and needed housing. www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.p...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Since I'm going to read Speaker Joe Shekarchi's 5th annual housing process reform package, I might as well tweet it. The first point is obvious: process is hard & takes a zillion little changes. Hence 5 packages, with no letup. 🐢🧵

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment