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108: Noah Smith - Abundance, Georgism and YIMBYism

Narratives w/Will Jarvis

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Do You Really Know What's Going on With Housing?

Housing abundance is what we alway call missing middle housing. It's like a lot of people, when they hear density, think you're going to come in and plunk in a tower right in the middle of your single family neighbourhood. So i'm having success convincing people that actually allowing private development is not the end of the world, and it actually helps middle class and poor people. I just wrote a blog post about how we're sort of moving from this era where everybody fought over the methods by which things would get done. The point is that the houses exist, and then how you get there is of secondary importance. In crunch time, you trow out this squabbling over

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