Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

When I wrote THE RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH I expressed confidence that market-rate construction would reduce rents on an MSA scale but said the local effects were theoretically ambiguous. Since then we’ve had a bunch of empirical research and the answer is now clear. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 8, 2022 Hibernated

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Which studies does he think shows this? I could show you Asquith et al (2019), Mast (2019), Liu et al (2020), Li (2019) all finding the opposite along with @katempenn who specifically studied San Francisco. — PolitiTweet.org

Q: Does building more market-rate housing improve the cost of housing in the City? Campos: No, studies don't suppo… https://t.co/8edEZjk129

Posted Jan. 8, 2022 Hibernated

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This is a leftist hobbyhorse that’s actually true — but the mechanism is that Democratic Party donors are much more left-wing than rank and file Democratic Party voters (to say nothing of the median voter in rural areas). https://t.co/IwBMtLeMRw — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 8, 2022 Hibernated