Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I know the idea that the UK doesn't build enough housing has been repeatedly debunked, and yet: (1) UK houses are unusually expensive (2) UK houses are unusually small (3) The UK planning regime is unusually strict So it kinda seems like they don't build enough housing — PolitiTweet.org

Ian Mulheirn dispels this myth in a piece from 2017 (he has written a lot about this since). https://t.co/Y1YExctuGS

Posted Sept. 17, 2022 Hibernated

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Like I think if you were to pitch an op-ed with the thesis "abortion politics reflects a lot of sincere disagreement about hard-to-resolve theological issues" that editors wouldn't find it very interesting. But it's clearly true! — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 17, 2022 Hibernated

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If I've been influential in any aspect of discourse over the years it's been in pushing the extremely boring opinion that rules that make it hard to build houses succeed in creating scarcity of housing. https://t.co/lxDZI5a54q — PolitiTweet.org

I know the idea that the UK doesn't build enough housing has been repeatedly debunked, and yet: (1) UK houses are… https://t.co/vKgLnpeWmq

Posted Sept. 17, 2022 Hibernated