Zak Yudhishthu
@zyudhishthu
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Sidewalk enthusiast and former Saint Paulite. I like to write about housing in the Twin Cities, now an econ research assistant in Chicago. Mostly on Bluesky
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Joined August 2016
From 2010-2020, North Center was the Chicago neighborhood w the fastest growth in children. Surprisingly, its housing stock declined over that period! In my new post, I take a look at Chicago's hottest neighborhood for families and think about some important housing dynamics.
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Projects like these have created over a thousand units that previously would’ve been illegal to build
What really happened when Minneapolis upzoned its neighborhoods in the 2040 Plan? We didn't get a lot of duplexes and triplexes, but rezonings enabled a lot more housing than you might think in low-density neighborhoods. My new article at @metroabundance
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@InlandCaGuy @flaminhottweets But we can synthesize the points here: the post GFC crash in development coincided with a period of rising demand for urban living, a big shift from earlier decades, which also raised the importance of nimbyism
After 2000, young, whiter, more educated people started moving to cities more than moving out - a big shift from previous decades A big reason is they seemed to care more about city-specific amenities like restaurants
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@InlandCaGuy @flaminhottweets To your second point, I think there are a lot of changes also in terms of urban repopulation/gentrification in the last 20 years, we always had nimbyism but we also had urban decline/outflows for a while. In terms of identifying why price growth has gone so crazy more recently
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@flaminhottweets @InlandCaGuy I feel like it was an oft repeated point that @JesseJenkins big study on the emissions impacts of IRA were contingent on permitting reform, like from the get go. Alas
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@InlandCaGuy @flaminhottweets True, but to take this specific point too literally you’d still have the same nimby problems
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I wrote a little bit about how Donald Shoup's work helped shape my life. Rest in peace.
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RT @mnolangray: I'm deeply saddened to share that Donald Shoup passed away last night. He was the ideal academic—curious, methodical, and c…
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@SteveSubera Since you mostly tweet about forgotten and ignored Saint Paul issues, your tweets probably add a lot more value than the average poster
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@2024dion @tylercowen Alternatively, he asked it to explain undergrad textbook-level issues like Ricardo’s theory of rent and it did so very well, but it stumbles when asked to do things closer to the frontier
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@BradSchaeppi That would be great too, but the difference is that I have friends in uptown or Whittier that don’t own cars, which is near-impossible for your work commuteeven if you make a cute new urbanist suburb
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