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Getting to do this lecture -- which sought to provide a structural explanation for why urban public services in America struggle despite the high productivity of our private sector -- was such a thrill! law.yale.edu/yls-today/news/…
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Wait, um, I thought abundance was a failed project? Why did yet another city elect a new abundance mayor who is passing abundance policies? What the heck?
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NYC's property tax system is extremely unique. One of its features: it shields renters and homeowners from property tax increases by shifting the tax burden to utilities (mainly on Con Ed's electric system) by artificially increasing their taxable value.
Result: higher rates.
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Florida may reallocate $12b annually. The winners? The wealthy.
The expansion of the homestead exemption is an immediate wealth transfer.
And, it will make for a less dynamic economy as wealthier, older homeowners lock up valuable land and keep younger families out.
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Today's property tax revolt has mostly been a Republican thing. But the support for major property tax cuts from progressives like @AbdulElSayed and @FrancescaHongWI show the idea has bipartisan appeal
.@AbdulElSayed thinks property tax for seniors should be frozen
I think its generational warfare and that they should sell their houses if they can't afford them. He concedes I'm 'theoretically correct' but practically wrong
Our exchange
The Great American Property Tax Revolt is happening on the left and the right. Nearly everyone these days wants to carve high propensity voters out of supporting government services. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
.@AbdulElSayed thinks property tax for seniors should be frozen
I think its generational warfare and that they should sell their houses if they can't afford them. He concedes I'm 'theoretically correct' but practically wrong
Our exchange
Totally. It’s one of the very few “there’s no point talking to anyone about this story who hasn’t read it” type of articles.
Just want to point out that the Weil collapse appears to follow, almost blow by blow, the theoretical framework that John Morley provided in this article from way back in 2019. Rarely has a law and economics theory been vindicated by real life so completely. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Exclusionary zoning is bad.
But "inclusionary zoning," rather than being the opposite of bad exclusionary zoning, is just the same old exclusionary barriers to multifamily housing given a new name.
Just say no!
open.substack.com/pub/capita…
Terrific @omzidar Zwick essay on property taxes as wealth taxes, and on the harms of narrowing the tax base...
Here’s our l essay on the California wealth tax in the @nytimes today
nytimes.com/2026/10/29/opini…
David Schleicher retweeted
Great piece in @TheArgumentMag by @Yale’s @ZLiscow: the deficit isn't just taxes vs. cuts. High-skilled immigration, housing and permitting reform, investing in kids, and R&D can raise growth and make the budget trade-offs less painful
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Who pays for the schools, fire departments and other services for the public good? On #UCLAHousingVoice, @ProfSchleich unpacks the tax revolts reshaping local budgets and housing markets.
Listen here 🔗lewis.ucla.edu/2026/10/28/12…
I was on the terrific @UCLALewisCenter Housing Voice Podcast talking about The Great Property Tax Freakout. Check it out! youtube.com/watch?v=Na-87szM…
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On @fox32news tonight I broke down Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s “fair share” budget, and a recent conference on Chicago bankruptcy hosted by @ProfSchleich.
NEW: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s “fair share” budget hits everyday Chicagoans far harder than corporations.
Go deeper in this week’s edition of The Last Ward.
thelastward.org/p/how-johnso…
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A fresh scandal for @wutrain: Our worst fears confirmed.
The BPDA anti-housing deep state in Boston thinks it should be hard to develop & "remain desirable for investors"
If you've wondered why Wu's Streets & Squares rezonings are so far behind schedule, now we know for sure
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Today we’re announcing a $600M Series C, co-led by @CapitalG and @emergencecap, to bring fully autonomous machines to more job sites across the U.S.
We want autonomous equipment to become beautifully unremarkable, as ordinary on a job site as GPS or grade control.
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Just to be clear. This redevelopment goes from 2,000 old NYCHA units to:
2,000 new NYCHA units, plus
1,000 additional new affordable units, plus
2,000 new market rate units
And the old buildings don’t come down until the new buildings have been built and NYCHA residents move in.
Yes! It’s conservative! It’s left-coded conservatism but conservatism all the same papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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I went to the front lines of new American tax revolt — the largest flea market in northeast Ohio — to write about how a meme that paying property taxes means you never own your house has taken over the country. politico.com/news/magazine/2…
