Zak Yudhishthu
@zyudhishthu
Sidewalk enthusiast and former Saint Paulite. I like to write about housing in the Twin Cities. Nowadays, I'm an economics research assistant in Chicago
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.
Surely, Chicago is the city that most widely flies its own city flag I think St. Louis might be the second-most that I’ve ever seen
One of the most maddening aspects of this story is learning how many times experts and lawmakers have agreed eliminating this rule is worth doing x.com/mattyglesias/s…
More and more people are talking about permanent chassis regulation! Great piece from @rcobooth and you can really see what a big deal this in a place like Maine where density is low but lots of people are struggling with a surge in housing demand. vox.com/policy/420254/…
We need to pull every lever that we possibly can to grow our housing supply and drive down the cost of rent to make Chicago the safest, most affordable city in America. By making it easier to build across our city we make affordable, equitable transit oriented housing possible in…
Abundance is in the “business and sports” section of this bookstore
My first-ever bus in St. Louis was a ghost bus Cool-looking station tho
Yesterday, I saw this stunning lobby on the back of the Board of Trade, designed by Helmut Jahn. Essentially grafted onto the former rear wall of the original Board of Trade building in 1980 Featuring a 30 foot tall, 95-year old mural of Ceres
New York City Mayor Eric Adams told @tracyalloway and @TheStalwart that he would love to see what’s in the Epstein files – and said that the “deep state” should “outrage every American” while echoing an earlier endorsement of FBI Director Kash Patel’s book apple.co/4lTgFT6
New York City Mayor Eric Adams told @tracyalloway and @TheStalwart that he would love to see what’s in the Epstein files – and said that the “deep state” should “outrage every American” while echoing an earlier endorsement of FBI Director Kash Patel’s book apple.co/4lTgFT6
It’s funny to hear “the area is already too dense and congested” as an argument for NIMBYism — if the area didn’t already have high rises, then we’d hear that the new building is “out of scale/character” Leaving you with no acceptable conditions for a new high rise
Some Old Town residents filed a lawsuit against a Loop developer and the city of Chicago to halt the construction of a 36-story residential tower. trib.al/veNRB8J
🚨 HOUSING WIN 🚨 Today, the Chicago City Council eliminated costly parking mandates for all residential zones located near CTA and Metra stops. 🥳 This important reform will lower construction costs and make it easier to build new homes across almost all of Chicago. 🏘️
Not too many places you can get a free concert experience like this one
Worthwhile reading from Zak
Minneapolis's housing costs are low — so low that many common ideas for improving housing affordability don't work as well! But w/ hundreds of homeless ppl and many more cost burdened renters, it's not enough. In my new post, I discuss some ways out of this impasse.
Minneapolis's reforms have made its housing supply elastic enough to touch the forbidden fruit: "Subsidizing demand" Minneapolis should work harder to fully relegalize SROs & get hard costs down, of course But in a market like this, vouchers & cash work really well, actually!
Minneapolis's housing costs are low — so low that many common ideas for improving housing affordability don't work as well! But w/ hundreds of homeless ppl and many more cost burdened renters, it's not enough. In my new post, I discuss some ways out of this impasse.
