Posts tagged Matt Yglesias
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Upzone expensive areas to fund anti-displacement in poor ones? Should we push this?
Matthew Yglesias has a bold idea for DC housing and anti-displacement policy: Build a lot of new homes in areas like west of Rock Creek Park, Dupont/Logan, and Capitol Hill, and use some of the tax revenue to cut property taxes east of the Anacostia River. Keep reading…
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Why Matt Yglesias’ crayonista to fix Metro is mostly wrong
Over the holiday, Matt Yglesias at Vox drew up a fantasy idea to reroute the Yellow and Red Lines through central DC. His plan is elegant on the surface, but gets details wrong and probably doesn't make sense in the real world. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Old school
Hine gets OK; Not down with escalators; A lot to do in 5 years; Academic village in NoMa; Height limit estimate too high?; Safer to be blue; And…. Keep reading…
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Live chat with Matt Yglesias
Please welcome Matt Yglesias, Slate Moneybox economics blogger, author of The Rent Is Too Damn High, and frequent commentator about how regulations limiting development affect cities. Keep reading…
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Live chat: Matt Yglesias, Wednesday at noon
Are the very policies intended to sustain neighborhoods and preserve affordable housing paradoxically the same ones pushing rents up and families out to the suburbs? That’s case Slate Moneybox economics writer Matt Yglesias makes in his e-book, The Rent is Too Damn High. On Wednesday at noon, Matt will join us to discuss the book and we hope you’ll help us get things… Keep reading…