This is a joke. Anyone believing this is anything other than a boon for consultants, contractors, and corporate landlords is being naive. Bipartisanship on "permitting reform" is just dressed up language for gutting oversight so the donor class can cash in faster.
Big-money donors are using the “abundance agenda” to create a permission structure for Democratic elites to dismiss the populist revival the party so desperately needs.
www.thenation.com
In the 1980s, Wall Street vowed to make housing more affordable through deregulation of housing finance. The result was the 2008 crisis.
prospect.org
When California shifted its bullet train plan into high gear in 2008, it had just 10 employees to manage and oversee design of the largest public construction project in state history.
www.latimes.com
A new report makes it clear. Fixing it is another matter.
slate.com
Leftist critiques of abundance are complete losers. Look at Zephyr Teachout shytting the bed on Ezra Klein
Zephyr Teachout got destroyed in the comments...
“Abundance,” the book I co-wrote with Derek Thompson, hit bookstore shelves a little over a month ago, and the response has been beyond anything I could have imagined. And it’s generated a lot of interesting critiques, too, especially from the left. So I wanted to dedicate an episode to talking through some of them.
My guests today are both on the left but have very different perspectives. Zephyr Teachout is a law professor at Fordham University and one of the most prominent voices in the antimonopoly movement. Saikat Chakrabarti is the president and co-founder of New Consensus, a think tank that has been trying to think through what it would take to build at Green New Deal scale and pace. And he is currently running to unseat Nancy Pelosi in Congress.
I found this conversation wonderfully clarifying — both in the places it revealed agreement, and perhaps even more in the places it revealed difference.
0:00 Intro
7:43 Why is it so hard to build affordable housing?
15:36 Building processes in Europe vs the U.S.
21:25 Corporate interests and political power
39:47 In-party resistance
43:29 Expertise and Congress’ brain drain
49:10 What anti-monopoly action can (and can’t) fix
58:30 Public financing and the fear of failure
1:06:59 Emergencies drive innovation
1:15:57 Book recommendations