@Lyle My take on this is going to be much like my take on zoning codes. Five years ago we had outdated zoning and building codes based on a combination of racism, nonsense, and anti-urban bias, and we have a housing crisis.

In five years I worry we'll have much better zoning and building codes based on empirical work and affection for multifamily housing and a worsening housing crisis that's maybe a bit better than it would have been.

All this is good. I don't think it's nearly sufficient tho.

@Lyle Yeah, and I hate being like this. Like, the work Stephen Smith is doing on code reform is great and I want to applaud it. But there's this parallel political track in his advocacy that kind of says, "and all this is the problem and why we don't have good housing."

And I'm like yes, yes, yes, wait NO! If we don't deal with land policy and housing finance (specifically federal tax and finance policy) it's not dealing with the bulk of the problem.