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Profiling the "Abundance" housing bottleneck with real data
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The author analyzes housing policy by comparing Austin and San Francisco, arguing that regulatory 'valves' create artificial scarcity. The piece suggests that excessive bureaucratic processes act as technical debt, hindering housing throughput despite available resources.
My book club is reading Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson this month. The core idea fits on a napkin, so before the meeting I decided to actually check it against real data. Here's what I found, and where it fell apart.
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