HeyJaredJeremy's Quarterly
Insights on housing policy, movement building, governance, and mushrooms, shared from the YIMBY trenches. Published weekly.
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We Manhattanized Palo Alto! (opens the original)
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Five-, six-, even seven-story buildings may be coming to a transit-oriented neighborhood near you. Prepare for the destruction of everything you know and love.Such was the attitude among a handful of residents in the infamously exclusive and wealthy suburban enclave Palo Alto, which received nine proposals for new homes in the two weeks between July 1 and July 15—more distinct multi-family housing proposals in 15 days than the city normally receives in a year.The proposals are modest, ranging fr
How to DESTROY a City (opens the original)
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I recently returned from Hell on Earth: Santa Barbara, California. Beyond the sun (too much of it) and the sand (in everyone’s butt cracks), the City has absolutely DESTROYED their downtown by closing down State Street to cars.1As a result, entitled Pedestrians and reckless Bikers have completely taken over what was once a thriving, successful corridor for driving. Nobody is safe from the rampaging two-wheelers that now control the road, moving at terrifying speeds of 5, 10, even 12 miles per ho
Abundance is Not “Moderate” or “Progressive” (opens the original)
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The country that sent a man to the moon cannot complete a single modern high-speed rail line. The birthplace of the lightbulb struggles to modernize its electrical grid. In the land of the free, getting permission to build an apartment can take longer than growing a human being—or two or three of them. An ambitious policy framework, called “abundance,” can help solve these disparate problems. Yet a new-ish Vox article is the latest attempt to classify abundance as a mod
Affordable Housers Should Be YIMBYs (opens the original)
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A note from Jeremy: Jeremy’s Quarterly is first and foremost a project about exploring the housing movement, our tensions and victories and opportunities to grow. So I was very excited when Brian, an affordable housing developer in D.C. and a fellow Substacker, reached out to me with this piece a few weeks back. It balances on the fine line that I so enjoy of challenging everyone’s perspectives simultaneously, hopefully helping us build a stronger movement in the process.Make sure to Subscribe t
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