Two good Slow Boring pieces from a few years back that are helpful reads in the run-up to this NYC mayoral election.
Public housing is not the answer
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A renewed round of public housing construction is a plausible thing to try, but writers and activists who want to make it the centerpiece of a solution to America’s housing problems are barking up the wrong tree.
Should the bus be free?
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Every so often someone asks me what I think of making the bus free as a way to encourage transit ridership. I then tend to disappoint them with an extremely long-winded answer, but in a nutshell: it’s complicated.
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