# Public Comment

> A newsletter about cities and democracy.

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## Posts
- [Right About Housing, Wrong About Homelessness](https://publiccomment.blog/p/right-about-housing-wrong-about-homelessness): A response to Lee Ohanian's "How Los Angeles Lost the War on Homelessness"
- [And we're back](https://publiccomment.blog/p/and-we-re-back): Plus some news about BUILD OR DIE
- [If You Want to Raise Birthrates, You Need to Fix Men](https://publiccomment.blog/p/if-you-want-to-raise-birthrates-you-need-to-fix-men): New evidence that patriarchy plus economic growth leads to declining birthrates
- [Falling Home Prices Are a Measure of Success, Not Failure](https://publiccomment.blog/p/falling-home-prices-are-a-measure-of-success-not-failure): There's no such thing as a housing market that makes everyone happy
- [Cosmopolitan America](https://publiccomment.blog/p/cosmopolitan-america): Some thoughts on the revolution at 250
- [A Roadmap for U.S. Housing Policy](https://publiccomment.blog/p/a-roadmap-for-u-s-housing-policy): My new report with Becky Chao and Mike Konczal for the Economic Security Project
- [A Good Day for Los Angeles](https://publiccomment.blog/p/a-good-day-for-los-angeles): America's most dysfunctional city may actually get a pro-housing mayor
- [Hyperfascism](https://publiccomment.blog/p/hyperfascism): Some notes toward a theory of Trumpism
- [Saxophone Colossus](https://publiccomment.blog/p/saxophone-colossus): RIP to Sonny Rollins, a human artist
- [The Candidates Talk Housing](https://publiccomment.blog/p/the-candidates-talk-housing): Thoughts on the recent housing forum for California's gubernatorial field
- [New Frontiers in Bad Housing Policy Research](https://publiccomment.blog/p/new-frontiers-in-bad-housing-policy-research): An Urban Institute paper beloved by supply skeptics is even more flawed than I realized
- [The Real Flight 93 Election](https://publiccomment.blog/p/the-real-flight-93-election): The stakes in 2026 and 2028
- [A Very Californian Succession Crisis](https://publiccomment.blog/p/a-very-californian-succession-crisis): The political vacuum at the end of the Brown dynasty
- [Odds and Ends 4.10.26](https://publiccomment.blog/p/odds-and-ends-4-10-26): Pre-approved designs, a de-nerdified Democratic Party, and Jason Bateman
- [What's going on with Elizabeth Warren?](https://publiccomment.blog/p/what-s-going-on-with-elizabeth-warren): On the perils of economic populism
- [Odds and Ends 4.3.26](https://publiccomment.blog/p/odds-and-ends-4-3-26): Philanthropy, incels, and one of the most moving anime films out there
- [Against Homeownership Populism](https://publiccomment.blog/p/against-homeownership-populism): Trying to turn everyone into homeowners means solving for the wrong problem
- [Odds and Ends 3.27.26](https://publiccomment.blog/p/odds-and-ends-3-27-26): Federal investment in multifamily housing, Hegel, and more
- [Build or Die](https://publiccomment.blog/p/build-or-die): My book has a cover, a title, and a release date
- [Odds and Ends 3.20.26](https://publiccomment.blog/p/odds-and-ends-3-19-26): Performative males, more on slopulism, A.I. husbands, and some bossa nova
- [Adventures in Slopulism](https://publiccomment.blog/p/adventures-in-slopulism): You can't build a Nordic social insurance system on a Norquist-style tax base
- [Odds and Ends 3.13.26](https://publiccomment.blog/p/odds-and-ends-3-13-26): The left's housing civil war, Jessie Buckley's uncanny power, Dr. Martin Luther King as a the general of a nonviolent army, and more
- [The Housing Angle](https://publiccomment.blog/p/the-housing-angle): Strait of Hormuz Edition
- [Odds and Ends 3.6.26](https://publiccomment.blog/p/odds-and-ends-3-6-26): Some links and other recommendations
- [What California's gubernatorial candidates won't say](https://publiccomment.blog/p/what-california-s-gubernatorial-candidates-won-t-say): So far this is a conventional race during an extraordinary time
- [Odds and Ends 2.27.26](https://publiccomment.blog/p/odds-and-ends-2-27-26): Some links and other recommendations
- [The Liberal Reimagination](https://publiccomment.blog/p/the-liberal-reimagination): A response to Becca Rothfeld's "Listless Liberalism"
- [The Great Retcon](https://publiccomment.blog/p/the-great-retcon): The invention of "heritage Americans"
- [Sure, it works in practice, but does it work in theory?](https://publiccomment.blog/p/sure-it-works-in-practice-but-does-it-work-in-theory): Another swing and a miss from the supply skeptics
- [Recent Work](https://publiccomment.blog/p/recent-work-1e9d): For Mamdanism and against Graeberism; lessons from YIMBYism; climate resilience and economic growth
- [The Poison Always Drips Through](https://publiccomment.blog/p/the-poison-always-drips-through): On Renee Good and George Floyd
- [Odds and Ends](https://publiccomment.blog/p/odds-and-ends-78c2): Some recent links from me and others
- [Mamdani the Party Builder](https://publiccomment.blog/p/mamdani-the-party-builder): Partyism in action
- [Varieties of Civil Society](https://publiccomment.blog/p/varieties-of-civil-society): Toward a taxonomy
- [Happy Hour Power](https://publiccomment.blog/p/happy-hour-power): Why YIMBYs just won big in California
- [Newsom's Fateful Choice](https://publiccomment.blog/p/newsom-s-fateful-choice): Why the governor needs to sign SB 79
- [Odds and Ends](https://publiccomment.blog/p/odds-and-ends-74a4): Bicoastal Knowledge Sharing; Blueskyism; Non-Capitalist Markets
- [When is a tent too big?](https://publiccomment.blog/p/when-is-a-tent-too-big): Regarding Abundance Conference 2025
- [Some Slight Issues with the Positivist Approach to Politics](https://publiccomment.blog/p/some-slight-issues-with-the-positivist-approach-to-politics): An intervention in the rhetoric-versus-positivism wars
- [Odds and Ends](https://publiccomment.blog/p/odds-and-ends-8ca0): Some links