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Paul Williams@pewilliams.bsky.social · 3w ago

I am looking for the nation's foremost modular housing respecters. We need someone to lead our modular consortium in the northeast, in collaboration with state housing finance agencies, to scale up modular across the region. If that's you or someone you know: publicenterprise.org/careers/depu...

I am looking for the nation's foremost modular housing respecters. We need someone to lead our modular consortium in the northeast, in collaboration with state housing finance agencies, to scale up modular across the region. If that's you or someone you know: publicenterprise.org/careers/depu...

Deputy Director, Offsite & Modular Housing

Deputy Director, Offsite & Modular Housing Job Type: Full-Time, RemoteDivision: HousingReports to: Director of Housing Compensation: $105-$120,000; commensurate with experience Description Th...

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I am looking for the nation's foremost modular housing respecters. We need someone to lead our modular consortium in the northeast, in collaboration with state housing finance agencies, to scale up modular across the region. If that's you or someone you know: publicenterprise.org/careers/depu...

Deputy Director, Offsite & Modular Housing

Deputy Director, Offsite & Modular Housing Job Type: Full-Time, RemoteDivision: HousingReports to: Director of Housing Compensation: $105-$120,000; commensurate with experience Description Th...

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I hope everyone who is engaged in federal housing policy reads this @pewilliams.bsky.social report and takes notes. publicenterprise.org/report/raisi...

Raising the Housing Investment Level

Raising the Housing Investment Level, Part II: The History and Future of Multifamily Investment Policy

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The time has come to raise the housing investment level in this country, just as we did in the 1960s and 1980s. We have a new report out this morning laying out just how high housing production numbers need to go—and for how many years—to dig us out of the shortage.

I am slowly working on a thesis for why the US is dogshit at scaling up cleantech and, frankly, I think it's going to make nobody happy??

As many of you know, CPE’s work focuses on the public investment side of housing, energy, and other infrastructure. Our panel at the Abundance conference was appropriately titled “Finance: The Missing Pillar of Abundance?” The space was packed—standing room only.

As many of you know, CPE’s work focuses on the public investment side of housing, energy, and other infrastructure. Our panel at the Abundance conference was appropriately titled “Finance: The Missing Pillar of Abundance?” The space was packed—standing room only.

My favorite part of writing this report—but also the most worrying part—was explaining why we do NOT believe the LPO can currently finance new nuclear reactors. We looked into Vogtle's project finance and argue it was a "financial anomaly" that will be impossible to replicate:

advait@advaitarun.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The Loan Programs Office now has an "Energy Dominance Financing" program. How does it work? What can it do for developers? And what more does it need from the DOE and Congress to continue to support new clean energy technologies? @publicenterprise.bsky.social: publicenterprise.org/report/whats...

The Loan Programs Office now has an "Energy Dominance Financing" program. How does it work? What can it do for developers? And what more does it need from the DOE and Congress to continue to support new clean energy technologies? @publicenterprise.bsky.social: publicenterprise.org/report/whats...

What's next for the LPO?

Read the full report here. Executive Summary The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, now made law, looks better for the Loan Programs Office than what the Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee ha...

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Here, @pewilliams.bsky.social @jeffhauser.bsky.social & Marshall Kosloff model an Abundance-populist synthesis. Hint: it's a lot easier when you root Abundance in the local YIMBYism that inspired it, which the national conversation often distracts from. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...

561 | Jeff Hauser vs. Paul Williams - Debating What the Abundance Agenda Gets Right and Wrong

Podcast Episode · The Realignment · 07/15/2025 · 1h 1m

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Just heard @pewilliams.bsky.social explaining that the grassroots YIMBY movement knows unleashing supply requires major zoning reform and cutting red tape, and also ensuring private actors act for public good. Nuance doesn’t get clicks but it does get stuff right. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

561 | Jeff Hauser vs. Paul Williams - Debating What the Abundance Agenda Gets Right and Wrong

Podcast Episode · The Realignment · 07/15/2025 · 1h 1m

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Elizabeth Wilkins@elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social · last yr.

Love @pewilliams.bsky.social and his take on how we can shape housing markets to produce more supply. So pleased to partner up.

Last week, California passed a landmark law exempting many infill housing developments from CEQA. Here’s how we can do the same thing on a national level, exempting urban infill housing from NEPA. New report from Aaron Shroyer for @publicenterprise.bsky.social:

Last week, California passed a landmark law exempting many infill housing developments from CEQA. Here’s how we can do the same thing on a national level, exempting urban infill housing from NEPA. New report from Aaron Shroyer for @publicenterprise.bsky.social:

Our own @pewilliams.bsky.social co-wrote with @scientistsorg.bsky.social on state derisking of clean energy projects! Thread 1/ This is part of an ongoing CPE research on state capacity improvements for doing project development! Next report coming soon on state EDAs. fas.org/publication/...

De-Risking the Clean Energy Transition

As federal uncertainty grows and climate goals face political headwinds, a new coalition of subnational actors is rising to stabilize markets, accelerate permitting, and finance a more inclusive green...

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Toplines from HUD section of Trump proposed FY26 budget: Sections 8, 9, 202 and 811 all eliminated and replaced by much smaller state block grant. Elimination of HOME+CDBG. Elimination of the Pathways to Removing Obstacles program, which helped cities do zoning/permitting reform.

My colleague and I just published a report on the implications of the market structure of Enhanced Geothermal (EGS) on policy options for stimulating the sector. publicenterprise.org/report/commi...

Committing to the Drill Bit

Committing to the Drill Bit: Derisking Enhanced Geothermal's Unique Market Structure

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The Public Utility Commission of Texas approves first ultra-high voltage (745 kV) transmission lines in the state to help power electrification of the Permian oil patch. 🔌💡

TerraWatts2010@terrawatts2010.bsky.social · last yr.

The plan calls for the construction of 765-kilovolt transmission lines, which are designed to carry more electricity than the 345-kilovolt lines currently standard in the ERCOT grid. 🔌💡 www.tdworld.com/overhead-tra...

Published a report arguing for Western states to collaborate on the deployment of enhanced geothermal technologies. This "Mountain West" consortium ought to pursue regulatory harmonization and cooperation on various development issues. publicenterprise.org/report/enhan...

Enhanced Geothermal Consortium for the Mountain West

Read the full report here. Next-generation geothermal technologies are at the frontier of energy development in the United States. Drawing on drilling techniques developed during the shale boom, en...

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John Jay econ alum @pewilliams.bsky.social makes the case that to bring down housing costs, we have to address supply.

Roosevelt Forward@rooseveltforward.org · last yr.

Imagine a game of musical chairs—but it’s NYC’s housing market. @pewilliams.bsky.social breaks down why we have to stop playing the game and add chairs: Supply is key to affordability. 🏠 #FiresideStacks 🔥 www.firesidestacks.com/p/the-musica...

Mark Carney, asked about housing: "We need to build affordable housing at a scale we haven't seen since the second world war. My government is going to do that." He suggests an announcement on this is coming in a few days.

Love @pewilliams.bsky.social and his take on how we can shape housing markets to produce more supply. So pleased to partner up.

Roosevelt Forward@rooseveltforward.org · last yr.

Imagine a game of musical chairs—but it’s NYC’s housing market. @pewilliams.bsky.social breaks down why we have to stop playing the game and add chairs: Supply is key to affordability. 🏠 #FiresideStacks 🔥 www.firesidestacks.com/p/the-musica...

More new pro-housing content from @rooseveltinstitute.org, this time courtesy of the great @pewilliams.bsky.social! www.firesidestacks.com/p/the-musica...

The Musical Chairs Theory of Housing

For hundreds of years, thousands upon thousands of New Yorkers all moved on the same day. Moving Day, which fell on May 1 each year, coincided with near-universal annual lease renewals from landlords ...

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Imagine a game of musical chairs—but it’s NYC’s housing market. @pewilliams.bsky.social breaks down why we have to stop playing the game and add chairs: Supply is key to affordability. 🏠 #FiresideStacks 🔥 www.firesidestacks.com/p/the-musica...

As I noted, Roosevelt will be doing more work on housing going forward. Today we have a great guest post from housing expert and fellow JFI alum @pewilliams.bsky.social !

Chirag Lala@cthelala.bsky.social · last yr.

Smart writeup from my colleague @pewilliams.bsky.social on how housing shortages impact the efficacy of voucher programs. More supply = more successful redistribution! www.firesidestacks.com/p/the-musica...

Boosting housing supply helps increase the odds that housing voucher holders find a home to rent where they can use their voucher.

Paul Williams@pewilliams.bsky.social · last yr.

As Chirag says: more supply means more effective redistribution. A family given a housing voucher in a supply constrained market often never finds a home.

This is such a key point. Fundamentally to solve the housing crisis we need more redistribution and more housing.

Paul Williams@pewilliams.bsky.social · last yr.

As Chirag says: more supply means more effective redistribution. A family given a housing voucher in a supply constrained market often never finds a home.

The reason I champion more housing is not because I’m a free market developer shill (I’m not). It’s because the ethos of “there’s not room for more” always hurts our poorest neighbors the most. Zoning reform won’t solve affordability but without it we can’t make real progress.

Paul Williams@pewilliams.bsky.social · last yr.

As Chirag says: more supply means more effective redistribution. A family given a housing voucher in a supply constrained market often never finds a home.