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Matt Fay

@mattfay1.bsky.social

Political scientist that sometimes pretends to be a runner. Lifelong Chicago Bears fan (god help me). Cautiously optimistic Notre Dame football fan.

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Sam@samd.bsky.social · 14h ago

Jose Andres is the absolute GOAT. turbolib who has brought meals to disaster zones after the Haiti earthquake & to war-stricken families in Ukraine and Gaza and now he’s YIMBYposting in the face of Spain’s severe housing shortage

@chefjoseandres X.com © Translated from Spanish by Grok Incredible to see the "experts" on resolving the housing emergency that Spain is experiencing! On every television! @telediario_tve @ANoticias @tele5_noticias @noticias_cuatro The reality is that we have politicians who try to create decrees and solutions when they lack the preparation or knowledge to devise a real solution to the problem we're facing. Spain doesn't have a problem of a lack of decrees. It has a problem of a lack of housing. And as long as the Government keeps confusing announcing measures with solving problems, we'll keep paying the consequences of its inaction. Subsidizing demand without increasing supply pressures prices. Regulating a market more and more without building new housing doesn't eliminate scarcity: it manages it. Taxing a type of rental can change incentives, but it doesn't lay a single brick either.Because housing doesn't get cheaper by distributing scarcity. It gets cheaper by ending it. Spain needs to build. A lot. More available land. Permits in months, not years. More density wherever possible. Legal certainty. Much more public housing and also private housing. But the Government isn't doing what's necessary. It prefers to intervene on the few homes that exist rather than create the conditions for there to be many more. It prefers to present patches as solutions and load the cost of its failure onto owners, developers, and citizens. The rest can serve to redistribute, protect certain groups, or change incentives. But let's not confuse that with solving the underlying problem. You don't fix a lack of housing by better distributing the few homes that exist. You fix it by making many more exist. Less propaganda. Less patches. Less obsession with intervening on the same apartment. More supply. More construction. More homes.
Sweetness@sweetness3485.bsky.social · 2w ago

-Bagent sacked on final play with Loveland protecting -Caleb injury -poor game planning for the blitz Ben Johnson coached a bad game, they were unprepared and outclassed all day long. Caleb injury is obviously the big story. Hamstring is probably best case scenario. How long is he out?

Sweetness@sweetness3485.bsky.social · 2w ago

This game was made in a lab to piss you off as much as possible. -dropped INT results in a Viking field goal -fumble at the one yard line -dropped TD from Roush -penalties galore -blocked field goal (almost two blocked kicks) -awful no-call on the late hit -fake rally with bad clock management