https://www.texastribune.org/2025/04/22/exas-republicans-legislature-housing-affordability/
Skimming some articles online and found this. Looks like there's a lot of housing legislation in the works in Texas. I saw there's a bill that cleared the senate legalizing single stairway buildings...
It's not even just high rises either, Austin is building huge amounts of 3-5 story residential neighborhoods outside of downtown, like none of this was here 10 years ago. They're outbuilding us in like every type of building short of labs lol.
https://www.auctionsinternational.com/auction/mbta-cabot-rail-equipment-ma-42214-42214/item/48-rail-car-0578-262585/
Bidding just ended on this flat car which NETransit Inventory says was originally built for BERy in 1928 :ROFLMAO:
I think this has been really interesting to watch happen in real time. I feel like housing market dysfunction in particular has been driving left of center types to recognize the importance of market allocation (and increasingly in other areas as well).
Funnily enough I was just reading a blog...