Jerusalem Demsas
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Illustration by Danielle Del Plato Colorado’s Ingenious Idea for Solving the Housing Crisis
And why local governments hate it
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H. Armstrong Roberts / Getty California Isn’t Special
No one wants “California-style” housing prices. But the state’s policies are not unique.
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Illustration by Daniel Zender / The Atlantic; Getty Why the Government Is Good at Helping Banks but Not People
State capacity is downstream of ideological commitments: When we have political consensus, we have state capacity, and when we don’t, we don’t.
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Daniel Zender / The Atlantic; Getty The Great Defenders of the Status Quo
Environmental laws are being used to justify oil drilling in Los Angeles, single-family zoning in Minneapolis, and the construction of the border wall.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. ‘Financial Regulation Has a Really Deep Problem’
Federal agencies’ assessments of banks’ stability leave a lot out, a former Treasury Department official explains.
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Matt Chase / The Atlantic; Source: Getty Permission-Slip Culture Is Hurting America
Why should anyone need a license to braid hair?
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty How Florida Beat New York
People are leaving superstar blue cities and moving to red states.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty Meet the Latest Housing-Crisis Scapegoat
Blaming the housing crisis on hedge funds and private equity may be easy, but it’s dead wrong.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty The Homeownership Society Was a Mistake
Real estate should be treated as consumption, not investment.
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Brandon Bell / Getty Images What Fusion May Mean for a Carbon-Free Future
A tantalizing new scientific breakthrough will mean little if we don’t build the infrastructure to support it.
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Danielle Del Plato The Obvious Answer to Homelessness
And why everyone’s ignoring it
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Washington Post / Getty Buses Shouldn’t Be Free
The push for fareless transit is downstream of a larger failure: American urban elected officials have struggled to improve government services, especially infrastructure development.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic Housing Breaks People’s Brains
Supply skepticism and shortage denialism are pushing against the actual solution to the housing crisis: building enough homes.
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H. Armstrong Roberts / Getty; FPG / Getty The Great Pandemic Baby Bump
American couples didn’t let pandemic isolation go to waste.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic Not Everyone Should Have a Say
To speed up permitting for energy projects, we’ll need to rethink community input.
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Alex Webb / Magnum What’s Causing Black Flight?
The demographic shift from cities to suburbs illuminates many stories: of families moving to opportunity, of inequality replicating itself when they get there, and of the people left behind.
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Kimberly White / Getty; The Atlantic The Billionaire’s Dilemma
Marc Andreessen says he’s all for more new housing, but public records tell a different story.
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Sergio Flores / Getty The U.S. Has No Plan to Prevent the Next Pandemic
We treat pandemics as inevitable when we could commit to averting them.
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Brandon Bell / Getty The Opening for Democrats on Abortion
Senate Democrats should take their cues from the House.
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Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty The Next Generation of NIMBYs
Younger buyers who sunk their savings into new homes have too much to lose.
