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Ryan Murphy 🦀🦅🥑 retweeted
A new piece in the Financial Times created a great visualization of the results from this study.
TL;DR: Rent control helps people whose rents get limited, but it hurts everyone else. It pushes up rents, pushes down new building, and makes cities worse.
It is horrible policy.
What do studies say about "freezing the rent"?
Let's have a thread🧵
First thing's first: Most studies agree that rent controlled units have lower rents, but also the supply of rentable units goes down and un-controlled units see their rents increase.
Uh-oh!
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Ryan Murphy 🦀🦅🥑 retweeted
It’s instructive to see groups ostensibly dedicated to fighting climate change say they don’t think a bill should be judged by whether it reduces carbon emissions.
Scoop: Enviros held a call Thurs in which progressive opponents tried to rally fence-sitters against the permitting bill. I obtained the transcript.
"We really have to have a pretty clear agreement by all parties that this is an effort to stop this bill, not to make it better"
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Ryan Murphy 🦀🦅🥑 retweeted
CBO just released its latest "Distribution of Household Income" report (for year 2023), and the findings are - as usual - a narrative violation.
Real incomes up across the board.
Income inequality basically flat for decades.
Taxes falling for everyone except the rich.
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Ryan Murphy 🦀🦅🥑 retweeted
Doctors say that measles can kill young children. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and drives around with dead bear cubs in his car says they'll be fine as long as they eat enough beef tallow. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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Ryan Murphy 🦀🦅🥑 retweeted
This is funny because of the community note, but there's a really important truth here: Many in Northern VA have NO IDEA they have a ton of data centers basically on their doorstep.
Why? Because most of the propaganda against them is just made up nonsense.
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Ryan Murphy 🦀🦅🥑 retweeted
another championship.
I believe I can help make the Philadelphia 76ers a championship team and I am so excited to energize a new fan base and start this incredible journey one last time.
Thank you LA. Miami I’ll forever love and Northeast Ohio will always home!
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Ryan Murphy 🦀🦅🥑 retweeted
We need to hold corporate landlords accountable. But we also need to change the underlying market dynamics that are driving the cost of housing.
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Ryan Murphy 🦀🦅🥑 retweeted
Data centers barely use any water, barely use any land, and they lower electric bills.
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Ryan Murphy 🦀🦅🥑 retweeted
The new DSA platform is something.
The government will take over food production and sales, ditto energy, medicine, airlines, and housing. Universal rent control, the end of capitalism, and a classless society (stated elsewhere in the platform).
This doesn't sound like Sweden!
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Ryan Murphy 🦀🦅🥑 retweeted
every news cycle for the next four years is just going to be
Monday: Trump has fired all the people who were responsible for keeping poo out of the drinking water
Tuesday: okay for some reason there is now a lot of poo in the drinking water
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Ryan Murphy 🦀🦅🥑 retweeted
Montgomery County And Philadelphia Both Have A Germantown, Kensington, And Olney
Click below for full article.
mocoshow.com/2026/07/07/mont…
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Ryan Murphy 🦀🦅🥑 retweeted
Nothing will make you lose faith in leftism more than arguing about rent control
They simply refuse to learn about the consequences of the policies they support, they can’t conceive second order effects
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Ryan Murphy 🦀🦅🥑 retweeted
What a rotten deal we made with Iran. We get nothing (except laughter at our stupidity). They get everything, including delay and big cash!
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Ryan Murphy 🦀🦅🥑 retweeted
"The development was supported by Montgomery County’s More Housing at Metro Act, enacted in 2021 to encourage transit-oriented, affordable housing on Metro-owned land."
Don't even have to guess, @willjawando (& @Marc_Elrich ) opposed it, @Andrew_Friedson was the lead sponsor
Metro and LCOR announced that Envoi, a 354-unit residential community at North Bethesda station, will transform Metro-owned land into a vibrant, transit-oriented neighborhood.
Learn more ➡️: wmata.com/news/metro--lcor-c…
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Ryan Murphy 🦀🦅🥑 retweeted
Are you starting to see why your housing is so expensive?
The homeowners in your neighborhood band together to prevent more housing from being built, which means YOU pay thousands more every year — all so they can get even wealthier
When housing gets built, you pay less
San Diego built more apartments per person than any CA metro last year—and rents fell 2.2%, dropping the city from 5th to 12th priciest nationally.
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Ryan Murphy 🦀🦅🥑 retweeted
Further narrative violations: Zoomers are making higher salaries for their age, even when adjusted for inflation, than any generation before. And Zoomers are buying houses at a rate FASTER than Millennials did at the same age.
The sky is not falling.
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Ryan Murphy 🦀🦅🥑 retweeted
“He’s just joking,” they’ll say. Folks, no president should be making jokes about this, but one who attempted to steal an election most definitely shouldn’t. And no American should find it amusing. No matter the tone, it’s a threat to our Constitutional order.
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