Paul Novosad (@paulnovosad)

Mumbai has an elegant solution for slums: relocate residents to tall buildings on some of the slum real estate, develop the rest. This is an elegant solution to the perpetual slum dilemma: cast out the poorest, or accept low value land use in perpetuity. Did it work? 1/ ...

OnOpportunity Zones, by David Neumark TL;DR: place-based policy doesn't predictably address the problems of people in a given place, especially when it's in a place where people can easily come and go! 1/ ...

The Latinx polling paper is excellent, but reaches the wrong conclusion. It has almost nothing to do with queerphobia, Latino voters just don’t like being called LatinX. Politicians using the term "Latinx" lose 6 PERCENTAGE POINTS vote share. A 🧵👇🏻 1/N <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/mfrma...