Archive - Arbitrary Lines

Your City Shouldn’t Exist

And Neither Should Mine

Jun 10 •

May 2025

How Proposition 13 Broke California Housing Politics

It’s not what you think.

May 7 •

April 2025

California’s Do-or-Die Legislative Session

Democrats Don’t Have Another Year to Dilly-Dally on Housing.

Apr 21 •

Ending Historic Preservation Abuse in Washington

Pro-Housing Bill of the Week: HB 1576 (Washington)

Apr 8 •

Emergent Guatemala City

A dispatch from North America’s most rapidly changing city.

Apr 6 •

Legalizing Starter Home Subdivisions in Texas

Pro-Housing Bill of the Week: SB 15 (Texas)

Apr 1 •

March 2025

The Invention of the “High-Cost” State

America Wasn't Always A Place of "Expensive" and "Affordable" States, Nor Does It Need To Be.

Mar 20 •

January 2025

The United States Doesn’t Have a Housing Crisis

Jan 27 •

December 2024

Nashville's One Weird Trick for Reviving the Starter Home

It turns out that if you make it easy for local developers to build starter homes, they will build a lot of them.

Dec 10, 2024 •

Where Could the Federal Government Actually Build Freedom Cities?

And where should the BLM sell off land generally?

Dec 2, 2024 •

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