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Evan Soltas
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Evan Soltas's personal blog at evansoltas.com covers economics and politics. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “How Costly Is Permitting in Housing Development? [pdf]”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
Economics writing on housing supply and permitting. A commenter cites the author's linked 2026 paper with Gruber, which estimates permits at about 50% of an LA home's price, to argue Austin's rent drop could be larger.
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Most-linked posts?
- How Costly Is Permitting in Housing Development? [pdf]2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-16
What Hacker News says?
Not to mention, Austin could just make it cheaper to build to offset lower sell prices. Gruber et al estimate permits are 50% of an LA home's price. Fix permitting and rent goes down 50% by your assumptions that developers build until margins are 0. Assume austin is only half as bad as LA, a 25% rent decrease would be incredible Gruber's paper: https://evansoltas.com/papers/Permitting_SoltasGruber2026.pd...
Comment linking /papers/Permitting_SoltasGruber2026.pdf
on “Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents”Submitted How Costly Is Permitting in Housing Development? [pdf] as a story · 2 points
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