Housing reform shouldn't be a super-polarized partisan issue

I’m frequently asked about the alleged tension between my YIMBY advocacy and my views on the popularism debate. This always annoys me because I feel like it should be obvious — but in the spirit of humility, if my thinking on this isn’t clear to people, it’s probably because my writing has not been clear.

So here goes:

I do not think that Democrats should make land use reform a highlight of their national message to the electorate about partisan politics.

I also do not think that land use reform is a highly...