Molson Hart

Major metro areas across the globe have housing affordability problems. Rural areas have housing occupancy problems. Texas has examples of both. Looking forward to spending a few days exploring solutions. Anyone here want to brainstorm on Twitter?

As the article points out Tokyo has a rising population even if the nation does not. The governor of Texas could set permitting laws like the federal government does in Japan and like the state governor has when it has overridden some Austin city laws (ride share, homelessness).

There are a lot of unemployable people in rural areas. Technology and deindustrialization have left many behind. In my experience, the places where there is vacant housing in rural Texas are old railroad towns that the interstate was not built through. Don’t see that changing.