Abundance with input: We can build housing and energy systems without ignoring community concerns

Abundance with input: We can build housing and energy systems without ignoring community concerns

In their new book Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson make the case that laws and regulations designed to block the government and private sector from doing bad things have now made it far too expensive to do good things, especially to build what we need the most: housing and clean energy. They put the challenge starkly: “Changing the processes that make building and inventing so hard now requires confrontations with whether the systems lib…