A lossy compression of the idea is that if you fix the housing crisis in Western Economies, youโll unlock positive outcomes across economic, social, and political metrics which you can then have high positive impact.
A sketch, for example, might be that you want the UK government to do lots of great stuff in AI Safety. But UK state capacity in general might be completely borked until it sorts out its housing crisis.
The underlying idea here is the Housing Theory of Everything.
A lossy compression of the idea is that if you fix the housing crisis in Western Economies, youโll unlock positive outcomes across economic, social, and political metrics which you can then have high positive impact.
A sketch, for example, might be that you want the UK government to do lots of great stuff in AI Safety. But UK state capacity in general might be completely borked until it sorts out its housing crisis.
Similar to the reasoning behind Open Phil funding YIMBY groups.