I am a lawyer and policy researcher interested in improving the governance of artificial intelligence. I currently work as Director of Research at the Institute for Law & AI. I previously worked in various legal and policy roles at OpenAI.
I am also a Research Affiliate with the Centre for the Governance of AI and a VP at the O’Keefe Family Foundation.
My research focuses on the law, policy, and governance of advanced artificial intelligence.
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I think rent control is bad policy, but I think it’s intellectually indefensible to not also note the various housing-restrictive things Trump has championed: e.g. https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/agenda47-ending-bidens-war-on-the-suburbs-that-pushes-the-american-dream-further-from-reach and https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-protecting-suburbs-preserving-american-dream-americans/. Vance has also framed this as a demand issue due to illegal immigrants rather than as a supply side issue, which is obvious nonsense and also in deep tension with his pronatalist position. You also fail to consider how a 10% tariff on goods imported into the country would affect construction costs (my guess: not good) or how mass deportation of an enormous proportion of the construction labor force would affect it (my guess: also not good).
I would also note that, for all the flaws of the Biden–Harris administration on housing, more houses are being built during their administration than during Trump’s.
In general I find that a lot of your arguments are extremely one-sided in that they ignore very obvious counterarguments and fail to make the relevant comparisons on the same issue.
For example, on innovation policy, I think it’s fair to praise the Trump administration for Operation Warp Speed, though this was a bipartisan effort that was enacted while Harris was a Senator, so she should also get credit for it. On the other hand, the Trump administration would do a lot of things that would be awful for innovation policy, including restricting immigration, making the US more culturally hostile to highly educated immigrants, increasing costs via 10% across-the-board tariffs, and reducing the fiscal resources available to subsidize innovation.
Strong downvoted on this basis.