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Benet Fusté @bfuste.bsky.social · Dec 23

I res, que he fet aquests càlculs i els he dibuixat al mapa perquè tinguem temps d'anar corregint el tret. Potser un semblarà una cosa per a nerds de l'habitatge, però jo diria -ja em perdonareu la immodèstia- que és important...
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Desqualificacions. El sudari de Laertes de les polítiques d’habitatge | Lleiengel.cat

El Pla Territorial Sectorial d’Habitatge de Catalunya (PTSHC) no reverteix la insuficiència i els errors d'anteriors polítiques d'habitatge

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 1d

Good point this. The macroeconomic point of raising taxes is not to raise money but to cut consumption, thereby diverting resources to the public sector & investment. That requires taxes on the middlingly rich. Taxing the mega-rich is necessary (if not sufficient!) to legitimate such rises.

Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 New research published today

'Before the fall' looks at what has happened to the distribution of household wealth in Britain and the impact on families.

Read it here 👉 buff.ly/Ya8kInK

Senior Economist Molly Broome:
"Wealth gaps in Britain are now so large that a typical full-time employee saving all their earnings across their entire working life would still not be able to reach the top of the wealth ladder. These gaps are doubly concerning as wealth mobility in Britain is low – people that start life wealthy tend to stay wealthy, and vice versa.
Rising house prices and changes in the value of pension promises account for most of the growth in wealth gaps since the early 2010s, rather than any active behaviour on the part of individuals, such as buying homes or acquiring new assets.
Soaring wealth and an acute need for more revenue has prompted fresh talk of wealth taxes ahead of the Budget next month. But with property and pensions now representing 80 per cent of the growing bulk of household wealth, we need to be honest that higher wealth taxes are likely to fall on pensioners, Southern homeowners or their families, rather than just being paid by the super-rich."

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · 21h

If profits shape the energy transition we need to understand the biggest profit event this century: the 2022 oil and gas price spike.

Very happy our paper is now out in Energy Research & Social Science. Thread by lead-author @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social 👇

Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 22h

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Benet Fusté @bfuste.bsky.social · 22h

Al FT, sobre el pretés revival del ICE. "The danger is that in the long run, does this become the buggy whip challenge"

Why carmakers are falling back in love with petrol

Revival comes as industry confronts higher tariff-related costs and rising threat posed by cheap Chinese EVs

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Benet Fusté @bfuste.bsky.social · 1d

Quan comencis a vendre coses avisa, que mi també m'agrada tocar a casa

Benet Fusté @bfuste.bsky.social · 1d

Tinc una valoració ambivalent, d'això. D'una banda, necessitaria que deixessin aire a l'entrevistat i a l'oient. De l'altra, trobo que fan reflexions/apunts -el dret com a conquesta vs discurs de poder, pex- que em semblen interessants.

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Benet Fusté @bfuste.bsky.social · 1d

El vaig veure amb aquestes mateixes pintes fent de teloner dels Cabrians 🤣

Benet Fusté @bfuste.bsky.social · 1d

"els periodistes són uns palanganes, els periodistes són uns desgraciats. No ho dic jo, ho vaig llegir a la biografia de Lemmy Kilmister".
Aquesta és la que m'ha fet més riure, però no és l'única mostra que Andreu Van den Eynde camina a espatlles de gegants.

Pau Llonch @paullonch.bsky.social · 8d

No sé si hi ha algú aquí. Però per si de cas, hem estrenat això. Ja anem pel segon episodi. Subscriviu-vos i deixeu de fer puto scrolling.

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NNHPT #02 - Andreu Van Den Eynde (El càstig)

YouTube video by No n'hi ha per tant!

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 1d

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Event study coefficients that show that men's earnings rise more than women's among couples following a cross-commuting zone move (left panels). The pattern is muted or reverses among single men and single women (right panels).

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Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 1d

Wider sidewalks, protected bike lanes, narrow car lanes, bulb-outs, speed bumps, transit-only lanes, and an end to subsidized street parking would do more to defeat fascism than anything else we could do, or are doing.

It's not just that drivers are, by far, the biggest threat to urban residents.

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 3d

The US is pursuing "energy dominance" and forcing allies to buy US oil and gas. And, yet, China is beating the US on energy exports.

Surprised? Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Benet Fusté @bfuste.bsky.social · 2d

Doncs això que passa: lloguer d'habitacions, ajuts al lloguer i ajuts d'urgència, ocupacions, etc.

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Benet Fusté @bfuste.bsky.social · 2d

L'any passat vaig fer quatre números sobre aquestes coses
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Habitatge de protecció oficial. Una política regressiva? | Lleiengel.cat

Universalisme o focalització a les polítiques d'habitatge de protecció oficial

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Benet Fusté @bfuste.bsky.social · 2d

Per accedir a habitatge de protecció. Es demanen ingressos mínims per minimitzar impagaments, perquè l'HPO es finança en gran part amb els ingressos de gestió dels propis habitatges i s'intenta reduir al màxim l'aportació pública. La viabilitat -hehe- consisteix en què l'HPO es pagui sol...

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 3d

Once again reminding everyone that New York City has 1 million more people than Washington state and produces half the GHGs because driving cares is the strongest factor to driving them up

Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 3d

The Venn diagram of urban density and average household GHG emissions is pretty much a circle. Interesting study on “Mapping household GHG emissions in the Greater Golden Horseshoe” from the University of Toronto School of Cities schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/mapping-hous...

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Benet Fusté @bfuste.bsky.social · 2d

També et diré que el requeriments d'ingressos mínims que tenim ara ja deixen fora la immensa majoria de llars amb origen estranger sense necessitat de gaires carències de padró...

Benet Fusté @bfuste.bsky.social · 3d

La confusió entre el preu de cost, el preu que atrauria promotors privats i el preu que podrien pagar els usuaris finals. Per no parlar de la confusió entre el règim de tinença -i el seu efecte sobre el finançament- amb la durada de la qualificació. Increïble article, a aquestes alçades...

La subida de precios alcanza a la vivienda protegida y complica el acceso a los sueldos bajos

Las comunidades actualizan el coste máximo de venta para fomentar su construcción

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Benet Fusté @bfuste.bsky.social · 3d

"a lot of older people in houses not appropriate for them, and young people aren’t able to access family houses early on, [that could make them] think twice about partnering up and having kids". Un problema que proposen resoldre amb reserves de sòl per a habitatge per a persones grans.

Where is all the housing for older people?

Brits are living longer — but building suitable homes for them isn’t keeping pace. Its an urgent moment for new attitudes and broader horizons

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 4d

1/Striking speech by Macron: The future of European democracy depends on taking back its digital information space. A remarkable turn from Silicon Valley as source of enlightenment to being a purveyor of slop. And the stakes aren't just ad revenue but the nation.
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"Europeans, let's wake up!" — Defend Democracy

“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.” President Macron on the occasion of German Unity Day, 3 October 2025.

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Marc Belzunces ⛏️📊🗺️☀️⚡️🚲🛵🚙♻️ @marcbelzunces.bsky.social · 4d

Per cert,

Sector automobilístic combustió i premsa comprada:

"No hi ha la demanda prevista de cotxes elèctrics"

Realitat:

Rècord de vendes de cotxes elèctrics arreu.

La qual cosa vol dir:

- La demanda hi és.
- Els fabricants no l'han volgut cobrir fins que els han obligat.

Marc Belzunces ⛏️📊🗺️☀️⚡️🚲🛵🚙♻️ @marcbelzunces.bsky.social · 4d

No sé quin problema té la BBC amb el fet que dels vehicles elèctrics (BEV) "overwhelming majority - 71.4% - were bought by businesses or to be used in fleets"

És justament el que necessitem em primer terme. Són els vehicles que més quilòmetres fan.

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Electric car sales hit record high in September

Sales of fully electric or hybrid vehicles made up more than half of all new car registrations in the UK last month.

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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 5d

Interesting research on attitudes towards & use of e-cargo bikes in the UK.

Particularly noteworthy for demonstrating the level of interest in e-cargo bikes nationally and the extent to which they replace car journeys. In a trial in suburban areas over 50% of the distance travelled replaced car use

E-cargo bikes as a personal transport mode in the UK: insights from surveys and suburban trials

This paper explores the potential of e-cargo bikes as a personal transport mode in the UK, reporting on a series of surveys and trials. Hypothesising …

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ECIU @eciu.net · 5d

Solar becomes main source of electricity in the EU for first time

More than half of the EU’s electricity in the second quarter of 2025 came from renewable energy.

Solar becomes main source of electricity in the EU for first time

More than half of the EU’s electricity in the second quarter of 2025 came from renewable energy

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 5d

"Full-day kindergarten expansions were responsible for as much as 24 percent of the growth in employment of mothers with kindergartenaged children in this time frame."

AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 6d

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families" by Chloe R. Gibbs, Jocelyn Wikle, and Riley Wilson. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families

(Forthcoming Article) - We leverage pronounced changes in the availability of public schooling for young children— through duration expansions to the kindergarten day—to better understand how an impli...

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Kenny Torrella @kennytorrella.bsky.social · 6d

The new EAT-Lancet report is out and I wrote about it -- and also what I saw at Climate Week NYC: An environmental movement still cozying up to Big Meat, and still unafraid to confront scientific consensus on food, agriculture, and livestock.

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Hertie School @hertieschool.bsky.social · 7d

The Hertie School mourns the passing of Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Claus Offe, Professor Emeritus of Political Sociology, an extraordinary scholar, teacher and colleague.

We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and all who had the privilege to know him.

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