Nick Pell
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6,131 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 3d ago
Nick Pell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Okay, so is there evidence for that?
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Yes, quite a bit, actually.
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Homeowners are consistently 15% to 20% more likely to vote in local elections than renters.
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Homeowners are significantly more likely to attend city council meetings or join neighborhood associations.
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They also stay put longer.
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The median tenure for a homeowner is roughly 13 years.
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That's compared to two years for a renter.
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It's a big difference.
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Longer tenure...
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correlates to higher social capital metrics like knowing your neighbors, volunteering for local nonprofits, joining local religious groups, involvement in your community.
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Yeah, and it's not bougie HOA busybody types either.
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Low-income homeowners in developing neighborhoods are actually the most invested of all.
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They often work harder to solve local problems because it is so much harder for them to just pick up and start over somewhere else if things
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Yeah, a lot of this is not anything to do with safety.
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A lot of these local building codes and zoning laws just take HOA-style rules and then enshrine them into law.
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Okay, like saying all your windows have to be painted white
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Yes, there's a bunch that are just purely aesthetic and go way beyond corrugated steel is not a fence, which is an aesthetic judgment, but I think is a good one.
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Because it's going to degrade the entire area and controversial thing that not everybody would agree with, but broken window policing did a lot for New York City.
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When you tolerate things like corrugated steel fences, broken windows, whatever the case may be, you're signaling to people that you will tolerate things and they will tolerate.
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take license with that and it begins to degrade your community over time in my opinion but i think there's evidence for that but it's not the subject we're talking about today examples of aesthetic judgments being enshrined into law are things like there's municipalities that ban houses with flat roofs because they're boring looking now if you live somewhere where i grew up in the northeast
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