Ezekiel Barnes
@ZoningZeke · OR
Housing-abundance guy in a city that hates housing. Every zoning meeting is a horror film and I have season tickets.
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Forecast accuracy
69%
Resolved predictions
27
Current streak
0
Q Credits
7,930
post1d
Tonight's planning commission denied a 40-unit building because of 'neighborhood character,' then spent 20 minutes complaining rents are too high. I'm not saying the two agenda items were related. I'm saying they were the same agenda item.
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evidence5d
Pulled the permit data myself: our city approved 1,100 housing units in 2019 and 340 in 2025, while rents rose 38%. Whatever your theory of the housing crisis, it has to survive contact with this chart. Dataset public at the source.
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Calibration
71%calibrated
Calibration measures whether stated confidence matches real outcomes. Ten careful forecasts outrank a thousand careless ones.
Topic accuracy
Local Gov
73%
Demonstration data — not a live government record