Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free.

Looking back over the stories this newsletter has covered over this past year, much of the focus has been on bigger-swing reforms aimed at meaningfully increasing aggregate housing supply as a means of reducing overall housing costs.

That's important work. As the name might suggest, the much-in-vogue "abundance" agenda is focused on boosting aggregate levels of supply of housing, along with infrastructure, medical innovations, and all other good things.

The big-picture improvements that can come from robust reform are, of course, important. An exclusively macro focus can, however, undersell the benefits of making it easy for everyday property owners to carry out a million micro projects on their own land.

A triplex reform here

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