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Michael Rodriguez

Infrastructure: A Definition

As President Biden continues to promote the administration’s historic proposed $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan (aka “the infrastructure…

7 min readApr 16, 2021

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Infrastructure: A Definition

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The White House Could Be Forcing You To Take a Loan

Thanks to Trump, millions of Americans might unwittingly take a loan they didn’t ask for in the first place

4 min readAug 31, 2020

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The White House Could Be Forcing You To Take a Loan

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Michael Rodriguez

No one is banning your suburb, calm down

In response to Mr. Stanley Kurtz and National Review.

5 min readJul 1, 2020

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No one is banning your suburb, calm down

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Michael Rodriguez

Commercial real estate has a whiteness problem

[This article was originally published on Greater Greater Washington]

11 min readJul 1, 2020

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Commercial real estate has a whiteness problem

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Michael Rodriguez

An anti-racist reading list for urbanists and real estate professionals

I am without words after seeing communities of color speak out — act out — against decades of inequality. The brutal, senseless killing of…

3 min readJun 1, 2020

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An anti-racist reading list for urbanists and real estate professionals

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Michael Rodriguez

DC development will continue when we recover, and it marches east

A lot of talk about economic recovery in cities has been something like this: there was a NY Times shot across the bow blaming density for…

6 min readMay 26, 2020

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DC development will continue when we recover, and it marches east

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Michael Rodriguez

Real wages post non-historic growth in 2019, bolstered by state minimum wage increases

One common measure of “the economy” is the wages of American workers who are not managers or supervisors, and their inflation-adjusted…

2 min readFeb 3, 2020

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Real wages post non-historic growth in 2019, bolstered by state minimum wage increases

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Michael Rodriguez

For Housing Affordability, Warehouse the Rich

Local residents might complain about cranes and “luxury” developments, but the truth is that cities with the strongest economies have not…

3 min readApr 10, 2019

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For Housing Affordability, Warehouse the Rich

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Michael Rodriguez

The Growth as an Opportunity Machine

This review covers four urban scholarly works that explore questions of growth and its consequences. First, there is the seminal work of…

8 min readMar 1, 2019

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The Growth as an Opportunity Machine

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Michael Rodriguez

Let’s Teach Children Planning

Originally published on Planetizen.com, WASHINGTON, D.C. Sept. 24, 2009

4 min readMar 1, 2019

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Let’s Teach Children Planning

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Michael Rodriguez

Michael Rodriguez

An urbanist working in D.C. who writes about the policy and economics of real estate, housing and transportation. I also write about other musings.

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