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Jake Auchincloss: “What there is a shortage of is political viability.”

Featuring: Jake Auchincloss, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, District 4

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Published October 24, 2025 | Video Starts at 08:40

I mean it's by far the most efficient from an energy and land perspective way for, for humans to, to live. And there's not a shortage of land anywhere in any country I would posit for municipal development. What there is a shortage of is political viability. What actually strangles this concept is not capital, it's not developable land. It is vetocracy. It is the number of veto points webbed throughout the, the network of, of operations. (08:40–08:45)

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Asserts that political viability is the main shortage affecting municipal development.

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