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@donaldball
On 2 and 3, I do think cities have some levers to pull:
2 is all about housing supply. Cities can build more housing. That’s long and slow, but ultimately it’s zoning and city planning and development that make the difference — and those are all in cities’ court.
More proactive measures like a housing-first response to homelessness are probably hard for even mid-sized cities to undertake, maybe a state thing? But I’ll bet larger cities could pull it off.
@donaldball
On traffic safety: it’s unglamorous, but urban design (traffic calming measures etc) has a huge impact — and cities have lots of latitude to make good choices there. And cities can choose to use camera enforcement instead of traffic stops by armed officers, if state law allows it.
In many cases, I expect the fight to be stopping states from stopping cities from doing good things.