Building on Greenfields
…not-so-clean industry, [these are called LULUs – Locally Undesirable Land Uses – in the trade] were exported to existing communities. Irvine, of course, is in Los Angeles-Orange County, The Woodlands…
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The Official Blog of Howard Ahmanson Jr.
Howard Ahmanson, Jr. is a philanthropist and writer whose public activities focus on deepening awareness and fostering better policy regarding issues of affordable housing, land use, and eminent domain as…
More on Christian Faith and Land Use: The Issue of Profiling
…Christian faith informs my views of land use. Another moral issue that weighs heavily on me as a Christian is the sin of prejudice and the whole issue of ‘profiling’….
Vigen Guroian on Politics vs. Witness
…with land use law, property rights, and the affordability of housing. But the church’s first call is to orthodoxy of community. We, and no nation, are the ‘city on the…
What My Christian Faith Brings to My Views on Land Use
I have attempted to think through the implications of the teaching of the Scripture, and of the Christian faith, for land use and land use law. One issue for me…
Which the Ideology, and Which the Coalition?
The definitions of ‘Republican’ and ‘Democrat’, and even ‘conservative’ and ‘liberal’, seem to dance in circles. Even the nature of the parties shifts over time. One is an ideology, the…
On the Urbanist Classic, “Crabgrass Frontier,” by Kenneth T. Jackson
…has reached its conclusion, and unless polygamous three- and four-income couples become common and start outbidding two-income couples for housing, I’d rather look elsewhere, to land use regulation and other…
Insights from Francis Fukuyama on the Problem of Crony Capitalism
…capitalist at all. Land use, in particular, is highly controlled. ‘Ownership’ now means not the right to use property according to one’s own desires, but to buy and sell and…
Things You Don’t Have to be a Libertarian to Believe
Libertarians have much to contribute to the discussions of social justice. But their main contributions – rule of law, opposition to cronyism, ‘by right’ land use, the problem of planning…
Don’t Blame the Boomers for Everything
…generation, the Baby Boomers. More than one source has condemned us as the worst generation ever, the ones that ruined America, even including land use rules! I’m not so sure….