Was It Early Medieval Catholic Family Law That Made the Western World Unique?
…housing these days, of course, has increased pressure for a return to extended families living in one house. And did your parents give you a little help with your down…
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What Being against ‘CRT’ and ‘Wokeness’ Should Not Mean
…same reason as whites do – housing costs are less there. It bears repeating that some of the laws that contribute to high housing costs may have been adopted for…
Building on Greenfields
Some say that one of the solutions to our housing problem [indeed, their favorite solution] is building on land that has not been built on before. There are a lot…
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…
Individual Responsibility in Ezekiel
The heresy of ‘critical theory’ has revived ideas of guilt inherited by, or inherent in, groups, such as genders, races, or economic classes. The Prophet Ezekiel has some choice things…
More on Christian Faith and Land Use: The Issue of Profiling
…pricing them out; the ‘wrong elements’ are deemed more likely to live in apartments, or in subsidized housing. Again, this is often about race, but not exclusively so. One of…
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
…of housing high gives me more desirable neighbors. The warnings of Deuteronomy 8 and 9 are to the point: Do not forget that [God] led you through the great and…
The Gerontocratic Democracy of Old Africa, and Gerontocracy in Our Own Time
Young people have always probably chafed against their elders. But in Africa, a gerontocratic system was instituted, which at least frustrated the development of a hereditary elite. And we are…
On the Urbanist Classic, “Crabgrass Frontier,” by Kenneth T. Jackson
…up his perspective, The positive result of this process is called `filtering’. The construction of new housing in the suburbs puts competitive pressure on the older housing stock, depressing its…