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….
…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….
…land use and limit the free market in land, and that no higher level of authority should interfere or contain the authority of City Hall. In the meantime, as media…
We do not often think that Jesus Christ and the New Testament justifies capitalism. To the extent that capitalism means greed and self-indulgence, I should think not! Greed and self-indulgence…
In our time, politics and culture are increasingly oriented to the national scale on the one hand, and the immediate neighborhood on the other. A book, The Increasingly United States,…
…was from William Fischel of Dartmouth. He has written Zoning Rules!, The Homevoter Hypothesis, and Regulatory Takings. These writings trace the history of the revolution in attitudes toward land use…
…land use policy at the local level. In this mentality, the high cost of housing in many parts of the country is not deemed to be a problem, because the…
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…
…the day, for some] to humungous garages where they can recharge. And does anybody want one of these garages near their house? Clearly a Locally Undesirable Land Use. Not only…
Here is an article about the misbehavior of employees at a residential-care facility. The elderly residents are not the problem. The sort of people who work there, however, seem to…
First, we often have two inconsistent objectives. The first is good housing for all and ownership for many. The second is that home ownership should be a ‘wealth builder’ for…