About Howard Ahmanson
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…
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Two Dilemmas Urbanists and Housing Advocates have to Face
…those who achieve it. You can’t have it both ways. What makes home ownership a ‘wealth builder’ is a relative scarcity of land for housing. Housing is expensive now because…
The Tastes of our Southern Neighbors, and our Housing Issues
…on Mexican culture in recent times that I know of is Mañana Forever? by Jorge Castañeda. In the last part of his first chapter, he has a subsection called “Housing…
Reno vs. Sirico: A Debate on Economic Justice
…in the housing business, or worse; for which see Orange County Housing Authority, Abundant Housing LA, Marketurbanism.com, Market Urbanism Report, and many others. In the end I go back to…
Suggestions for the Democratic Party, Part 2: The Housing Issue
…here at Blue Kennel. I refer to, of course, the issue of housing. Jed Kolko and Derek Thompson discovered that the housing crunch was most severe in metropolitan divisions that…
How Employers Impose Their Own ‘Growth Boundaries’
…need to have affordable housing absolutely everywhere, but I think we need to have it within six miles of everywhere. There are a few location, like coastlines and view lots,…
An Addendum to the Manifesto: My Youth as a Deficit Hawk – Howard Ahmanson
…California counterparts. Inflation seemed to be tamed in the Reagan era; it was, except for three critical areas. They are tuition, housing, and health care. As Elizabeth Warren [yes, her!]…
A Manifesto: Important Events That Shaped My Political Views – Howard Ahmanson
…that conservation of their existing housing is better than building new housing. D. As a Christian, I do not practice philanthropy to give back to ‘society’. I practice philanthropy to…
The ‘Single Family or Bust’ People Will Probably Leave Southern California, No Matter What Land Use Policy We Now Follow
…incomes are rather low nowadays, especially in relation to the cost of housing. They may desire to live in a less expensive place now, in order to be able to…
The Working Class Might be Shooting Itself in the Foot by Being Anti-Free Trade
…where housing has gotten more expensive because foreign people are buying pied-à-terre. But that’s only a few pockets of the country. And I’m not sure that housing is that much…