Two Dilemmas Urbanists and Housing Advocates have to Face
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…
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A Letter about ‘Freedom’ and Christianity
…as Greg Lukianoff has called it. Older homeowners want City Hall [which, as I have said, is the state] to control land use around them so they can have ‘freedom…
Did Jesus Give Us Our Individualism?
…liberalization of land use law: City Hall, and even the Homeowners’ Association, are the State, not part of civil society. Many of these ‘conservatives’ would argue with me about this….
If It’s Within the Law, Why Should There Be Hearings?
David Zahnizer, at the Los Angeles Times, has given us an article on the problems with the City of Los Angeles’ community plans, one of the major ones being that…
Manhattan Beach Tries to Find Itself
In California Development Report I recently saw a story [unfortunately inaccessible to those without an account], about Manhattan Beach and the regulations it was putting in place to define itself….
The ‘Single Family or Bust’ People Will Probably Leave Southern California, No Matter What Land Use Policy We Now Follow
A lot of people, especially families with children, would prefer a single-family home. Of course they would, and I’m not going to find fault with that lifestyle as long as…
Andrew Sullivan on Trump and Tyranny: A Response
…at the local level, a lot of the issues fought over are about land use, a favorite topic at Blue Kennel, and land use regulation is about ‘freedom from’ over…
And a Third Legal System: the Laws of War
…discrimination against their religion in land use law or anything else! If a lot of terrorists and criminals emerged out of the networks of my own denomination, the Presbyterian Church…
The Unbreakable Contradiction in Our View of Housing
…tool’? I wonder. [The best books on the history of zoning and land use regulation are the works of William Fischel, which I will not take the time to discuss…
Rest In Peace, Nino Scalia – But!
…to land use law, which was piling burdensome costs on religious agencies trying to fulfill their religious and charitable duties that they believed their Gods were commanding them to do….