…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…
…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…
…policy to keep home prices down”; the second says, “Use housing policy to keep home prices up.” It’s no wonder, then, that housing policy is a bit confused. The same…
As one who lives by the beach in California, I’m prone to think of housing values as being almost exclusively the land underneath the house, and the improvements as almost…
Interview from July / August 2002 issue of Philanthropy magazine Howard Ahmanson Sr. was a pioneer in California’s postwar savings and loan industry, financing much of the state’s housing boom…
…particularly in residential housing and in hotel accommodations. [Northerners had not fought the Civil War so they could have black people living next door to them. The Freesoilers wanted to…
…freedom of land use. Here’s the latest example; in Marin County, George Lucas wishes to put middle class housing on the Skywalker Ranch and I think you can guess what…
People like Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox have argued, to some extent rightly, that the majority of Americans prefer a suburban environment; and even the younger Millennial generation, willing to…
…– well, take a guess. They can’t afford the housing in the community. Think not of ‘those people’ when you are considering the housing policy of the community; think of…
…book, it is before the Great Inflation really kicked in; the present day reader will have to multiply all the housing prices mentioned by at least 10, and the other…