No, “New Urbanism” and “Smart Growth” are Not the Same
…that brought themselves to the suburbs in the first place, and not have the value of their investments diluted by ‘printing’ new housing, as the value of our money is…
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Agrarianism Without Agriculture?
…one. The New Deal first chartered the Federal Housing Administration to underwrite and guarantee loans for homes, and in Truman’s time the Veterans Administration and other reforms brought this regime…
“Addicted to Inflation,” Indeed
…is included in the price of housing], and housing. Technology and globalization have masked it in most consumer goods, most of the time. If one takes the rate of inflation…
What Kevin Starr Doesn’t Get About Small Towns
…propriety. In the mid-nineteenth century, housing historian Gwendolyn Wright tells us, New Yorkers were scandalized that newly constructed Paris-style apartment buildings allowed unrelated men and women to live along the…
Michael Lind’s New Paradigm, and the ‘End’ of Social Conservatism
Michael Lind has released a new essay titled “The Coming Realignment” in The Breakthrough Journal, one of the most innovative magazines around today. He predicts that social conservatism as we…
Why June 28, 2014, is a Really Big Anniversary
…was that starting in the 1970s, two income couple could outbid one income couples for a finite supply of housing; therefore most couples in many parts of the country had…
Some Bleats About the ‘Common Good’
…area. The neighborhood desires to exclude Locally Undesirable Land Uses and housing attainable to certain kinds of people [at one time by race, now generally by income and culture], whereas…
June Gloom All Year Round
…most of all, actually, the comparative cost of housing. There is a lot of talk about the flight of the rich, but it is not the rich so much that…
More Minimum Wage Games
…of health care, of tuition, and of housing, which, as we are fond of saying at Blue Kennel, are controlled by different factors than the cost of other businesses. And…
After a Century, Why is the San Francisco Bay Area Kicking our Butt Now?
I was young in the early Sixties, when the cultural rivalry between Los Angeles and San Francisco was strong and active. Jack Smith, for Los Angeles, and Herb Caen, for…