Why The Dream Declined
The best single post on the decline of affordable housing that I have seen on one of my favorite sites, newgeography.com, is this by Roger Selbert. He most succinctly explains…
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Changing my mind about single family homes
…to Joel Kotkin’s influence, I believe that social justice requires that a region be overbuilt, or at least over-entitled, in ‘both’ high-density housing and single family housing. The more housing…
No Place Like Home Conference – June 3, 2013
…War II but since the 1970s has been less successful in building new homes affordable to working people, who have since had to rely mainly on ‘trickle down’ housing [the…
A New Federal Department of Cities?
Oh good grief. Don’t we already have a Department of Housing and Urban Development, Mr. Florida? As C. Northcote Parkinson pointed out more than 50 years ago in Parkinson’s Law,…
Minimum Wages: A Modest Proposal
…the costs of health care, tuition, and housing, not much of which can be outsourced to Bangalore. Wal-Mart gives back with one hand what it takes away with the other,…
Andres Duany: Living Small
…down. A just society, from my point of view, is ‘over-entitled’, if not outright over-built, in both housing of low density and of high density, and particularly of housing open…
Tea Party Advocates Big Government?
…of view of housing would be over-entitled in both fairly dense housing units and single family lots; that is to say, if all that is legally entitled were to be…
Urbanist Observations On A Bachelor Spring Break
…on the working class comes from the cost of housing, health care, and tuition, and not so much the cost of consumer goods. Though I didn’t check out in detail…
Agriculture in the ‘burbs and exurbs’
Looks like the plummeting housing market has given a new lease of life to agriculture in the ‘burbs and exurbs.’ Related: “U.S. Farmers Reclaim Land From Developers,” by Robbie Whelan…
The Salinas Gang Problem and Restricted Housing
Is there any connection between the fact that Salinas has the gang problem that it does, and the fact that Monterey County’s restrictions on the building of housing are very…