Some Points on Housing
…and recommending instead a program in Wisconsin called WHEDA, which stands for Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority, which helps marginal homebuyers [those with incomes under $80,000 per year] buy…
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‘Smart Growth’ or Housing Opportunity
…high density housing. Yes, it is mistaken if it is trying to get suburbanites out of their single family houses and into apartments. It is not so much a question…
Why Non-Suburbanites Distrust Suburbanites
…housing or industry or workplaces. And housing, like currency, loses its value if you print too much of it. Is this why the American Housing Dream ended? In the 1950-60s…
A $300 Idea That is Priceless
$300 for the house, and, here in California, $1,999,700 for the land it occupies. There’s the real problem. Related: “A $300 idea that is priceless” by The Economist …
Redevelopment and Housing
…“Brown’s plan to eliminate redevelopment agencies could kill affordable housing program” by Tracy Seipel at MercuryNews.com Also Related: “REGION: Axing redevelopment would stifle low-income housing” by David Garrick at NCTimes.com…
Tort Reform and Avoiding Lawyers: Good and Bad Ways To Do It
…the limitations we place on a civil government.] But it can be more complicated than that. Federal housing authorities after World War II, who guaranteed conventional mortgages, even as the…
Somebody Must Like Irvine
…in most villages, and a diversity of different housing types, single family, condo, apartment, and single-story triplex, huddle closely together. All of this dates before 1983. The biggest and best…
Inflation
…cultural commentary) going from 25 cents to $2 in the space of a year. And in “76-77 came the first housing bubble. This was inspired by the fact that housing…
New Urbanism: Not Suitable for Large Families
…have housing tracts, but Phelan and Pinyon Hills do not; they have individually built houses, and not by extremely wealthy people – but the area gets more thickly populated every…
California Tea, Like California Housing, Evidently Pricey
According to Steven Greenhut, who I admire greatly, even though he is a philosophical Libertarian, one reason the Tea Party has not been so effective in California is that the…