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Building on Greenfields

  • Culture
December 9, 2021December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Some say that one of the solutions to our housing problem [indeed, their favorite solution] is building on land that has not been built on before.  There are a lot of issues surrounding this, however.  There are two ways of […]

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Individual Responsibility in Ezekiel

  • Culture,
  • Religion
September 11, 2020September 1, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The heresy of ‘critical theory’ has revived ideas of guilt inherited by, or inherent in, groups, such as genders, races, or economic classes.  The Prophet Ezekiel has some choice things to say about all this.  In our time there is […]

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What My Christian Faith Brings to My Views on Land Use

  • Culture,
  • Politics
August 8, 2020August 30, 2022
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I have attempted to think through the implications of the teaching of the Scripture, and of the Christian faith, for land use and land use law.  One issue for me is that a lot of land use law in our […]

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The Gerontocratic Democracy of Old Africa, and Gerontocracy in Our Own Time 

  • Culture
May 22, 2020May 27, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Young people have always probably chafed against their elders.  But in Africa, a gerontocratic system was instituted, which at least frustrated the development of a hereditary elite.  And we are not without elements of gerontocracy in our own society.  I […]

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On the Urbanist Classic, “Crabgrass Frontier,” by Kenneth T. Jackson

  • Culture,
  • Economics
May 12, 2020July 7, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

One of the classic books on the history of suburbia is Kenneth Jackson’s Crabgrass Frontier. It came out in 1985, two years before my personal favorite, Bourgeois Utopias, by Robert Fishman.  This book notice discusses Crabgrass Frontier in view of […]

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Does the Working Class Think It Can’t ‘Afford’ to Raise Their Children in a Christian Environment Any More?

  • Culture,
  • Religion
April 9, 2020May 27, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In recent years we have heard how Christianity, and even Pentecostalism, seem to be losing their grip on the working classes, at least in white American communities.  Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone, Charles Murray, who wrote Coming Apart, and […]

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Should Transit-Oriented Housing be Limited to the Carless?

  • Politics
June 11, 2019May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In addition to the NIMBYs and the YIMBYs, we now have the PHIMBYs:  Public Housing in My Back Yard. This new acronym represents those who believe that public-subsidized housing should be added to our cities, but no private enterprise market-rate […]

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Conferences on Urbanism

  • Miscellaneous
March 15, 2019May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

A Home in California: Are Our Communities Sustainable? Event Details:Tuesday, March 26, 20199 AM – 5 PMPepperdine School of Public PolicyWilburn AuditoriumMalibu, CAFor details and registration, click here In this conference Pepperdine’s School of Public Policy bring together a unique mix […]

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A Conference Held to Honor my Father, Howard F. Ahmanson Sr.: “WWHD — What Would Howard Do?”

  • California
August 24, 2018October 1, 2019
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The “WWHD Conference — What Would Howard Ahmanson, Sr., Do?” — was held August 1, 2018, the year marking the 50th anniversary of my father’s death.  I decided I wanted to sponsor it, mostly to honor him. In the tumultuous year […]

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The Tastes of our Southern Neighbors, and our Housing Issues

  • Culture
February 3, 2018August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Instead of Berbers, ‘Arabs’, Turks, and other Muslim groups, we have to our south Mexico.  Maybe we could consider ourselves relatively fortunate because of this.  The best book in English on Mexican culture in recent times that I know of […]

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