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Russell Roberts of George Mason University, CafeHayek, and Econtalk wrote of series of Cafe Hayek posts on the various federal interventions in the housing market: Housing markets without the benefit of hindsight Fannie reaches its goals–sort of Zero Down! Fannie and Freddie’s other mission Section 8 Bill cared too Affordable equals “subprime” Calm down [...] September 23rd, 2008 | Tags: CafeHayek, Economics, Fannie Mae, Fed, Freddie Mac, Free-market, government, government intervention, housing bubble, Intervention, Russell Roberts, subprime | Category: Economics, housing | Leave a comment |  printable viewI’m visiting Portland, Oregon for 5 days through next weekend for a wedding. It’s my first time there and I hear it’s a great city. What are the must-does to get the genuine urban experience? What are Portland’s specialty foods? What neighborhoods should I make sure I visit? Any new developments I need to [...] Thanks to Dan and Benjamin for separately tipping me off to this link: AP: Cities rethink wisdom of 50s-era parking standards Like nearly all U.S. cities, D.C. has requirements for off-street parking. Whenever anything new is built — be it a single-family home, an apartment building, a store or a doctor’s office — [...] September 22nd, 2008 | Tags: congestion, dc, housing, parking, planning | Category: parking | 22 comments | printable viewI guess I must not be hip enough to have known about this beforehand, but there’s a very interesting citywide event happening here in New York today called Park(ing) Day. All throughout New York City, people are reclaiming parking spaces for their street-side enjoyment. It’s a very novel idea that helps convey a very [...] September 19th, 2008 | Tags: Market, nyc, parking, parking spaces, video | Category: parking, planning, Transportation | 13 comments | printable viewIn case you didn’t catch it last weekend, Eileen Norcross wrote an excellent piece on rent control in New York. She touches on Charlie Rangel’s four rent control apartments scandal, some history of rent control in New York, the destructive results of rent control, vast inefficiencies caused by rent control, and moves to further [...] September 19th, 2008 | Tags: Charlie Rangel, Ed Glaeser, Eileen Norcross, housing, nyc, rent control, WSJ | Category: rent control | 6 comments | printable viewJ. Brian Phillips wrote a great post at Houston Property Rights about liberal property rights in Houston, but what Brian had to say applies to every place. Here’s a snippet, but the entire post deserves a reading: when developers and builders see a need for greater density, they respond accordingly. And they can respond [...] September 18th, 2008 | Tags: density, freedom, Houston, J. Brian Phillips, Market, property, property rights, zoning | Category: Economics, planning, zoning | Leave a comment | printable viewShiller on Housing and Bubbles Robert Shiller of Yale University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the current housing mess and related financial market problems. Shiller argues that the decade-long run up in housing prices was a bubble where speculative fervor outweighed any economic fundamentals. He also discusses the genesis of the Case-Shiller [...] September 17th, 2008 | Tags: Bubbles, econtalk, housing, mortgage, podcast, Robert Shiller | Category: Economics, housing | Leave a comment | printable viewWhile I sympathize with the theme and agree with regards to roadway spending and “conservative” hypocrisy, a recent article in the progressive The American Prospect takes a narrow-minded view of politics and urbanism, while throwing around broad generalizations about evolution and global warming to support their assertions: The Conservative Case for Urbanism In fact, [...] September 12th, 2008 | Tags: conservatism, density, development, infrastructure, Republican, sprawl, transit, Transportation, Urbanism | Category: Economics, Environment, planning, privatization, Transportation | 8 comments | printable view |
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