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The service the Silicon Valley is paying for but not getting Often when I talk about how high American capital transit costs are compared to those in Europe and East Asia, transit backers get quite defensive, and take it as an attack on transit. This couldn’t be further from my intention. My point isn’t [...] December 11th, 2011 | Tags: energy, politics | Category: Business, byline=Stephen Smith, Fact & Comment, Green Tech, Human Ingenuity, Innovation & Science, Intelligent Tech, Logistics & Transportation, Places & Spaces, Policy, Travel, Vehicles | Comments are closed |  printable viewTwitter tells me that earlier tonight, “not-ruling-it-out” possible future mayoral contender (and local smart growth demigod) Tommy Wells held his inaugural book club meeting; the book discussed was Ed Glaeser’s Triumph of the City. DC’s chief planner Harriet Tregoning was also there, and while she’s been relatively good to the cause of density in DC, the kinds [...] December 6th, 2011 | Tags: energy, politics, real estate, regulation | Category: Business, byline=Stephen Smith, Culture & Books, Economics, Fact & Comment, Green Tech, Logistics & Transportation, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design, Travel | Comments are closed | printable viewI'On Village, South Carolina About three years ago Adam wrote about the the story of I’On Village, a New Urbanist development build about a decade ago five miles outside of Charleston, and the difficulties that Vince Graham faced trying to build it. For one, the project had to be scaled down in some [...] November 15th, 2011 | Tags: politics, real estate, regulation | Category: Autos, Business, byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Fact & Comment, Law, Logistics & Transportation, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design | Comments are closed | printable viewDo New Yorkers need to cram into cubbyholes to bring prices down? At a recent conference organized by the Citizens Housing and Planning Council (covered by the New York Times, Crain’s, and City Limits), we heard a familiar refrain about New York City’s building stock: regulations have not kept up with the times, and there [...] November 14th, 2011 | Tags: real estate, regulation | Category: Business, byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Fact & Comment, Human Ingenuity, Law, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design | Comments are closed | printable viewAn Eric Colbert special, everywhere and anywhere in DC I’m a little behind on posting this, but Lydia DePillis at Washington City Paper did a great profile a week or so ago of DC architect Eric Colbert, whose buildings’ unifying features seems to be blandness. There are a lot of people out there who [...] November 9th, 2011 | Tags: politics, real estate, regulation | Category: Arts & Entertainment, Business, byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Fact & Comment, Places & Spaces, Style & Design | Comments are closed | printable view |
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New York’s Funny Definition Of ‘Moderate- and Middle-Income’ Housing
Pretty interesting article in the NYT today about the Gotham West development that recently broke ground on Manhattan‘s far west side. But I think the part about affordable housing could use some context:
But the bulk of the project will be affordable units, 682 of them, or more than half the total homes….