After receiving years of praise for its work in post-Katrina recovery, Brad Pitt’s home building organization, Make It Right, is receiving some media criticism. At the New Republic, Lydia Depillis points out that the Make It Right homes built in the Lower Ninth Ward have resulted in scarce city dollars going to this neighborhood with questionable [...]
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Last week at The Atlantic Cities, Allison Arieff posted a Q&A with Alex Marshall about what Marshall asserts are Jane Jacobs misunderstanding of how cities work. Marshall says: Human interaction takes place, but it shouldn’t obscure what makes it possible, which is government. As much as I admire Jacobs, I suspect her experiences fighting Robert Moses, [...] If this season’s political campaign rhetoric has demonstrated anything, it’s that governors love to take credit for job creation. What I haven’t seen any governor mention, though, is that there is huge opportunity for economic growth in relaxing zoning codes. Most obviously, allowing new opportunities for infill development will create construction jobs. More significantly [...] September 24th, 2012 | Category: Best Places for Business and Careers, planning, Policy | Leave a comment |  printable view1) Yesterday, two pieces on Congressman Darrell Issa’s proposal to relax the federal limits on DC’s buildings heights got a lot of coverage. At City Block, Alex Block makes the key point that outside of downtown, DC’s density is limited by zoning, rather than the height limit. He supports allowing more multifamily housing by, for example, [...] Apparently I’m not the only one who thinks London’s Shard skyscraper (shameless article-I-wrote-about-London-skyscrapers plug) looks like Pyongyang’s Ryugyong Hotel. Koryo Tours, the only tour group that offers westerners package to North Korea, plays up the similarities on its blog: To the eyes of us all at Koryo Tours it looks like Renzo Piano has been [...] January 8th, 2012 | Tags: politics, real estate, regulation | Category: byline=Stephen Smith, International, Logistics & Transportation, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design, World Affairs | Comments are closed | printable viewThere’s been a lot of handwringing by American lefties over the austerity plans that Germany is asking indebted eurozone governments like Italy and Greece to implement in exchange for bailouts, but many aspects of the plans – especially labor market deregulation – are long overdue no matter which side if the aisle you sit on [...] January 7th, 2012 | Tags: energy, politics, regulation, retail | Category: Autos, byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Fact & Comment, Innovation & Science, International, Law, Logistics & Transportation, Management, Places & Spaces, Players, Policy, Style & Design, Taxes & Law, Travel, Vehicles, World Affairs | Comments are closed | printable viewScrapping viaducts like this would make California HSR cheaper, faster to build, and easier to maintain, without a loss in quality The recent peer review report recommending that California delay construction on the first segment of its high-speed rail project has caused a bit of consternation in the transit twittosphere. Blogger The Overhead Wire [...] January 6th, 2012 | Tags: energy, politics, regulation | Category: byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Fact & Comment, Innovation & Science, Logistics & Transportation, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design, Tech, Travel, Vehicles | 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….