California Assembly Bill 710 was introduced to earlier this year to tackle the problem of municipalities requiring onerous amounts of parking for new development, widely recognized as one of the main impediments to transit-oriented development and infill growth. The bill would have capped city and county parking requirements in neighborhoods with good transit to one space [...]
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October 7th, 2011 | Tags: affordable housing, California, New York City, regulation | Category: byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Lifestyle, Op/Ed, parking, Places & Spaces, Policy, zoning | Comments are closed |  printable viewIn the past I have not been kind to affordable housing programs. I have a lot of deeper problems with them that I’ll get to in a minute, but I think the extraordinarily high upper income limits on some of the projects are indicative of the broader problem of the essentially arbitrary and random (literally – [...] April 26th, 2011 | Tags: affordable housing, nyc | Category: Uncategorized | 6 comments | printable viewAffordable housing and inclusionary zoning are complicated subjects and it’s hard to sum up all my thoughts and objections to the schemes in one post, so I’m going to take the death-by-a-thousand-cuts approach. Today’s installment: income eligibility levels. Now, the stated intent of affordable housing set-asides has always been a bit unclear to me. The cynic [...] April 14th, 2011 | Tags: affordable housing, dc | Category: Uncategorized | 26 comments | printable view
The developer will be losing money on 540 out of 1,240 units in "Gotham West" Reading about a new ultra-luxury Far West Side rental project going up where over 40% of the apartments are going to have controlled rents (“affordable housing”), I’d like to pose a question to supporters of affordable housing mandates [...] April 12th, 2011 | Tags: affordable housing, nyc | Category: Uncategorized | 17 comments | printable viewAnthony Ling, an excellent Brazilian blogger who also happens to be an avowed market urbanism, gives us an interesting look at the politics and economics of low-income housing in Brazil: In Brazil there is a vast regulation defining what are the minimum requirements to have a building approved by local authorities. The most common [...] April 11th, 2011 | Tags: affordable housing, Brazil, inclusionary zoning | Category: Uncategorized | 14 comments | printable viewI apologize for the lack of posts for the last few days – I just moved to DC (a few blocks north of H Street, right by Gallaudet, if anyone’s curious), and I have yet to begin another rewarding relationship with Comcast. But, I’m here at work (I started interning at Reason magazine today), [...] January 6th, 2011 | Tags: affordable housing, history | Category: Uncategorized | 6 comments | printable viewBehold, your first link list of 2011! 1. The automobile may officially in decline (very good article!). 2. Interesting parallels between China and its HSR intellectual property disputes and post-WWII Japan and Korea. More here. 3. Fred Barnes writes a stupid article for the Weekly Standard (“The road to hell is paved with bike [...] January 1st, 2011 | Tags: affordable housing, China, conservatism, eminent domain, food, HSR, nyc, rent control, Vancouver | Category: Uncategorized | 16 comments | printable viewInclusionary zoning is a hot item among urban planners today, and is often seen as a solution to residential segregation and high housing costs. Exact implementations vary, but the general idea is that developers of multiunit housing projects are encouraged to set aside a certain percentage of their units, generally raging from 10-30%, but [...] December 28th, 2010 | Tags: affordable housing, inclusionary zoning, New Jersey, Philadelphia | Category: Uncategorized | 22 comments | printable view |
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