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by Stephen Smith Discovering Urbanism has a nice post up about early 20th century urban planner Charles Mulford Robinson and his planning textbook, and it includes the following corrective to the notion that zoning originated as a way to separate polluting industry from places of residence and commerce: There’s a common narrative about [...] August 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Charles Mulford Robinson, class conflict, planning, Stephen Smith, zoning | Category: history, planning, zoning | One comment |
 printable viewAfter battling in court since 2003, this family is finally able to turn their 60 room apartment building into one gigantic home for themselves. Of course, the beneficiaries of the rent-controlled apartments don’t believe the owner’s family should have the right to live in their own building. New York Post – VILLAGE TENANTS [...] June 5th, 2008 | Tags: apartments, class conflict, class tensions, court, ekonomakis, eviction, landlord, mansion, nyc, property, rent control, TENANTS | Category: rent control | 8 comments |
printable viewPart One of this series was a refresher on the Microeconomics of Rent Control and touched on how it encourages hoarding Part Two discussed rent controls influence on the black market for apartments, rental property deterioration and housing discrimination. Here in Part Three, we will discuss how rent control hampers mobility, regional growth, [...] May 28th, 2008 | Tags: affordable housing, class conflict, development, discrimination, Economics, employment, Free-market, gentrification, housing, landlord, mobility, nyc, peter cooper village, regional growth, rent, rent control, rent stabilization, rent-regulated, segregation, stuyvesant town, taxes, tenant, Walter Block | Category: rent control | Leave a comment |
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