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In an act of pure legislative idiocy in the face of overwhelming consensus among economists against rent control, the New York State Assembly started the ball rolling to strengthen rent regulation. NY Times: The Democratic-led Assembly passed a broad package of legislation designed to restrain increases on rent-regulated apartments statewide. The legislation would essentially return [...] February 4th, 2009 | Tags: apartments, Economics, landlord, mobility, nyc, rent control, rent regulation | Category: Economics, housing, rent control | Comments |
 printable viewRecently, I came accross an article by Charles Johnson, who blogs at Rad Geek. The article had linked to a Market Urbanism post about how user fees and gas taxes fall well short of funding road use in the US. Charles’ article further debunks the Urbanism Legend asserted by free-market imposters that a free-market highway [...] December 22nd, 2008 | Tags: Economics, eminent domain, gasoline, highways, infrastructure, Interstate Highway System, libertarian, privatization | Category: Transportation, privatization | Comments |
printable viewWow! This market is a mess. As a great follow up to his posts at CafeHayek on government’s intervention in the housing market, Russell Roberts discusses the situation and bailout with reason.tv: Also… Here’s the video from an Economics forum discussion at MIT (my Alma mater) on Wednesday: The US Financial Crisis What Happened? What’s Next? [...] October 10th, 2008 | Tags: Bailout, CafeHayek, Economics, government intervention, housing bubble, MIT, Russell Roberts, Urban Economics, USC | Category: Economics, housing, video | Comments |
printable viewRussell 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 And don’t forget Andrew Cuomo Shiller and fundamentals The role of [...] 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 | Comments |
printable viewEver hear of interesting economic indicators such as the correlation beween the economy and length of skirts? Here’s one urbanists should appreciate: the skyscraper index, which shows strong correlation between the completion of world’s tallest buildings and downturns in the business cycle. Mark Thornton discusses the skyscraper index in his article, Skyscrapers and Business Cycles [...] August 26th, 2008 | Tags: Building, business cycles, construction, development, Dubai, Economics, macroeconomics, skyscrapers | Category: Economics | Comments |
printable viewHarvard Economist Ed Glaeser wrote an opinion piece in the New York Sun about the differences in housing affordability and other costs of living between Houston and New York. New York is naturally more expensive than Houston because the geographical constraints force higher density development, which is more expensive to build. New York’s highly regulated [...] July 17th, 2008 | Tags: affordability, density, development, Economics, glaeser, Houston, nyc, zoning | Category: Economics, featured, housing, zoning | Comments |
printable viewThis post is part of an ongoing series featured on Market Urbanism called Urbanism Legends. The Urbanism Legends series is intended to expose many of the myths about development and Urban Economics. (it’s a play on the term: “Urban Legends” in case you didn’t catch that) We’ve all heard it said by some NIMBY [...] July 7th, 2008 | Tags: developer, development, Economics, Free-market, greed, Henry Hazlitt, neighorhood, NIMBY, Urban[ism] Legends | Category: Economics, Urban[ism] Legends, zoning | Comments |
printable viewEnvironmental and Urban Economics – Commuting Cost Arithmetic When people work in the suburbs, will they save many gallons of gasoline if they move to the center city? Yes, they will be closer to their center city friends and stores but they will still need to reverse commute by car to their jobs [...] |
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