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Friday Humor: White People in Portland


Loyal reader, Bill tipped me off to this blog and I’ve subscribed to the feed ever since. Today’s post was particularly relevant:

White People in the News – May 30, 2008

Isn’t this photo classic?

The comments on the blog are always fun to read too…

Rent Control Part 3: Mobility, Regional Growth, Development and Class Conflict


Part 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, tax revenue, [...]

Lower East Side Now “Endangered”?


photo by flickr user paytonc

The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced that New York City’s Lower East Side, famous for it’s history of tenements and slums, is one of 11 architectural, cultural, and natural heritage sites that are most at risk “for destruction or irreparable damage.” By “damage”, they mean new luxury towers [...]

Release Us From Rent Regulation


Curbed: Rent-Stabilzation War: Tenants Strike Back

New York Times: Questions of Rent Tactics by Private Equity

Rent-regulated apartments account for 57 percent of the total in the Bronx, 42 percent of the apartments in Brooklyn, 59 percent in Manhattan, 43 percent in Queens and 15 percent of those on Staten Island, the Guidelines Board says.

There’s a long [...]

LA’s New Housing Rules Band-aid the Symptoms, Exacerbate the Problem


LA Times: Los Angeles limits ‘mansionization,’ downtown hotel conversions

Reason: In Soviet Los Angeles, Housing Affordables You!

LA’s City Council voted unanimously to treat the symptoms of the City’s gentrification problem by restricting property owner’s right to improve their property.

Did anyone ask the council what would be the long-term effects of restricting the supply of [...]

“Change” Not Welcome in Harlem: Neighbors Cause Commotion as Harlem Rezoning Passes


Limousine Liberals aren’t the only ones who oppose change. In Harlem, neighbors fought to keep new people out of their neighborhood, and want to force gentrification upon other neighborhoods. In the process they created such a stir at Wednesday’s Council session, they had to be cleared out.

It’s such a strange phenomenon: progressives who act conservative; [...]