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Originally published at Freedom Politics: In these days of economists constantly debating the right way to revive the economy, it seems like there is no way to find consensus among economists. Economists don’t spend much time debating the issues they agree on, and to them, rent control is about as dead an issue as the earth [...] March 19th, 2009 | Tags: Assar Lindbeck, housing, rent control | Category: housing, rent control | Comments |
 printable viewThe Orange County Register’s new site, Freedom Politics just posted an article I wrote for them on rent control. Here’s a snippet: In these days of economists constantly debating the right way to revive the economy, it seems like there is no way to find consensus among economists. Economists don’t spend much time debating the issues [...] March 3rd, 2009 | Tags: housing, housing bubble, rent control, Wendell Cox | Category: Economics, housing, rent control | Comments |
printable viewDiscussing Ithaca, New York’s plan to increase permitted density and reduce parking minimums, I can dig what Matthew Yglesias says : The distributive impact of parking minimums is to redistribute income from people who don’t own cars to people who do own cars—not to shift income from poor to rich. A rich family will probably have [...] January 23rd, 2009 | Tags: density, Environment, housing, Matthew Yglesias, parking | Category: Economics, housing, parking | Comments |
printable viewEd Glaeser gives three compelling reasons why the government should end their infatuation with high housing prices. (Nonetheless, some of the same politicians speak through the other side of their mouths about promoting housing affordability): There is a superficial attractiveness to policies that seem to promise an end [...] October 8th, 2008 | Tags: affordability, affordable housing, Ed Glaeser, government, housing, property, regulation | Category: Economics, housing | Comments |
printable viewThanks to Dan and Benjamin for separately tipping me off to this link: Like nearly all U.S. cities, D.C. has requirements for off-street parking. Whenever anything new is built — be it a single-family home, an apartment building, a store or a doctor’s office — a minimum [...] September 22nd, 2008 | Tags: congestion, dc, housing, parking, planning | Category: parking | Comments |
printable viewIn case you didn’t catch it last weekend, Eileen Norcross wrote an excellent piece on rent control in New York. She touches on Charlie Rangel’s four rent control apartments scandal, some history of rent control in New York, the destructive results of rent control, vast inefficiencies caused by rent control, and moves to further [...] September 19th, 2008 | Tags: Charlie Rangel, Ed Glaeser, Eileen Norcross, housing, nyc, rent control, WSJ | Category: rent control | Comments |
printable viewShiller on Housing and Bubbles Robert Shiller of Yale University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the current housing mess and related financial market problems. Shiller argues that the decade-long run up in housing prices was a bubble where speculative fervor outweighed any economic fundamentals. He also discusses the genesis of the Case-Shiller housing price [...] September 17th, 2008 | Tags: Bubbles, econtalk, housing, mortgage, podcast, Robert Shiller | Category: Economics, housing | Comments |
printable viewaffordability in the LA area affordability in New York City Play with the HUD-Brookings Institution’s new index maps here: The Housing + Transportation Affordability Index, developed by CNT and its collaborative partners, the Center for Transit Oriented Development (CTOD), is an innovative tool that measures the true affordability of housing. Planners, lenders, and most consumers traditionally [...] August 14th, 2008 | Tags: affordability, Chicago, CNT, development, housing, HUD-Brookings, nyc, Peter Gordon, transit | Category: Economics, housing | Comments |
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