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At Volokh, Ilya Somin discusses a recent piece in the American Prospect (also linked from here) that favors “New Urbanism” to prevent “unwalkable” sprawl. Somin favors “voting with your feet” as the preferred method of satisfying location preferences. Unfortunately, voting options have been whittled down through government interventions: To the extent that we [...] May 13th, 2009 | Tags: Ilya Somin, libertarian, New Urbanism, planning, sprawl, zoning | Category: housing, planning, sprawl, zoning | 18 comments |
 printable viewIlya Somin at Volokh – Causes of the Defeat of Proposition 98 There were two major causes of Prop 98′s defeat. One was the sponsors’ mistake in combining the popular cause of restricting eminent domain with a far less popular phaseout of rent control. The second and more unusual cause of 98′s defeat [...] June 5th, 2008 | Tags: California, Ilya Somin, property rights, proposition 98, proposition 99, rent control | Category: rent control | Leave a comment |
printable viewIlya Somin at Volokh: Why California’s Proposition 99 is a Lot Worse than Nothing Yesterday’s California returns show that Proposition 98 – the referendum initiative that would have imposed real restrictions on eminent domain and also phased out rent control – has been overwhelmingly defeated by a 61% to 39% margin. The rival [...] June 4th, 2008 | Tags: California, eminent domain, Ilya Somin, property rights, proposition 98, proposition 99, rent control | Category: rent control | 3 comments |
printable viewIlya Somin at Volokh: Polls on California Eminent Domain Ballot Initiatives Show Prop 98 Likely to Fail and Prop 99 Likely to Pass: In a recent Field Poll cited in the article, Proposition 98 was losing by 43 to 33 percent among “likely voters,” while Proposition 99 was ahead by 48 to 30 [...] June 3rd, 2008 | Tags: California, Ilya Somin, proposition 98, rent control | Category: rent control | One comment |
printable viewWith New York’s new Governor’s rent subsidized by his landlord and California debating the best ways to end rent control through Proposition 98, I thought it was a good opportunity to discuss the negative aspects of rent control. This post is the second in a four part series on the rent control read [...] May 23rd, 2008 | Tags: black market, bronx, bronx is burning, California, discrimination, Economics, Free-market, housing, Ilya Somin, microeconomics, nyc, proposition 98, rent, rent control, rent stabilization, rent-regulated, segregation | Category: rent control | 7 comments |
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