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Unexpected correlation in Census housing data

November 22, 2023 By Eli Kahn Leave a Comment

Since 1973, the US Census Bureau has administered the American Housing Survey (AHS) in odd-numbered years. Surveyors ask questions about the quality and value of respondents’ housing, and have a battery of questions for the subset of respondents who moved recently, asking about their search process. The AHS regularly adds new questions and rephrases old […]

An Autopsy of Hsieh & Moretti (2019)?

November 13, 2023 By Salim Furth Leave a Comment

Update 11/20: Chang-Tai Hsieh counters that Greaney's critique ignores general equilibrium effects which make labor scale invariant. That doesn't address the alleged … [Read More...]

Court: Arlington “Missing Middle” Lawsuit May Proceed to Trial

October 20, 2023 By Charles Gardner

By Andrew Crouch and Charles GardnerIn March 2023, Arlington County, Virginia passed an amendment to its zoning ordinance which legalized so-called “missing … [Read More...]

Tyler Cowen: “Is Tokyo really a YIMBY success story?”

October 20, 2023 By Salim Furth

Tyler is stirring the pot over at Marginal Revolution, asking whether Tokyo's low rents are a YIMBY success or just a productivity failure: low productivity and low immigration keep demand down. He calls the latter "NIMBYism". That framing doesn't hold up very … [Read More...]

New Report: Georgia Not Quite an Unregulated Paradise

October 11, 2023 By Eli Kahn

In a recent report from the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, Chris Denson and J. Thomas Perdue compile the strictest minimum lot size regulations and minimum home size regulations from a range of cities and counties in Georgia. 31 of Georgia’s 159 counties … [Read More...]

traffic and development

September 26, 2023 By Michael Lewyn

One common NIMBY argument is that new development is bad because it brings traffic. As I have pointed out elsewhere, this is silly because it is a "beggar thy neighbor" argument: the traffic doesn't go away if you block the development, it just goes somewhere … [Read More...]

Rubbing Shoulders: Maybe

September 21, 2023 By Dylan DelliSanti

A study by Maxim Massenkoff and Nathan Wilmers argues that “low-price full-service restaurants,” like Olive Garden or the Cheesecake Factory, are the third places in which rich and poor are most likely to rub shoulders. Using location data, they found … [Read More...]

Is there really a building boom? Not as much as you might think

September 12, 2023 By Michael Lewyn

I've noticed numerous stories and tweets about a building boom: for example, a recent CNBC story asserts that the number of new apartments is "at a 50-year high." Various twitterati have used this claim to support their own points of view: some claim that … [Read More...]

Pedestrianized streets usually fail – and that’s OK

September 5, 2023 By Salim Furth

Urbanists love to celebrate, and replicate great urban spaces - and sometimes can't understand why governments don't:https://twitter.com/PEWilliams_/status/1697265425241752004But what's important to recall - especially for those of us under, uh, 41 - … [Read More...]

Solano County Dreamin’: Is there a market urbanist way to build a new city?

August 28, 2023 By Salim Furth

Conor Dougherty and Erin Griffith revealed the identities behind a Silicon Valley investor group, Flannery Associates, that had gradually purchased 55,000 acres of ranchland near Travis Air Force Base in Solano County, California. Scale check: that's a lot of … [Read More...]

Are Republicans or Democrats more pro-housing? Yes.

August 21, 2023 By Michael Lewyn

Some weeks ago, I was participating in a Zoom discussion on NIMBYism, and someone asked: are Republicans and conservatives more pro-housing than Democrats and liberals, or less so?After examining some poll data, I discovered that the answer depends on how … [Read More...]

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