1. This week at Market Urbanism: How Houston Regulates Land Use by Nolan Gray Since there seems to be a lot of confusion about land-use regulation and planning in Houston, here’s a quick explainer on what Houston does regulate, doesn’t regulate, and how private covenants shape the … [Read more...]

  1. This week at Market Urbanism: The “Global Buyers” Argument by Michael Lewyn The argument makes sense only when you add the following premise: housing prices can only be high in the presence of huge numbers of rich foreigners. I really don’t see any reason to take this premise … [Read more...]

  1. This week at Market Urbanism Shut Out: How Land-Use Regulations Hurt the Poor by Sandy Ikeda My colleague Emily Washington and I are reviewing the literature on how land-use regulations disproportionately raise the cost of real estate for the poor. I’d like to share a few of our … [Read more...]

  1. This week at Market Urbanism Palo Alto: The Land of Too Many Jobs by Jeff Fong The status quo isn’t defensible if you’re concerned with environmental degradation, inequality, poverty, slow growth, or even the decline of property rights. But, for tax protected homeowners, the status … [Read more...]

    1. This week at Market Urbanism Episode 1 of the Market Urbanism podcast came out this week.  Nolan Gray plans to release new episodes bi-weekly.  The RSS feed is http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:236686274/sounds.rss You can currently find the podcast on … [Read more...]

  1. This week at Market Urbanism Buses and Trains: The Turtle and the Hare? by Asher Meyers With buses a relatively safe, cheap and green form of travel, the wisdom of the government favoring trains at great public expense is dubious. This isn’t to say that trains are bad and buses … [Read more...]

  1. This week at Market Urbanism Does Home-sharing Create Negative Externalities? by Michael Lewyn Homeowners’ fear of being overrun by “transient” renters is based on an outmoded picture of urban life. In a rural area where most people are born and die in the same town, a fear of … [Read more...]

  1. This week at Market Urbanism Does President Obama Have A ‘Regionalism’ Agenda? by Scott Beyer Such policies represent less a turn towards socialism, than one away from the nation’s existing socialized paradigm favoring suburbs, wherein housing regulations restrict dense infill … [Read more...]