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The Storper paper: not exactly a bombshell

May 9, 2019 By Michael Lewyn

Some commentators are slightly agog over an academic paper by Andres Rodrieguz-Pose and Michael Storper; Richard Florida writes that they shows that " the effect of [housing] supply has been blown far out of proportion. "Most of this paper isn't really about the effect of housing supply on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, Gentrification, housing Tagged With: gentrification, housing, zoning

does gentrification cause eviction?

June 27, 2018 By Michael Lewyn

I found an interesting new website: EvictionLab.    This website contains eviction data by city for a large number of American communities.One might think that gentrifying cities and/or high cost cities have more evictions.  But interestingly, low-cost, poor cities tend to have more evictions.  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gentrification, housing, Michael Lewyn Tagged With: eviction

The absence of gentrification causes displacement

February 19, 2018 By Michael Lewyn

Some progressives believe that gentrification causes displacement of poor people, that new market-rate housing causes such gentrification, and thus that new housing must be kept out of low-income neighborhoods.The first of these claims is based on the assumption that absent gentrification, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gentrification, Michael Lewyn Tagged With: crime, gentrification, poverty

Mini review: Vanishing New York, by Jeremiah Moss

December 15, 2017 By Michael Lewyn

Vanishing New York

I recently read a highly publicized pro-NIMBY book, Vanishing New York.   The author, who goes by the pen name "Jeremiah Moss" tells a simple story: throughout New York, gentrification and chain stores are on the march, making the city rich and boring.  The story has an element of truth: obviously, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Review, Gentrification, Michael Lewyn, NIMBYism Tagged With: moss

TILTs for Income Mobility

August 29, 2017 By Emily Hamilton

Land-use scholars have offered a variety of policy proposals that attempt to identify institutional reforms to reduce the incentive for homeowner NIMBYs to protest development. For example, in a 2013 paper law professor David Schleicher proposed a policy called Tax Increment Local Transfers (TILTs). … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, Gentrification

Is Inclusionary Zoning Legal?

June 30, 2017 By Emily Hamilton

Market Urbanism may soon have a hearing in the Supreme Court. Two of my colleagues at the Mercatus Center, Sandy Ikeda, half a dozen other professors, and I argue that the Court should take up the case 616 Croft Ave., LLC, v. City of West Hollywood. The case is an opportunity for the Court … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, Gentrification, housing

Rent Control Again

May 24, 2017 By Michael Lewyn

A blog post in Pacific Standard seeks to defend rent control- an idea that, as the author admits, is generally detested by economists.The author writes that "rent regulations give tenants a greater stake in their community and incentivize them to put time, energy, and even money into their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gentrification, Michael Lewyn, rent control Tagged With: gentrificiation, rent control

An Attack on Market Urbanism

May 15, 2017 By Michael Lewyn

The far-left "TruthOut" web page recently published an attack on YIMBYs,* describing them as an "Alt-Right" group (despite the fact that the Obama Administration is pro-YIMBY).  I was surprised how little substance there was to the article; most of it was various ad-hominem attacks on YIMBY … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gentrification, housing, Michael Lewyn, NIMBYism, Policy Tagged With: alt-right, San Francisco, truthout, yimby

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