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Review: Homelessness is a Housing Problem

April 19, 2022 By Michael Lewyn

In Homelessness is a Housing Problem, Prof. Gregg Colburn and data scientist Clayton Page Aldern seek to answer the question: why is homelessness much more common in some cities than in others?They find that only two factors are significant: 1) overall rents and 2) rental vacancy rates. Where … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Review, housing, Michael Lewyn, zoning Tagged With: homelessness

Reasons to be a Census skeptic

March 28, 2022 By Michael Lewyn

Over the past week, the press was chock full of 2020-style headlines like "Census Bureau Confirms Pandemic Exodus from SF." That's because according to the Census Bureau, virtually every urban county in the U.S. (even urban counties in growing metros like Dallas and Atlanta) lost population between … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, Michael Lewyn, sprawl, Uncategorized

Do HOAs justify zoning?

March 20, 2022 By Michael Lewyn

At a recent webinar, Prof. Christopher Serkin of Vanderbilt Law School made an interesting argument. He pointed out that a) Sun Belt cities tend to have less restrictive zoning than northern cities; b) Sun Belt cities also have more homeowners' associations (HOAs) with restrictive rules; and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, Michael Lewyn, privatization Tagged With: hoas

Where investors invest

February 16, 2022 By Michael Lewyn

One argument I have run across recently is that the high cost of housing is caused by mysterious corporate investors are buying up real estate and forcing up the cost.The stupidest version of this argument is that investors are hoarding all the real estate. Why is it stupid? Because … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, Michael Lewyn, NIMBYism, Uncategorized, Urban[ism] Legends Tagged With: financialization, housing, investors

More information about NYC “Billionaire’s Row”

January 6, 2022 By Michael Lewyn

A recent Youtube video on New York City's "Billionares' Row" (a smattering of very expensive buildings at the northern edge of midtown Manhattan) has received over six million views. Much of the video is rather propagandistic: it uses perjorative terms like "loopholes" to describe how the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, Michael Lewyn, NIMBYism Tagged With: billionaires, supertalls

Financialization and housing costs

August 21, 2021 By Michael Lewyn

One common explanation for high rents is something called "financialization." Literally, this term of course makes no sense: any form of investment, good or bad, involves finances.But I think that the most common non-incoherent use of the term is something like this: rich people and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, housing, Michael Lewyn, NIMBYism, Policy, zoning Tagged With: financialization, housing

contradictory anti-housing arguments

July 2, 2021 By Michael Lewyn

Over the years, I've heard a wide variety of arguments against new housing. One of them is the "mysterious foreign investor" argument. According to this theory, new urban housing will all be bought up by billionaire foreign investors, who will purchase the property and never rent it out, thus … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, Michael Lewyn, NIMBYism Tagged With: condos, financialization, housing affordability

Local iniquity

May 21, 2021 By Michael Lewyn

There was an interesting article in the New York Times magazine this week on the rise of extended stay hotels, which specialize in renting to a group within the working poor- people who have the cash for weekly rent, but cannot easily rent traditional apartments due to their poor credit … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, Michael Lewyn, zoning Tagged With: hotels, zoning

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