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This is how gentrification happens: Northwest DC and the height restriction

December 16, 2010 By Stephen Smith

Lydia DePillis wrote the Washington City Paper's cover story on the case for Congress overturning DC's height limit, which should be very familiar to readers of this blog. It's got some interesting history in it (DC's height limit was apparently influenced by George Washington's personal aesthetics, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, Gentrification, history, housing, planning, zoning Tagged With: dc, density, gentrification, height restriction, race issues, zoning

The economics of redevelopment and the shape of socialist cities

October 19, 2010 By Stephen Smith

Earlier today I read an article by Daniel Garst about Bejing's awkward population distribution that reminded me of a journal article about the general shape of socialist cities that I read a while back. Garst talks about Beijing being a "circus tent" when it comes to density, with population … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, housing, planning, zoning Tagged With: Beijing, density, Moscow, Stephen Smith

Darien, CT gets sued by the DOJ over inclusionary zoning

October 13, 2010 By Stephen Smith

The New York Times has an interesting article about a Justice Department probe into Darien, CT's local inclusionary zoning rules. Inclusionary zoning means essentially that multi-unit developments have to offer a portion of the project as "affordable housing," which invariably means charging … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, zoning Tagged With: Connecticut, inclusionary zoning, race issues, Stephen Smith

Rothbard the Urbanist Part 5: Diversity and Discrimination

August 25, 2009 By Adam Hengels

This 5th installment of the Rothbard Series dovetails well with the most recent post on segregation by guest blogger, Stephen Smith, as well as a post back in July over at Austin Contrarian.  If you haven’t kept up with our discussion, Murray Rothbard’s classic For A New Liberty can be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, Jane Jacobs, privatization, Rothbard The Urbanist Tagged With: discrimination, diversity, For a New Liberty, Free-market, Jane Jacobs, Murray Rothbard, segregation, street cars

Do We Need “New Urbanism” To Fix “Unwalkable Sprawl”?

May 13, 2009 By Adam Hengels

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, planning, sprawl, zoning Tagged With: Ilya Somin, libertarian, New Urbanism, planning, sprawl, zoning

Rothbard the Urbanist Part 1: Public Education’s Role in Sprawl and Exclusion

May 4, 2009 By Adam Hengels

I’ve been meaning to address the public education system’s complex role in land use patterns, and found that Murray Rothbard does a better job in his 1973 manifesto, For a New Liberty than I ever could.  In summary, locally-funded public education is an engine of geographical segregation, which … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, housing, Rothbard The Urbanist, sprawl, zoning Tagged With: affordability, education, exclusionary zoning, For a New Liberty, Murray Rothbard, property taxes, public education, schools, suburbs, zoning

Undead Ideas: Rent Control

March 19, 2009 By Adam Hengels

In these days of economists constantly debating the right way to revive the economy, it seems like there is no way to find consensus among economists.  Economists don’t spend much time debating the issues they agree on, and to them, rent control is about as dead an issue as the earth revolving … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, housing, rent control Tagged With: Assar Lindbeck, gentrification, housing, rent control

My Article at FreePo on the Resurrection of Rent Control

March 3, 2009 By Adam Hengels

The Orange County Register’s new site, Freedom Politics just posted an article I wrote for them on rent control.  Here’s a snippet: In these days of economists constantly debating the right way to revive the economy, it seems like there is no way to find consensus among economists.  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, housing, rent control Tagged With: housing, housing bubble, rent control, Wendell Cox

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