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Book Review: The Housing Bias

March 9, 2021 By Salim Furth

The best book on zoning and NIMBYism you’ve never read might well be The Housing Bias by Paul Boudreaux. The author is a law professor, but you’d be forgiven for thinking he’s a journalist. His writing is engaging - and occasionally funny – and he does what is unthinkable for many scholars: drives … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Review, history, housing

Why rents aren’t keeping up with house prices

March 3, 2021 By Tom Spencer

Global house prices have been out of control for quite some time. This has helped to reduce economic growth, increase unemployment and was even diagnosed as the greatest cause of inequality in the developed world in a 2016 paper by Matthew Rognlie. However, rents have failed to show the same … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, housing, planning, Uncategorized Tagged With: Economics, housing market, YIMBYism

The Duplex: Gateway Drug to Urban Density

February 24, 2021 By Jeff Fong

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After over a century, Berkeley, California may be about to legalize missing middle housing - and it’s not alone. Bids to re-legalize gradual densification in the form of duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, and the like have begun to pick up steam over the last several years. In 2019, Oregon legalized … [Read more...]

Filed Under: california, Culture, housing, Policy, Uncategorized, zoning Tagged With: duplex, missing middle, triplex

Latest rent research

February 21, 2021 By Michael Lewyn

A recent paper by UCLA researchers discusses 2019-20 literature on the relationship between new construction and rents. The article discusses five papers; four of them found that new housing consistently lowers rents in nearby buildings.For example, Kate Pennington wrote a paper on the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, Gentrification, housing, Michael Lewyn, Uncategorized Tagged With: housing, rent

How YIMBYs used Ostrom to recruit conservatives

February 10, 2021 By Tom Spencer

A major barrier to the market urbanist’s ability to make the case for building more housing is the question of aesthetics. When you refer to density in cities, it’s easy to picture large brutalist towers and the slum-like conditions that can be seen in much of the developing world. Of course, this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, NIMBYism, planning, Uncategorized, World Tagged With: Ostrom, planning, UK

What’s Wrong With Hong Kong?

January 4, 2021 By Michael Lewyn

One common argument against new housing is that the laws of supply and demand simply don’t apply to dense cities like New York, San Francisco ands Hong Kong, because new housing or upzoning might raise land prices.*  After all (some  people argue) Hong Kong is really dense and really … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, Michael Lewyn, Uncategorized, World City Profiles Tagged With: Hong Kong

What’s a stickplex?

October 1, 2020 By Emily Hamilton

 A stickplex is a dense residential structure or group of structures built with inexpensive materials and techniques, most commonly wood. Stickplexes use 2,500 square feet of land per unit or less. Stickplexes have per-square-foot construction costs roughly in line with detached houses due to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, Policy, zoning

Get the tuck out of here

September 10, 2020 By Salim Furth

Tuck-under duplexes in Palisades Park, NJ (Google Streetview)In two previous posts, I’ve raised questions about the competitiveness of missing middle housing. This post is more petty: I want to challenge the design rigidities that Daniel Parolek promotes in Missing Middle Housing. Although … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture and Design, Book Review, housing, Los Angeles Tagged With: books, Economics, housing, missing middle

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