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Living on the edge

July 12, 2024 By Salim Furth

It's hard to imagine a better example than this:A natural zoning experiment in Denver: These two homes straddle a 2010 zoning boundary change. The result: The house in duplex zoning converted into two homes, and the other converted into a McMansion that cost 80% more.Arthur Gailes, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gentrification, Zoning Tagged With: density, exclusionary zoning, gentrification, housing affordability, missing middle, zoning

Gentrification: An LVT Would Do That

August 11, 2023 By Salim Furth

In many cities, poor people occupy valuable urban land close to downtown jobs, amenities, and transit. They can afford to live there because the housing stock in inner areas is usually older. If it hasn't been completely renovated, the result can be quite cheap, even if the land is pretty … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Policy, Urban[ism] Legends Tagged With: gentrification, Georgism, Henry George

How Developers Became Hollywood’s Favorite Villain

August 21, 2020 By Nolan Gray

If there's one thing that unites TV and film since the fifties, it's the archetype of the dastardly developer - forever destroying homes and hiking rents. But it wasn't always this way. Where did this trope come from, and is it true? This week on Pop Culture Urbanism, I dig into the cronyism and red … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Culture, Pop Culture Urbanism Tagged With: developers, disney, gentrification

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

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 Tagged With: crime, gentrification

How Lexington Can Expand Affordable Housing (Without Touching the UGB)

January 9, 2017 By Nolan Gray

 Lexington, Kentucky is a wonderful place, and that’s getting to be a problem. There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with the city: its urban amenities, thriving information economy, and unique local culture have brought in throngs of economic migrants from locales as exotic as Appalachia, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gentrification, housing, planning, Zoning Tagged With: adu, gentrification, kentucky, lexington, minimum parking requirements, mixed use, parking

Same Old Story: How Planners Continue to Drive Gentrification

December 12, 2016 By Nolan Gray

Slum clearance in action

 Planners, like all professions, have their own useful mythologies. A popular one goes something like this: “Many years ago, us planners did naughty things. We pushed around the poor, demolished minority neighborhoods, and forced gentrification. But that’s all over today. Now we protect the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gentrification, planning, Zoning Tagged With: Dallas, gentrification, small business, Texas, zoning

ReasonTV on SF’s YIMBY Movement

June 28, 2016 By Adam Hengels

Last week, Reason.tv (the multimedia outlet of Reason Magazine) published a video about San Francisco's YIMBY movement.  The video describes the decades of underdevelopment in San Francisco as the result of community activism intended to limit the supply of new construction.  As a result, San … [Read more...]

Filed Under: NIMBYism, Policy, video, Zoning Tagged With: Bay Area, gentrification, NIMBY, San Francisco, yimby, zoning

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