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The weird D.C. housing grift that’s sending a former FBI agent to jail

December 8, 2023 By Salim Furth Leave a Comment

WASHINGTON – David Paitsel, 42, a former FBI agent, and Brian Bailey, 53, a D.C. real estate developer were sentenced today on bribery and conspiracy charges for their role in schemes involving confidential information held by the D.C. Department of Housing and Community Development United States … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: crime, real estate, washington dc

Unexpected correlation in Census housing data

November 22, 2023 By Eli Kahn Leave a Comment

Since 1973, the US Census Bureau has administered the American Housing Survey (AHS) in odd-numbered years. Surveyors ask questions about the quality and value of respondents’ housing, and have a battery of questions for the subset of respondents who moved recently, asking about their search process. … [Read more...]

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An Autopsy of Hsieh & Moretti (2019)?

November 13, 2023 By Salim Furth

Update 11/20: Chang-Tai Hsieh counters that Greaney's critique ignores general equilibrium effects which make labor scale invariant. That doesn't address the alleged coding errors. We'll see - and perhaps I wrote an autopsy too early. Thanks to Bryan Caplan for getting Hsieh's response out to the … [Read more...]

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Tyler Cowen: “Is Tokyo really a YIMBY success story?”

October 20, 2023 By Salim Furth

Tyler is stirring the pot over at Marginal Revolution, asking whether Tokyo's low rents are a YIMBY success or just a productivity failure: low productivity and low immigration keep demand down. He calls the latter "NIMBYism". That framing doesn't hold up very well, but we can discard it and think … [Read more...]

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New Report: Georgia Not Quite an Unregulated Paradise

October 11, 2023 By Eli Kahn

In a recent report from the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, Chris Denson and J. Thomas Perdue compile the strictest minimum lot size regulations and minimum home size regulations from a range of cities and counties in Georgia. 31 of Georgia’s 159 counties mandate minimum lot sizes (in … [Read more...]

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Rubbing Shoulders: Maybe

September 21, 2023 By Dylan DelliSanti

A study by Maxim Massenkoff and Nathan Wilmers argues that “low-price full-service restaurants,” like Olive Garden or the Cheesecake Factory, are the third places in which rich and poor are most likely to rub shoulders. Using location data, they found that these low-price chain restaurants had more … [Read more...]

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Pedestrianized streets usually fail – and that’s OK

September 5, 2023 By Salim Furth

Urbanists love to celebrate, and replicate great urban spaces - and sometimes can't understand why governments don't:https://twitter.com/PEWilliams_/status/1697265425241752004But what's important to recall - especially for those of us under, uh, 41 - is that pedestrianized streets aren't a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Baltimore, Montreal, pedestrians, Pomona, Sioux Falls, twitter, Urbanism, waroncars

Solano County Dreamin’: Is there a market urbanist way to build a new city?

August 28, 2023 By Salim Furth

Conor Dougherty and Erin Griffith revealed the identities behind a Silicon Valley investor group, Flannery Associates, that had gradually purchased 55,000 acres of ranchland near Travis Air Force Base in Solano County, California. Scale check: that's a lot of land. San Francisco is 30,000 acres; San … [Read more...]

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