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What’s Scott Alexander asking, anyway?

May 10, 2023 By Salim Furth Leave a Comment

In a pair of posts, Scott Alexander goads his mostly-YIMBY readers by claiming to believe that density is likely to increase prices.To quantify his readers' views, he laid out a thought experiment in a Google poll, the results of which we'll no doubt see in a few days. You can see the poll … [Read more...]

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Cataloguing California’s Cornucopia of Land Use Legislation

April 17, 2023 By Charles Gardner

The Terner Center for Housing Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley has released a policy brief summarizing the effect on housing production of the bewildering array of new housing laws California has enacted since 2016.  A preliminary analysis of market effects of the new laws, … [Read more...]

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Rent regulation in MoCo

March 28, 2023 By Salim Furth

In my home county, Montgomery County, Maryland, rent control is on the agenda after County Executive Marc Elrich and a county council majority each released competing proposals to cap annual rent increases.Adam Pagnucco responded with a series of posts at Montgomery Perspective about the … [Read more...]

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Book Review: HIAHP

March 20, 2023 By Salim Furth

Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern's book Homelessness is a Housing Problem filled such a useful niche that even before I read it, I had started referring to it by acronym. But, like Missing Middle Housing, this book moved my priors in the opposite direction than the authors intended.As a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Review, housing, Uncategorized Tagged With: homelessness, statistics

Welcome Michael Nahas

February 23, 2023 By Emily Hamilton

Market Urbanism is proud to welcome Michael Nahas as a new writer who will bring an Austin perspective to the blog. Michael's Twitter handle is @MichaelDNahas, and he also blogs at City Econ.Here's a short interview we did over email.Emily: How did you become interested in … [Read more...]

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The fallacy of total rent regulation

February 23, 2023 By Szymon Pifczyk

One of the most-common beliefs many leftists in America hold is that the staggering increase in apartment rents is not a result of not building enough supply but rather a combination of greedy landlords, corporations buying out rental properties, and landlords intentionally keeping units vacant to … [Read more...]

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Introducing Szymon Pifczyk

January 9, 2023 By Salim Furth

New year, new ideas. Market Urbanism is proud to welcome Szymon Pifczyk as a new writer who will bring new perspectives to this ever-evolving blog. Szymon's Polish-language Twitter handle is @sheemawn, which is a pronunciation clue. His English-language account is the popular @YIMBYPoland.Here's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized, World Tagged With: Szymon

Wanted: Market urbanist research assistant

November 28, 2022 By Salim Furth

help wanted

Ever wondered how you could make your urbanism hobby a full-time job? Come work with me & Emily Hamilton at the Mercatus Center's Urbanity project:Are you a gritty, liberty-minded researcher who is passionate about cities? This is a unique opportunity for an aspiring scholar to develop a … [Read more...]

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