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Why Houston Isn’t An Argument for Zoning

January 6, 2021 By Michael Lewyn Leave a Comment

Someone just posted a video on Youtube using Houston, Texas as an argument in favor of zoning. The logic of the video is: Houston is horrible; Houston has no zoning; therefore every city should have conventional zoning.This video and its logic are impressively wrong, for several reasons. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Michael Lewyn, Uncategorized, zoning Tagged With: Houston

What’s Wrong With Hong Kong?

January 4, 2021 By Michael Lewyn Leave a Comment

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

Are increased levels of homeownership good for affordability? No… and yes.

December 20, 2020 By Michael Lewyn

For over a century, policymakers have argued that homeowners take better care of their neighborhood and are just generally more desirable in other ways.  As early as 1917, the federal Labor Department created a propaganda campaign to encourage home ownership.  And in 1925, Commerce Secretary Herbert … [Read more...]

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yes, minimum parking requirements do limit development

November 18, 2020 By Michael Lewyn

I and many other scholars have argued that minimum parking requirements increase the cost of housing (by taking up land for parking that could be used for housing, and by imposing costs that are passed on to consumers), increase the costs of doing business, and create a variety of other social … [Read more...]

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Opening Arlington up to Housing

November 13, 2020 By Emily Hamilton

Arlington County policymakers have issued a call for ideas on improving housing availability and affordability. If you'd like to submit your own ideas, you can do so here through the rest of the day. The ideas that I submitted are below.Arlington County is a national model for transit-oriented … [Read more...]

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How to Price Congestion: The Benefits of Dynamic Variable Tolling

September 21, 2020 By Alex Armlovich

Find the full-length report draft here.New York’s political community and the general public have yet to come to terms with reality on congestion pricing. While COVID-19 has suppressed travel demand across the region — deeply for now and to an uncertain extent over the next several years — that … [Read more...]

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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: Uncategorized Tagged With: books, Economics, housing, missing middle

In praise of fee simple ownership

September 9, 2020 By Salim Furth

In yesterday's post, I showed that missing middle housing, as celebrated in Daniel Parolek’s new book, may be stuck in the middle, too balanced to compete with single family housing on the one hand and multifamily on the other.But what about all the disadvantages that middle housing faces? … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: books, Economics, housing, missing middle

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