How neighborhood stability hinges on expectations:Â If people don’t believe things are going to get better, many will leave One of the most perplexing urban problems is neighborhood decline. Once healthy, middle-class or working class-places
Exit, Hope and Loyalty: The fate of neighborhoods Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week 1. Will upzoning help housing affordability? Housing supply denialism–claims that the laws of supply and demand don’t apply to housing markets–have a ready audience in the NIMBY community. The
The Week Observed, May 17, 2019 Read Post »
More housing supply denialism–debunked It appears that we have been a bit premature in calling the housing supply debate over. Last week’s urbanist Internet was all a flutter with the latest claim of an academic
Will upzoning ease housing affordability problems? Read Post »
A sharp divide by race in urban residence for young adults Well-educated young whites are increasingly living in central cities, while well-educated young African-Americans are shifting increasingly to the suburbs For some time, we’ve been
The Young and Restless in Black and White Read Post »
You won’t know that your inclusionary zoning program is wrecking the housing market until it’s too late to fix. How lags and game theory monkey wrench inclusionary zoning. One of the toughest problems in economics
Inclusionary Zoning’s Wile E. Coyote moment Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week 1. The limits of design thinking. Really good design can frequently improve the utility and performance of everyday objects, and there’s little question that the attentiveness to software design
The Week Observed, May 10, 2019 Read Post »
