Millionaires Will Eat San Francisco Only if NIMBYs Keep Starving It
Imagine a doctor who can accurately predict the consequences of an ailment you have, but won’t give you the diagnosis or tell you the treatment. To do this would be [...]
Not at All Quiet on the Western Front: SB 50 Updates
We’ve previously covered California SB 50, Sen. Scott Wiener’s second crack (after last year’s SB 827 died in committee last April) at a move to increase density in areas near [...]
This Week in Land-Use Regulation, March 14th
Happy Pi Day! Rent Check Daniel Shoag has an excellent review of the current debate on housing supply published by Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project. Knowing what doesn't work is just [...]
Should Law Subsidize Driving?
A century ago, captains of industry and their allies in government launched a social experiment in urban America: the abandonment of mass transit in favor of a new personal technology, [...]
How Not to Address the Housing Affordability Crisis
Daniel Shoag of the Harvard Kennedy School has an excellent review of the literature on the housing affordability crisis and a number of reforms to increase housing supply across the [...]
Housing Improvement Market Grows
When developers and homeowners can’t invest by increasing the number of housing units offered, they turn to other opportunities to increase the value of their homes, namely through renovations and [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, March 8th
Rent Check California bill SB 50 received the support of AARP California. The bill, which would upzone the areas surrounding transit and job projects, would help increase the housing supply [...]
Getting Grandma Housing: AARP Joins the YIMBY Coalition
YIMBY supporters of California’s land use reform bill, SB 50, have gained a powerful ally: AARP California. SB 50’s predecessor, SB 827, died in committee last April, so it is [...]
This Week in Land-Use Regulation, March 1st
News and Commentary Utah is providing a model for how non-coastal metropolitan areas can increase density. SB 34 puts requirements on localities without stripping them of their ability to independently set [...]
Amenities, Risk, and Flood Insurance Reform
This paper provides the first, comprehensive evidence on the question of whether the subsidized flood insurance rates are needed to meet the affordability goal of the National Flood Insurance Program. [...]