The subtitle of this paper is: “Evidence from Seattle’s Affordable Housing Mandate.” Here is the abstract: This paper analyzes the effects of a major municipal residential land use reform on new home construction and developer behavior. We examine Seattle’s Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) program, which relaxed zoning regulations while also encouraging affordable housing construction in […]
Upzoning with Strings Attached
Upzoning with Strings Attached
21 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, income redistribution, Public Choice, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: offsetting behavior, unintended consequences, zoning
Let’s Spend More Money on Something We Have to Give Away to Get People to Use It!
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in transport economics, urban economics
Kansas City voters sensibly rejected spending money on light rail at least seven times. But that common sense apparently didn’t extent to streetcars, which are an even dumber idea than light rail as streetcars are slower than buses, far more expensive, and can’t get out of their own way if … Continue reading →
Let’s Spend More Money on Something We Have to Give Away to Get People to Use It!
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in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, Marxist economics, property rights, urban economics
Laser Archaeology: Revealing the Amazon’s Urban Jungle
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in economic history, urban economics
This high-speed rail project is a warning for the US
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in economics of bureaucracy, environmental economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, transport economics, urban economics Tags: megaprojects
Cost Over-Runs in Infrastructure Projects
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, industrial organisation, Public Choice, survivor principle, theory of the firm, transport economics, urban economics Tags: megaprojects
Matthew E. Kahn discusses his new book Going Remote
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, transport economics, urban economics Tags: economics of pandemics
Zero road deaths goal avoid accountability for failing to achieve more realistic goals
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in politics - New Zealand, transport economics, urban economics Tags: road safety, The fatal conceit, virtue signalling
Why Sweden Is Moving Its Northernmost Town 2 Miles East
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in energy economics, urban economics
Why megaproject cost overruns?
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in economic history, industrial organisation, public economics, survivor principle, transport economics, urban economics Tags: megaprojects
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in economics of crime, law and economics, property rights, urban economics Tags: offsetting behaviour, unintended consequences
Land supply is everything to housing affordability
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, law and economics, libertarianism, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, public economics, urban economics Tags: housing affordability, land supply, zoning
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