The unzoned city of God
Two new books help explain one of the main public policy drivers of the affordable housing crisis.
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Two new books help explain one of the main public policy drivers of the affordable housing crisis.
Exclusionary zoning has created a national housing crisis, but states can help solve it.
How to solve America’s housing crisis
Robert C. Ellickson exposes in convincing detail the deleterious impact of restrictions on new housing.
America’s Frozen Neighborhoods: The Abuse of Zoning, by Robert C. Ellickson, (Yale University Press, 320 pp., $40) As recently as the 1950s, the area we now call Silicon Valley was an agricultural region, filled with fruit orchards. But as the American population shifted West, a vast influx of more than a million newcomers transformed the […]