Updated 1/11/24 to add 3 new papers, Wegmann, Baqai, and Conrad (2023), Dobbels & Tavakalov (2023), and Hamilton (2024). The original post was published 3/14/23. A concerted research effort has b...
https://marketurbanism.com/2024/01/11/resources-for-reformers-houstons-minimum-lot-sizes/
“Renting in Providence puts city councilors in precarious situations.” That was the Providence Journal’s leading headline a few days ago, as the legislature waited for Governor Daniel McKee...
https://marketurbanism.com/2023/06/26/rhode-islands-housing-process-package/
American YIMBYs point to Tokyo as proof that nationalized zoning and a laissez faire building culture can protect affordability. But a great deal of that knowledge can be traced back to a classic...
https://marketurbanism.com/2022/04/28/book-review-the-making-of-urban-japan/
Urbanist and YIMBY Twitter had a field day dunking on Nathan J. Robinson, whose essay in his publication Current Affairs called for building new cities in California. But California really could ...
A few weeks ago the Times reported that Lloyds Banking Group had purchased 45 new homes to let in Peterborough. This is part of a plan for Lloyds to own 50,000 homes by 2031. Given the median hom...
https://marketurbanism.com/2021/09/13/the-banks-arent-beating-first-time-buyers-its-the-nimbys/
Hayek says that planning is the road to serfdom. Holland may be the most thoroughly planned country on earth - and it's delightful. How does a market urbanist respond to excellent planning? The...
https://marketurbanism.com/2021/08/19/reading-hayek-in-holland/
Christian Hilber and Andreas Mense argue that the price to rent ratio only increases with a demand shock where supply is sufficiently constrained The post Why rents aren’t keeping up with hou...
https://marketurbanism.com/2021/03/03/why-rents-arent-keeping-up-with-house-prices/
A major barrier to the market urbanist’s ability to make the case for building more housing is the question of aesthetics. When you refer to density in cities, it’s easy to picture large brut...
https://marketurbanism.com/2021/02/10/how-yimbys-used-ostrom-to-recruit-conservatives/