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Dickerson on the Myth of Home Ownership
A. Mechele Dickerson (Texas) has posted The Myth of Home Ownership and Why Home Ownership is Not Always a Good Thing, Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 84, p. 189, 2009. The…
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Green Cities, Cool Cities (Florida, Kotkin)
Richard Florida of "Creative Class" fame has posted Greening the City on his blog at The Atlantic. Why not consider devoting different streets to different kinds of transportation? And surely…
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News from Seattle
Two recent land use legal items from Seattle. First, on Election Day the voters approved Proposition 1, an affordable-housing levy. From the Seattle Times: At Capitol Hill’s Sole Repair, campaign…
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Ireland on empirical analysis of neighborhood foreclosure
Mark Ireland (Hamline) has posted Bending Toward Justice: An Empirical Study of Foreclosures in One Neighborhood Three Years after Impact and a Proposed Framework for a Better Community. The abstract:It…
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The Home-Buying Tax Credit Fallacy is Growing…
As one of my earlier posts noted, the $8,000 tax credit for first time homebuyers was originally a bad idea because, among other reasons, it allowed the same practice (extremely low…
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Changes in Demographics Affect Housing Demand
Josh Martin, urban planning dynamo of South Carolina's Coastal Conservation League, circulated an informative article today: Arthur C. Nelson, "Demographic Outlook," Urban Land (Sept. 2009). The article predicts that the United States will experience…
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The $8,000 Question…
The Washington Post has a good analysis piece that considers the usefulness of the soon-to-expire $8,000 homebuyer federal tax credit. Here's an interesting snippet from the article:What happens when you artificially prop up…
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The Bailout of Sprawl
Christopher Leinberger (U. Michigan & Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program) has a post at The New Republic's The Avenue blog called The Bailout of Sprawl:When the financial history of this era…
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Federal Initiative for State & Local Housing
The Obama Administration has announced a new "Initiative for State and Local Housing Finance Agencies": WASHINGTON - As part of its comprehensive plan to stabilize the U.S. housing market, the…
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Brad Pitt, New Orleans, and “Houses of the Future”
Wayne Curtis has a very interesting article in The Atlantic, called Houses of the Future. The intro: Four years after the levee failures, New Orleans is seeing an unexpected boom…