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Housing
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Land Use Prof Blog
Homelessness in 2007 …
Three-quarters of a million Americas are homeless, according to a first-ever Annual Homeless Assessment Report by HUD. (Seeing news that is less than upbeat is in itself a surprise…
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Gated developments in the city …
Gated communities: Are they anti-social ogres that reflect clannish fears of the “other”? Or they are simply a privately created response to sophisticated new desires for home and community? …
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From NIMBY to … “Drawbridge Protectionism”?
Say that residents of a town outside a big city don’t want new housing developments built near them; development would bring unwanted traffic and change the quiet character of…
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Residences downtown … in fact, too many! …
[“Downtown Week,” extended] Downtown residences! Downtown residences! This is the cry of progressive urban land use policy. To fight sprawl, support city finances, encourage public transportation, and foster communitarianism, cities…
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Full speed ahead … for stopping “growth”?
One result of the success of “progressive” politicians across the nation this year is likely to be a renewed vigor to pass laws that attempt to curb “sprawl.” Outside…
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Remove parking requirements for residential units … before commercial property …
Concern about auto traffic has played a greater role, perhaps, than any other factor in pushing modern land use law to restrict and shape new construction. For both commercial…
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Residential zoning for the majority — that is, for non-married households …
[American Resettlement – fourth in a series about how land use law is responding to changing residential patterns] The big census news (since the news about 300th million person) is…
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Location, location … of hot metros, college grads, and the attraction of Olathe, Kansas …
[American Resettlement –- the second in a series about how land use law responds to changing residential patterns] Why did the housing price boom of past decade affect a handful…
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300 million people, on the same amount of land …
The United States' population is estimated to reach 300 million early next week, according to the Census Bureau. This compares with only 200 million in 1968, 150 million in…
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Needed: More soccer fields!
As my plane approached Chicago’s urban Midway Airport this weekend, we flew low over a handful of playgrounds in the moderate-income neighborhoods. The baseball fields seemed unused, while the…