“Planning assistance caused municipalities to build 20% fewer housing units per decade over the 50 years that followed. Regulatory innovation steered construction in assisted areas away from apartments and toward larger single-family homes. Textual evidence related to zoning and development politics further shows that, since the 1980s, assisted communities have disincentivized housing supply by passing on development costs to developers.”
Why is this relevant to r/neoliberal?
It’s important for us to understand how the US became NIMBYland and what role the feds played.
What should we discuss? Is this a well designed study that plausibly tells us something about the causal effect of marginal dollars added? What role should the federal government have in urban planning? Should we just tax urban planning? How can we let urban planners do the important role of building vital scalable infrastructure if any power we give them, voters force them to use that power to hurt the poor?
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“Planning assistance caused municipalities to build 20% fewer housing units per decade over the 50 years that followed. Regulatory innovation steered construction in assisted areas away from apartments and toward larger single-family homes. Textual evidence related to zoning and development politics further shows that, since the 1980s, assisted communities have disincentivized housing supply by passing on development costs to developers.”
Why is this relevant to r/neoliberal?
It’s important for us to understand how the US became NIMBYland and what role the feds played.
What should we discuss? Is this a well designed study that plausibly tells us something about the causal effect of marginal dollars added? What role should the federal government have in urban planning? Should we just tax urban planning? How can we let urban planners do the important role of building vital scalable infrastructure if any power we give them, voters force them to use that power to hurt the poor?