The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability (2002)
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Re: The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability (2002)
#2If you care about places like Silicon Valley or New York, or if you care about social justice across (and within) generations, it's time to research and understand why housing is becoming increasingly unaffordable in the most dynamic areas of the world. It's not due to lack of land.
In California, we have a chance to fix things. SB-827 is a new bill that prevents local governments from banning density near public transit. It is the most radical housing bill in decades, because it rebalances zoning control from the local to the state level. It could result in 3 million new units being created in California, a state that builds https://standupcalifornia.com (this is a website i set up to support this issue, which i see as the most important political issue for myself and my friends, and our ability to stay in our communities)
Re: The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability (2002)
#3If you care about places like Silicon Valley or New York, or if you care about social justice across (and within) generations, it's time to research and understand why housing is becoming increasingly unaffordable in the most dynamic areas of the world. It's not due to lack of land. In California, we have a chance to fix things. SB-827 is a new bill that prevents local governments from banning density near public tra…
What's interesting is that you can make a very libertarian argument for a lot of this stuff too: http://marketurbanism.com/ although that probably doesn't play quite as well in much California.
Still though, it's one issue where we all ought to be able to find some common ground and fix things.
Re: The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability (2002)
#4If you care about places like Silicon Valley or New York, or if you care about social justice across (and within) generations, it's time to research and understand why housing is becoming increasingly unaffordable in the most dynamic areas of the world. It's not due to lack of land. In California, we have a chance to fix things. SB-827 is a new bill that prevents local governments from banning density near public tra…
What's interesting is that you can make a very libertarian argument for a lot of this stuff too: http://marketurbanism.com/ although that probably doesn't play quite as well in much California. Still though, it's one issue where we all ought to be able to find some common ground and fix things.
absolutely. this is both liberal and libertarian. it's a massive social justice issue. it's also a policy-failure that can be addressed by simply reducing regulations, which this bill does (by preventing local governments from banning density near public transit, the exact place it needs to go).
Re: The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability (2002)
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's interesting is that you can make a very libertarian argument for a lot of this stuff too: http://marketurbanism.com/ although that probably doesn't play quite as well in much California. Still though, it's one issue where we all ought to be able to find some common ground and fix things.
absolutely. this is both liberal and libertarian. it's a massive social justice issue. it's also a policy-failure that can be addressed by simply reducing regulations, which this bill does (by preventing local governments from banning density near public transit, the exact place it needs to go).
Speaking of that, and Glaeser, who wrote that paper you linked to, this piece is pretty good:
https://www.brookings.edu/research/reforming-land-use-regula...
Which comes back to that:
"Reforming local land use controls is one of those rare areas in which the libertarian and the progressive agree. The current system restricts the freedom of the property owner, and also makes life harder for poorer Americans. The politics of zoning reform may be hard, but our land use regulations are badly in need of rethinking."
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For many more articles, I have a list here:
Re: The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability (2002)
#6If you care about places like Silicon Valley or New York, or if you care about social justice across (and within) generations, it's time to research and understand why housing is becoming increasingly unaffordable in the most dynamic areas of the world. It's not due to lack of land. In California, we have a chance to fix things. SB-827 is a new bill that prevents local governments from banning density near public tra…
Since that's a marketing page for SB827, can someone explain to me how it doesn't ultimately create an incentive against public transit? All it would take to get around the zoning override would be to remove transit... I assume removing a bus stop (or even an entire route) is trivial. I could definitely foresee more homeowners blocking development of new routes/stations. With those considerations, it's possible we could end up with less transit, and the same amount of housing. I actually got banned in /r/california for asking about this
I'm afraid it may be one of those 'short term gain, long term consequence' type bills that CA has a history of cough prop 13. However, at least it's looking in the right direction, since the housing situation couldn't be much worse
Re: The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability (2002)
#7If you care about places like Silicon Valley or New York, or if you care about social justice across (and within) generations, it's time to research and understand why housing is becoming increasingly unaffordable in the most dynamic areas of the world. It's not due to lack of land. In California, we have a chance to fix things. SB-827 is a new bill that prevents local governments from banning density near public tra…
Since that's a marketing page for SB827, can someone explain to me how it doesn't ultimately create an incentive against public transit? All it would take to get around the zoning override would be to remove transit... I assume removing a bus stop (or even an entire route) is trivial. I could definitely foresee more homeowners blocking development of new routes/stations. With those considerations, it's possible we co…
It's not a marketing page, really. I made it. Did you see my vlog? It's too bad it looks so pro... it looks like a real estate developer built it :)
But Senator's Wiener's FAQ answers the question you ask: https://extranewsfeed.com/my-transit-density-bill-sb-827-ans...
he says "First, most cities and towns don’t operate their own transit systems, given that transit agencies are typically separate from cities or regional in nature. Thus, very few cities even have the power to reduce transit service, even if they wanted to do so in order to avoid SB 827.
Second, while communities could organize to fight new transit stations or to reduce bus service, let’s also be real: people already fight transit expansions in their neighborhoods."
Re: The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability (2002)
#8If you care about places like Silicon Valley or New York, or if you care about social justice across (and within) generations, it's time to research and understand why housing is becoming increasingly unaffordable in the most dynamic areas of the world. It's not due to lack of land. In California, we have a chance to fix things. SB-827 is a new bill that prevents local governments from banning density near public tra…
What's interesting is that you can make a very libertarian argument for a lot of this stuff too: http://marketurbanism.com/ although that probably doesn't play quite as well in much California. Still though, it's one issue where we all ought to be able to find some common ground and fix things.
Yeah. If nimbys don't want stuff built, imo they should buy the land themselves. I don't know what happened to property rights in CA.
Re: The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability (2002)
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's interesting is that you can make a very libertarian argument for a lot of this stuff too: http://marketurbanism.com/ although that probably doesn't play quite as well in much California. Still though, it's one issue where we all ought to be able to find some common ground and fix things.
Yeah. If nimbys don't want stuff built, imo they should buy the land themselves. I don't know what happened to property rights in CA.
Somewhere, there are probably some reasonable positions like "it'd be great if they didn't build a fireworks factory right next to my house", but we've gone so far beyond those in the US.
Re: The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability (2002)
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's interesting is that you can make a very libertarian argument for a lot of this stuff too: http://marketurbanism.com/ although that probably doesn't play quite as well in much California. Still though, it's one issue where we all ought to be able to find some common ground and fix things.
Yeah. If nimbys don't want stuff built, imo they should buy the land themselves. I don't know what happened to property rights in CA.
It's really baffling. In NYC you have to put your money where your mouth is and buy airspace rights. For large buildings this usually entails building a public park in the empty space.