The mechanics of blue state housing shortages

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http://www.newgeography.com/content/003847-americas-emerging-housing-crisis

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http://www.newgeography.com/content/003847-americas-emerging-housing-crisis


There’s certainly much that government can stop doing. The drive for “smart growth” is increasingly hostile to the very idea of single-family housing. Instead the emphasis, for example in the newly adopted Bay Area plan, is on high-density housing around transit links and virtual prohibition on single-family housing on the urban fringe, without which much higher housing prices — owned and rental — are inevitable. This may appeal to some — especially those in what historian Robert Bruegmann calls “the incumbent’s club: who are already comfortably housed and benefit financially from policy-induced housing shortages. But for the majority of Americans, including immigrants, who would prefer a single-family home, this is bad news indeed.

Bam! Of course this is easily solved by implementing rent controls. :rolleyes:

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Bam! Of course this is easily solved by implementing rent controls. :rolleyes:

Exactly! The rent controls cause 700 square foot ONE bedroom apartments to magically become 700 square foot THREE bedroom apartments making more housing choices for working families!