It Isn’t Too Early to Say it: “I told you so!”
Laocoon, follow’d by a num’rous crowd, Ran from the fort, and cried, from far, aloud: ‘O wretched countrymen! what fury reigns? What more than madness has possess’d your brains? Vergil, Aeneid, 2.40, John Dryden Translation The media in Seattle has been lagging in its curiosity about the City’s Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) scheme. It was impossible […]
Center for Housing Economics, Part 3: Today, Tomorrow, and After That
The last couple days I’ve been parceling out a short proposal to found and build an institute that would push a pure form of supply side economics for housing policy. I’ve called it my message in a bottle. I’ve already written at Forbes about narrative. In what follows I try to reduce this down to […]
Center for Housing Economics, Part 2: Housing Policies for the Future
I have been getting the sense that if I wandered into the woods, cut off from all communication, spending my days just surviving for five or even ten years, I’d return to find the housing conversation stuck in the same place it is today; one group vigorously opposing increased housing supply to solve price issues, […]
