Thoughts for Tonight’s Microhousing Hearing: 5:30PM at City Hall
Tonight’s hearing on microhousing is likely to be a free for all of microhousing hate and hopefully some microhousing love. But what are the basics on the issue to take with you to the meeting if you support the product as a solution? Let’s use the City’s own assumptions. Here’s what the Department of Planning […]
Regulation, Inflation, and Innovation: The Airline Example
After several months of tangling with advocates of price controls on housing and those who argue that more housing means higher housing prices, I had to watch this video from a PBS series called Commanding Heights. Commanding Heights is a series worth watching. You can’t watch this segment or any other part of the series […]
The 100 Percent Rule: A Year of Preschool for 800 Kids
In my last post about the importance of the 100 percent rule staying in small-lot legislation I talked about the impact of creating 250 new homes, including jobs and tax revenue. Councilmember Tim Burgess has suggested that this number of homes is not “meaningful.” But based on methodology developed by the National Association of Home […]
