Facebook: Another Conversation About Markets and Housing
There two things that cause some of us no end of frustration: really smart people mischaracterizing the views of a market approach to addressing housing issues and an odd misunderstanding of what a market is and how it works. In the first case, nobody I know makes the argument that drastically deregulating the housing market will […]
Housing Economics: What Made Me an Un-Democrat
As I sat in my usual coffee shop Saturday I could help but feel a little left out. I kept hearing, “On my way to the caucus!” and “Yep, heading for the caucus!” Well, I wasn’t. And it wasn’t because I don’t care about presidential politics. Of course I’m interested. But for me to show […]
Putting Growth in Perspective: Latest Market Up-Date from Mike Scott
I was planning to post this video and I thought about the presentation Mike Scott of Dupre + Scott made to Council on March 14th. I told Scott he has tremendous patience to do presentations about the housing market only to have the data ignored in favor of old census data cobbled together by City staff. […]
