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Facebook: Toward an Honest Understanding Real Estate Financing, Linkage, and Land Value

Unfortunately there has been a campaign by people calling themselves “urbanists” who are trying to both be in favor of density, not supportive of NIMBYs, and advocates of linkage tax, a scheme that won’t help density and truly is about squashing growth. Dan Bertolet has essentially demolished the foundation of their argument (undertaken more for […]

How High Is It? Housing Affordability Measures are Way Off

Every year much is made by non-profit affordable housing advocates of the Out of Reach report, a study produced by the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC). Every year the study puts out a number of what a person would have to earn to afford an apartment. The standard always used is the typical one, […]

Low-Rise Battle: Filling the Missing Middle

I’ve written before about the importance of figuring out how to build more density into and around single-family and low-rise neighborhoods. For example, we talked about courtyard housing as a way to create more density and affordability. There’s a great term for this need: the missing middle. And there is a great website called the Missing […]