The City Council’s Planning Land Use and Sustainability (PLUS) Committee heard back from Department of Planning and Development (DPD) staff yesterday reporting on a review of parking policy. The report was added to microhousing legislation last year by Councilmember Rasmussen who, by all accounts, seems to be on something of a campaign to add more parking […]
I have a guest editorial at Publicola about rent control. The editorial goes through what I wrote about earlier this week about the fact that we already have lots of rent restricted units in town and that we can always add more. Publicola published my modification of Councilmemer Sawants Soviet style posters calling for rent […]
I have already pointed out before that rent control (really a price control) won’t work. Price controls never work to do the thing they are supposed to do: lower prices. And there is almost unanimity among economists who haven’t just speculated theoretically on the topic but studied it that rent control doesn’t work. But what […]