Edward Glaeser and Atta Tarki advocate a return to 1950s policies on housing development that will not work in 21st century California. Yes, we must confront high housing costs, but in doing so we need to hang on to the gains we actually made.
Glaeser and Tarki think if you allow developers to build with fewer restrictions, they will pass the savings along to buyers and renters. But there is no guarantee of that. And in some places where policies greatly reduced restrictions — Vancouver, Canada, is an apt case for comparison — housing prices escalated.If we really want to learn from the past, we need to emulate the post-World War II policies that provided cheap housing loans, veterans’ benefits, tax incentives and transportation .
opinion Bill Maher has waited over 1000 days to get solar
opinion It makes it impossible to build affordable housing.
opinion Protects them from more housing.
opinion hey where is your coverage of the thousands of la residents still without power from a little wind and rain? LADWP’s response has been abysmal. someone needs to hold the people in power upholding this infrastructure accountable. god forbid we ever have an earthquake!