NIMBYism and California’s Housing Shortage
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/opinion/california-housing-nimby.html
A damning indictment from Farhad Manjoo:
“Reading opposition
to SB 50 and other efforts at increasing density, I’m struck by an unsettling
thought: What Republicans want to do with I.C.E. and border walls, wealthy
progressive Democrats are doing with zoning and Nimbyism. Preserving “local
character,” maintaining “local control,” keeping housing scarce and
inaccessible — the goals of both sides are really the same: to keep people out.”
The Great American Single-Family Home
Problem
To End U.K. Housing Shortage, Build More
Houses. Duh
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-30/to-end-u-k-housing-shortage-build-more-houses-duh
“The biggest problem for the government is that a housing policy that is truly effective would make prices fall. This is bound to hit home-owners, including many older people who typically vote for the Conservative party.”
“The biggest problem for the government is that a housing policy that is truly effective would make prices fall. This is bound to hit home-owners, including many older people who typically vote for the Conservative party.”