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Getting to do this lecture -- which sought to provide a structural explanation for why urban public services in America struggle despite the high productivity of our private sector -- was such a thrill!
David Schleicher
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David Schleicher
@ProfSchleich
Joined January 2012
- A bad journalism about cities checklist: ✔️Wildly misunderstands the relationship btwn housing supply and prices ✔️Suggests new parks are bad ✔️Says increasing density increases emissions (b/c it focuses on local emissions rather than per capita global)
- It is notable that this is exactly the kind of land use control -- directly favoring an industry that then gets juicy profits - you'd think anti-trust types would be extremely critical of. But they aren't, as far as I can tell...
- Preserving the built form does not preserve history, part 13,458RIP Papaya Dog, Greenwich Village
- An intermediate California appellate court embraced a view that economic growth -- of any kind -- is an environmental harm that needs to mitigated because it draws new people into an area with limited housing. This is the upside-down good-is-bad world created by housing scarcityReplying to @CSElmendorfThe court says that homeless people cause (or are?) an environmental problem, and that bringing more students to Berkeley increases demand for housing and may displace existing residents, driving some into homelessness. Ergo, an EIR for a long-range student enrollment... /19
- Wait, there is no such thing as a snail darter?!?!? @nicholas_bagley
- Booms used to create Boomtowns.
- Despite a few dead-enders, this is the expert consensus "Exclusionary land use and zoning policies constrain land use,...inflate prices, perpetuate historical patterns of segregation, keep workers in lower productivity regions, and limit economic growth." whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
- I think most close watchers are a little surprised at what a big effect the $9 congestion charge has had on traffic -- When Hochul reduced it from $15, it seemed too low to have this substantial an effect. Why has it out-performed expectations?
- I have a new paper out, “Exclusionary Zoning’s Confused Defenders,” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…. The piece reviews articles by some prominent legal academic critics of zoning reform and finds their arguments…. wanting (1/11)
- I'm pretty confident this will be reversed and the laws will be upheld, but it's worth noting that state trial courts -- from Montana to Minnesota to New York -- are central parts of NIMBY politics.It’s just wild the shit we allow courts to do in this country. Oh both houses of the state legislature voted for it and the governor signed it? Well too bad!
- The academic consensus that the only real solution to a housing crisis is increasing supply is even beginning to penetrate the hardest nut to crack: the deeply provincial New York City Council
- Hi everyone! Quick news: @samuelmoyn and I just launched a new podcast: Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast
- We are living through a property tax revolt and almost no one is talking about it
