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Developer Wit Dream: Save The Planet By Killing Zoning. Good Joke!
Zoning laws were developed to prevent anybody, including builders, from building just anything anywhere. Reasonable enough to prevent housing next to health-endangering industry, and to build buildings to basic standards of safety.
Today's zoning and other safety regulations are not enough to prevent disasters such...
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Minneapolis Drives A Stake Into The Heart Of The American Dreamscape
In a remarkably lopsided Council decision, Minneapolis, Minnesota has made American history by shafting detached-house zoning in every city neighbourhood, even the most upscale...
A 12-Step Program For Woke Housing-Crisis Nations, Courtesy Of Ireland
Much of the world, if not all, is addicted to housing, even to the point of declaring it a human right. It seems to...
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Laws Against Housing Segregation? Not Anymore, If HUD Gets Its Way
Some decades ago, The U.S. federal government outlawed overt segregation. The Veteran's Affairs directive that forbade government housing assistance to returning black WWII veterans is one example.For more about...
Evidence Public Housing Can Be Done Better, The Next Time Around
This post features a 'good news' public housing story. It comes from Germany. We'll admit it right up front, part of the story is a little stale. It's about...
Preventing Homelessness Takes More Than Imagination
In the article linked below, researchers in Wales report about how strategies to prevent homelessness can be undermined, rendering them imaginary.
Iolo Madoc-Jones and colleagues wanted to investigate the effects...
In A City Wilderness, Can A Business Build An Oasis For Its Employees?
After studying a problem, most governments attempt an organized response that includes a timetable for implementing different phases of the solution.
All very well, but where does that leave a...
A 12-Step Program For Woke Housing-Crisis Nations, Courtesy Of Ireland
Much of the world, if not all, is addicted to housing, even to the point of declaring it a human right. It seems to be part the natural human...
King County, Washington Faces Up To The Real Cost Of Truly Affordable Housing
Two years ago, the consulting firm McKinsey & Company delivered a controversial report to King County, Washington. It called for spending a quarter of a billion dollars a year...
Developer Wit Dream: Save The Planet By Killing Zoning. Good Joke!
Zoning laws were developed to prevent anybody, including builders, from building just anything anywhere. Reasonable enough to prevent housing next to health-endangering industry, and to build buildings to basic...
When NIMBY Battlements Fall, Unseemly Victors Gorge On Plunder
Unseemly? Unseemliness?
Unseemliness describes a maniacal gobble-fest between competitors for profits. In this terminology, the behaviour of a flock of seagulls fighting over a spilled bag of chips is . ....
Hong Kong Style Micro Home Living Already Alive and Well in America
Imagine a railway sleeper car with its upper and lower bunks set up nightly, complete with privacy curtains and a ladder to the top bunk. If you've had the...
Bad Housing = Bad Health
i, an on line journal based in the England, has just published an opinion piece that takes aim at health issues in the private rental housing sector in the...
Moab Prof Proves It Can Be Done — Energy Efficiency AND Affordability
Climate change is a new reality facing housing. But with heartfelt cries for housing affordability ringing in government ears everywhere, are costly climate-friendly houses forever to be at odds...
Dallas Provides A Megacity View From The ‘Burbs: Past, Present And Future
A report from Dallas Texas enumerates some of the pros, cons, and one-day-hopeful pros again in a city that is a giant festival of sprawl.
The report focuses on the...
