Market Urbanism

Andrew Miller at Changing Lanes recently re-posted his 2025 article, “The 50% problem.” He’s positively inclined toward self-driving cars, but recognizes tha...

On June 23, Congress passed its first big, standalone housing policy bill in a generation. The bill, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, is a salad of small reforms and previously-introduced bills. One of those is the Build Now Act, Section 213 of the ...

If the 2010s were the decade that urbanists “discovered” zoning as a major force in American cities, the 2020s are the decade of discovering all the non-zoning restrictions and regulations that restrict housing construction and urban change, especially building codes and

Every so often I read tweets complaining that the wrong kind of housing is being built. Some complain that there aren’t enough houses being built, because houses are supposedly more family-friendly. Others complain that there aren’t enough apartments being built, because later marriage rates and longer life spans mean that we have more people living alone. Still others focus ...