Market Urbanism

Supporters of new housing tend to believe that high housing costs increase homelessness, because expensive cities tend to have the largest number of homeless people.  Recently, Christopher Rufo of the Manhattan Institute has

Samuel Hughes asks an excellent question in Works in Progress: Why aren’t there any YIMBYs, or NIMBYs for that matter, in continental Europe? It’s not for lack of high home prices.

Instead, Hughes hypothesizes that underlyi...

Often, opponents of the pro-housing YIMBY* movement either do not care about the negative results of high housing costs, or are simply careless with the facts. Patrick Condon of the University of British Columbia is more interesting: he ...

Recently I saw an argument on X that went something like this:

Person A- infill is cheaper than sprawl because no one has to build new sewer lines!

Person B- Sprawl is cheaper because its more expensive to build in the city!

Person B’s post made me wonder: is suburbia always cheaper?

I decided to do a rough comparison: the cheapest new ...

Two useful resources came across my desk this week. From Sargun Kaur and Bhuvana Anand, an analysis of recent building reforms in eight Indian states – not all of which succeeded in expanding the practically buildable space. They use a prototypical hotel to exemplify wh...