Time for a Job Guarantee
In various economic pundit conversations on Twitter, the new target of scorn is Universal Basic Income (UBI). Supporters of UBI (at least those who identify as being more left-leaning) posit […]
It’s Time to Talk about Cops
I don't need to revisit the hundreds of police killings around this country over the past few years (not to mention the dozens of recorded encounters) to know that we […]
There’s No Shortage of Low Quality Housing
In two recent posts, Emily Washington at Market Urbanism (part 2 here) argues that middle class sensibilities, with regard to housing, pose a significant barrier to the construction of affordable units […]
For Cities, Industrial Land Matters
In a recent blog post, Tarry Hum, a professor of urban studies at Queens College, profiled the failure of the De Blasio administration to preserve prime industrial spaces in the […]
The “Both/And” of the Housing Debate
Paul Krugman, the darling of progressive policymakers in the U.S., weighed in on the urban housing question recently, coming down firmly on the side of other economists in placing rising […]
What the “New” Housing Advocates Miss
Today’s housing supply advocates should look at the political and legal histories behind opening up the suburbs and embrace fair housing law as one tool in the fight to gut exclusionary zoning.