‘Fix zoning, fix the housing crisis,’ economists say in new poll

NIMBYism costs the economy a trillion dollars every year.

Hsieh and Moretti estimate that moving American workers to higher-productivity cities could increase the income of Americans by a stunning amount: more than $1 trillion. That amounts to a raise of several thousand dollars for every American worker.

For all the empty retail and corporate office buildings. Is it impossible to convert some of them to residential housing?

I know plumbing may be an issue, so make the landlords pay the city for added waterlines and sewer drains.

I just want to stop paying $3k for a 1 bedroom apartment.

Considering neo-liberalist economic policies across America since Reagan like anti-taxation laws (e.g. Prop 13 in California) and Citizen’s United, this is much easier said than done.

does immigration affect housing? The demand side of the equation

Single-family housing and car dependency is a scourge to be eradicated.