“No single legislative action did more to contribute to housing creation than the elimination of parking minimums.”
- Director of City Planning
📍 Minneapolis, MN
Causal effects of places on earnings are large. Worker skills are higher in high-wage places. Industry composition explains little of the variation in place effects, from David Card, @rothstein_jesse, and @MoisesYi3 https://t.co/pNyDabpItv
For thousands of years, city planning focused on drawing out a street network, with water and sewer underneath, and reserving regular public spaces, and was mostly agnostic on uses or densities. One hundred years ago, that flipped.
New report from US Surgeon General: The US is in a profound loneliness crisis.
Every measure of population-wide friendship, companionship, and social fitness is is worse than it was 20 years ago.
Place governance has a long history in the US. Great article by Harvard's Alexander von Hoffman based on his chapter in Hyperlocal: Place Governance in a Fragmented World. https://t.co/aB6aGDD54b
Great new report from @RockyMtnInst on land use reform as a key Climate Action Strategy for Lowering Emissions, Increasing Housing Supply, and Conserving land
https://t.co/kHXucRBJwd
The University of Toronto Downtown Recovery project uses mobile phone data to assess recovery in urban areas.
Downtowns with the strongest recovery:
- Salt Lake City
- Central Valley CA
- mostly SW cities
Weakest recovery:
- San Francisco
- Midwest cities
- Seattle, Portland
America has too much parking. “The Dutch have reclaimed land from the sea ...we can reclaim land from parking,” said Donald Shoup of UCLA. Waiving parking requirements gave a Charlotte building 25% more apts and $250 lower rents, @d_harrison reports. https://t.co/dmTDaatRgA
NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got.
My column: https://t.co/dBIhT9eZLv
And some utterly damning charts.
1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.
“Not only is the world coming apart, is it is really falling apart for people without a BA”
- Angus Deaton
@BrookingsInst #BPEA
Adult life expectancy by BA status -
NEW: housing shortages, affordability crises and NIMBYism are growing problems in many countries, but what’s especially striking is how much worse they all are in Anglophone countries 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇦🇺🇳🇿🇨🇦🇮🇪
What’s going on?
My column -> https://t.co/aT14VAzQSm
Zoning that requires parking lots for new development has turned America into an asphalt nation. But now cities across the country are tossing those rules. My story for @nytimesbusiness@nytimes https://t.co/IncaKc5ujn