Posts tagged Ed Glaeser
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Weekend links: Rent is too damn high
Simple steps to help affordable housing; Vancouver tackles homelessnes; Too much preservation?; Pharma company moves from sprawl to downtown; DC employees worried about transparency; EPA Smart Growth faces uncertain future; Parking lot to become green space; Grocery stores, “but for whom?”; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Unfortunate discoveries
When your landlord meets foreclosure; Culture of pilfering?; Near SE Whole Foods worth $8M?; Take a virtual bike tour of DC; Minimums inflate parking spaces; Glaeser v. planners?; What’s in Obama’s 2012 transportation budget; Unemployment down, oil imports up; And…. Keep reading…
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Sustainable Transportation Five, please step forward
Five unnamed but heroic Democratic Senators refused to support Boxer and Inhofe’s amendment to add $50 billion in highway spending to the stimulus. According to Streetsblog, they insisted on these criteria: Keep reading…
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Ed Glaeser: level the playing field
In a Boston Globe op-ed, Harvard economist Ed Glaeser is the latest to make the argument that our economic policies let suburbs pay less than their fair share while cities pay more. Via Ryan Avent. Keep reading…
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Ed Glaeser: transit attracts poor people?
Richard Florida has a post about a new article by Harvard economist Ed Glaeser that “the income elasticity of demand for land is too low for urban poverty to come from wealthy individuals’ wanting to live where land is cheap (the traditional explanation of urban poverty)… The urbanization of poverty comes mainly from better access to public transportation in central… Keep reading…
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Economists for sprawl?
A Harvard economist, Edward Glaeser, got some press recently for a report he has written about the connection between land-use rules in Massachusetts towns and housing prices. It’s really not much of a surprise that many towns, like Lincoln and Weston (among the richest towns in the Commonwealth) use land restrictions to keep their towns small and expensive. Keep reading…