Affordable Housing Institute : US

 
A town is a business that sells quality of life and competes with other towns to attract real estate tax payers.  It spends its revenue on infrastructure that enhances quality of life and enables it to attract more workers and real estate tax payers.  Some towns are so attractive, relative to their rural competition, that […]

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 
Yesterday we saw that Boston, whose mayor I’ve alternately tweaked and applauded, has now decided that while four or fewer students living together are all right, five or more are right out:
 

In the Real World, will three of you have to move out?
 
Continuing from the Boston Globe story, we discover that […]

What’s a family?  And who decides?
 
In that bizarre city across the river from me, I’ve tweaked the mayor for his foolish approach to taxation and applauded him for his visionary pipe dream of moving City Hall out of downtown, but he at least is not the leading force behind the latest splutteringly dumb initiative being […]

As urbanization remakes the global south, it’s also operating much closer to home, and though Americans are much better equipped to cope with them, the changes are no less profound. 
 

 
As highlighted in this article from The Economist, America’s northern center – the Mississippi and Missouri drainage basins – is slowly or rapidly depopulating, except […]