Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1].
Yesterday we delved into Westchester County’s recent settlement, as reported in the New York Times, of a desegregation lawsuit. Via a clever legal end run, it was brought against the county by the Anti-Discrimination Center, using the False Claims Act:
The case was litigated by Mr. Gurian and the center’s lawyer, John [...]
Forty years after Operation Breakthrough, the question remains: is exclusionary zoning (de jure or de facto in high land prices) racist, or merely elitist?
Racial discrimination, or economic?
Westchester County house values
Only one is illegal, and in the case of Westchester County, as reported in the New York Times, it took a curious private-citizen [...]
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1].
Yesterday’s post examined the hypothetical of raising property taxes while exempting a particular class of elderly homeowners from the increased costs they would vote to impose. As shown in a fascinating quantitative analysis, Massachusetts Proposition 2½, Simulating Overrides with Low-Income Elderly Exemptions, published in the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston article in [...]
Once we have accepted the principle that tax burdens should vary by taxpayer group – and everyone except a few economists have so accepted, at least in the world of political reality – we must choose who gains the more favored treatment – and how we package it.
Long ago, when I matriculated to [...]
Dinosaurs and buggy whips came to my mind when I read (self-referentially, in the Boston Globe
Itself) of three bidders for the money-flushing newspaper:
An investment firm that recently purchased a San Diego newspaper has emerged as a third bidder for The Boston Globe, according to people briefed on offers submitted to the paper’s owner, The New [...]
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