Affordable Housing Institute : US

In yesterday’s post, we followed a Boston Globe story about the demographic shakers — Cape Cod’s home owner population, which has voted itself restrictions on growth and in so doing insured that on the one hand, the incumbents will become richer, and on the other, that they will find it ever harder to lure in […]

I’ve always admired the Shakers, whose belief that faith alone will swell their numbers is so strong they renounce not just procreation but marriage itself.  God will provide, God will bring the new faithful.     Centuries ago, there were many of us.
 
Their commitment is admirable – and they are dying out.  Unless God provides, in the […]

 
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] 
 
Yesterday we saw that that infamous minority, ’some’ residents of Indiana, PA, want to keep ‘those people’ (in this case, students) away from their nice residential area. 
 
“It’s a nice area — that’s what bothers me,” Shirley Hoover said. “When you look at the houses, you know which ones are college […]

Communities exist because people come together, and as people are a totality, not dismemberable into economic versus biological elements —
 

We don’t want you in our community
 
– one would expect that a locality would embrace the rough with the smooth.  Yet often localities wish to separate a group’s money (which they prize) from its presence (which […]

 
Yesterday I reviewed Steven Pearlstein’s column seeking a regional solution, and finished by rhetorically asking what was the one feature that distinguishes Washington DC from its neighboring towns?
 

“I’m staying under the height restriction!”
 
The height restriction.
 
Virtually unique among US — at least, I know of no other — the District has forbidden buildings taller than 160 […]