Category: Zoning and land use

Looking to Washington for ideas? Part 1: Look more closely

24 July, 2007 (10:01) | Markets, US News, Zoning and land use | No comments

 
Once upon a time, people looked to Washington for affordable housing ideas.  With the waning of the Federal government, innovation shifted to the provinces. 
 
Now, at least briefly, Washington is a hive of innovation.
 

A hive of lawmaking?
 
Not on Capitol Hill, however; at City Hall, as the policy inversion continues, with local government outpacing and out-piloting […]

8 simple rules for taking my urban property: Part 2

22 November, 2005 (11:36) | Eminent domain, Government, Housing, Legislation and policy, Multipart posts, Tenure, Theory, US News, Zoning and land use |

[Continued from Part 1]
 
Kelo came about as a result of a brilliantly orchestrated multi-year strategy by a small advocacy group, the Institute For Justice.  For fifteen years they’ve worked on takings matters, first in regulatory takings — First English, Nollan, Palazzolo, and Tahoe-Sierra – with efforts that have largely failed.
 
They’ve cherry-picked plaintiffs with great […]

8 simple rules for taking my urban property: Part 1

21 November, 2005 (10:41) | Eminent domain, Government, Housing, Legislation and policy, Multipart posts, Tenure, Theory, US News, Zoning and land use |

Last Thursday evening, Jerold S. Kayden, co-chair of the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Department of Urban Planning and Design, after an introduction by Professor Rick Peiser (head of the GSD’s Real Estate Academic Initiative), gave a fascinating and cogently argued hour-plus talk on eminent domain for economic development (ED4ED) as seen through the lens […]