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| | A new study by researchers in Helsinki confirms prior research showing that new market-rate housing construction can reduce local rents by making it easier for people to move. Key takeaways: Bratu et al. (2021) at the VTT Institute for Economic...
| | www.jacobinmag.com
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| | YIMBYs look to the free market to solve the housing crisis. But the profit motive is what caused the affordability crunch in the first place.
| | bike-lab.org
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| | After doing some crunching this week on data about rapidly-gentrifying Valencia Street in San Francisco, and finding that residential density is actually dropping in the neighborhood despite new housing construction, I wondered whether the same phenomenon could be found elsewhere in the country. I didn't have to wait long for another case study, as Lynda Lopez and a number of other peeps I follow from Chicago posted about Mayor Lori Lightfoot's ill-considered statement about "vibrancy" in Pilsen, a gentr...
| | www.keithhennessey.com
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| The national average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline is one penny short of its all-time high (adjusted for inflation), at $3.22 per gallon. That's about $1 per gallon higher than early last November. In recent years, it reached $3.04 in September of 2005, and $3.00 in August of 2006. The post Why are gas prices high, and what can we do about it? appeared first on Keith Hennessey.