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White House Economists Worry About Land-Use Regulations
- SCAQTony 11y agoI read this as a suggestion for cities to adopt more R2 zoning. I heard an architect once say that a city will only grow as large as it takes for a person to travel from one end to city to the other within an hour. Perhaps rapid transit solutions could create more affordable housing on the outskirts of any given city?
- ceras 11y agoIt's sadly not a very sexy issue, but there are few ways to clearly have a large impact on US well-being than reforming land-use regulations. Several European countries have similar problems. Unfortunately implementing the solution is a political nightmare. GiveWell, a meta-charity working to isolate the most improvement in the world you can create per dollar spent, has a nice overview of land-use reform and its political challenges: http://www.givewell.org/labs/causes/land-use-reform http://www.givewell.org/labs/causes/land-use-reform
- eli_gottlieb 11y agoAwesome to see GiveWell getting into political advocacy in precisely so high-impact and yet low-attention a cause! Land reform is also now an especially vital issue since present-day economic trends have pushed a re-urbanization of the population after the suburbanization of the post-WW2 era.