January 6, 2016
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
House Prices and Job Losses, Gabor Pinter, Bank of England Working Paper No. 569. The Dynamics of Adjustable-Rate Subprime Mortgage Default: A Structural Estimation, Hanming Fang, You Suk Kim & Wenli Li, PIER Working Paper No. 041. High and Low … Continue reading
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December 29, 2015
Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning in NYC
New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer issued an analysis of Mandatory Inclusionary Housing and the East New York Rezoning. It opens, In an effort to address the City’s ongoing affordable housing crisis, the New York City Planning Commission is currently … Continue reading
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December 28, 2015
What Makes NYC Crowded
NewsDocVoices quoted me in What Makes NYC Become More and More Crowded. It reads, in part, Yuqiao Cen, a graduate engineering student at NYU, makes sure to shower before 10pm every night, otherwise she is criticized for making too much noise in … Continue reading
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November 27, 2015
The Marvel of NYC’s Water Supply
Another school holiday, another museum. The family and I went to the Queens Museum. Although I am a lifelong New Yorker, I had never been there before. It is a great, small museum, with just a few galleries. It is … Continue reading
November 27, 2015 in New York City | Permalink | No Comments
November 25, 2015
Affordable New York
I just came back from a great couple of exhibits at the Museum of the City of New York that would be of great interest to the readers of this blog. The first, Affordable New York: A Housing Legacy, provides … Continue reading
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November 24, 2015
NINYBY
A propos of yesterday’s post on the great paradox of housing policy — people say that they want restrictive land use policies which limit the construction of new housing at the same time that they say that they want more affordable … Continue reading
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November 17, 2015
Housing Affordability in NYC
The Citizens Budget Commission has released Whose Burden Is It Anyway? Housing Affordability in New York City by Household Characteristics. The CBC produced some interesting and counterintuitive policy briefs last year, in which it examined housing affordability across large U.S. cities … Continue reading
November 17, 2015 in New York City | Permalink | No Comments
