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Market urbanism vs. market suburbanism smackdown at Cato: “The Death and Life of Affordable Housing”

June 14, 2012 By Stephen Smith

The debate you’ve been waiting for! Randal O’Toole, Matt Yglesias, Ryan Avent, and Adam Gordon participated yesterday in a discussion at the Cato Institute moderated by Diana Lind from Next American City/Forefront. (How had this never happened before??)

Randal O’Toole did not disappoint, arriving in top form in his shoestring necktie and armed with a surprisingly interesting Powerpoint, but I think New Jersey-based attorney Adam Gordon stole the show with his discussion of inclusionary zoning and the Mt. Laurel doctrine (probably because he was on the only one on stage who hasn’t already spewed hundreds of thousands of words on the subject).

You can download the 90-minute discussion as an MP3 from Cato (much easier to scroll through), or watch the video streaming:

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Filed Under: Economics, housing, planning, Policy, Uncategorized, zoning Tagged With: affordable housing, CATO, Matt Yglesias, Randal O'Toole, ryan avent

About Stephen Smith

I graduated Spring 2010 from Georgetown undergrad, with an entirely unrelated and highly regrettable major that might have made a little more sense if I actually wanted to become an international trade lawyer, but which alas seems good for little else.

I still do most of the tweeting for Market Urbanism

Stephen had previously written on urbanism at Forbes.com. Articles Profile; Reason Magazine, and Next City

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