I just finished reading Richard Florida's new book, The New Urban Crisis. Florida writes that part of this "crisis" is the exploding cost of housing in some prosperous cities. Does that make him a market urbanist? Yes, and no.On the one hand, Florida criticizes existing zoning laws and the … [Read more...]
Richard Florida Should Replace The Term ‘Creative Class’ With ‘Country Club’
Here’s a fun fact about me: I embody the Creative Class.I live in a big, old witchhatted townhouse between Dupont Circle and Adams Morgan in Washington, DC. I love locally raised produce and my exposed brick yoga studio has a juice bar. I fall in love with every silver bullet remedy for civic … [Read more...]
Return to Sender: Housing affordability and the shipping container non-solution
Washington, D.C. has a monopoly on many things. Bad policy, unfortunately, isn’t among them. Last month, a development corporation in Lexington, Kentucky installed a shipping container house in an economically distressed area of town to improve housing affordability. The corporation is a private … [Read more...]