Beth Silverman is working on a non-traditional—and very successful—approach to housing affordability.
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Conflating the one with the other keeps us from understanding the housing market in a coherent way. Here’s why.
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Not every problem associated with housing is directly a supply or scarcity issue, but housing scarcity is real, and it tends to make just about all the other problems associated with housing worse.
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In many cities, supply of commercial spaces far outstripped demand even before the pandemic. Clustering businesses together can be good for consumers, good for business owners, and good for landlords too.
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California recently passed a bill that is supposed to help tenants facing soaring rents. Here’s how it could have the opposite effect—not only hurting renters but making the state’s housing crisis even worse.
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