“A provision in President Biden’s American Jobs Plan to make housing more affordable by giving cities incentives to abolish single-family zoning has a number of flaws,” says an op-ed published by Real Clear Policy on Monday. “Most important, single-family zoning didn’t make housing expensive and abolishing single-family zoning won’t make it more affordable.”
Homeless tents in Los Angeles’ Skid Row. Photo by Russ Allison Loar.
Urban planners are so eager to impose higher densities on American cities so badly that they are willing to ignore the costs, whether those costs are unaffordable housing or the truth about densities. Unfortunately, almost every city in America has urban planners on its staff while almost no city has an antiplanner on its staff. The result is that no one looks seriously at the unintended consequences that result from their programs and policies, which are usually layered on top of (and supposedly remedies to) the unintended consequences of previous programs and policies. Continue reading
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