Housing Crisis Debate

Should cities address high housing costs by building denser or by allowing more low-density housing at the urban fringe? In other words, should American urban areas build up or build out? Wednesday, June 17, Cato will hold a webcast featuring a debate between these two views featuring Market Urbanist Scott Beyer, Cato Senior Fellow Randal O’Toole, and Cato Adjunct Scholar Scott Lincicome.

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The webcast will be from noon to 1 pm Eastern Time and will include an opportunity to question speakers by tweeting to #CatoEvents, using Facebook Live, or using the comment box on this page. You can register for the webcast here. I hope you will be able to join us.

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4 Responses to Housing Crisis Debate

  1. LazyReader says:

    The Housing, like most Crisis is America, is exacerbated by the Government. As they exacerbate most problems with their “Solutions”.

    We debate here “What caused the Housing Crash” But it was a combination of various factors. THE Biggest was the religious belief in Getting something for nothing, Buy a house with money that’s not yours, Claim it’s yours, pay nothing back and whine when you lose your home because you cant afford the mortgage when it’s value collapsed.

    The second was Banks assertion and influence into the governments in both money supply and lend/debt practices.

    The Housing crash was caused by speculators/advocates demanding that banks/lenders give more loans to people with no credit/financial means so when the real estate bubble burst the zero down they were promised meant they PAID NOTHING on a home; if banks received nothing; while surrendering assets away to people with no cash; they look stupid. The second participants were the federal government who created the laws and the loopholes but also because they made banks and lending institution lend to unqualified people including people of color at the behest of public advocates who argued banks were racist. Like Maxine Waters that forced the banks to start making subprime loans through the CRA.

    That’s why the big banks will never be prosecuted despite what political candidates promise…their ultimate prosecutorial defense would be to point out what govt either made them do or said was “Legal”

  2. JOHN1000 says:

    Regarding banks never being prosecuted because the government made them do it? That only applies if you have an accountable government.

    I don’t like Bank of America. But, Bank of America was pushed by the feds to take over some of the worst companies, as part of the banks being coerced by the feds to help save the system. They tried to say no but were threatened by the feds..

    Immediately after that, other feds started going after Bank of America like gangbusters treating BoA as if they did all the wrongs that the companies they took over did. The media and the courts and the usual politicians all piled on. The bank and its shareholders lost billions of dollars for “helping out”.

  3. Sketter says:

    I feel like there are two things wrong with this topic.

    1. The author intentionally conflates cities, metros and regions together when in terms of government structure they are different. The city of San Francisco is built to the brim and can only build denser housing and it does not have the power to dictate where housing can be built in other parts of the Bay Area. King County, WA has an urban growth boundary not the city of Seattle such Seattle does not have the power to dictate where housing can be built outside city boundaries. Just like Washington, DC has built all the way up to its 68.34 square miles and can only build more dense housing if it wants to keep up with demand and the city can’t tell jurisdictions in Maryland and Virginia to build more housing.

    2. Shouldn’t the question be “Should regions address high housing costs by building denser and/or by allowing more low-density housing at the urban fringe”? I never understood why it has to be one OR the other and not both.

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