Yes We Do | Feb 12th at 4:21pm
Panelist Richard Baron just said that we don’t have a national housing policy. This isn’t true! We may not have a coherent or comprehensive policy, but the federal government has had and continues to have a massive impact on housing in this country.
Duncan Black has been running the blog Eschaton since 2002. He has a Ph. D in economics from Brown University, and lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two cats.
DLSPA on Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 5:08pm
We do have a coherent national housing policy - Sprawl. Our policy to build and expand roads is quite clear. The small number of big cities that have removed highways notwithstanding, the dominant typology in our nation is T3, Suburbs, supported by 50+mph paved roads and zoning for single family housing.
Its brought us traffic accidents, low social capital, oil dependence, and now the mortgage crisis.
If we change our transportation priorities, our housing policies will roll right along with them.