It's refreshing to see the recent attention paid to the disastrous effects of zoning, "community input", etc. on the incentives for housing developers to build. Very glad to hear about what happened with Western Avenue; also I highly recommend Matthew Yglesias's Substack for numerous high quality articles on the legal and logistical cluster**** you'll encounter if you try to build an apartment building in a typical American city, and what's being done about it.
Hey thanks! I'm certainly a fan of Matt's writing. I do think it gets trickier here than in New York, DC, or San Francisco... we have neighborhoods that face the same zoning issues that we see on the coasts, but there are also large chunks of the city that will require reforms to lower construction costs and boost investment more broadly.
It's refreshing to see the recent attention paid to the disastrous effects of zoning, "community input", etc. on the incentives for housing developers to build. Very glad to hear about what happened with Western Avenue; also I highly recommend Matthew Yglesias's Substack for numerous high quality articles on the legal and logistical cluster**** you'll encounter if you try to build an apartment building in a typical American city, and what's being done about it.
Hey thanks! I'm certainly a fan of Matt's writing. I do think it gets trickier here than in New York, DC, or San Francisco... we have neighborhoods that face the same zoning issues that we see on the coasts, but there are also large chunks of the city that will require reforms to lower construction costs and boost investment more broadly.