When Bigger Isn’t Better: Rethinking Local Control and Housing Development
https://www.population.fyi/p/when-bigger-isnt-better-rethinking
When Bigger Isn’t Better: Rethinking Local Control and Housing Development
https://www.population.fyi/p/when-bigger-isnt-better-rethinking
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A lot of us have assumptions on where housing gets built. This challenges those assumptions in housing policy and could reshape how we address our housing crisis. The finding that when municipalities get bigger or merge into bigger municipalities, they permit 50% less housing.
This matters for America’s future because our housing shortage is already choking innovation hubs and limiting economic mobility. As we face growing housing needs, understanding these counterintuitive dynamics between government size and development could help unlock solutions we’re currently overlooking.
Let me introduce you to the infernal UK planning system where excessive right to complain leads to nothing ever being built.
Bigger is available only for the multi millionares. Us common folk can live in a 4 by 4 shack with a 30 year credit.
I think this headline is very misleading if you’re US based. The actual paper and even the article is closer to “when local zoning control goes from tiny to average it gets worse” The municipalites went from 57 sq miles to 231 square miles. 231 looks around the size of [the top US cities](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population) while not having the population