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Does Sprawl Make Housing Affordable?

  • 1.  Does Sprawl Make Housing Affordable?

    Posted 09-20-2016 04:38 PM

    Does Sprawl Make Housing Affordable?

    When a Berkeley economist with a PhD  asserts in a new paper that sprawl is the best way of generating affordable housing and uses a litany of graphs to prove that single family development is not only the domain of suburbia but also of all American cities and Columbia PhD urban planner Richard Florida writes a rebuttal in CityLab, the sparring should be quite interesting....

    Alas, in spite of Issi Romem's contention that cities have to choose between expansive or expensive, Florida has little to offer in the way of a rebuttal.

    Read a rebuttal here

    Does Sprawl Make Housing Affordable?

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    Does Sprawl Make Housing Affordable?
    When a Berkeley economist with a PhD asserts in a new paper that sprawl is the best way of generating affordable housing and uses a litany...
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    Nikolaus Philipsen FAIA
    Archplan Inc. Philipsen Architects
    Baltimore MD
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