Mega Cities Require Mega Suburbs

By Edward Ring
05/05/2020
Housing is unaffordable in California, and, increasingly, housing is becoming unaffordable in every other part of the United States where bad policies preside. The shame of these policies is not only the misery they impose on growing proportions of Americans, but the pessimism they represent. Read beyond the initial recitation of mundane obstacles to share...

TAGS: urban containment

How to NOT Solve California’s Housing Crisis

By Edward Ring
10/31/2018
There are obvious reasons the median home price in California is $544,900, whereas in the United States it is only $220,100. In California, demand exceeds supply. And supply is constrained because of unwarranted environmental laws such as SB 375 that have made it nearly impossible to build housing outside the “urban service boundary.” These laws have...

TAGS: California housing crisis, urban containment

California’s Green Bantustans

By Edward Ring
05/21/2014
One of the core barriers to economic prosperity in California is the price of housing. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Policies designed to stifle the ability to develop land are based on flawed premises. These policies prevail because they are backed by environmentalists, and, most importantly, because they have played into the...

TAGS: asset bubble, crony green capitalists, smart growth, urban containment