Dumb Growth Limits
Yet again the “Smart Growth” people have managed to make housing increasingly unaffordable. In Eugene, Oregon (of all places) smart growth policies have so limited new housing construction that housing prices are gentrifying the population “right before our eyes”. When will this madness stop? Still the steadfast refusal of smart growth crowd to modify their positions while at the same time acknowledging the problems they are creating is disheartening. This Out of Control Blog item details the issue, which parallels the problem we have here. How many homeless do we have to have before we realize these policies don’t work.