RealClearInvestigations brings us the first of two articles by Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox which focus on zoning, green belting, and densification measures pushing up housing costs much more rapidly than incomes, and consequently pushing down home ownership and birth rates. This is happening fairly generally across the developed parts of the world.
I have followed Kotkin’s work for at least 15 years. He has consistently maintained that actual people prefer suburban living, free-standing, owner-occupied single family homes, and automobile transportation. This while urban planners prefer dense multifamily, often rental housing connected by public transportation.
What remains unclear is how we produce what people want, and suppress the planners and their hive mentality designs. So far the bad guys are winning. Perhaps the MAGA movement can help with deregulation?
