Build, Baby, Build at MSUD
Next week I’m speaking at the Metropolitan State University of Denver, thanks to the excellent Alex Padilla.
Topic: Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation
Can’t make it? Watch the livefeed here.
Already too late? Watch the video here.
Details below. If you attend, please introduce yourself!
P.S. Other upcoming events:
I’ll be in Nashville with my family this coming long weekend. If you want to meet up late, email me.
Sandwiched between my Nashville trip and my Colorado trip, remember that I’m debating Peter Singer via Zoom.
Please make the video recording available, I can’t wait to see it. Thank you very much
Actual examples of NIMBYism would help.
My town has an election coming up in which zoning is one of the big issues. Both candidates are NIMBY. One doesn't want any building the the other supports a luxury condo/retail building downtown but also doesn't want a lot of building. I support the relatively YIMBY candidate since downtown needs more modern businesses and it will relieve some of the water bill, but I'm quite proud and happy with my town having the highest concentration of single family homes on the accella corridor due to zoning. I would support the building of more SFH if it came to a vote, which I guess makes me YIMBY relative to the town median.
Not a one of them talks about preserving property values and I haven't heard a single voter talk about that (nor do they think it in secret IMO). Mostly people complain about traffic and don't want anything ugly to replace the pretty victorian houses on Main Street.
One city over the biggest zoning issue is that a developer wants to relocate the poor immigrant trailer park from the center of the city to (somewhere on the outskirts). The poor immigrants don't want to move (beyond the hassle, they would have to buy cars if moved to the outskirts) and the rich suburbanites don't want the trailer park moved near them. Most of the NIMBY energy seems to come from the poors not wanting to move and the city democrats standing up to the developer on their behalf in exchange for their votes.