Monthly Archives: June 2019
A History of Boarding Houses: Ideal Forms of Affordable Housing
In this article I will be exploring the history of boarding houses, rooming houses, lodging houses, guest houses, “pensions”, residential hotels, SROs, co-op living establishments, intentional communities, and similar establishments, in the United States primarily but also in Europe. While such establishments are often seen as a relic of the past, one of the primary …
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This website has been created to share ideas about issues pertinent to housing: property rights, rent control, how to create more housing. We believe that while everyone agrees that more housing is needed, particularly in certain parts of the country like Coastal California and much of the West Coast, the way we are going about …
Need More Housing? Then Don’t Expand Rent Control
“In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city – except for bombing.” — Assar Lindbeck. In Coastal California, throughout the West Coast, as well as in urban areas to the East, and beyond, there is much talk of the rising cost of housing, the …
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