A RECENTLY published housing study says: “San Francisco is one of the densest large cities in the U.S.” That is true in both senses of the word “dense.” Nowhere are San Franciscans more dense than when talking about housing — especially...
Housing
The Defrauders Next Door: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Fraud is so inherent to the operation of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that “HUD Scandal” might as well be one word. The latest hudscandal involves a feel-good program (what else?) for cops and teachers. Since 1997, police officers...
Housing and Overpopulation: Shocked by the Obvious
The obvious makes headlines in California. Maybe this shows that a sense of reality or common sense is not something that can be taken for granted among Californians. A recent headline stretching across the top of the front page announced that “Population dwarfs...
The Antidote for Zoning: The “Coming to the Nuisance” Doctrine (Part 4)
The Coming to the Nuisance Doctrine is the only objective means of determining who has the right to continue using his property in the event of a nuisance. If zoning is to be replaced, therefore, it must be replaced with the Coming to the Nuisance doctrine. Since it...
The Antidote for Zoning: Bringing Objectivity to the Land Development Process (Part 3)
“Coming to the Nuisance” means exactly what it sounds like: if a property owner is using his property so as to cause a nuisance to another property owner, then the property owner who was the earlier to start his particular use is the one who has the right...
Isn’t Zoning Necessary to Prevent Nuisances? (Part 2)
The proponents of zoning claim that such initiation of force is necessary against developers to prevent the occurrence of nuisances. A “nuisance” is defined as the effect from an activity on others which unreasonably interferes with another’s lawful...
The Evils of Zoning: Subjecting Landowners to Arbitrary Whim
Real estate developers have good reason to feel cannibalized when they attempt to develop something today. Building permits for their projects are often exceedingly difficult to secure, requiring thousands of dollars in architect’s and attorney’s fees, and...
The Interstate Highway System and the Disfiguring of America, A Tale of Two Kinds of Cities: Part 5
The interstates were never the result of some individualistic, egoistic ‘love of the private automobile’, but rather of anti-capitalist, mixed-economy politics straight-up: the initiation of physical force for the sake of the greatest good for the greatest pressure gr…
Slums: The Legacy of “Urban Renewal”: Tale of Two Kinds of Cities , Part 4
Urban Renewal disfigured cities because of the introduction of eminent domain into the land development process.
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