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excessor is away for the evening to help count votes for the new ECR board, I'm just researching away.
If you're forced to rent in a high-cost area like SF or NYC, it turns out it can be demonstrated that most of the premium in house prices in areas like that is the result of extensive and capricious regulation of new construction. Typical projects take many more years, and result in far fewer units actually being built, than do projects in other areas. I'd suspected this was the case, but by doing a regression analysis on marginal price differences of houses with more or less land in various areas, this paper proves it.
Oh, and if you pay a really hefty sum for rent or can't even find a place without knowing someone, that's usually rent control at work. Economists are as certain of this as biologists are of evolution -- but the religious will still deny all the evidence as it suits them.
excessor is away for the evening to help count votes for the new ECR board, I'm just researching away.If you're forced to rent in a high-cost area like SF or NYC, it turns out it can be demonstrated that most of the premium in house prices in areas like that is the result of extensive and capricious regulation of new construction. Typical projects take many more years, and result in far fewer units actually being built, than do projects in other areas. I'd suspected this was the case, but by doing a regression analysis on marginal price differences of houses with more or less land in various areas, this paper proves it.
Oh, and if you pay a really hefty sum for rent or can't even find a place without knowing someone, that's usually rent control at work. Economists are as certain of this as biologists are of evolution -- but the religious will still deny all the evidence as it suits them.
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Date: 2005-05-27 07:20 am (UTC)..not to mention Marin county and the east bay hills. It's pretty obscene that most of the hill country around Hayward, Castro Valley, out to Pleasanton remains ranch land, to say nothing of the range of rolling hills between Oakland and Moraga. I think regulation is also largely responsible for the emptied out urban cores across America. It seems whenever a developer wants to build something in Oakland or Berkeley they are beset with outrageous political demands to hire unqualified or expensive minority-owned contractors, provide low income housing, or other intrusive demands. Is there any wonder why Emeryville has so much development. It is interesting to note that Pixar threatened to leave Emeryvilled when the city council there tried to pull some of those stunts.
I think public transit is going to become more and more important as gasoline becomes more expensive. I'm not certain that peak oil is an acute issue. But the arguments against it are weaker than they are for it.