Worrying about more affordable housing is putting the cart before the horse. Look no further than a quick drive around town to see the loss of manufacturing, closed storefronts in the neighborhoods, etc. Without employment,there’s no reason to live in the city anyway…
The urban immigrant class that rents in the city commutes to suburban industry and manufacturing because suburbs have no housing for them. It’s a ludicrous mess.
Chicago, through zoning, environmental, other regulations, and taxes, made industry far too expensive to remain in the city. Whether these were conscious decisions or unintended consequences is debatable, but ultimately are because of the interference by elites “helping” the little guy too much…
Trying to wrap my head around this! If I understand you, the LA case study implies that good intentions and a snappy slogan aren’t enough to fix an urban problem. Wow. It’s almost like policy proposals need to be analyzed in advance, running through potential scenarios of cost-benefit outcomes and likely new incentives and disincentives. If only we had university graduate programs to train people to do something like that. Somebody should suggest that to Northwestern, UChicago, UIC, etc. The city could even hire the graduates to create and staff a department devoted to the discipline, if that doesn’t sound too crazy.
Rent for a one bedroom apt. is $1900 in Bucktown, Downtown, and Andersenville, which are not areas for Chicago natives.
Worrying about more affordable housing is putting the cart before the horse. Look no further than a quick drive around town to see the loss of manufacturing, closed storefronts in the neighborhoods, etc. Without employment,there’s no reason to live in the city anyway…
The urban immigrant class that rents in the city commutes to suburban industry and manufacturing because suburbs have no housing for them. It’s a ludicrous mess.
Chicago, through zoning, environmental, other regulations, and taxes, made industry far too expensive to remain in the city. Whether these were conscious decisions or unintended consequences is debatable, but ultimately are because of the interference by elites “helping” the little guy too much…
Trying to wrap my head around this! If I understand you, the LA case study implies that good intentions and a snappy slogan aren’t enough to fix an urban problem. Wow. It’s almost like policy proposals need to be analyzed in advance, running through potential scenarios of cost-benefit outcomes and likely new incentives and disincentives. If only we had university graduate programs to train people to do something like that. Somebody should suggest that to Northwestern, UChicago, UIC, etc. The city could even hire the graduates to create and staff a department devoted to the discipline, if that doesn’t sound too crazy.