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Yet Another Tale of Two Cities: Buenos Aires and Chicago

Buenos Aires and Chicago grew during the nineteenth century for remarkably similar reasons. Both cities were conduits for moving meat and grain from fertile hinterlands to eastern markets.

The Causes and Consequences of Land Use Regulation: Evidence from Greater Boston

Over the past 30 years, eastern Massachusetts has seen a remarkable combination of rising home prices and declining supply of new homes, which doesn't appear to reflect any lack of land.

Help Wanted in Public Service

A slow fuse is burning under the federal government that threatens to derail the Obama administration's ambitious plans for economic recovery, healthcare reform, financial regulation, and much else.

Foreclosing the Crisis

Green Cities, Brown Suburbs

Contends that much local environmentalism, with its antidevelopment posture, is, in fact, bad for the environment, and that urban development leaves a smaller carbon footprint than low-density suburbs

New Lending Deals Won't Bring Back 2006

Rethinking Federal Housing Policy

Despite the recent drop in house prices, housing remains unaffordable for many ordinary Americans. Particularly along the coasts, housing remains extremely expensive.

Borrowing to Live: Consumer and Mortgage Credit Revisited

Revisiting the Vocabulary of Housing: A Place to Live

This Old House Policy