Matt Teichman
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11,523 appearances
153 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2009
last heard 21 Jul
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But it seems like maybe what you're arguing isn't that like literally nobody likes to live in the suburbs, but rather the proportion of people who live in the suburbs is skewed heavily, suburb words, because of these policies.
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And if buildings were allowed to be built where buildings kind of wanted to be built, then we would see a more reasonable proportion of people living in the suburbs versus living in medium density areas versus living in cities.
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Is that right?
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It's very event space-y, conference-y.
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Yeah.
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And definitely, I mean, I don't have hard data on this, just anecdotal, but some non-trivial proportion of people who live in faraway suburbs would rather just live in the city and they can't afford it.
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And they only live in the suburbs because that's what they can afford.
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Maybe we could also step through, what's the mechanism by which more building in urban areas would lower housing prices in those areas?
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It's interesting because I think a lot of people have the intuition that like, well, New York is expensive and New York has lots of people living in the same place.
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So maybe it's expensive because there's all these people living in the same place.
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And then I think that's what leads some people to have the intuition like, well, if we allow building, it's just going to create more expensive dwellings.
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But it seems like, yeah, maybe that's not right.
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Maybe actually the cause and effect is backwards there.
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And in fact, the density is detracting from what would be even higher prices where we find it.
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This is like about four times the size of New York, right?
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Population-wise.
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I think so.
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Yeah.
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Are there other factors other than zoning regulations which, in your view, have led to the housing crisis?
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it's not like you're anti-safety.
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