The Monster That Devoured Denver | The Antiplanner
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A Tax on Social Mobility
. . . because those running our cities are stupid. Read more below the fold! This Is Where America's Runaway Inflation Is Hiding
. . . an event which deeply hurts the poor, and lower middle class. Don't worry, our local governments are not going to change course just to help keep our poor out of the poor house, No siree! Our local governments will stick to their destructive zoning, growth, and services boundary laws regardless of the consequences for the poor, the lower class, and even the middle class. Just take a look at San Francisco where you will see anyone earning less than $200,000 is pretty much boxed out of the home ownership racket. Rental inflation is driven by a lack of developable land proximate to where people would like to live. This is commonly a false problem driven primarily by zoning and land use laws. Boomer versus Millennial Wrestling World Smackdown, Portland is out ahead, but Seattle is running a close second! Increasingly most of our economic problems are driven by economically incompetent government policies. Perhaps it is time for a change? LILEKS (James) :: The Bleat 2016 . . . with photos, and video! Lilek's is brilliant. How Americans fell for this tripe back in the 1960s-1970s is unfathomable, but it happened. Thanks to Ed Driscoll Instapundit JAMES LILEKS ON HOW TO MURDER A CITY Another city murdered by progressives. The shot: The chaser: The hangover: The solution:
Get rid of progressive government, reform the economic model to allow businesses to thrive. Small Business Should Be Priority Number One The Stockman, The Donald, The Noonan all in one place! Britain’s Self-Inflicted Housing Crisis | The Antiplanner . . . as the Antiplanner notes, that question is a smaller question than some others in Britain's quiver of problems. "The Antiplanner has spent the last week in Britain, and everywhere I went people were talking about Brexit: the vote in June on whether Britain should leave the European Union. Britain originally joined the union when it was a free-trade area, but since then it has grown increasingly intrusive on the economies of its member states." Who would have guessed that progressive Euro Socialists would really be little more than dictators in drag? The Euro idea, of free markets is a terrific idea, and should be replicated the world round. If we were smart we would kick this off by opening trade with all comers, no tariffs. The Antiplanner is correct, the Brits must correct their land use laws or face the slow death of a nation whose people cannot afford their housing. As for Brexit, the discussion should revolve around what the EU will look like in 10, 20 and 30 years. but it revolves only around whether Britain will suffer tomorrow if it leaves the union. Good luck Britain, you will need it. The latest support for the position that land use, and zoning is destroying our cities . . .4/20/2016 This San Francisco council member has a clever idea to address the coastal housing shortage . . . comes from progressives! Wut? Once the progressives climb on board you can bet the problem is bad, Major Kong rides the bomb bad . . . Oh, there's more after the break! Millennial Home Ownership: Disappointment Ahead in Some Places? | Newgeography.com
This is listed as a Millennial issue, but the problem has been created by Boomers who want to keep their property values high by retaining destructive urban growth and/or services boundaries, and highly limiting zoning, and construction/development policies. "Millennial renters overwhelmingly plan on buying their own homes, though affording them could be far more challenging than they think." More after the fold! Chinese millennials discover joys of co-living - FT.com
. . . China has doubled down with its one child policy, now hell is a nation of 1.3 billion people where all the children are only children! Can't you just feel the narcissism? "By the age of 30, well-educated Chinese men like Yuan Hongfan are expected to be married, with apartment and child. But the event planner and emcee is one of a growing number of Chinese urbanites in their 20s and 30s who are unable or unwilling to buy a place and increasingly happy to defy parental and societal pressure to settle down early. After struggling to find a rental apartment in the booming megacity of Guangzhou where he lives, Mr Yuan recently moved into a new kind of accommodation designed to meet the needs of this new generation of young Chinese. Co-living spaces — which are like a luxury student hall of residence with rent and utilities rolled into a monthly fee — are springing up in China’s biggest cities, mirroring their initial success in Europe and the US. “It’s really good living here and I feel like I’ve gone back to university because it’s so easy to make friends here compared with where I used to stay,” Mr Yuan says in his 25 sq m room, which costs Rmb3,000 ($464) a month and features a wall-sized photo of himself at a party in his hip-hop get-up." A wall sized selfie! How, er, um, Presidential! The unbearable self absorption of the Chinese only child. Luckily, China has millions of them, and all searching for ways to become even more self absorbed. Maddogsfamily has hosted four Chinese students. All were nice, polite, and, frankly, a bit odd, and all were incredibly self absorbed, and narcissistic. How could they not be, they are the little Emperor of their family, they are the focus, the raison d'être of the family. "Ms Zeng insists that while Chinese urbanites are seeking shelter from the alienation of big city life, they want to determine their destiny more than ever." The cure for the alienation of the city is to leave. The city was a mistake, the quicker China realizes this, the quicker they can achieve better well being for all Chinese. America's cities are booming — for a very specific demographic
"Americans aren’t moving back to the cities. Just 20- and 30-somethings. But actually, not all 20- and 30-somethings are moving back to the cities. Only those with a four-year college degree and incomes in the top 40 percent are. And not even all 20- and 30-somethings with a four-year college degree and incomes in the top 40 percent are moving back into cities. Mostly the ones without school-age kids are. And if you thought that was it, it turns out that not all 20- and 30-somethings with a four-year college degree in the top 40 percent of income without school-age children are moving back into cities. It’s mostly just the ones that are white." Ok, you've already heard this from me. Cities were a mistake. We are beginning the great re-arrangement of where and how Americans live. The young will continue to enjoy cities, but that will be only until they have children, then they will leave. We will ultimately need to repurpose our cities. If we do not, they will become hollowed out like Detroit. If we do, we can likely repurpose them as business, and entertainment centers. The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050, by Joel Kotkin Kotkin is a excellent demographer who has a good grasp of American demographic history, current trends, and extrapolates a well reasoned scenario of what America will look like in 2050. It is well worth a read. |
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