N TOO MANY metropolitan areas, housing is no longer affordable for middle-class households, especially in markets subject to “urban containment,” now the world’s dominant planning regime. According to planning experts Arthur C. Nelson and Casey Dawkins, urban containment draws “a line around an urban area”; it includes urban growth boundaries and greenbelts. It is “explicitly designed to limit the development of land outside a defined urban area, while
AFFIRMATIVE: Improve Housing Affordability by Restoring the Competitive Land Market
Mar 16, 2023
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