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Yoni Appelbaum on the real villians behind our housing and mobility problems
Yoni Appelbaum on the real villians behind our housing and mobility problems
He talks to me and Laurence Pevsner about why Jane Jacobs has gone from hero to villain in a generation, why the history of zoning portends further challenges to reform, how the abundance movement is changing the tenor of this debate, how Covid-19 acted as a natural experiment for mobility, and finally, some solutions on how to help Americans live where they want and build a more prosperous future. I think there's a natural impulse to say, "Well, if Jacobs’ cure ultimately proved worse than the disease, what we should do is tack back to the opposite pole with the single, strong, empowered central bureaucrat making unilateral decisions." So as they spent down their social capital and the bank accounts started to run empty, they tended to move back to urban areas or to the places where there was really good job growth in order to keep their careers on track.
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