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The Planning Penalty: How Smart Growth Makes Housing Unaffordable0
- March 28, 2006
Abstract
Smart growth and other forms of growth-management planning create artificial housing shortages that impose significant burdens on low-income families and first-time homebuyers. This paper examines several sources of housing data to determine the specific effects of growth-management planning on housing prices.
READ MORENo Two Ways About It: One-Way Streets Are Better Than Two-Way0
- February 10, 2005
A recent article in the New York Times describes a transportation planner in the Netherlands who advocates making streets city safer by making them more dangerous.
READ MOREThe invisible B.C. government and your rights to property0
- January 25, 2005
In May 2005 I notice a parking ticket on my motor home for $100.00 the ticket said that I was guilty of parking a large vehicle for more that 3 hours abutting private residents. Ok I am choked. You see I work in the movie industry as a first aid attendant and work long hours..
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Creating a Housing Crisis:How Government Makes Housing Unaffordable in the Denver Metropolitan Area0
- December 1, 2004
The Independence Institute’s Center for the American Dream works to give people freedom of choice in land use and transportation while protecting urban livability and environmental quality. The “dream” of the Center for the American Dream is affordable homeownership, mobility, a clean and livable environment, and personal freedom for all Americans, not just an elite few.
READ MOREThe Mobility Plan for Denver0
- September 7, 2004
In 2001, Denver was the nation’s twentieth-largest urban area, but by most measures it suffered the nation’s fourth or fifth worst congestion. The Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG) predicts that, under its 2025 regional transportation plan, the amount of time the average Denver resident wastes sitting in traffic will increase by 73 percent by 2025. RTD’s plan to build FasTracks will reduce this only slightly to a 65-percent increase.
READ MOREThe Full Truth About Fastracks0
- June 24, 2004
FastTracks supporters tell voters that rail transit will reduce congestion, clean the air, and promote economic development. In reality, it won’t do any of these things; it will just waste at least $8.3 billion of the taxpayers’ money.
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