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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Academic studies have found that upzoning isn't the magical panacea its ill-informed supporters think it is. It can lead to higher housing prices, not lower: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1078087418824672?journalCode=uarb [/quote] You’re mischaracterizing the study. The take home from this study is “after upzoning, construction takes a while to get going, so we should think through the short-term effects.” Here’s the author of the study on this topic: [twitter]https://twitter.com/chuckslothower/status/1096162704744534016[/twitter] Yes, good policy, like upzoning, is hard and we need good people in government to make it work.[/quote]
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