Ryan Avent suggests, in response to a fierce battle over a DC neighborhood plan, that neighborhoods be offered NIMBY insurance:
[I]s there a market for NIMBY insurance?
That is, I’d love to collect tiny premiums from residents looking at potential development near their homes, in exchange for which I’d take responsibility for the change in value of their home relative to homes outside of the directly affected area.
If their property does poorly relative to other...
Dictating homeownership
Developers are frequently criticized for failing to provide community benefits. This is sometimes a fair criticism. But neighborhoods often deserve the same: they have no incentive to...
Dictating homeownership
Developers are frequently criticized for failing to provide community benefits. This is sometimes a fair criticism. But neighborhoods often deserve the same: they have no incentive to...
Sidewalk Master Plan
Here (5.5 MB pdf). Council likely will consider it in February. Austin has 3,500 linear miles of absent sidewalk. City staff estimates it will cost $750 million to build out the network....
Sidewalk Master Plan
Here (5.5 MB pdf). Council likely will consider it in February. Austin has 3,500 linear miles of absent sidewalk. City staff estimates it will cost $750 million to build out the network....
Sidewalk Master Plan
Here (5.5 MB pdf). Council likely will consider it in February. Austin has 3,500 linear miles of absent sidewalk. City staff estimates it will cost $750 million to build out the network....
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