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By Paul Boudreaux

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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 11:17:06

Schargrodsky and Galiani on Property Rights for the Poor

Posted on February 25, 2010
Ernesto Schargrodsky (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) and Sebastian Galiani (Washington U--Economics) have posted Property Rights for the Poor: Effects of Land Titling. The abstract: Secure property rights are considered a key determinant of economic development...

Climate Change, Water, & Adaptive Law Symposium at Houston

Posted on February 25, 2010
Jamie Roskie mentioned this event once before, but since it is about to take place I thought I'd post a reminder. The place to be on Friday, Feb. 26, is in Houston at the UH Law School's sixth annual Environmental...

Monuments and the West

Posted on February 25, 2010
For many of us in the South who live with monuments on nearly every street corner of one kind or another, the recent controversy over monument designations "out West" is surprising. On the other hand, most people don't think of...

Faux "Green"...

Posted on February 23, 2010
This story from NPR about the State of California's new law requiring certain "green" measures for all new construction represents a fundamental flaw with the whole idea of "green" new housing. The fundamental flaw is the idea that building a...

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Smart Growth Implementation Assistance from EPA

Posted on February 22, 2010
I'm on the listserv for EPA's Smart Growth office. Here's an announcement that came over the weekend. Request for Letters of Interest: Smart Growth Implementation Assistance Free technical assistance available! The Development, Community, and Environment Division in EPA?s Office of...

Developer Doubles Up on New Buyer Tax Credit

Posted on February 22, 2010
From today's Gainesville (Ga.) Times, a story about a developer who is offering to double the first time homebuyer and "move up" homebuyer tax credits as an incentive to buy in his subdivision in South Hall County (less than an...

NYC's Affordable Housing Plan: "Build Less, Preserve More"

Posted on February 22, 2010
New York City's plan for affordable housing under Mayor Bloomberg, called the New Housing Marketplace Plan, anticipates the "creation or preservation of 165,000 affordable homes," according to Cara Buckley's February 21, 2010, article in the New York Times...

NYT Book Review: "The Routes of Man"

Posted on February 20, 2010
Janet Maslin of the New York Times has reviewed a collection of essays by Ted Conover, The Routes of Man: How Roads are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today." Click here for a link to Maslin's review...

2010 National Award for Smart Growth Nomination Period Opens

Posted on February 19, 2010
From Delores Wingo-Huntley at EPA: Applications are now being accepted for the 2010 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement. This competition is open to public- and private-sector entities that have successfully used smart growth principles to improve communities environmentally, socially,...

Massive CRE Problems on the Horizon...

Posted on February 19, 2010
Have you looked at any recent Planning Commission agendas and noticed a lack of commercial real estate items? If you live almost anywhere in the U.S., you likely saw just that. Hardly any rezoning, development plan, or other land use...

Report from the Seattle Smart Growth Conference

Posted on February 19, 2010
Awhile back I posted the announcement for the annual New Partners for Smart Growth conference. I wasn't able to attend, but here's a report from Anthony Flint at the Lincoln Institute: Members of President Obama?s ?green cabinet? vowed to implement...

More on the Effects of Transit...

Posted on February 18, 2010
I've blogged in the past about my hometown of Detroit. Once one of the country's most prominent cities, its land use decision-making (among other things) has really gutted large chunks of the community. This recent PBS special (1.30 hours long...

Nothing says "Be Mine" quite like . . . manure

Posted on February 17, 2010
On the 14th I was disappointed that I couldn't think of any holiday-themed items to blog about for Valentine's Day. But a Minnesota farmer has come to my rescue with seven loads of manure. From KIMT.com, Local Farmer Makes Manure...

Changes in Mass Transit...

Posted on February 17, 2010
While the Orlando/Tampa area is gaining a major mass transit program, the City of Atlanta recently suffered a big regulatory blow to its plans for expanded transit options: In a blow to Atlanta?s hopes for a rebirth in transportation, the...

Even Boulder Struggles with its Carbon Footprint

Posted on February 17, 2010
From the Wall Street journal, an article about how Boulder, despite heroic efforts in reducing the carbon footprint of its built environment, has only reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 1%. Turns out it's very hard to spur people to action,...

Climate Change Refugees

Posted on February 16, 2010
Friday I attended the afternoon session of the UGA International Human Rights & Climate Change conference. The conference was cut short by Athens' own version of Snowmaggedon (which mostly melted by noon the next day). However, before the white stuff...

Solomou and Sullivan on Property Tax and Land Use Policies for Forests

Posted on February 15, 2010
Alexia Solomou and Edward J. Sullivan (Portland State) have posted Preserving Forest Lands for Forest Uses - Oregon Property Taxation and Land Use Policies for Forest Lands. The abstract: Forest lands are a significant factor in the identity and economy...

Babie on Climate Change and Private Property

Posted on February 15, 2010
Paul T. Babie (Adeliade) has posted Climate Change and the Concept of Private Property, forthcoming in REVELLING IN THE WILDS OF CLIMATE CHANGE LAW, Rosemary Lyster, ed., Australian Academic Press: Brisbane. The abstract: This essay argues that the dominant liberal...

7th Circuit Land Use Decisions

Posted on February 15, 2010
A couple of interesting land use cases came out of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. From Findlaw's Real Estate Case Summaries: Reget v. City of La Crosse, No. 06-1621. In plaintiff's constitutional challenge to defendant-city's junk-dealer...

Kiechel: The Nonprofit that Saved Central Park

Posted on February 15, 2010
In the recent issue of City Journal Conrad Kiechel has an interesting article titled The Nonprofit That Saved Central Park: Thirty years after its founding, the Conservancy inspires other cities. From the article: I remember a very different Central Park...

"Urban, Rural Areas Battle For Census Prison Populace"

Posted on February 15, 2010
From this evening's broadcast of NPR's All Things Considered, one of those stories that makes you say, "Huh?" and them "hmmnn." Seems there's a controversy brewing over how this year's census will count prisoners - as part of the population...

More Info on the Juergensmeyer Symposium

Posted on February 12, 2010
From the student committee at GSU: Georgia State University College of Law's Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth is hosting a symposium to honor the career of Julian Conrad Juergensmeyer. The symposium titled, A 2020 View of Urban...

Charleston's "historic front door"?

Posted on February 11, 2010
More news today about the South Carolina Ports Authority proposal to rework Charleston's existing cruise terminal to allow increased cruise traffic--nearly double that of current use levels. Click here for the most recent update. From the article: "Jaque Robertson, whose...

Has Regulation Saved Some Cities from Foreclosure Crisis?

Posted on February 11, 2010
From today's NYT Opinionator Blog, a piece on what's happend in California - the unregulated sprawl in the Central Valley vs. the strictly regulated urban core: ...[L]ook at the cities with stable and recovering home markets. On this coast, San...

Yet More Immergluck: The Accumulation of Lender-Owned Homes During the Mortgage Crisis

Posted on February 11, 2010
Dan Immergluck (Georgia Tech--Planning) strikes again, this time with The Accumulation of Lender-Owned Homes During the U.S. Mortgage Crisis: Examining Metropolitan REO Inventories, forthcoming in Housing Policy Debate. The abstract: A key concern among policymakers and community developers in recent...

Snowmageddon in DC

Posted on February 11, 2010
Everyone's talking about "Snowmageddon," the massive back-to-back snowstorms that have shut down DC. Now, we did warn you here on the Land Use Prof Blog about what Punxsutawney Phil said earlier this month. I understand that what counts as "six...

Hilber & Robert-Nicoud on The Origins of Land Use Regulations

Posted on February 11, 2010
Christian A.L. Hilber (London School of Economics--Geography & Environment) and Frederic Robert-Nicoud have posted On the Origins of Land Use Regulations: Theory and Evidence from US Metro Areas. The abstract: We model residential land use constraints as the outcome of...

Hodges and Himebaugh on Land Use Exactions and the Precautionary Principle in Washington State

Posted on February 11, 2010
Brian T. Hodges and Daniel A. Himebaugh (Pacific Legal Foundation) have posted Have Washington Courts Lost Essential Nexus to the Precautionary Principle? Citizens' Alliance for Property Rights v. Sims. The abstract: This Article examines how Washington State courts have allowed...

Noia on Foreclosures, MAHP, and Bankruptcy

Posted on February 10, 2010
Kristen Noia (Hastings) has posted Giving Foreclosures the One-Two Punch: Why the Making Home Affordable Program Can Knock Down Foreclosures But Needs the Backup of Bankruptcy Cramdown Legislation to Broaden its Scope, The abstract: Profound contractions in the housing market...

More Immergluck: Neighborhoods in Wake of the Debacle

Posted on February 10, 2010
Just yesterday I posted an article from Vicki Been's Land Use/Real Estate SSRN digest by Dan Immergluck (Georgia Tech--Planning) about the subprime mortgage crisis. Today we have another timely article: Neighborhoods in the Wake of the Debacle: Intrametropolitan Patterns of...

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