Public Forum - March 2019 - Market Rate Housing
We lay the foundation for the development of some strong cases on the March topic - market rate housing.
TIME STAMPS:
Definitions and Overview: 5:28
Pro Arguments: 35:01
Con Arguments: 57:17
Final Thoughts: 1:15:44
SOURCES CITED:
Pinto, American Enterprise Inst. (2016), laying out some options for promoting market rate housing development: http://www.aei.org/publication/market...
Brookings Institution (2018), explaining why we have a housing shortage: https://www.brookings.edu/research/un...
CityLab (2015), on the $1.5 trillion cost to the economy from the housing shortage: https://www.citylab.com/equity/2015/0...
Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (2018), really deep dive into nature of housing shortage: http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/def...
Center for American Progress (2018), describing a “Homes for All” Con alternative:
https://www.americanprogress.org/issu...
CityLab (2012) on census data showing most Americans live in urban areas: https://www.citylab.com/equity/2012/0...
Brookings (2018) on why housing supply is a local, not national, problem: https://www.brookings.edu/research/th...
Scott Weiner (2017), Market Rate Housing Isn’t A Bad Word, And We Won’t Solve The Housing Crisis Without It: https://artplusmarketing.com/market-r...
Scott Weiner (2018), Market-rate housing vs. affordable: It's not either-or. It's both.: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfranci...
Daniel Herriges, What Housing Vouchers Can and Can’t Do (on the weaknesses of market rate approach) (2018): https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2...
Mother Jones (2017), on how we currently spend far more housing the rich than the poor: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-dru...
California Legislative Analyst’s Office (2016), summarizing economic arguments and evidence in favor of market rate approaches: https://lao.ca.gov/Reports/2016/3345/...
Todd Litman (2018), explaining the basics of how price filtering works: https://www.planetizen.com/blogs/1002...
Zuk and Chapple (2016), summarizing findings on displacement effects of new housing, and directly rebutting LAO 2016 report: http://www.urbandisplacement.org/site...
Amee Chew (2018), What We Know About Market-Rate Housing and Development (your go to for why MRH displaces poor people): https://shelterforce.org/2018/11/05/h...
HUD Report on effects of displacement (2018): https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/...
UrbanDisplacment.org on harms of displacement: https://www.urbandisplacement.org/pus...
Amee Chew (2018), Luxury Development is Making Our Housing Crisis Worse (another similar-but-very-good article by Chew for the CON): https://inequality.org/research/luxur...
Cortright, City Commentary (2016), on why maybe displacement is less bad than staying in a perpetually poor neighborhood: http://cityobservatory.org/a-new-look...
Center for American Progress (2018), on the Homes for All proposal to develop mass affordable housing: https://www.americanprogress.org/issu...
Fast Company (2018), on Elizabeth Warren’s $45 billion proposal to create affordable housing: https://www.fastcompany.com/90242320/...