Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ⭕​Apr 20, 2021

@pluralistic On housing, Shane Phillips is doing some novel and powerful work at UCLA's Lewis Centre.

I ran across his proposal for "public ownership rentals" in The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/why-its-better-to-rent-than-to-own/618254/

That's actually one leg of a three-legged stool of Supply, Security, and Subsidy, which addressess the three main areas of housing market failure. His book is The Affordable City, a very affordable $5 download:
https://islandpress.org/books/affordable-city

Great Twitter feed as well:
https://twitter.com/ShaneDPhillips/

https://www.lewis.ucla.edu/

#Housing #HousingReform #LewisCenter #ShanePhillips #TheAffordableCity

Renting Is Terrible. Owning Is Worse.

A third option is necessary: a way to rent without making someone else rich.

Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​Apr 18, 2021

Housing: The Three S’s: Supply, Stability, and Subsidy

[T]he solution to America’s housing crisis, both politically and technically, comes down to three coequal priorities that I call the Three S’s: Supply, Stability, and Subsidy....

[A]ll indispensable ingredients in the affordable city recipe book... One without the others will not bring true affordability and stability to a community—certainly not to all who need and deserve it. Nor can we simply enact the strongest possible intervention for one goal without considering its impacts on the others. Often, the most aggressive solution to one problem will undermine the best response to another.

https://www.planetizen.com/features/110948-affordable-city-offers-solutions-us-housing-affordability-crisis

Book: https://islandpress.org/books/affordable-city

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26854819

#housing #homelessness #property #PublicOwnership #ShanePhillips #TheAffordableCity #books #BookReivews #BigProblems

'The Affordable City' Offers Solutions for the U.S. Housing Affordability Crisis

An excerpt from the new book by Shane Phillips, "The Affordable City," published by Island Press.