“Haha sure housing is expensive and it’s objectively very hard to build anything that would improve the public welfare at all, but have you considered that externalities exist?”
“when one person exerts an externality on another by exerting his freedom, he's constraining the freedom of others.”
Such as by using spurious reasoning to block the production of housing that would give people the freedom to live closer to where they work, go to school, worship or socialize?
There are brothels on every corner. They’re called “bodywork places”and they aren’t next to elementary schools, they’re in the same building. And this is occurring in only the most seedy and undesirable neighborhoods like Chelsea and the Upper West Side.
Certainly the number of legal ones, considering that's a thing in exactly one state and they still ban them from population centers and require them to be literally in the middle of the desert.
Houston, a land of a great many HOAs, is so far from a Madmax Building Hellscape but it behooves everyone in the debate for various reasons to act that way. Mostly what we do here is pretty mild, all told
I got into an eight month fight with my HOA over the height, material, and location of a fence on an empty property that I own.
Stiglitz can get fucked on this one
"Building what you want on property you own is a unfreedom to people that don't own the property" Yeah no shit Sherlocke that's what it means to own something
I just can’t get over the fact that his whole argument is nothing more than that externalities exist, as if Pigou didn’t write about that a hundred years ago. Can’t we say more on the subject at this point? Could we, I dunno, say something about the actual calculus of the real world?
Right, it is not for nothing that we're better than most major US metros on this score, we build, but its not Mad Max, nothing is regulated build whatever land as is commonly portrayed. What we do isn't even that extreme
What a superficial and unserious definition of freedom. It's perfectly possible to have a theory of freedom that doesn't define it as unrestricted choice, but these dudes need to spend a few years reading Hegel to have that thought coherently.
What an incredibly frustrating and stupid answer. Your mind is broken if you go straight to noise and brothels. A person’s freedom to sue and appeal housing developments is an unfreedom to everyone else in the community.
Homelessness, high costs of living, pollution, flooding from impermeable surface area, habitat destruction, ecosystem service destruction, biodiversity loss, and climate change.
What an insane strawman.
"Do you support building more housing?"
"I oppose totally unfettered building with no zoning or regulations."
Also, does he actually think *zoning* is what bans sex work in the US? ZONING??
He's either an idiot or flagrantly making bad faith arguments.
