The Deleted Scenes - New and Old #178
The Simple Life in the City, Logan’s Substack, Logan, August 30, 2024
This is really, really great. It fills out, as I try to do too, this empty space in the American imagination of everyday urban living as an actual thing regular people can do. Not scary, not ideological, not boutique, just…life. This captures so much of what irks me about suburbia, and more so once I realized the language to describe it:
There’s more. Read the whole thing.
So there you go—a precise number on it based on real data. Almost three quarters of the land on which we can build is locked up for nothing but single-family homes. It doesn’t feel like that if you drive around and see big new buildings going up all over the place. But that perception is not accurate. We could cut the single-family only land by a lot, and still build a lot more multifamily housing and still have pretty significant single-family only zones! Read the whole thing.
There are some small towns and cities here and there that have done this, actually, but it’s a rare thing, and it seems like it might be a way to fill in the market gap where chains don’t find it worthwhile to operate—basically, analogous to public housing while the vast majority of housing is private. Whether governments can do this well, and who will actually operate the stores (will they be privately managed via a contract or actually run by the government?) are other questions. This is not some kind of welfare or “communism”—it’s remedying what looks like a real market failure, because of the dynamics of the industry and of lower-income neighborhoods:
Interesting read. It would be very cool to see this done at scale in a major city. The Cultivated Wilderness, Virginia’s Newsletter, Virginia Postrel, August 1, 2024
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