Posts Tagged ‘urban sprawl’

Speculative land rationing our opportunity

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Property lobby pushes all the usual red herrings whilst ignoring the speculative causes to affordability pressures. Demographia International’s new report on housing affordability again pushes the “unending sprawl forever” mantra. Report author Wendell Cox rolled out all the usual criticisms of land rationing, infrastructure charges and bureaucratic tape. “The effect of unending sprawl is to [...]