Judge Glock on Zoning and Local Government

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🗓️ 26 December 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Economic historian Judge Glock talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about zoning and the housing market. Glock argues the impact on zoning on housing affordability is small and that we should learn to love property taxes as long as they're administered properly. The conversation includes a discussion of the environmental impact of urban sprawl--Glock argues sprawl has certain environmental benefits.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:07.8	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:12.7	Institution.
0:13.7	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.4	You'll also find our archives, but every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:38.8	Today is December 15th, 2022.
0:40.8	My guest is economic historian Judge Glock.
0:43.3	He is Director of Research at the Manhattan Institute.
0:46.5	Judge, welcome to econtalk.
0:48.3	Thanks so much for having me, Russ.
0:50.5	As someone who's listening for over a decade, it's a real pleasure.
0:53.3	Glad to hear it.
0:54.7	Our topic for today is housing.
0:56.1	We're going to start with zoning based on a recent essay of yours where you gave zoning
1:01.0	two cheers, not three, two.
1:04.3	I'm more like one, so I'm very interested to hear what we have in common and what we disagree
1:08.6	on in that area.
1:10.6	What's the argument for zoning?
1:12.0	What's good about it?
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