Zoning our way through it

Explain It to Me

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🗓️ 12 June 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Matt is joined by Emily Hamilton of the Mercatus Center to talk about the way that zoning and land use policy affects property value, housing availability, and affordability. They discuss some example statutes from those laboratories of democracy, the several states, tackle the most divisive issue in all of housing Twitter, and Matt just lets totally loose about how he's not allowed to replace his home's windows. Resources: H.R. 4307, the Build More Housing Near Transit Act 2006 Arizona Proposition 207 Kelo v. New London (545 US 269, 2005) "How policymakers can improve housing affordability" by James Pethokoukis and Emily Hamilton (May 4, American Enterprise Institute) Guest: Emily Hamilton (@ebwhamilton), Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Urbanity Project, Mercatus Center at George Mason University Host: Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Slowboring.com Credits: Erikk Geannikis, Editor and Producer As the Biden administration gears up, we'll help you understand this unprecedented burst of policymaking. Sign up for The Weeds newsletter each Friday: vox.com/weeds-newsletter. The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production. Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, my guest today, Emily Hamilton is a return guest on the weeds as she is from the
0:04.3	Mercatus Center, a housing policy and sort of urbanism expert there.
0:08.9	She has a lot of housing dialogue that I participate in sort of happens from inside the progressive
0:14.4	zone.
0:15.4	Emily comes more from the other side of the aisle from a free market think tank, a libertarian
0:19.4	organization.
0:20.4	So she's able to give us so much different perspective on some of these events, what kinds
0:24.6	of political coalitions are possible and also look on what kinds of land use reforms are
0:28.8	happening in red states, including we eventually get to a really interesting look at some policy
0:33.9	changes in Arizona.
0:34.9	I also apologize.
0:35.9	I say some perhaps disparaging things about the nature and history of the city of Phoenix,
0:43.1	but I love and respect Phoenix Houston and all my Sunbelt city friends out there.
0:47.8	So you know, give it a listen, keep an open mind.
0:50.6	I think there's a lot of interesting updates here.
1:00.8	Hello, welcome to another episode of the weeds on the box media podcast network.
1:04.5	I'm Matthew Eclasius, my guest today, Emily Hamilton.
1:07.1	He's a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, which is part of George Mason University
1:11.8	in some way barely understand a veteran of the weeds, but back we have heard from the
1:17.4	Facebook group, people wanted more housing on the weeds.
1:20.5	I sometimes worry that we have too much housing, but I'm glad to hear the opposite because
1:24.8	housing is so key to everything.
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