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The rent is still too damn high

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A few more thoughts (and links) to discussion from The Rent is Too Damn High.

On rent control: Mike Konzcal (linking to JW Mason) notes how Yglesias’ book is more or less an endorsement of renting, yet rent control and similar sorts of tenant protections are part of what helps give renters

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Some items of note today:

Matt Johnson (GGW, Track Twenty-Nine) takes a closer look at Metro’s new 7000 series railcars. The ‘America’s Metro’ logo seems to have disappeared, and there are opportunities for a longitudinal seating arrangement.
Ed Glaeser looks at the role of historic preservation in limiting development in New York, and looks at the degree

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‘Ode to Bike Sharing’ - NYTimes.com 55 mins ago
graphing parking « accessible parking wonkery 2013/05/22
Some rather frightening infographics on how much space we require for parking through our zoning codes.
The business of bike sharing - The Washington Post 2013/05/20
I'm not sure why people focus on commuting via Bikeshare. The major benefit to bikeshare is one-way trips, adding another layer to the other transit modes.
San Francisco upzone: Vulcan logic. 2013/05/20
Star Trek and NIMBYism.
PATH/Fail: The Story of the World’s Most Expensive Train Station | Observer 2013/05/16
Infrastructure investment goes off the rails.
Check Out the View From the Top of the Washington Monument: DCist 2013/05/15
helmet cams for ironworkers...
Development above the new Fairfax Metro stations: Should preparation begin now? 2013/05/14
Air rights - not a bad idea. However, the depiction here just seems like another suburban pod, isolated from the rest of the land next to the toll road ROW.
Chupacabra Becomes Latest Taco Trucks to Open Restaurant - Young & Hungry 2013/05/13
A nice list of DC-area food trucks that have translated the concept into a brick-and-mortar restaurant. The truck allows for proof of concept, and lower barriers to entry than otherwise required to start a storefront business from scratch.
Red Transit Lanes on Church Have Made Muni Faster and More Reliable | Streetsblog San Francisco 2013/05/13
Lessons for any city planning a streetcar line...
Cluck Zoning Board Meeting Monday | Providence Daily Dose¬es 2013/05/11
Zoning - yikes. Parking - yikes. This is not the kind of outcome we want for cities.

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Development costs and housing affordability (2)
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What’s wrong with ‘Metro Brown?’ (1)
- City Block: puts Metro’s recent discussions about moving away from...
Norman Foster’s aerotropolis (5)
- Alex Block: For more on those photos from Boston dealing with their...
Capacity on the Northeast Corridor (2)
- Alex Block: So, FRA is trying to reassure everyone that this is OK:...
- Alon Levy: The FRA rule changes are mostly about cant deficiency and are...
Towards a DC S-Bahn, part 2 (3)
- City Block: are needed to allow for a combination of increased intercity...
Metro’s ‘station of the future’ – why mess with what works? (1)
- Michael: “Metro Brown” works well with the red tiles and...
Disasters: the more things change, the more they stay the same (1)
- Kenny: When I was in New Orleans for a conference a few weeks ago, I...
Managing on-street parking: zoning is not the way (6)
- RTA: Just because a developer provides parking doesn’t mean all...

@IMGoph @JDLand @summersgill indeed. But trans. fluid makes for interesting photos: farm4.staticflickr.com/3050/253412713… - 1 hour ago
@beyonddc @MarkLeeDC Is it _the_ reason? Probably not. But it's most certainly a big part of the story. - 1 hour ago
@kristoncapps @MarketUrbanism well, the DC one actually has a roof! But the Denver structure does look interesting. - 3 hours ago
@kristoncapps @MarketUrbanism Aside from the parking, large cost for DC is in rebuilding yard and platforms and air rights while trains stay - 3 hours ago
@kristoncapps @MarketUrbanism There's a huge difference in the scope for transit, as well. Right now, Denver has few trains at all. - 3 hours ago
RT @YuriArtibise: Development costs and #housing #affordability bit.ly/12WdjkU via @alex_block #vancouver #yvrre - 7 hours ago
Watch out, @sharrowsDC: public.sn2.livefilestore.com/y2poK64oP7cmA-… - 22 hours ago
@timcraigpost that steel plate has been there a lot longer than two weeks, as well. - 22 hours ago
@sharrowsDC exactly. a bad case of status quo bias. - 23 hours ago
@sharrowsDC meet the new boss; same as the old boss. - 23 hours ago

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