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Daniel Kay Hertz
Personal blog · danielkayhertz.compoliticseconomics
Daniel Kay Hertz writes Personal Website, a personal blog at danielkayhertz.com about politics and economics. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Commenters cite Daniel Kay Hertz's posts as support on housing and zoning, including a 2014 post on Chicago zoning restrictions. The comments do not judge the writing itself.
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And, more importantly, enormous government restrictions on where it's legal to build anything other than single-family homes, even in big cities like Chicago: http://danielkayhertz.com/2014/01/27/zoning-its-just-insane/ http://bikeportland.org/2014/04/23/maybe-this-is-why-you-can...
Comment linking /2014/01/27/zoning-its-just-insane/
on “Rental home shortage is America's next housing crisis”Submitted More on the limits of anti-gentrification politics: Brooklyn is getting poorer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPublic housing works quite well in Vienna.[1] But my point was not necessarily that no one should own land. Another interpretation of my question — "Why don't these people own the land they live on?" — would be, why isn't there land around that they can afford to buy and give themselves security? And that has various types of answers, some related the kinds of opportunity in the economy that would give them more inc…
Comment linking /2017/05/11/what-is-a-left-approach-to-housing-in-2017/
on “Facebook's underclass: staffers enjoy perks, contractors barely get by”Submitted Watch Chicago’s middle class vanish before your very eyes as a story · 1 points
HN discussion==My sister, a public interest DV attorney, and her husband, a local journalist, bought their first house there; as you might imagine, neither are wealthy.== And I have two different co-workers and my tech company who have moved there in the past 5 years. These anecdotes aren't data, but show how personal experience drives perception. ==I think anyone who lived here in the 1990s would recognize pretty much the same…
Comment linking /2019/05/15/out-of-state-college-graduates-help-define-chicagos-north-side-zone-of-affluence/
on “Chicago, where rich live 30 years longer than the poor”