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Transportation planner and economist. Founder, Siegman & Associates. Formerly Principal & Shareholder at Nelson\Nygaard. LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/5cekhrjh

Patrick Siegman

Studies have shown that many Los Angeles homeowners come in after final inspection and convert required parking spaces to other uses. That is, they violate zoning laws. I had no idea contractors sometimes do this with respect to building codes. Is this common practice???

Jarrett points out many of the advantages of requiring a front license plate. An additional one is that it makes parking laws easier to enforce. With two plates, at least one is usually visible, no matter which direction the vehicle is facing or how close it is to the vehicle behind it.

One #UCLA study found that 75% of #LosAngeles area homeowners did not use their garages for storing cars.

Lowering building costs does NOT necessarily increase high land values. A Rand study of multifamily housing found Texas has much lower construction costs than California AND much lower per-unit land costs. Why? In part, because CA uses exclusionary zoning to limit the land available for apartments.

Yup, lower construction costs are capitalized into land values only when zoning constrains the supply of land. bsky.app/profile/mich...

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Patrick Siegman

Michael Wiebe

Do higher construction costs drive up housing prices? Not necessarily! When housing supply is constrained by zoning, prices are set by the scarcity of land, not marginal costs. Hence, costs can increase without affecting housing prices. Instead, they reduce land prices.

Michael Wiebe

There's a lot to think about in this map of which US states require front license plates, by @brilliantmaps.bsky.social. Link in thread below. 1/ thread

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Jarrett Walker

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This study of middle-class American families draws on ethnography and urban economic history, focusing on patterns of leisure time and household consumption and clutter. We trace how residential life ...

Changing American home life: trends in domestic leisure and storage among middle-class families - Journal of Family and Economic Issues

It’s a bit of a tradition in a building project that contractors come in after final inspection and undo some of the things that codes require that aren’t practical. We had to replace a bunch of arc fault breakers because they kept tripping.

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Manish Champsee