Re: [LincolnTalk] Excellent story on the housing crisis, affordable housing & zoning

[Sara Mattes]

Oops my bad. So, I see you are a follower of Glazer? Keep us posted! Btw - you might find some of his work from the mid early and mid 2000s interesting… and revealing. Pay special attention to footnotes and references…. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 19, 2023, at 2:50 PM, Fred Hopengarten <hopengar...@post.harvard.edu> wrote:  If the claim is that Edward Glaeser “left the Harvard Econ faculty,” that would be at odds with https://scholar.harvard.edu/glaeser/home, which says:   Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and the Chairman of the Department of Economics at Harvard University, where he has taught microeconomic theory, and occasionally urban and public economics, since 1992. He has served as Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, and Director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.    Fred Hopengarten, Esq.                                hopengar...@post.harvard.edu Six Willarch Road                                              www.antennazoning.com Lincoln, MA 01773                                                   781.259.0088                                    From: Lincoln [mailto:lincoln-boun...@lincolntalk.org] On Behalf Of Sara Mattes Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2023 7:11 AM To: Rich Rosenbaum Cc: Lincoln Talk Subject: Re: [LincolnTalk] Excellent story on the housing crisis, affordable housing & zoning   Ha! Glazer… every developer’s favorite economist!   I believe, in fact, he left the Harvard Econ faculty to join the ( pro free- market/ pro development) Rapport Institute at the Kennedy School.   Gary Taylor and I monitored, with grave concern ( back in the day)his efforts to undue local zoning that stood in the way of development. We wanted to maintain our progress move, deliberative approach to creating more housing opportunities and more affordable housing ( 2 different, but not mutually exclusive things).   Glazer’s efforts are finally bearing fruit, and we are struggling to manage change, as we have always done. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 19, 2023, at 3:10 AM, Rich Rosenbaum <s...@bcdef.com> wrote:  The Non-Profit Quarterly magazine (link below) had a related article some time ago that includes this:   Edward Glaeser, an economist at Harvard University, states, simply, that to increase the stock of affordable housing, we need more housing. His argument is that the law of supply and demand will eventually create a stock of affordable housing if developers are allowed to build housing.   I find it interesting that people concerned that we would not be adding enough affordable housing seem to be advocating that instead, we build no affordable housing at all.   article: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/debate-how-to-increase-the-stock-of-affordable-housing/       Virus-free.www.avast.com

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