In going through my email, I saw that sandwiched between the weekend's postings on the local HP initiative was this post from an urban history list serve I subscribe to. I figure that the topic alone should make it of interest to various folks in the neighborhood.
I haven't checked the paper out yet nor does it necessarily reflect any personal position I have on this matter. Steve Metraux Thorin R. Tritter wrote: > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 18 10:19:23 2002 > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) > X-Accept-Language: en > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Approved-By: "Thorin R. Tritter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 09:19:10 -0500 > Reply-To: H-NET Urban History Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: H-NET Urban History Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "Thorin R. Tritter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: Princeton University > Subject: Historic Preservation as a Smart Growth Strategy > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > From: John I Gilderbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Donovan Rypkema has posted a paper on the internet concerning the link > between economic development and historic preservation: > Http://www.restorationandrenovation.com/RandR/newsletter/rypkema.htm. I > urge everyone to read it. It is important, insightful and stimulating. > It is smart thinking outside the box. Donovan has mustered some > important numbers which should help us rethink urban policy and why > historic preservation is important.. I find this paper one of the best > I have read in the past few years. I am curious what other members of > this list serve think of it as well. I would also like to add my own > comments which compliment his work but extends it in the area of > affordable housing strategy. In a book I co-authored with Richard > Appelbaum, Rethinking Rental Housing (the book is available on > Amazon.com), we did a inter-city rent differential analysis of 144 self > contained rental housing markets in the U.S.. We wanted to know why > cities had high, medium and low rents. Conventional wisdom concerning > why rents rise was turned upside down by this study. Our study tested > supply-side theory of former U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) > Secretary Jack Kemp that more construction of housing leads to higher > vacancy rates which causes rents to fall was found not to work that way > in the real world. High rates of new rental construction often causes > demolition of historic houses and rents significantly rise instead of > fall. Another way of looking at the importance of preservation is the > finding that cities with large percentage of older rental housing stock > had lower rents. Higher rents were also associated with rapid increases > in population, high household incomes, large mega housing apartment > complexes of 100 of more units at an address, small number of "mom and > pop" apartment units (accessory units, garage units, basement and attic > units) , and pleasant climates. Bottom line: affordable housing > advocates should embrace historic preservation. This also has > implications for new urbanism which makes accessory units part of the > planned development. Adding more "mom and pop" accessory units means > lower rents which should be part of the new urbanist vocabulary. Hope > you enjoy Donovan's article as much as I did. > > Cheers, > John I. Gilderbloom > Director, Center for Sustainable UrbanNeighborhoods > Professor of Urban and Public Affairs > University of Louisville > -- Department of Sociology Center for Mental Health 3718 Locust Walk <and> Policy & Services Research University of Pennsylvania 3535 Market St. #3131 Philadelphia PA 19104-6299 Philadelphia PA 19104 (215) 746 7344 (phone) ** ** (215) 349 8715 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~metraux ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
