Posts Tagged ‘waste’
Property Taxes and Home Prices
- – – UPDATE – – - Do to the many, many comments I’ve recieved from people who seem to think I’m somehow bashing Houston here, I thought I’d repeat here what I posted in one of the comments: I’m not arguing that Houston collects disproportionately more taxes than other cities do, because I don’t [...]
The value of transit
Today I wanted to take a few minutes to talk through the effect that transit has on cities, and to illustrate one of the least appreciated aspects of the car-only infrastructure system. When land prices are high, there are only two ways to develop that land profitably: you can either charge extremely high rent/sale price, [...]
Two original thoughts
As the title says, I have two original thoughts on this. One will come as no surprise to people who read this blog, the other, I think is new. #1: Banks and the Housing Bubble… So, the biggest problem underlying everything else right now is the bursting housing bubble. We’ve got way too much housing [...]
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