Rent Control - What Is It?

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My criteria for affordability is not to look at very poor people which indeed if they have bad health or bad luck, the country should take care of them. But if you have a school teacher, no job is more indispensable to the life of a city than a school teacher. If this school teacher cannot get a decent house within, I would say, 40 minutes commute from a school or air school, there is something wrong in your system. And it is not rent control and it is not inclusive zoning which will solve the problem because for each of these solutions, they will have to be on the waiting list. This is not serious. The market means that there are people moving in and moving out

Markets, Alain Bertaud likes to say, are like gravity: they exist everywhere. But while urban planners are quite good at taking gravity into account, they tend to ignore market forces entirely in their designs, resulting in city development that too often fails to address the needs of their residents.

Following the release of his recent book, Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities, Alain joined Tyler in New York City for a discussion of the politics affecting urban centers, his advice to Robert Moses, whether the YIMBY movement can win, why he loves messy cities, what he got wrong about Shenzhen, why the Moscow subway is so wonderful, whether cities can move, favorite movies about cities, the region of the world most likely to start a charter city, how to reform the World Bank, his top three NYC planning reforms, why Central Park is the perfect size, and more.

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Recorded September 9th, 2019 Other ways to connect

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