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In the City: How Harvard economist Ed Glaeser sees the future of cities

The Weekly Take from CBRE

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How to Solve the Affordable Housing Crisis

There's no peeling the laws of supply and demand. If you have a city with an enormously productive economy like Los Angeles, people are going to want to live there. One of the reasons why wages can be high in a city is that firms have to pay people to put up with really crappy conditions. On broad comparisons across countries, you pretty much get it right though.

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