via email from Livable California
Vancouver’s high-profile professor, planner and author, Patrick Condon, told more than 160 California community leaders at the Livable California Teleconference on Feb. 6, 2021 that “upzoning” of neighborhoods drives up housing costs and cannot create affordable housing…
Prof. Condon’s latest book is Sick City, which addresses why upzoning doesn’t work, and is free to download here...
No amount of opening zoning or allowing for development will cause prices to go down. We’ve seen no evidence of that at all. It’s not the NIMBYs that are the problem – it’s the global increase in land value in urban areas that is the problem.”
Watch the video of Prof. Condon’s Presentation to Livable California HERE…
Download the Slides he presented on Saturday HERE … (great graphics)
Good timing after the recent announcement by Salesforce that they are going to a remote workforce and declaring the end of the office tech era.