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Wall Street Journal article "How Zoning Ruined the Housing Market in Blue-State America?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

While there is no question that "legacy" residents tend to disfavor changes to their neighborhoods, including the addition of housing, and that's worthy of criticism, there are a number of other arguments that anti-zoning advocates espouse which are facile. 1. Most residential housing in center cities was built before 1940, when the US population was 132,164,569.

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