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Not Just Zoning: Section 1 Moving Beyond Supply and Demand
The “Not Just Zoning” series examines the housing affordability crisis. In Section 1 of 4, I discuss the “Death of Econ 101” and the disconnect between academic research on the impacts zoning reform on housing affordability and the free market ideology underpinning popular discourse of housing.
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Things I’m Following in 2025
Five happenings that I am following in the Iowa City area in 2025, from a comp plan update to the Gather Iowa development in Coralville.
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Opinion: Give These Iowa City Streets a Diet Next
A road diet is a low-cost traffic management strategy that reduces the number of travel lanes present on a street to lower traffic speeds and improve the street’s overall safety. Three Iowa City street segments are good candidates for road diet projects that would transform roadways into community assets.
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Analysis: Iowa City’s Title 14 Zoning Amendments
While an end to the ever-destructive, exclusionary single-family zoning practice and increased flexibility for more affordable housing types is laudable, many of these amendments are ultimately impeded by other elements of the zoning code and the city’s 2013 Comprehensive Plan. The Title 14 Amendments are, in the end, a limited first step in encouraging a…
