Is Urban Sprawl Good For Minorities?
For all the blame it gets for a number of societal problems, is sprawl a good thing for Black America?
"Perhaps the studys most important conclusion was that "[housing] affordability is likely to decrease in the presence of more antisprawl legislation." A growing body of research is providing evidence that growth controlssuch as urban-growth boundaries that limit the supply of developable land and impact fees imposed on developers to recoup the costs of infrastructure and public servicescan have a very real inflationary effect on housing prices and tend to decrease affordability."
Thanks to George Passantino
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Published on Friday, October 26, 2001 in
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