Left-NIMBYs Take Another Loss — And This One Is Really Embarrassing

Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy 2026-06-12

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Firefighters in full gear spray water on a flaming dumpster during a training exercise outside, with a building and metal stairs in the background.As I wrote last year, the Urban Institute produced a study purporting to show that land use reforms did not substantially increase housing production. I noted that the study has become very influential, particularly among Left-NIMBYs, who want to maintain strict land use controls but not acknowledge that such controls make housing more expensive (which …

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Jonathan Zasloff

Date tagged:

06/12/2026, 16:30

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06/12/2026, 10:55