……只是表象；真正的问题在于zoning（区划法规），它既不允许市场出清价的存在，也不允许建造足够的住房单元来满足人们进城居住和游览的需求。关于这点的更多内容，可参考比如马特·伊格莱西亚斯（Matt Yglesias）的《房租太TM高了》（The Rent is Too Damn High）：https://www.amazon.com/Rent-Too-Damn-High-Matters-ebook/dp/B...。只有当我们有了理智的区划法，才会有理智的房价。今天《纽约时报》有一篇专栏文章从种族角度探讨了这个问题：……
…is a symptom; it's zoning, which forbids market-clearing prices and a sufficient number of units to satisfy demand for living in and visiting the city. For more on this, see e.g. Matt Yglesias's The Rent is Too Damn High: https://www.amazon.com/Rent-Too-Damn-High-Matters-ebook/dp/B... . When we have sane zoning, we'll have sane prices. Today there was an NYT opinion piece that comes at the issue from a racial angle:…
…outbidding first-time homebuyers, depriving families of the opportunity to build wealth, and what their impact on rents will be. This is an insane comment, for the reasons Matt Yglesias discusses in The Rent is Too Damn High and, to a lesser extent, here: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/26/housing_isn_t... . Over the long term buying versus renting should ideally be revenue neutral, and whether or not you can…
…that you want to make cities like SF and NYC more affordable, favor the removal of building height limitations and setbacks. The real problem in such cities is with supply, as Matt Yglesias writes in The Rent is Too Damn High and Ryan Avent writes in The Gated City. SF and NYC aren't expensive because of some natural law; they're expensive because of man-made laws, which can be changed. Don't yield to torpor!
它们存在是有原因的：供水、排污、交通、污染 并不尽然。更多详情参见爱德华·格莱泽的《城市的胜利》（The Triumph of the City）、马特·伊格莱西亚斯的《房租太TM高了》以及瑞安·埃文特的《门禁之城》；特别留意一下讲城市生活往往比其他替代方式环保可持续得多的那些章节。
they exist for a reason: water, sewage, traffic, pollution Not really. See Edward Glaeser's The Triumph of the City, Matt Yglesias's The Rent is Too Damn High, and Ryan Avent's The Gated City for more; pay particularly close attention to the sections about how urban life tends to be far more sustainable than alternatives.
…past two years have seen a twenty-per-cent rise in homelessness, largely because of the soaring cost of housing." But he doesn't mention how supply and demand affect pricing, as Matt Yglesias does in The Rent is Too Damn High or Edward Glaeser does in The Triumph of the City. Both writers have correctly observed that many urban jurisdictions prevent housing from being built to accommodate growing demand; as a result, prices…
…coastal CA, building in Seattle is still difficult and expensive. Austin, Texas is perhaps the most interesting possibility on a cost-of-living basis. (For more on why this matters, see Yglesias, The Rent is Too Damn High: http://www.amazon.com/The-Rent-Damn-High-ebook/dp/B0078XGJXO).
……只是表象；真正的问题在于zoning（区划法规），它既不允许市场出清价的存在，也不允许建造足够的住房单元来满足人们进城居住和游览的需求。关于这点的更多内容，可参考比如马特·伊格莱西亚斯（Matt Yglesias）的《房租太TM高了》（The Rent is Too Damn High）：https://www.amazon.com/Rent-Too-Damn-High-Matters-ebook/dp/B...。只有当我们有了理智的区划法，才会有理智的房价。今天《纽约时报》有一篇专栏文章从种族角度探讨了这个问题：……
…is a symptom; it's zoning, which forbids market-clearing prices and a sufficient number of units to satisfy demand for living in and visiting the city. For more on this, see e.g. Matt Yglesias's The Rent is Too Damn High: https://www.amazon.com/Rent-Too-Damn-High-Matters-ebook/dp/B... . When we have sane zoning, we'll have sane prices. Today there was an NYT opinion piece that comes at the issue from a racial angle:…
……抬高出价碾压刚需首购族、剥夺普通家庭积累财富的机会，以及他们会对租金产生什么影响。这种评论简直荒谬，原因正如马特·伊格莱西亚斯在《房租太TM高了》中所讨论的，以及在一定程度上这里也提到了：http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/26/housing_isn_t...。长期来看，买房和租房在理想状态下应该收益中立，而你能不能……
…outbidding first-time homebuyers, depriving families of the opportunity to build wealth, and what their impact on rents will be. This is an insane comment, for the reasons Matt Yglesias discusses in The Rent is Too Damn High and, to a lesser extent, here: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/26/housing_isn_t... . Over the long term buying versus renting should ideally be revenue neutral, and whether or not you can…
……如果你想让旧金山和纽约这种城市变得更负担得起，那就支持取消建筑高度限制和退让线限制（setbacks）。这些城市的真正问题在于供给，正如马特·伊格莱西亚斯在《房租太TM高了》以及瑞安·埃文特在《门禁之城》（The Gated City）中所写的那样。旧金山和纽约之所以昂贵，并不是什么自然法则造成的；而是人为法规导致的，而法规是可以改的。别向麻木妥协！
…that you want to make cities like SF and NYC more affordable, favor the removal of building height limitations and setbacks. The real problem in such cities is with supply, as Matt Yglesias writes in The Rent is Too Damn High and Ryan Avent writes in The Gated City. SF and NYC aren't expensive because of some natural law; they're expensive because of man-made laws, which can be changed. Don't yield to torpor!
它们存在是有原因的：供水、排污、交通、污染 并不尽然。更多详情参见爱德华·格莱泽的《城市的胜利》（The Triumph of the City）、马特·伊格莱西亚斯的《房租太TM高了》以及瑞安·埃文特的《门禁之城》；特别留意一下讲城市生活往往比其他替代方式环保可持续得多的那些章节。
they exist for a reason: water, sewage, traffic, pollution Not really. See Edward Glaeser's The Triumph of the City, Matt Yglesias's The Rent is Too Damn High, and Ryan Avent's The Gated City for more; pay particularly close attention to the sections about how urban life tends to be far more sustainable than alternatives.
……过去两年里无家可归者增加了20%，主要是因为飞涨的住房成本。”但他完全没有提及供需关系是如何影响定价的，就像马特·伊格莱西亚斯在《房租太TM高了》或爱德华·格莱泽在《城市的胜利》中所论述的那样。两位作者都准确地指出，许多城市辖区阻碍了住房建设以满足不断增长的需求；结果就是，价格……
…past two years have seen a twenty-per-cent rise in homelessness, largely because of the soaring cost of housing." But he doesn't mention how supply and demand affect pricing, as Matt Yglesias does in The Rent is Too Damn High or Edward Glaeser does in The Triumph of the City. Both writers have correctly observed that many urban jurisdictions prevent housing from being built to accommodate growing demand; as a result, prices…
……加州沿海，在西雅图盖房仍然既困难又昂贵。从生活成本的角度来看，德州奥斯汀可能是最有趣的选择。（关于为什么这一点至关重要，参见伊格莱西亚斯的《房租太TM高了》：http://www.amazon.com/The-Rent-Damn-High-ebook/dp/B0078XGJXO）。
…coastal CA, building in Seattle is still difficult and expensive. Austin, Texas is perhaps the most interesting possibility on a cost-of-living basis. (For more on why this matters, see Yglesias, The Rent is Too Damn High: http://www.amazon.com/The-Rent-Damn-High-ebook/dp/B0078XGJXO).