New and Old #13

Friday roundup and commentary

Housing, Not Lodging, Strong Towns, Alex Pline, June 16, 2021

This article is about the vacation rental market in downtown Annapolis, Maryland. I’ve only been there once, but it’s lovely, and in fact it narrowly avoided “urban renewal” in the 1960s. Thank God. Pline argues that poor incentives and regulations have led to a situation where downtown housin…