The Antiplanner: Anti-sprawl planners caused the housing bubble

A recent entry on the Antiplanner blog makes the claim that anti-sprawl planning artificially boosted housing prices, which was the true cause of the real estate "bubble".

The entry features a link to a policy paper for the Cato Institute by Randal O'Toole, Senior Fellow and a long time critic of urban-centered planning and transportation options.

Entirely missing from the report - and seemingly ignored - are the true costs of not planning, the type of omission which I have come to expect from his work and from the work of the Cato Institute in general.

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