Is Californian Housing Policy a Form of Central Planning?

  My Hoover colleague Lee Ohanian, an economics professor at UCLA, wrote a piece on Hoover’s website on Tuesday titled “California’s Failed Soviet-Style Housing Mandates Should End Now.” In his article, Lee argued that we’ve had central planning of housing in California since 1969. He writes: Top-down command-control programs fail because they violate the basic … Continue reading Is Californian Housing Policy a Form of Central Planning?