{"id":194110,"date":"2008-10-24T05:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/24\/a-good-note-on-policy\/"},"modified":"2008-10-24T05:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T10:03:00","slug":"a-good-note-on-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/24\/a-good-note-on-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Note on Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom <span>Angotti<\/span> of the Gotham Gazette <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gothamgazette.com\/article\/landuse\/20081020\/12\/2680\/\">Makes a very good point<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#000099;\">Neither of the two candidates [Obama and McCain] has explicitly acknowledged the failure of the current urban policy that single-<span>mindedly<\/span> promotes <span>homeownership<\/span>. But if history is not to repeat itself, both parties might do well to explicitly acknowledge the needs and problems of urban renters &#8211; that means the majority of New Yorkers &#8212; and redefine the &#8220;American Dream&#8221; as a stable job, a rent-controlled apartment and a safe, walkable urban environment.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is true.  In addition to being a failure in regulation and monetary policy, it is a failure of philosophy on two levels:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As Greenspan <span>admits<\/span> free market fundamentalism has failed.<\/li>\n<li>The idea of a stand alone home owned by the occupant as an unexpurgated good.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many of our problems, not just the housing crash, but also urban <span>sprawl<\/span>, are a direct result of the latter philosophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Angotti of the Gotham Gazette Makes a very good point: Neither of the two candidates [Obama and McCain] has explicitly acknowledged the failure of the current urban policy that single-mindedly promotes homeownership. But if history is not to repeat itself, both parties might do well to explicitly acknowledge the needs and problems of urban &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1003,1088],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}