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SHARES Shoulder to shoulder during rush hour in Toronto in October 2020. Long commutes on crowded public transit that increase the spread of COVID-19 result from failed housing policies, writes UBC professor of urban design Patrick Condon. Photo by Nathan Denette, the Canadian Press. Sick City: Disease, Race, Inequality and Urban Land Patrick Condon Creative Commons (2021) Patrick Condon looks at those hit hardest by the pandemic and concludes, as have many others, that COVID-19 has starkly exposed and exploited inequalities in our society. Essential workers, many of them immigrants, risking their health often for minimum wage, are bearing the brunt. And their exposure to the virus puts others at risk, most dramatically the elderly in long-term care. ....
Density, Affordability, and the Hungry Dogs of Land Price Speculation Patrick Condon argues that increasing density without affordability inflates urban land values, resulting in nearly all of the value of labor and creative enterprise of entrepreneurs in regional economies being absorbed as land wealth. March 15, 2021, 11am PDT | Clare Letmon Share Sick City: Disease, Race, Inequality, and Urban Land, author Patrick Condon, chair of the Urban Design program at the University of British Columbia, harkens back to 19th century political economist Henry George to argue that increasing density without affordability inflates urban land values to the benefit of speculators, resulting in nearly all of the value of individual labor and creative enterprise of entrepreneurs in regional economies being absorbed as land wealth. ....
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NEED MORE THAN SUBURBS Anybody who pays attention to the news knows that there’s a heated, ongoing debate in LA, and across California, about how to solve our housing problems. There are lots of different proposals floating around, but the message we hear most often from elected officials and the development community is that we have to up-zone to allow a whole lot more density. The argument goes that it’s just a matter of supply and demand. If we up-zone our cities and up-zone our suburbs, that will unleash the power of the free market and we’ll have plenty of cheap housing for everybody. ....