Talking Smart Growth from England to Georgia

Smart Growth community in Northwest Atlanta

Brad Nix at Atlanta 575 Real Estate makes a pitch for smart growth development:

If Cherokee County must grow, and projections have the county gaining 200,000 more people by 2030 (more than double the current population of 141,903), then we better start growing smart.

Nix brings acurrent smart growth project to attention and asks his readers to support it.

A smart-growth deficit in Washington, D.C.

Sprawl and its many symptoms are well-documented issues in the area surrounding our nation’s capital. Ryan Avent has a lengthy take on regional congestion and development solutions in The DCist, as well as a companion post on his own web site. He notes that while there are smart growth initiatives, the prevailing trend remains “sprawl that shows no signs of abating.” A major problem is competition between jurisdictions over money and control.

Are restrictive land-use regulations contributing to declining homeownership among young in Great Britain?

Wendell Cox at From the Heartland writes that restrictions on land-use and development have created housing markets that are out of whack with the overall economy:

England’s Department for Communities and Local Government reports that a strong downward trend in home ownership by younger households. In its Survey of English Housing Provisional Results: 2005/2006, the Department found that in only five years, there was a 15 percent drop in households under 30 years of age buying homes (from 40 percent to 34 percent). Given the importance of home ownership to middle-income wealth creation, this is an ominous development.

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