Introduction: The Housing Bias: The Last Privilege of Affluent Americans -- The Third Battle of Manassas -- Public Uses and Abuses: Eminent Domain in and Around the Empire State -- Side Trip: Mount Laurel and the Fair Share -- Guarding the Rural Myth in Michigan -- Filling in the World's Biggest Suburb: Los Angeles -- Conclusion: Overcoming the Housing Bias for 21st Century America
Summary
As 300 million Americans squeeze into our country, and as single-person households outnumber parents with children, it's time to rethink our land use laws that favor the single-family house. This provocative book visits sites of recent controversies - from an immigration dispute in a Virginia suburb, to eminent domain in New York City, to illegal apartments in the backyards of California. Boudreaux explores how we could scrap the old housing bias in favor of affluent homeowners, and in its place harness the free market to provide for a greater variety of residences - apartments, townhouses, and mobile homes - for the twenty-first century
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index
