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To Fix US Housing, Let Democracy and the Market Work
States need to curb local self-rule, not eliminate it.
She has some good ideas.
Photographer: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty ImagesWhen New York Governor Kathy Hochul introduced a plan to build 800,000 housing units over the next decade, opponents immediately conjured up worst-case scenarios. Such an ambitious goal would require her to destroy America’s long tradition of local self-rule, shattering the uncrowded idyll of New York City’s suburbs and forcing them into a densely populated future.
In the case of Cedarhurst, a village of about 7,000 people on Long Island less than an hour’s commute east of midtown Manhattan, it’s really just a matter of 0.004 square miles.