Samuel Hughes
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Editor at Works in Progress writing on architecture, urbanism and housing policy, and a fellow of the Centre for Policy Studies and Create Streets. Has worked…
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Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
Updated 2026-06-16 -
5 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Housing affordability is almost the direct inverse of how many new homes are built, so the answer is to build more houses. (opens korrents.com)
“Without densification restrictions, housing shortages will only ever be serious in cities where land is really intensely scarce, as in Hong Kong.”
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Europe's housing shortages are worse than America's, and Europeans do not discuss zoning as their cause at all. (opens korrents.com)
“In fact, European housing shortages are generally worse than America’s.”
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Zoning is a European invention: German and Austro-Hungarian cities wrote the first rules protecting rich suburbs from denser building. (opens korrents.com)
“In fact, zoning was invented in Europe, in Germany and Austria-Hungary, in the late nineteenth century.”
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Housing affordability is almost the direct inverse of how many new homes are built, so the answer is to build more houses. (opens korrents.com)