Danny Hidalgo

Neighborhood Conservation Districts Suppress Housing in Cambridge, MA Stories of variation around a mean.

@cambridgemass.bsky.social has a housing crisis. Yet unaccountable "Neighborhood Conservation Districts" (NCDs) run by the city drastically decrease housing construction and increase down-converted unit losses compared to equivalent parcels outside NCDs.

dan-sprague.github.io/2025/03/30/ncd

31.03.2025 21:27 — 👍 17    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 2

How Upzoning in Cambridge Broke the YIMBY Mold By making buildings up to four floors legal by right across the city, the hometown of Harvard and MIT has set a new benchmark for the abundant housing movement.

Back on the beat with a story about a dramatic upzoning for Cambridge. It's now legal to build up to four stories, by right, citywide, with an affordable-bonus up for two more stories.

How Cambridge leapfrogged every YIMBY reform to build Haussmann for Harvard:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

03.03.2025 16:51 — 👍 46    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 4

I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge.

We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style

Here’s the details 🧵

11.02.2025 01:46 — 👍 2470    🔁 497    💬 66    📌 236

Love this so much!!! Congrats to you both!!!

22.01.2025 09:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Flier asking people to support zoning reform in Cambridge, MA

Cambridge residents: The City Council is debating a reform to legalize multifamily housing citywide. Important votes are coming up—please express your support.
✉️ Email council@cambridgema.gov soon
💡 Short emails work great
Learn more: abettercambridge.org/multifamily_housing

#CambMA

07.01.2025 23:19 — 👍 13    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

For a diverse and sustainable Cambridge with housing for all.

For more on the reform:
www.abettercambridge.org/multifamily_...

@jsaif.bsky.social

05.12.2024 00:20 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A big development in Cambridge politics today: At the ordinance committee hearing on ending exclusionary zoning, pro-housing advocates actually outnumbered opponents 38-28. If you know local housing politics, you know how rare this is - especially for a Wednesday at 2pm. Times are changing.

05.12.2024 00:17 — 👍 25    🔁 4    💬 4    📌 1

Thrilled to announce the release of Uprooted: How Post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe with Cambridge UP 🎉🎉
The book argues that accommodating the displaced population can strengthen states and benefit local economies in the long run.
📚 [Amazon: tinyurl.com/24m2mbkf]
See thread below:

21.11.2024 17:42 — 👍 438    🔁 131    💬 37    📌 16

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ajps.12413 Wiley Online Library requires cookies for authentication and use of other site features; therefore, cookies must be enabled to browse the site. Detailed information on how Wiley uses cookies can be fo...

I'd look at Incerti (2020): doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Builds partly on:
Boas, Hidalgo, and Melo (2018):
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

19.10.2023 13:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@profmusgrave.bsky.social Can you add me to polisky? Thanks!

11.10.2023 15:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0