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Matt Yglesias‘s ebook, The Rent is Too Damn High  tells the story of how high housing costs are having profound negative impacts on our society. Yglesias explains how current attempts to deal with the issue are inadequate, and how restrictive zoning laws and regulations are severely restricting housing supply in America’s coastal cities and thus drive [...]
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I just finished reading Matt Yglesias’ new e-book about the negative consequences of restrictive housing regulations, The Rent is Too Damn High (which I’ll refer to as RTDH in this post). I like the idea of the shorter e-book rather... Read Post

I got an iPad last week, and I intend to use it primarily as a book reader. Naturally I wanted to download a book and try it out, so I bought Matt Yglesias's new Kindle single, The Rent is Too Damn High. So far, I'm very pleased wit... Read Post

I see that the hounds have been let loose on Amazon today. Matt Yglesias has a new eBook out, The Rent is Too Damn High, and according to the chart accompanying the Amazon page it's already garnered 24 one-star reviews. Not bad! Thi... Read Post