News Summary

• The U.K. government’s level of local land-use preemption far exceeds American YIMBYs’ wildest dreams.
• The fact that this has not averted a dire housing-supply crisis, he says, indicates the limits of centralization as a strategy.
• But I think the moral of this story may actually just be about British public opinion.
• 71 percent of British people say they favor imposing rent control while only 47 percent favor building a new set of towns.