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Are the US' housing laws unique in the world?

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May 23, 2021Liked by Maxwell Tabarrok

Coleman Hughes spoke about some cultural trends in black communities such as looking down on education and poor personal finance (eg: higher likelihood to spend in jewelry or sports car vs non-blacks in the same income bracket).

Do you have any data or intuition on how big of a contribution could these have? What about other major underlying causes?

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This is better than anything I wrote in college. Keep it up Max. Hope to see you apply your knowledge of housing regulation to the next 1729 prompt.

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