# Zoning Ruins Everything **URL:** **By** Emily Hamilton, Trevor Burrus, Aaron Ross Powell **Published:** September 18, 2020 --- ## Shownotes: When you drive through any major U.S. city you will notice that there are areas filled with shops, restaurants, and office buildings, but one block over is solely single-family residential housing. Zoning regulations have stopped the redevelopment process in many of the highest demand parts of the country. But cities like Houston are finding that without zoning regulations there is more affordable housing and room to grow. What is market urbanism? Are people fleeing cities? Why did the interstate highway system grow so large? What is a commercial corridor? Why have our cities developed in the way that they have? ## Further Reading: [Want More Housing? Ending Single-Family Zoning Won’t Do It.](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-29/to-add-housing-zoning-code-reform-is-just-a-start?srnd=premium-middle-east), written by Emily Hamilton [Policies to Help Communities Recover: Housing Restrictions](https://www.mercatus.org/publications/covid-19-economic-recovery/policies-help-communities-recover-housing-restrictions), written by Emily Hamilton, Salim Furth, and Matthew (Nolan) Gray