MORE LINKS. Marginal Revolution: “Ed Olsen at the University of Virginia, one of the country’s leading researchers on housing, sent me the following proposal to immediately expand HUD’s Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program. It’s a brilliant proposal that needs attention at the highest levels of government. Pass it on.” (more) Via Jane Galt.

Unqualified Offerings: Lots of thoughts on government, voluntarism, and blame. I agree with almost all of this. (My note yesterday, about not feeling competent to address who-did-what-to-whom issues, did not mean that I think other people shouldn’t try to figure out how things went wrong, who is to blame, what should be done to them, and how we can do better in the future. I just don’t have anything competent and unique or worthwhile to add to that search. I’ve been reading mostly Andrew Sullivan, Hit & Run, The Corner, and Unq. Off., but I don’t pretend that makes me well-informed.)

UO also links to this piece by Jesse Walker, on which factors make the difference between lawlessness and order after natural disasters and blackouts.