Recalibrating Local Politics to Increase the Supply of Housing
Is there a way for states to usefully recalibrate the local politics of land use while accepting homeowners as they are? This essay argues that state planning mandates could be redeployed in this way, shifting land-use authority toward local officials who are more supportive of new housing and helping those officials make credible and politically defensible deregulatory commitments. I also suggest that the states could incentivize upzoning and permit streamlining by authorizing local governments to auction, and thus profit from, newly created development rights.
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