Effective governance of residential development and housing markets poses difficult challenges for land regulators. In theory, excessive land restrictions limit the buildable supply, tilting construction toward lower densities and larger, [...]
Approximately 60 percent of U.S. cities with more than 25,000 residents now impose impact fees to fund infrastructure needed to service new housing and other development. In 89 jurisdictions selected [...]
An Expert Land Use Panel was used to forecast the land use impacts of a major highway project in the Washington, DC area, the Inter-County Connector. What makes this panel [...]
In this paper, we explore the transportation-land use policy connection. More specifically, we consider the question: can land use policy be used to alter transportation behavior? The answer is of [...]
Consistent with general growth in wage inequality over the period, the greatest wage growth occurred in licensed occupations with the highest levels of income. Wage growth in the U.S. economy [...]
We model residential land use constraints as the outcome of a political economy game between owners of developed and owners of undeveloped land. Land use constraints are interpreted as shadow [...]
Spring of 2007 will mark the 10th anniversary of the passage of Maryland’s Smart Growth and Neighborhood Conservation Initiative; an effort designed to discourage sprawl development, foster more compact communities, [...]
Metropolitan areas with more fragmented government structures—many small suburbs—are more likely to have stringent development restrictions, which reduce the elasticity of supply of housing, than are other metropolitan areas. MSAs [...]
Licensing laws can both serve the public by protecting consumers and harm competition by erecting unnecessary barriers to entry, but what has been missing from the legal analysis is that [...]
There are also considerations that relate to how the concept of a job analysis will be received by board members and licensees or certificants. First, it is important to determine [...]