Suburbanization in the United States 1970-2010
The second half of the twentieth century saw large-scale suburbanization in the United States, with the median share of residents who work in the same county where they live falling [...]
Warding Off Development: Local Control, Housing Supply and NIMBYs
Local control of land-use regulation creates a not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) problem that can suppress housing construction, contributing to rising prices and potentially slowing economic growth. I study how increased local control [...]
Single-Family Zoning Reform: An Analysis of SB 1120
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated California’s housing crisis by heightening social and economic inequalities, with disparate impact on those unable to perform their jobs. The strong likelihood of a prolonged [...]
Housing America’s Older Adults 2019
Within the 65-and-over age group, most recent income gains have gone to the highest earners, and the number of households with housing cost burdens has reached an all-time high. Ensuring [...]
Inclusionary Zoning and Housing Market Outcomes
As regions across the United States are experiencing high and rising house prices, inclusionary zoning is increasing in popularity as a tool to increase the availability of affordable housing for [...]
Is inclusionary Zoning inclusionary? A Guide for Practitioners
Inclusionary zoning (IZ) has become an increasingly popular tool for providing affordable housing in an economically integrative manner. IZ policies typically require developers to set aside a proportion of units [...]
Silver Bullet or Trojan Horse? The Effects of Inclusionary Zoning on Local Housing Markets
Many local governments are adopting inclusionary zoning (IZ) as a means of producing affordable housing without direct public subsidies. In this paper, we use panel data on IZ in the [...]
Gentrification, Property Tax Limitation, and Displacement
Scholars have long argued that gentrification may displace long-term homeowners by causing their property taxes to increase, and policy makers, including the U.S. Supreme Court, have cited this argument as [...]
Housing, urban growth and inequalities: The limits to deregulation and upzoning in reducing economic and spatial inequality
Urban economics and branches of mainstream economics – what we call the “housing as opportunity” school of thought – have been arguing that shortages of affordable housing in dense agglomerations [...]
Does Gentrification Displace Poor Children? New Evidence from New York City Medicaid Data
The pace of gentrification has accelerated in cities across the country since 2000, and many observers fear it is displacing low-income populations from their homes and communities. We offer new [...]