Do the Rich and Poor Colocate in Large Cities?
This paper focuses on colocation rather than segregation in the context of Japanese large cities. Using the time cost of commuting from traditional urban economic theory, we analyze how different [...]
How Land Use Law Impedes Transportation Innovation
Transportation scholars have long known that infrastructure investments both depend upon current land use patterns and spur changes in those patterns. There is a massive literature built around what are [...]
Housing Booms and Local Spending
This paper examines how local governments adjust their spending in response to a temporary revenue windfall generated by a housing boom. We focus on Spanish local governments because of the [...]
City Replanning
We argue, by contrast, that the dismissal of plans was shortsighted and has helped contribute to the excessive strictness of zoning in our richest and most productive cities and regions, [...]
California Zoning: Housing Construction and a New Ranking of Local Land Use Regulation
New survey data on residential land use regulation in California have allowed us to create the Mercatus-Augmented Terner California Housing Regulation (MATCHR) Index, which characterizes formal restrictions on density in [...]
The Effects of Critical Habitat Designation on Housing Supply: An Analysis of California Housing Construction Activity
Under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is required to designate critical habitat for listed species. Designation could result in modification to or delay of residential [...]
When Do Renters Behave Like Homeowners? High Rent, Price Anxiety, and NIMBYism
How does spatial scale affect support for public policy? Does supporting housing citywide but “Not In My Back Yard” (NIMBY) help explain why housing has become increasingly difficult to build [...]
The Effect of Land Use Regulation on Housing and Land Prices
This paper investigates the effects of land use regulation restrictiveness on house and vacant land prices. In contrast to prior studies, the index of restrictiveness is treated as an endogenous [...]
Does Eviction Cause Poverty? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Cook County, IL
Each year, more than two million U.S. households have an eviction case filed against them. Many cities have recently implemented policies aimed at reducing the number of evictions, motivated by [...]
Supply, Demand and the Challenge of Local Control
The Greater Boston Housing Report Card serves as an annual assessment of housing conditions in Greater Boston and what needs to be done to meet the region’s goals for current [...]