The Irony of Inclusionary Zoning
Between 1973 and 1980, the average sale price of a single-family house in the five-county Los Angeles area rose from $40,700 to $115,000, or by 183%. This increase not only [...]
The Advisory Commission on Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing: Its Behavior and Accomplishments
In March 1990, Secretary Jack Kemp of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) appointed a 22-member commission to investigate the nature and extent of regulatory barriers to [...]
The Destructive Role of Land Use Planning
Over the past century, land use planning by regulatory agencies has increasingly displaced the decentralized process of private landowners making their own decisions about land use. Local governments, county governments, [...]
Cities Under Pressure: Local Growth Controls and Residential Development Policy
One of the most frustrating and contentious issues in California in recent years has been the shortage of housing. Even as 10 million people have been added to the state’s [...]
The Rise of the Skilled City
For more than a century, educated cities have grown more quickly than comparable cities with less human capital. This fact survives a battery of other control variables, metropolitan area fixed [...]
The Effects of Land Use Regulation on the Price of Housing: What Do We Know? What Can We Learn?
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, [...]
Comparing Forecasting Methods: Expert Land Use Panel vs. Simple Land use Allocation Model
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 [...]
The Transportation-Land Use Policy Connection
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 [...]
Owners of Developed Land versus Owners of Undeveloped Land: Why Land Use is More Constrained in the Bay Area than in Pittsburgh
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 [...]
Political Structure and Exclusionary Zoning: Are Small Suburbs the Big Problem?
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 [...]