With increasing frequency commentators have been urging greater reliance on the market mechanism to allocate resources in a variety of fields. There has been relatively little examination, however, of the [...]
Housing regulations are ancient and often motivated by obvious risks. Boston banned thatched roofs in 1630, the year of the city's founding, in the wake of an urban fire. New [...]
Local land use and growth controls have had a substantial negative impact on the San Francisco Bay Area housing market. These regulations have significantly diminished the availability of development opportunities [...]
Land-use regulations can affect property values in a variety of complex ways. In the context of laws like Oregon’s Measure 37, requiring that landowners be compensated if regulations reduce property [...]
In 1973, the Oregon Legislature adopted Senate Bill 100, creating Oregon’s unique and controversial statewide, centralized land-use system. The impact for Oregon property owners, particularly those in rural areas, was [...]
Home ownership near the workplace has become unattainable for many working Americans. Despite the overall increase in national home-ownership rates, according to the Urban Land Institute, "[a] rapid population rise [...]
Among the 15 American metropolitan areas with the fastest growth in demand for housing since 2012, 5 are in California. Those 5 California metros grew more slowly than all 10 [...]
While the Administrative Code lays out broad goals for historic preservation in the city, there has been little systematic work examining the city’s success in meeting them. To be sure, [...]
While filtering has long been considered the primary mechanism by which markets supply low-income housing, direct estimates of that process have been absent. This has contributed to doubts about the [...]