Impact of Environmental Regulatory Systems on Housing Affordability
By some projections, the United States will add 100 million people faster than any country on the planet except India. This translates into a net increase of about 40 million [...]
State Growth Management: Intergovernmental Frameworks and Policy Objectives
This paper contrasts the intergovernmental structures and development goals of state growth programs initiated since 1970 in thirteen states. Many of these state and nonlocal growth management strategies seek to [...]
Do Growth Controls Work?: A New Assessment
This article presents a partial evaluation of local growth controls as applied in seven mid-size California cities: Camarillo, Livermore, Lodi, Red-lands, San Luis Obispo, Thousand Oaks, and Walnut Creek. Through [...]
Housing Market Impacts of Inclusionary Zoning
Many communities across the country face affordable housing challenges. An increasing number of communities are considering inclusionary zoning as a response. Inclusionary zoning programs, which require developers to sell a [...]
Managing Growth With Priority Funding Areas: A Good Idea Whose Time Has Yet to Come
In 1997, the State of Maryland adopted a bold new approach to growth management based on a novel instrument: priority funding areas (PFAs). PFAs contain growth by directing state spending [...]
Reducing Poverty and Economic Disress after ARRA: Potential Roles for Place-Conscious Strategies
In what follows, we lay out the case for new, place-conscious strategies. We begin by reviewing the well-documented case that place does indeed matter—that where you grow up affects where [...]
Did Credit Market Policies Cause the Housing Bubble?
Many economists have argued that aspects of the credit market, including low interest rates, can explain the boom. The evidence summarized in this Policy Brief casts doubt on the view [...]
The Quiet Revolution Revived: Sustainable Design, Land Use Regulation, and the States
In 1971, The Quiet Revolution in Land Use Control inspired numerous scholarly debates about the states’ role in land use regulation. In that book, Fred Bosselman and David Callies recognized [...]
The Housing Market Effects of Discrete Land Use Regulations: Evidence from the California Coastal Boundary Zone
The California Coastal Act is a distinctive piece of land use regulation. Its intent is to preserve a unique environmental asset. This paper has used two different data sets to [...]
Barriers to Development Inside Maryland’s PFAs: Perspectives of Planners, Developers, and Advocates
This study presents a summary of stakeholder perspectives on the effectiveness of Maryland's Priority Funding Areas and barriers to growth within PFAs. It relies upon responses to a telephone survey [...]