American technological creativity is geographically concentrated in areas that are generally distant from the country’s most persistent pockets of joblessness. Could a more even spatial distribution of innovation reduce American [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
News and Commentary Jacqueline Rabe Thomas of the Connecticut Mirror writes about the stark divide between the rich and poor (which correlates strongly with white and non-white), in southwest Connecticut, one [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
News and Commentary California SB 330, introduced by Nancy Skinner, passed the senate and heads to the assembly. The bill makes the bold SB 50 look timid--it would freeze most [...]
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 [...]
News and Commentary A new medium post from Joe DiStefano of Urban Footprint goes through the potential effects of the recently postponed SB 50. The benefits of the jobs-rich area provisions, [...]
Using a 1994 law change, we exploit quasi-experimental variation in the assignment of rent control in San Francisco to study which types of landlords bear the burden of decreased rental [...]