Land Use Regulation

Rent Check While California and other states have requirements on local governments to meet regional housing needs, they often fall short. Christopher Elmendorf proposes a change to this model to [...]

As the pro-development movement in California gains steam thanks to the work of YIMBY politicians like Scott Wiener, London Breed, and Gavin Newsom, it is necessary to examine how officials [...]

Rent Check A key reason for the crisis in housing affordability is a lack of supply, and government subsidies can help address the problem. However, that doesn't mean that government [...]

Yesterday we wrote about a new study on how Chicago’s 2013 and 2015 upzoning measures increased land prices, but failed to increase housing construction. While there are a variety of [...]

Rent Check Upzoning is necessary, but not sufficient, to address the affordability crisis. The NYU Furman center's study outlines why "supply skeptics" shouldn't be concerned that growth in housing supply [...]

In the face of rising housing costs and the associated rents to homeowners, it’s abundantly clear that cities across the U.S. need to change course to address the housing affordability [...]

As intuitive as the fact that supply increases create a downward pressure on prices may seem, there are a number of holdouts who argue against this fact in the housing [...]

Rent Check David Schleicher argues that a new breed of YIMBY politicians and grassroots activism in California may have the political will to correct the mistakes of their predecessors. One of [...]

It has become common knowledge that the country is facing a massive housing crisis in our richest regions. Housing supply has not matched the huge demand to live in places [...]

Previously, we wrote about California’s new Governor, Gavin Newsom, and his plan to deny transportation fund revenue to local governments that fail to meet their housing production goals. It’s a [...]