Land Use Regulation

1. How restrictions on housing development hurt homeowners. 2. Scott Wiener's SB 828 becomes law in California.

Would-be residents priced out of the housing market or cash-strapped renters spending thousands of dollars per month to live in small studio apartments are normally the victims of restricted growth, [...]

After a number of substantial revisions during the drafting process, California state senator Scott Wiener’s SB 828 has become law. California law requires cities and counties to adopt a “general [...]

1. How increased zoning regulations and costs of living increase Democratic representation in districts. 2. How UC Berkeley's private covenant may still restrict the development of a new volleyball court.

Matt Yglesias described the housing affordability crisis as “Blue America’s greatest failing,” and there’s a great deal of truth to that. The Bay Area, New York City, D.C., and other [...]

It’s tempting to call Berkeley, California, the Mecca of NIMBYism, but the point of Mecca was to bring people in, while Berkeleyans are famous for fighting tooth and nail to [...]

1. Twitter threads on homelessness, affordability, and land-use regulation. 2. Low housing affordability has increased segregation in the Bay Area. 3. The sharing economy doesn't threaten housing affordability unless we [...]

On Twitter this afternoon, I came across the following advertisement from Share Better D.C. FACT: D.C. is facing one of the most severe affordable housing crises of any city in [...]

A bundle of three studies on the housing markets in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, and San Francisco, California released by the Urban Displacement Project (UDP) reached the same conclusions [...]

Yesterday, Niskanen’s Samuel Hammond tweeted a paper describing the association between homelessness and the stringency of land-use regulation. "The data reveal a striking positive relationship between the degree of homelessness [...]