Land Use Regulation

1. Ben Carson: the newest YIMBY. 2. New Research: why The New York Times is wrong on rent control. 3. Bundle of pro-housing reforms in California. 4. Houston seeks to reduce [...]

Yesterday was an exciting day for YIMBYs (especially on Twitter). Noah Smith, writing for Bloomberg Opinion, praised Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson for his plans to roll back [...]

In advance of the New York gubernatorial primary next week, the editorial board of The New York Times published an editorial in support of rent control. After a number of [...]

Although major cities across the country face a shortage of affordable housing, California is traditionally viewed the ground zero of land-use and zoning reform. It is home to some particularly [...]

Houston holds a special place in the hearts of many urbanists due to its lack of single-use zoning, density regulations, restrictions on mixing apartment buildings with smaller housing units, or [...]

After California SB 827, which would have allowed apartment buildings near mass transit stops to be built up to five stories tall, died in committee last April, Scott Wiener’s second [...]

A new paper authored by Andrew Hall and Jesse Yoder finds that homeownership is a predictor of voting in local elections, particularly on questions related to zoning. Does owning property [...]

1. R Street's Eli Lehrer on the need for regulations to catch up to evolving housing needs. 2. New research: how more participation can lead to less representation in local [...]

The postwar American Dream of a two-story home in the suburbs with a white picket fence is older than Leave it to Beaver and The Honeymooners. But just as Americans’ [...]

A forthcoming paper in Perspectives on Politics investigates which local residents are most politically active, specifically with respect to local zoning board meetings: Scholars and policymakers have identified neighborhood activism [...]