Land Use Regulation

News and Commentary For Planetizen, Todd Litman writes about the debate as it relates to the housing supply and how to evaluate evidence presented by those coming from different perspectives [...]

News and Commentary In dcist, Morgan Baskin overserves that from FY 2019-2021, D.C. used 56% of its permanent housing vouchers for individuals and 37% for families while leaving $8m dollars [...]

News and Commentary Michael Andersen covers the land use reforms contained in Biden's infrastructure memo for Sightline. Andrew Haughwout and New York Fed colleagues explore public views on housing as [...]

News and Commentary Jerusalem Demsas documents the struggle to liberalize zoning in the 'liberal' state of Connecticut for Vox. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has introduced a requirement to include below [...]

News and Commentary Erin Baldassari observes that five bay area cities are reconsidering single family zoning in response to housing shortage. In City Observatory, Alan Mallach finds the roughly third [...]

News and Commentary In the Globe and Mail, Alex Bozikovic finds restrictive zoning to be an issue in both Canada and the U.S. Joe Cortright writes in City Observatory that [...]

News and Commentary The efficiency of the U.S. housing stock will be critical to electrify energy predict Parth Vaishnav and Thomas Deetjen in Niskanen commentary. Sightline Institute's Alan Durning writes [...]

News and Commentary James Alford examines in the Regulatory Review how the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation created generational wealth gaps resulting in the disparate impacts of warming. Claudia Buch, Matthieu [...]

News and Commentary Vox's Jerusalem Demsas reviews de jure and de facto racial segregation through exclusionary zoning, recommending desperate impact litigation where other reform efforts fail. Libby Solomon reports that [...]

News and Commentary Tim Kohut opines for Cal Matters that electric housing developments are critical to cutting costs in California. Scott Beyer forwards 'market urbanism zoning' allowing private negotiation over [...]