Land Use Regulation

News and Commentary Joe Cortright summarizes Athey et al's paper Experienced Segregation, writing that cell phone data allows a look at segregation at different times of day, types of locations, [...]

News and Commentary Josh Blackman at Reason argues that Houston's Historic Preservation Ordinance violates the zoning ban in its City Charter. Powell and Luccia v. City of Houston is being [...]

News and Commentary Niskanen Senior Regulatory Fellow David Schleicher joined a Mercatus Center podcast highlighting labor mobility and housing supply. Will Stancil reviews the success and surprising ease of the [...]

News and Commentary An article by The Wall Street Journal editorial board praises the Trump Administration’s recent efforts to roll back a federal housing regulation that was meant to combat [...]

News and Commentary Emily Hamilton writes in Bloomberg CityLab about why ending single family housing isn't a silver bullet to addressing the affordable housing crisis in the U.S. She argues [...]

News and Commentary Joseph Parilla and Sifan Liu write in a blog post for the Brookings Institution about varying levels of relief that the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is having [...]

News and Commentary Alex Baca writes in the blog Greater Greater Washington about the recent popularity of upzoning and it's application in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. An article in [...]

News and Commentary Kim Hart writes in Axios about why cities should ease zoning restrictions to help individuals and businesses recover from the COVID-19 economic crisis. She cites a series [...]