Published: 2019 | Evan Mast | Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Abstract A major obstacle to new housing construction in gentrifying neighborhoods is the fear that new units will induce additional housing demand, increasing local rents and fueling further gentrification.…
Zoning and the Cost of Housing: Evidence from Silicon Valley, Greater New Haven, and Greater Austin
Published: 2017 | Robert C. Ellickson Abstract Municipal zoning, shockingly, may be the most consequential regulatory program in the United States. The Article develops metrics for measuring the extent to which a locality’s zoning practices are exclusionary, that is, limit…