Published: 2020 | Andrew Aurand, Dan Emmanuel, Diane Yentel | National Low Income Housing Coalition Abstract A large-scale, sustained commitment to affordable housing for people with the lowest incomes, through such programs as the national Housing Trust Fund (HTF), Housing…
The Geography of Inequality: How Land Use Regulation Produces Segregation
Published: 2020 | Jessica Trounstine | American Political Science Review Abstract Public goods in the United States are largely funded and delivered at the local level. Local public goods are valuable, but their production requires overcoming several collective action problems…
It’s Time to End Single-Family Zoning
Published: 2020 | Paavo Monkkonen, Michael Lens, and Michael Manville | Journal of the American Planning Association Abstract Local planning in the United States is unique in the amount of land it reserves for detached single-family homes. This privileging of…
Inclusionary Zoning: What Does the Research Tell Us about the Effectiveness of Local Action?
Published: 2019 | Kriti Ramakrishnan, Mark Treskon, and Solomon Greene | Urban League Abstract As real wages stagnate, racial disparities grow, and housing prices soar in cities across the US, local governments are increasingly adopting laws and regulations that aim…
An Introduction to the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
Published: 2019 | Mark P. Keightley | Congressional Research Service Abstract The low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) program is one of the federal government’s primary policy tools for encouraging the development and rehabilitation of affordable rental housing.
The rise and effects of homeowners associations
Published: 2019 | Wyatt Clarkea, Matthew Freedman | Urban Economics Abstract In the U.S., nearly 60% of recently built single-family houses, and 80% of houses in new subdivisions, are part of a homeowners association (HOA). We construct the first near-national…
The Effect of New Luxury Housing on Regional Housing Affordability
Published: 2019 | Evan Mast | The Captured Economy Abstract I study the short-run effect of new housing construction on housing affordability using individual address history data. Because most new construction is expensive, its effect on the market for more…
Sand Castles Before the Tide? Affordable Housing in Expensive Cities
Published: 2019 | Gabriel Metcalf | The Journal of Economic Prespectives Abstract This article focuses on cities with unprecedented economic success and a seemingly permanent crisis of affordable housing. In the expensive cities, policymakers expend great amounts of energy trying…
Our Homes, Our Future: How Rent Control Can Build Stable, Healthy Communities
Published: 2019 | PolicyLink Abstract Amid the worst renter crisis in a generation, it is time for policymakers to respond to the call for rent control to protect tenants from skyrocketing rents and displacement. Leveraging this powerful yet underutilized tool…
New rail transit stations and the out-migration of low-income residents
Published: 2019 | Elizabeth Delmelle, Isabelle Nilsson | Urban Studies Abstract This article tests the hypothesis that low-income residents disproportionately move out of neighbourhoods in close proximity to new rail transit stations. This transit-induced gentrification scenario posits that the development…