Published: 2018 | Moira O’Neill, Giulia Gualco-Nelson, Eric Biber Abstract As California’s housing affordability crisis persists, an important question raised is: What laws or regulations might impede housing construction in high-cost areas? To help answer this question, we focused on…
Paying For Dirt: Where Have Home Values Detached From Construction Costs?
Published: 2017 | Issi Romem | BuildZoom Abstract The high cost of housing in expensive coastal metros is not driven by construction costs. It is driven by the high cost of land which, in turn, reflects a scarcity of zoned…
Letter to LA City Council, LA City Clerk: Amendments to a Linkage Fee
Published: 2017 | Michael Manville, Paavo Monkonnen | UCLA Department ofUrban Planning
It Takes a Village: Designating “Tiny House” Villages as Transitional Housing Campgrounds
Published: 2017 | Ciara Turner | University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform Abstract A relatively new proposal to reduce homelessness in the United States involves extraordinarily small dwellings. While the “tiny house” movement is intuitively appealing and has found…
How Housing Vouchers Can Help Address California’s Rental Crisis
Published: 2016 | Douglas Rice, Ehren Dohler, Alicia Mazzara | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Abstract California’s severe shortage of affordable housing has hit low-income renters particularly hard. Nearly 1.6 million low-income California renter households paid more than half…
Inclusionary Housing Policy in New York City: Assessing New Opportunities, Constraints, and Trade-offs
Published: 2015 | Josiah Madar | NYU Furman Center Abstract Many jurisdictions with high housing costs, including New York City, have supplemented traditional affordable housing production programs with inclusionary housing programs. By tying the creation of affordable units to market-rate…
Silver Bullet or Trojan Horse? The Effects of Inclusionary Zoning on Local Housing Markets in the United States
Published: 2010 | Jenny Schuetz, Rachel Meltzer, Vicki Been | Urban Studies Abstract Many local governments are adopting inclusionary zoning (IZ) as a means of producing affordable housing without direct public subsidies. In this paper, panel data on IZ in…
Housing Market Effects of Inclusionary Zoning
Published: 2009 | Antonio Bento, Scott Lowe, Gerrit-Jan Knaap and Arnab Chakraborty | Cityscape Abstract This article presents an empirical analysis of the effects of inclusionary zoning policies on housing prices and starts in California during the period from 1988…