Published: 2019 | Kacie Dragan, Ingrid Ellen, Sherry A. Glied | National Bureau of Economic Research Abstract The pace of gentrification has accelerated in cities across the country since 2000, and many observers fear it is displacing low-income populations from…
Do New Housing Units in Your Backyard Raise YourRents?
Published: 2019 | Xiaodi Li | NYU Furman Center Abstract There is a growing debate about whether new housing units increase rents for immediately surrounding apartments. Some argue new market-rate development produces a supply effect, which should alleviate the demand…
California Zoning: Housing Construction and a New Ranking of Local Land Use Regulation
Published: 2019 | Salim Furth and Olivia Gonzalez | Mercatus Center Abstract New survey data on residential land use regulation in California have allowed us to create the Mercatus-Augmented Terner California Housing Regulation (MATCHR) Index, which characterizes formal restrictions on…
Supply Skepticism: Housing Supply and Affordability
Published: 2018 | Vicki Been, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Katherine O’Regan | NYU Furman Center, NYU Wagner School, and NYU School of Law Abstract Growing numbers of affordable housing advocates and community members are questioning the premise that increasing the supply…
Opposition to Development or Opposition to Developers? Survey Evidence from Los Angeles County on Attitudes towards New Housing
Published: 2018 | Paavo Monkkonen, Michael Manville | Urban Affairs Abstract Opposition to new housing at higher densities is a pervasive problem in planning. Such opposition constrains the housing supply and undermines both affordability and sustainability in growing metropolitan areas.…
How Much Added Housing is Really Needed in California?
Published: 2018 | Dowell Myers, JungHo Park, and Janet Li | USC Sol Price School of Public Policy Abstract Realistically, how much housing do we actually need and how do we know that? In the past, USC planning scholars have…
Growth Amid Dysfunction: An Analysis of Trends in Housing, Migration, and Employment
Published: 2018 | F. Noel Perry, Colleen Kredell, Marcia E. Perry, Stephanie Leonard Abstract Wages have increased and employment opportunities – especially in the Bay Area’s booming tech sector – are attracting migrants from other states and countries. But a…
Examining the Local Land Use Entitlement Process in California to Inform Policy and Process
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…
‘Stop‐go’ policy and the restriction of postwar British house‐building
Published: 2018 | Peter M. Scott, James T. Walker | The Economic History Review Abstract From the mid‐1950s to the early 1980s the Treasury and the Bank of England successfully advocated a policy of restricting both private and public sector…
California’s Housing Future: Challenges and Opportunities
Published: 2017 | Ben Metcalf et al. | California HCD Abstract But while California’s housing challenges may appear to be overwhelming, California’s Housing Future: Challenges and Opportunities provides the data and analysis to describe the problem and frame the discussion…