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…
Developing a New Methodology for Analyzing Potential Displacement
Published: 2017 | Karen Chapple, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Paul Waddell, Daniel Chatman, Paul Ong | The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Abstract In 2008, California passed Senate Bill 375, requiring metropolitan planning organizations to develop Sustainable Communities Strategies as…
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…
Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing
Published: 2016 | Mac Taylor | Legislative Analyst’s Office Abstract In this follow up to California’s High Housing Costs, we offer additional evidence that facilitating more private housing development in the state’s coastal urban communities would help make housing more…
A Tool Kit to Close California’s Housing Gap: 3.5 Million Homes by 2025
Published: 2016 | Jonathan Woetzel, Jan Mischke, Shannon Peloquin, Daniel Weisfield | McKinsey Global Institute
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…
California’s High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences
Published: 2015 | Mac Taylor | Legislative Analyst’s Office Abstract The purpose of this report is to provide the Legislature an overview of the state’s complex and expensive housing markets, encompassing both single-family homes and multi-family apartments. We pay particular…
The New Exclusionary Zoning
Published: 2014 | John Mangin | Stanford Law and Policy Review Abstract If low-income families can’t afford the suburbs and the cities, where should they go? For the first time in American history, it makes sense to talk about whole…
Land use regulations and the value of land and housing: An intra-metropolitan analysis
Published: 2014 | Nils Koka, Paavo Monkkonen, John M.Quigley | Journal of Urban Economics Abstract Inferences about the determinants of land prices in urban areas are typically based on housing transactions, which combine payments for land and long-lived improvements. In…
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…