Published: 2017 | NLIHC Abstract The report reveals that only 5% of the mortgages obtained between 2013 to 2015 in the U.S. were larger than $500,000 and that lowering the mortgage interest deduction (MID) cap to $500,000 would have no…
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…
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…
Inclusionary Housing in the United States: Prevalence, Impact, and Practices
Published: 2017 | Emily Thaden, Ruoniu Wang | Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Abstract Inclusionary housing refers to any programs or policies that require or incentivize the creation of affordable housing when new development occurs, including impact or linkage fees…
Dynamics of homelessness in urban America
Published: 2017 | Chris Glynn and Emily B. Fox Abstract For each metro under study, we investigate the relationship between increases in the Zillow Rent Index and increases in the homeless population. Sensitivity of inference to potential improvements in the…
Producing Affordable Housing in Rising Markets: What Works?
Published: 2016 | Lance Freeman, Jenny Schuetz | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Abstract As cities across the United States have rebounded from the Great Recession, an increasing number of households in urban areas are facing high rent burdens in…
Housing Development Toolkit
Published: 2016 | Obama Administration Abstract Over the past three decades, local barriers to housing development have intensified, particularly in the high-growth metropolitan areas increasingly fueling the national economy. The accumulation of such barriers – including zoning, other land use…
Do Strict Land Use Regulations Make Metropolitan Areas More Segregated by Income?
Published: 2016 | Michael C. Lens and Paavo Monkkonen | American Planning Association Journal Abstract Income segregation has risen in each of the last four decades in U.S. metropolitan areas, which can have lifelong impacts on the health, economic productivity,…
The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children:New Evidence From the Moving to Opportunity Experiment
Published: 2015 | Raj Chetty, Lawrence F. Katz, Nathaniel Hendren | Nation Bureau of Economic Research Abstract The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment offered randomly selected families living in high-poverty housing projects housing vouchers to move to lower-poverty neighborhoods. We…
Planning an Affordable City
Published: 2015 | Roderick M. Hills, Jr. David Schleicher | Yale Law & Economics Review Abstract In many of the biggest and richest cities in America, there is a housing affordability crisis. Housing prices in these cities have appreciated well…