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.…
Multifamily Cost of Regulation
Published: 2018 | Dr. Paul Emrath, Caitlin Walter
Local Housing Politicies Across California
Published: 2018 | Sarah Mawhorter and Carolina Reid | Terner Center for Housing Innovation Abstract In order to better understand how local policies affect housing supply, the Terner Center conducted a residential land use survey in California from August 2017…
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…
City NIMBYs
Published: 2018 | Vicki Been | Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law Abstract This article published in the Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law explores the growing trend of opposition to development in cities. It describes the academic…
Carbon Footprint Planning: Quantifying Local and State Mitigation Opportunities for 700 California Cities
Published: 2018 | Christopher M. Jones, Stephen M. Wheeler, and Daniel M. Kammen | Cogitatio Urban Planning Abstract Consumption-based greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventories have emerged to describe full life cycle contributions of households to climate change at country, state…
Beyond the Double Veto: Land Use Plans as Preemptive Intergovernmental Contracts
Published: 2018 | Christopher S. Elmendorf | UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper Series Abstract The problem of local-government barriers to housing supply is finally enjoying its moment in the sun. For decades, the states did little to remedy this…
‘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…