Published: 2016 | Jonathan Woetzel, Jan Mischke, Shannon Peloquin, Daniel Weisfield | McKinsey Global Institute
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…
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…
Housing Constraints and Spatial Misallocation
Published: 2015 | Chang-Tai Hsieh Enrico Moretti | Nation Bureau of Economic Research Abstract We quantify the amount of spatial misallocation of labor across US cities and its aggregate costs. Misallocation arises because high productivity cities like New York and…
Displacement and gentrification in England and Wales: A quasi-experimental approach
Published: 2015 | Lance Freeman, Adele Cassola, Tiancheng Cai | Urban Studies Abstract Using event history methods we examine the relationship between residential mobility and gentrification in England and Wales. While our models of residential mobility conform to the life-cycle…
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…
Cities as Labor Markets
Published: 2014 | Alain Bertaud | Marron Institute NYU Abstract A city’s welfare depends on its labor market. As long as a labor market does not fragment into adjacent, smaller ones as it grows, the larger the market, the more…
Urban Land Use Regulation: Are Homevoters Overtaking the Growth Machine?
Published: 2014 | Vicki Been, Josiah Madar, Simon McDonnell | Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Abstract The leading theory about urban land use regulation argues that city zoning officials are full partners in the business and real estate elite’s “growth…
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…