April 11, 2018
Planning for a Wetter Future
Enterprise has issued Safer and Stronger Cities: Strategies for Advocating for Federal Resilience Policy. The report offers a menu of federal recommendations organized into five chapters focusing on infrastructure, housing, economic development and public safety. Each chapter includes a set of strategies, … Continue reading
April 11, 2018 in Land Use | Permalink | No Comments
February 21, 2018
Zoning and Housing Affordability
Vanessa Brown Calder has posted Zoning, Land-Use Planning, and Housing Affordability to SSRN. It opens, Local zoning and land-use regulations have increased substantially over the decades. These constraints on land development within cities and suburbs aim to achieve various safety, … Continue reading
February 21, 2018 in Land Use | Permalink | No Comments
November 30, 2017
Storm-Induced Delinquencies
The Urban Institute’s Housing Finance Policy Center has released its November 2017 Housing Finance at a Glance Chartbook. The Introduction looks out how this summer’s big storms have pushed up delinquency rates: The Mortgage Bankers Association recently released the results … Continue reading
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October 19, 2017
Housing Pays
The Los Angeles Business Council released its Housing Pays Report: Capturing the Economic and Fiscal Benefits of Increased Housing Production in L.A. LA has been taking serious steps recently to deal with its housing crisis and this report describes those steps … Continue reading
October 19, 2017 in Land Use | Permalink | No Comments
October 18, 2017
The Economics of Housing Supply
Housing economists Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko have posted The Economic Implications of Housing Supply to SSRN (behind a paywall but you can find a slightly older version of the paper here). The abstract reads, In this essay, we review the basic economics … Continue reading
October 18, 2017 in Land Use | Permalink | No Comments
October 17, 2017
Evidence and Innovation in Housing
Lee Anne Fennell and Benjamin Keys have posted the Introduction to their new book, Evidence and Innovation in Housing Law and Policy, to SSRN. It opens, No area of law and policy presents more important and pressing questions, or ones more … Continue reading
October 17, 2017 in Land Use | Permalink | No Comments
June 14, 2017
High Rents and Land Use Regulation
The Federal Reserve’s Devin Bunten has posted Is the Rent Too High? Aggregate Implications of Local Land-Use Regulation. It is a technical paper about an important subject. It has implications for those who are concerned about the lack of affordable housing … Continue reading
June 14, 2017 in Land Use | Permalink | No Comments
