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Cities are dynamic centers of exchange, innovation, and economic growth, providing the platform where people, ideas, and capital come together. However, the regulations that limit urban development reduce the potential for income mobility and rising standards of living over time. Mercatus research shows how land-use policy reform can reverse the stagnation in our cities and address the systemic problem of housing affordability.
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What Are Homeownership Rates Telling Us?
Homeownership rates are inching up again, and that's great news (if we let it be)
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A Closer Look at Recent Hawaiian Housing Supply Growth
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Housing Supply Growth in Hawaii’s Oahu Island Is Not Exactly Blossoming
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Alain Bertaud on Cities, Markets, and People | Conversations with Tyler
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Affordable housing policy backfires in Baltimore, Washington region
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Inclusionary Zoning and Housing Market Outcomes
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What are “Development Dividends,” and Could They Stimulate New Housing Stock?
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New Bill Would Target Transit Funding to Places that Allow Housing Density
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A Conceptual Starting Point for Housing Affordability and Public Policy
Part Sixteen of Kevin Erdmann's Housing Affordability Series
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Tracking Vermont’s Housing Supply Growth and Decline by Census Tract
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Does Homeownership Really Increase Household Liabilities?
Part Fifteen of Kevin Erdmann's Housing Affordability Series
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California Zoning: Housing Construction and a New Ranking of Local Land Use Regulation
Ranking California’s Cities on the Stringency of Land Use Regulation
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Development Dividends: Sharing Equity to Overcome Opposition to Housing
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Because of Housing, All Taxes on Capital Tend to Be Regressive
Part Fourteen of Kevin Erdmann's Housing Affordability Series
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Tracking Michigan's Housing Supply Growth and Decline by Census Tract
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Income Tax Benefits to Homeowners Are Regressive
Part Thirteen of Kevin Erdmann's Housing Affordability Series
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The Market for Neighborhoods: A Q&A with Salim Furth
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Low Property Taxes and Obstructed Housing Supply Are a Bad Mix
Part Eleven of Kevin Erdmann's Housing Affordability Series
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Property Taxes Can Be a Tax on Monopoly Power
Part Ten of Kevin Erdmann's Housing Affordability Series
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The New Conservative Housing Push
Latest work in Housing
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What Are Homeownership Rates Telling Us?
Homeownership rates are inching up again, and that's great news (if we let it be)
- | Housing Housing
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
A Closer Look at Recent Hawaiian Housing Supply Growth
- | Housing Housing
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Housing Supply Growth in Hawaii’s Oahu Island Is Not Exactly Blossoming
- | Housing Housing
- | Podcast Appearance Podcast Appearance
Alain Bertaud on Cities, Markets, and People | Conversations with Tyler
- | Housing Housing
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Affordable housing policy backfires in Baltimore, Washington region
- | Housing Housing
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Inclusionary Zoning and Housing Market Outcomes
- | Housing Housing
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
What are “Development Dividends,” and Could They Stimulate New Housing Stock?
- | Housing Housing
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
New Bill Would Target Transit Funding to Places that Allow Housing Density
- | Housing Housing
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
A Conceptual Starting Point for Housing Affordability and Public Policy
Part Sixteen of Kevin Erdmann's Housing Affordability Series
- | Housing Housing
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Tracking Vermont’s Housing Supply Growth and Decline by Census Tract
- | Housing Housing
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Does Homeownership Really Increase Household Liabilities?
Part Fifteen of Kevin Erdmann's Housing Affordability Series
- | Housing Housing
- | Research Papers Research Papers
California Zoning: Housing Construction and a New Ranking of Local Land Use Regulation
Ranking California’s Cities on the Stringency of Land Use Regulation
- | Housing Housing
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
Development Dividends: Sharing Equity to Overcome Opposition to Housing
- | Housing Housing
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Because of Housing, All Taxes on Capital Tend to Be Regressive
Part Fourteen of Kevin Erdmann's Housing Affordability Series
- | Housing Housing
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Tracking Michigan's Housing Supply Growth and Decline by Census Tract
- | Housing Housing
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Income Tax Benefits to Homeowners Are Regressive
Part Thirteen of Kevin Erdmann's Housing Affordability Series
- | Housing Housing
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Market for Neighborhoods: A Q&A with Salim Furth
- | Housing Housing
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Low Property Taxes and Obstructed Housing Supply Are a Bad Mix
Part Eleven of Kevin Erdmann's Housing Affordability Series
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Property Taxes Can Be a Tax on Monopoly Power
Part Ten of Kevin Erdmann's Housing Affordability Series
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The New Conservative Housing Push
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The Potential Impact of an Optional Federal Charter on the Social Resiliency of Hazard-Prone Regions
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State Budget Gaps and State Budget Growth
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
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Fiscal Evasion in State Budgeting
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The Crisis in Public Sector Pension Plans
A Blueprint for Reform in New Jersey
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The Value Added Tax
Too Costly for the United States
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The Death of Fiscal Federalism
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Seven Key Aspects of Governing During Crisis
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Can Decentralized Bottom-Up Post-Disaster Recovery Be Effective?
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Making Budget Rules Bite
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Competition and Education Reform
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Perverse Incentives of Economic "Stimulus"
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The Costs and Consequences of Unemployment Benefits on the States
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The Factors and Motivations of Fiscal Stability
A Comparative Analysis of 26 Countries
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No Correlation Between State Unemployment at Time of ARRA and Stimulus Funds Received
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Unemployment Continues to Rise Despite Stimulus Spending
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The Rise of Sublocal Governance
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How large looms the ghost of the past?
State-dependence vs. heterogeneity in the stag hunt
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Club Goods and Post-Disaster Community Return
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Tax and Expenditure Limits for Long-Run Fiscal Stability
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Institutions Matter: Can New Jersey Reverse Course?
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Privatizing Water Facilities Can Help Cash-Strapped Municipalities
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Little-Known State Laws Are Hurting Patients and Making Hospitals Worse
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Managing Business Red Tape
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If We Want More Economic Growth We Need More Economic Freedom
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Craft Brewing Has Brought Variety to Oktoberfest
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It's Illogical to Think Tax Increases Are Always Good
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Certificate of Need Laws Show Entry Barriers Can Raise Spending
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Getting More Bang For Our Transportation Buck
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Connecticut's Fiscal Condition among Worst
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Ranking Freedom, One State at a Time
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Time to Tear down the Walls to Healthcare
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Risky Investments Hurt Alabama Pension Program
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Sales-Tax Holidays Hide the Real Cost
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The Road to More Risk
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The Mythology of Minimum Wages
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Medicaid Fails the Poor
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New York Politicians Should Stay out of the Private Sector's Way
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Ryan Is Right to Tackle Federal Regulations, but We Must Look at State and Local, Too
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In the Fiscal Health Beauty Pageant, Everyone Loses
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