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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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The Effects of Minimum-Lot-Size Reform on Houston Land Values
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This Supreme Court Case From California Could Ease Housing Shortages Everywhere | Los Angeles Times
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Hopefully, AI Will Create a Perpetual Housing Crisis | Market Urbanism
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Minimum Lot Size Regulations Are a Barrier to Homeownership in Dallas
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Improving Housing Affordability by Reducing Barriers to Housing Construction
Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance of the US House Committee on Financial Services | Housing Affordability: Governmental Barriers and Market-Based Solutions
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Sheetz v. County of El Dorado
Is a permit exaction exempt from the unconstitutional conditions doctrine simply because it is authorized by legislation?
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An Autopsy of Hsieh & Moretti | Market Urbanism
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Cutting Zoning Down to Size
Reevaluating the Legal Vulnerability of Urban Minimum Lot Sizes
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Conversations That Matter: How Markets Shape Cities | The Vancouver Sun
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What Is Wrong with Henry George-Type Taxation? | City Journal
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Setting Minimum Zoning Requirements for Multifamily Housing
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Zoning Plans Are Wasting Scarce Land Supply | The Vancouver Sun
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Pedestrianized Streets Usually Fail – and That’s Ok | Market Urbanism
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Housing Reform in the States: A Menu of Options for 2024
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Four Elements of a Successful Housing Task Force: Lessons from the Montana Miracle
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Urban Minimum Lot Sizes: Their Background, Effects, and Avenues to Reform
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Gentrification: An LVT Would Do That | Market Urbanism
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Will Congestion Pricing Hurt Cities? | Market Urbanism
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Breaking Ground: An Examination of Effective State Housing Reforms in 2023
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Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
Latest work in Housing
- | Housing Housing
- | Working Papers Working Papers
The Effects of Minimum-Lot-Size Reform on Houston Land Values
- | Housing Housing
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
This Supreme Court Case From California Could Ease Housing Shortages Everywhere | Los Angeles Times
- | Housing Housing
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Hopefully, AI Will Create a Perpetual Housing Crisis | Market Urbanism
- | Housing Housing
- | State Testimonies State Testimonies
Minimum Lot Size Regulations Are a Barrier to Homeownership in Dallas
- | Housing Housing
- | Federal Testimonies Federal Testimonies
Improving Housing Affordability by Reducing Barriers to Housing Construction
Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance of the US House Committee on Financial Services | Housing Affordability: Governmental Barriers and Market-Based Solutions
- | Housing Housing
- | Amicus Briefs Amicus Briefs
Sheetz v. County of El Dorado
Is a permit exaction exempt from the unconstitutional conditions doctrine simply because it is authorized by legislation?
- | Housing Housing
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
An Autopsy of Hsieh & Moretti | Market Urbanism
- | Housing Housing
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Cutting Zoning Down to Size
Reevaluating the Legal Vulnerability of Urban Minimum Lot Sizes
- | Housing Housing
- | Podcast Appearance Podcast Appearance
Conversations That Matter: How Markets Shape Cities | The Vancouver Sun
- | Housing Housing
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
What Is Wrong with Henry George-Type Taxation? | City Journal
- | Housing Housing
- | State Testimonies State Testimonies
Setting Minimum Zoning Requirements for Multifamily Housing
- | Housing Housing
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Zoning Plans Are Wasting Scarce Land Supply | The Vancouver Sun
- | Housing Housing
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Pedestrianized Streets Usually Fail – and That’s Ok | Market Urbanism
- | Housing Housing
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
Housing Reform in the States: A Menu of Options for 2024
- | Housing Housing
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
Four Elements of a Successful Housing Task Force: Lessons from the Montana Miracle
- | Housing Housing
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
Urban Minimum Lot Sizes: Their Background, Effects, and Avenues to Reform
- | Housing Housing
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Gentrification: An LVT Would Do That | Market Urbanism
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- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Will Congestion Pricing Hurt Cities? | Market Urbanism
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- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
Breaking Ground: An Examination of Effective State Housing Reforms in 2023
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- | Book Chapters Book Chapters
Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
Latest work in Housing
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How the Gem City Lost Its Luster and How It Can Get It Back
A Case Study of Dayton, Ohio
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Colorado’s Expiring Benefit-Cost Analysis Requirements for Regulations
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A Paternalism Ranking of the States
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Regulation Costs and Private-Sector Know-How Spillovers of Public-Private Partnerships
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Political Competition and Rule-Based Financing in the Municipal Bond Market
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How Congestion Pricing Influences Equity
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Is There a Tradeoff between Economic Development Incentives and Economic Freedom?
Evidence from the US States
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How to Improve Pennsylvania’s Tax System
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Untangling Hair Braider Deregulation in Virginia
A Case Study Approach
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Unfunded Mandates and State Constitutions: Lessons from Florida
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Florida, High-Speed Rail, and the Perils of Policymaking by Constitution
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Too Much of a Good Thing? Initiatives and the “Cluttered” Colorado Constitution
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Illinois’s Constitutional Pension Protections, with Lessons for New Jersey
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Education Innovation, Fiscal Policy, and State Constitutions
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Education Policymaking from the Bench: Lessons from New Jersey and Connecticut
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Is Economic Freedom Associated with Urban Development?
Evidence from US Metropolitan Areas
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Ohio’s Worsening Pension Crisis
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Local Governments and Economic Freedom
A Test of the Leviathan Hypothesis
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Federal Highway Funding Needs to Change
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There's Nothing Natural about the State of Government Spending in Arkansas
Latest work in Housing
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How Policymakers Can Improve Housing Affordability
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Sprawl Made Los Angeles’ Pandemic Problem Worse, Not Better
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The Bootlegger and Baptist Coalition to Restrict Urban Growth
Moralistic preservationists and environmentalists join hands with financially self-interested property owners.
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Has COVID led to “urban flight?”
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Townscaper: The Anti-SimCity
A new addition to the city-building game genre comes close to capturing how cities emerged for much of human history.
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How a Tysons Task Force Built a Road Map for Redevelopment
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What’s a Stickplex?
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How Substantial Park Requirements May Challenge Walkability Goals in Tysons
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Want More Housing? Ending Single-Family Zoning Won’t Do It.
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Fairfax County found a way to upzone in Tysons with minimal roadblocks
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Ten years into redevelopment, is Tysons what we envisioned?
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A Legal Challenge to the Big Apple's Newest Rent-Control Laws
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Here’s a snapshot of how the Silver Line has impacted the Metrorail system and Tysons commuters
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Tysons housing permits are ahead of plan, but walkability lags behind
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Automobiles Seeded the Massive Coronavirus Epidemic in New York City
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A Vision of Post-Pandemic New York
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HUD is on the way to better fair housing accountability
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How Mortgages Can Ease the Downturn
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Nebraska Housing Reform Bill Fails to Go Far Enough
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