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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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Improving Opportunities for Multifamily Housing in Virginia
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Zoning Reform Backfires | EconLib
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Regulations Are the Main Cause of Inadequate Housing Supply and Rising Rents in Texas
Texas Senate Committee on Local Government
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Rent Control is How the Rich Outbid Less-affluent People for Valuable Land | Market Urbanism
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Inclusionary Zoning and Its Exclusionary Effects | Urbanize Los Angeles’ "Cityspeak"
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The Arbitrary Lines of Zoning | Streetblog's "Talking Headways"
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Build-to-Rent Housing Bans: A Case of Zoning Overreach
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Rising Home Prices Are Mostly from Rising Rents
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Developers Press on with Apartment Building as Would-Be Homeowners Rent Instead | Marketplace Radio
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Inclusionary Zoning with Emily Hamilton | UCLA's "Housing Voice"
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How Big is the Housing Shortage? | Market Urbanism
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How One City Embraced Zoning Reform for Economic Growth and Community Preservation
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Housing Reform in the States: A Menu of Options for 2023
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State Policymakers' Role in Protecting the Right to Build Workforce Housing in Texas
Texas House of Representatives Committee on Urban Affairs
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What Critics of Diversifying Arlington’s Housing get Wrong | The Washington Post
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Zoning Out Growth | City Journal's "10 Blocks"
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Abolish Zoning–All of It | Reason
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How Rent Control Hurts Renters | John Stossel TV
Latest work in Housing
- | Housing Housing
- | Public Interest Comments Public Interest Comments
Improving Opportunities for Multifamily Housing in Virginia
- | Housing Housing
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Zoning Reform Backfires | EconLib
- | Housing Housing
- | State Testimonies State Testimonies
Regulations Are the Main Cause of Inadequate Housing Supply and Rising Rents in Texas
Texas Senate Committee on Local Government
- | Housing Housing
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Rent Control is How the Rich Outbid Less-affluent People for Valuable Land | Market Urbanism
- | Housing Housing
- | Podcast Appearance Podcast Appearance
Inclusionary Zoning and Its Exclusionary Effects | Urbanize Los Angeles’ "Cityspeak"
- | Housing Housing
- | Podcast Appearance Podcast Appearance
The Arbitrary Lines of Zoning | Streetblog's "Talking Headways"
- | Housing Housing
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
Build-to-Rent Housing Bans: A Case of Zoning Overreach
- | Housing Housing
- | Research Papers Research Papers
Rising Home Prices Are Mostly from Rising Rents
- | Housing Housing
- | Radio Appearance Radio Appearance
Developers Press on with Apartment Building as Would-Be Homeowners Rent Instead | Marketplace Radio
- | Housing Housing
- | Podcast Appearance Podcast Appearance
Inclusionary Zoning with Emily Hamilton | UCLA's "Housing Voice"
- | Housing Housing
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
How Big is the Housing Shortage? | Market Urbanism
- | Housing Housing
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
How One City Embraced Zoning Reform for Economic Growth and Community Preservation
- | Housing Housing
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
Housing Reform in the States: A Menu of Options for 2023
- | Housing Housing
- | State Testimonies State Testimonies
State Policymakers' Role in Protecting the Right to Build Workforce Housing in Texas
Texas House of Representatives Committee on Urban Affairs
- | Housing Housing
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
What Critics of Diversifying Arlington’s Housing get Wrong | The Washington Post
- | Housing Housing
- | Podcast Appearance Podcast Appearance
Zoning Out Growth | City Journal's "10 Blocks"
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- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Abolish Zoning–All of It | Reason
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- | Article
How Rent Control Hurts Renters | John Stossel TV
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Two Models of Federalism Highlight Growing Divide Among States
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Political Incentives and Transportation Funding
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Ranking the States by Fiscal Condition 2015 Edition
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Do Governments Impede Transportation Innovation?
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The Challenge of Transparency in Taxation
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Certificate-of-Need Laws: Implications for Arkansas
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Certificate-of-Need Laws: Implications for West Virginia
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Certificate-of-Need Laws: Implications for Kentucky
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Certificate-of-Need Laws: Implications for Michigan
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How State CON Laws Restrict Access to Health Care
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Certificate-of-Need Laws: Implications for Missouri
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Certificate-of-Need Laws: Implications for South Carolina
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Federal Subsidies to the States Remain High
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Certificate-of-Need Laws: Implications for Georgia
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Certificate-of-Need Laws: Implications for Tennessee
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Certificate-of-Need Laws: Implications for Florida
Latest work in Housing
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City Governments Should Focus on Opportunity, Not Income Inequality
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Resolved: Cities Should Build for Autonomous Vehicles
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Why General Motors Is Leaving Lordstown and What's Next
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A Pension Middle-Ground beyond the ‘California Rule’
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Want to Attract the Next HQ2? Become the Best Place to Live
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What Could States and Municipalities Have Done with That Amazon HQ2 Money?
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This Thanksgiving, Talk to Your Family About Zoning
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Amazon HQ2 Decision Shines Light on Urban Housing Issues
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Amazon’s Arrival Requires Smarter Housing in Arlington
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Florida's Future Is Bright Even Without Amazon
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Amazon's HQ2 Would Have Been like the Iceberg to the Titanic for Nashville
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How Does Tax Reform Change a State’s Fiscal Health?
Kansas and North Carolina Can Teach Us a Lot
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Right about Amazon’s Corporate Welfare
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New Scooter Lawsuits Threaten Innovation
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Do DC Leaders Want More Innovative Transportation or Not?
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The Carbon Tax Is Dead, Long Live the Carbon Tax
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New York's Smaller Counties Getting Left Behind
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Want to Create Jobs? Curb Occupational Licensure
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Seattle’s Tale of Two Stadiums
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