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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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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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Finding the Right Balance | Discourse
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Allowing More Housing Would Contribute To Housing Affordability In Massachusetts
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Rhode Island’s housing process package | Market Urbanism
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Bipartisan Hope for Affordable Housing Emerges in the West | Governing
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Innovative Approaches to Affordable Housing in Northwest Arkansas | "I am Northwest Arkansas"
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Home Price Trends Point to a Worsening Lack of Supply
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Affordable Housing | KTAR Radio (Arizona)
Latest work in Housing
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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
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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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Will Congestion Pricing Hurt Cities? | Market Urbanism
- | Housing Housing
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
Breaking Ground: An Examination of Effective State Housing Reforms in 2023
- | Housing Housing
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Finding the Right Balance | Discourse
- | Housing Housing
- | State Testimonies State Testimonies
Allowing More Housing Would Contribute To Housing Affordability In Massachusetts
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Rhode Island’s housing process package | Market Urbanism
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Bipartisan Hope for Affordable Housing Emerges in the West | Governing
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- | Podcast Appearance Podcast Appearance
Innovative Approaches to Affordable Housing in Northwest Arkansas | "I am Northwest Arkansas"
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Home Price Trends Point to a Worsening Lack of Supply
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Affordable Housing | KTAR Radio (Arizona)
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Setting Community Development Priorities in Maine
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Analyzing the Unfunded Pension Risk of Local Governments
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Assigned and Unassigned General Fund Balances before the Pandemic
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Liberalizing Land Use Regulations: The Case of Houston
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The Politics of Redevelopment Planning in Tysons and Outcomes 10 Years Later
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Policies to Help Communities Recover: Economic Uncertainty
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Policies to Help Communities Recover: Housing Restrictions
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Policies to Help Communities Recover: Commuting
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When the Moratorium Expires: Three Quick Steps to Reduce Eviction
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New Urban Econ Research Shows the Macroeconomic Benefits of Big Cities
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California Can Improve Housing and Transit by Preempting Local Ordinances
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Inclusionary Zoning and Housing Market Outcomes
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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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Do Minimum-Lot-Size Regulations Limit Housing Supply in Texas?
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The Link Between Local Zoning Policy and Housing Affordability in America’s Cities
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Housing Supply in the 2010s
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Getting to Housing Abundance in the Shadow of History | Discourse
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Your Neighborhood May Be Filled With Apartments One Day. And That’s Ok | The Arizona Republic
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Why We Need To Achieve Housing Abundance | Discourse
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Acclaimed urbanist Alain Bertaud joins Mercatus Center’s Urbanity Project
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The Last Utopia: The 15-Minute City | Urban Reform Institute
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The Housing Revolution Brewing in 2023 | The Hill
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Are the New Carbon Footprint Maps Accurate? | Market Urbanism
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The Forgotten Neighborhood | The Dispatch
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Zoning Reform Backfires | EconLib
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Rent Control is How the Rich Outbid Less-affluent People for Valuable Land | Market Urbanism
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How Big is the Housing Shortage? | Market Urbanism
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What Critics of Diversifying Arlington’s Housing get Wrong | The Washington Post
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Abolish Zoning–All of It | Reason
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Colorado Moves the Ball on Housing Affordability Reform—Will Other States Pick It Up?
How the Centennial State’s encouraging new policy works and why other states can build off of it to lower their own housing costs.
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Unpacking Emergent Tokyo with author Jorge Almazán | Market Urbanism
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Housing Costs in Michigan Are Skyrocketing. Is There Hope on the Horizon? | The Detroit News
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To Fix Its Housing Crisis, California Must Unleash the Duplex | Bloomberg CityLab
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Case Studies on Smart Zoning Reforms, Part Four: Removing Parking Requirements in Buffalo, New York
Buffalo illustrates how removing minimum parking requirements can increase housing availability, optimize land use, and make walkable development possible.
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Case Studies on Smart Zoning Reforms, Part Three: Tysons, Virginia’s Transit-Friendly Development
Fairfax County, VA. policymakers set out to permit more high-rise multifamily housing on what was formerly land zoned only for commercial uses -- and it’s paying off.
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Case Studies on Smart Zoning Reforms, Part Two: Portland, Oregon’s Accessory Dwelling Units
Portland, Oregon is an instructive example of how smart reform to accessory dwelling unit construction can increase housing availability, provide greater lifestyle flexibility, and reduce the environmental impact of home construction.