Financial Markets
Working Papers
September 19, 2004

Housing Supply and Affordability

Do Affordable Housing Mandates Work?
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California and many urban areas nationwide face a housing affordability crisis. New housing production has chronically failed to meet housing needs, causing housing prices to escalate. Faced with demands to “do something” about the housing affordability crisis, many local governments have turned to “inclusionary zoning” ordinances in which they mandate that developers sell a certain percentage of the homes they build at below-market prices to make them affordable for people with lower incomes. CONTINUE READING

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