Constraints on city and neighborhood growth: the central role of housing supply

N Baum-Snow - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2023 - aeaweb.org
The US urban population increased by almost 50 percent between 1980 and 2020, with this
growth heavily concentrated in the Sun Belt and at the fringes of metropolitan areas. This …

Measuring aggregate land values using individual city land value gradients

N Harris - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
Aggregate land value is useful for a variety of research purposes including measuring the
social surplus generated by cities and evaluating urban development policies. Nevertheless …

Homeowner politics and housing supply

L Fang, N Stewart, J Tyndall - Journal of Urban Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper examines whether homeowner opposition to nearby housing development
affects local councillors' votes on housing bills. Homeowners benefit financially from …

Do households value lower density: Theory, evidence, and implications from Washington, DC

C Lin - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
A substantial literature demonstrates that zoning restrictions on building height or density
lower supply and increase housing prices. However, negative externalities due to …

The Distaste for Housing Density

J Gyourko, SE McCulloch - 2024 - nber.org
We characterize the distribution of suburban homeowners' preferences for housing unit
density. To measure welfare changes under counterfactual increases in density, we first …

Spillover effects of ADU development

I Tanrisever - Available at SSRN 4539878, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
State and local governments have sought out initiatives to increase the housing supply in
response to the rising cost of housing. Encouraging the development of accessory dwelling …

Sustainable Urban Development-a Nexus of Understanding, Methodology, and Governance

MA Rauf - 2023 - uwspace.uwaterloo.ca
Sustainability management requires facing tradeoffs between socioeconomic and
environmental objectives, while integrating contextual variations into strategic and business …

[PDF][PDF] Affordable Housing–Challenges and Constraints for Local Governance in Canada

MA Rauf, B Frayne - Journal of Sustainable Development, 2024 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Housing and sustainable development is interdisciplinary research that requires cross
functional knowledgesharing to address operational and policy issues—limitations in …

ADUs and the Just City: How additional dwelling units can shape urban environments toward equitable outcomes in Canadian cities

S Cipkar - Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Using the model of a Just City the goal of this paper is to contribute to the discussion of
additional dwelling units (ADUs) by connecting disparate literature on ADUs in North …

ADUs in Los Angeles: Where are they located and by how much do they raise property value?

JK Brueckner, S Thomaz - Real Estate Economics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Using data from Los Angeles, this article explores the locational determinants as
well as the assessed‐value effects of the presence of accessory dwelling units (ADUs). The …