Research shows that the implementation of an eviction moratorium significantly disadvantaged African Americans in the housing search process. The post No Solutions, Just Tradeoffs appeared fir...
https://marketurbanism.com/2024/04/26/no-solutions-just-tradeoffs/
Should YIMBYs support or oppose greenfield growth? Two basic values animate most YIMBYs: housing affordability and urbanism. Sprawl puts those values into tension. Let’s take as a given that sp...
https://marketurbanism.com/2024/04/04/the-urban-economics-of-sprawl/
A friend asked what are the best papers supporting land use liberalization. That’s a broad question, but here are some of my answers. Affordability The basic case for zoning reform, across the ...
https://marketurbanism.com/2024/03/11/and-the-oscar-for-best-paper-goes-to/
In a Maryland neighborhood. rent control caused condo conversions of 15 percent of multifamily buildings. The county council might inflict the same fate on the entire region. The post Rent regu...
https://marketurbanism.com/2023/03/28/rent-regulation-in-moco/
Why are Max Holleran's book, Richard Schragger's law review article, and randos on Twitter all misinterpreting one important research article? The post Xiaodi Li, Misunderstood appeared first ...
https://marketurbanism.com/2023/03/02/xiaodi-li-misunderstood/
In a recent article, Jerusalem Demsas identified a major housing policy problem but gave an unworkable solution. Michael D. Nahas proposes a workable solution: land-value contracts. The post Th...
https://marketurbanism.com/2023/02/26/the-homeownership-society-can-be-fixed/
For a reading group, I recently read two papers about the costs and (in)efficiencies around land assembly. One advocated nudging small landowners into land assembly; the other is an implicit caut...
https://marketurbanism.com/2023/02/17/should-governments-nudge-land-assembly/
In a tweet this week, the Welcoming Neighbors Network recommended that pro-housing advocates keep supply-and-demand arguments in their back pockets and emphasize simpler housing composition argum...
https://marketurbanism.com/2022/10/20/is-affordability-just-you-get-what-you-pay-for/