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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/

By Andrew Crouch and Charles Gardner In March 2023, Arlington County, Virginia passed an amendment to its zoning ordinance which legalized so-called “missing middle” housing typologies in sev...

https://marketurbanism.com/2023/10/20/court-arlington-missing-middle-lawsuit-may-proceed-to-trial/

One common NIMBY* argument is that new housing (or the wrong kind of new housing) will “destroy the neighborhood.” For example, one suburban town’s politicians fought zoning reform in New Y...

https://marketurbanism.com/2023/06/19/on-coexistence/

A group of researchers at the Urban Institute came out with a new study on zoning and housing affordability. At governing.com, a headline about the study screamed: “Zoning Changes Have Small Im...

https://marketurbanism.com/2023/04/11/another-of-these-studies-that-dont-mean-what-some-people-thinks-it-means/

In recent years, I have thought of Herbert Hoover as sort of an urban policy villian, thanks to his promotion of zoning. But I recently ran across one of his memoirs in our school’s library. (H...

https://marketurbanism.com/2023/01/23/herbert-hoover-reconsidered/

During the Trump Administration, liberals sometimes criticized conservatives for being anti-anti-Trump: that is, not directly championing Trump’s more obnoxious behaviour, but devoting their en...

https://marketurbanism.com/2022/11/24/an-anti-anti-nimby-article/

Lydia Lo and Yonah Freemark have an interesting new paper ? EditSign on zoning in Louisville on the Urban Institute website. They point out that of the land zoned for single-family housing, 59 pe...

https://marketurbanism.com/2022/11/17/louisville-and-density-regulation/

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/