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Why You Can't Afford a House
Study Name |
Author |
Institution |
Residential Land Use Regulation and the US Housing Price Cycle also |
Department of Economics, University of Alberta Department of Economics, Bowdoin College |
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6th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey: 2010 |
Wendell Cox |
Demographia |
Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko |
Harvard Institute of Economic Research |
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The Impact of Building Restrictions on Housing Affordability (182k) |
Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko |
Federal Reserve Bank of NY Economic Policy Review / June 2003 |
Regulatory Barriers (53k) |
BY DAVID ENGEL |
Director of the Division of Affordable Housing Research & Technology at HUD. |
The Causes and Consequences of Land Use Regulation: Evidence from Greater Boston |
Edward L. Glaeser and Bryce A. Ward |
Harvard Institute of Economic Research |
Planning Penalty (Claim:Portland's planning has doubled the cost of a house) |
Randal O'Toole |
American Dream Coalition |
Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko |
REGULATION FA L L 2002 |
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REPAIRING THE LADDER (380k) |
Howard Husock |
REASON FOUNDATION |
"Trends in Vacant Single Family Land Values - Portland, Oregon 1990-2005" |
John L. Hall and Gerard C.S. Mildner |
Portland State University |
Seattle Times: Rules add $200,000 to Seattle house price The Study |
University of Washington |
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Owen McShane |
Report prepared for the Reserve Bank of New Zealand |
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Urban-growth Boundaries, Smart Growth, and Housing Affordability |
BY SAMUEL R. STALEY, PH.D., JEFFERSON G. EDGENS, PH.D., AND GERARD C.S. MILDNER, PH.D. |
Reason Foundation P o l i c y S t u d y N o . 2 6 3 |
Edward L. Glaeser Joseph Gyourko |
American Enterprise Institute |
More studies
QUIGLEY and RAPHAEL, 2004: "Regulation and the High Cost of Housing in California"
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~raphael/QR%20Regulation%20110804.pdf
BREUCKNER, 2006: "Government Land-Use Interventions: An Economic Analysis"
www.urbanres.net/docs/land-use_interventions_Brueckner_final.doc
GRIMES, 2007: "Impacts of Land Availability, Housing Supply and Planning Infrastructure on New Zealand House Prices"
http://www.motu.org.nz/publications/detail/impacts_of_land_availability_housing_supply_and_plann ing_infrastructure
GLAESER, GYOURKO, and SAKS, 2004: "Why is Manhattan So Expensive? Regulation and the Rise in House Prices"
http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/glaeser/files/Manhattan.pdf
Bribery |
Cheaper & Better Transit |
EuroTranistShareLoss |
Elderly Travel |
GM & The Streetcar |
Commute Time Chart |
Top 10 Bus |
Clackamas Public Safety |
transit_congestion |
McLoughlin Plan |
CRC_Planning |
Zoneing Increases Cost, Hurts Economy |
High Rise |