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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

Haifang Huang and Yao Tangy


Department of Economics, University of Alberta

Department of Economics, Bowdoin College

6th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey: 2010

Wendell Cox

Demographia

The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability  (362k)

Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko

Harvard Institute of Economic Research

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

Zoning’s Steep Price

Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko

REGULATION FA L L 2002

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

Theo Eicher

University of Washington

The Impact of the Resource  Management Act on the "Housing and Construction" Components of the Consumer Price Index

Owen McShane

Report prepared for the Reserve Bank of New Zealand

A Line in the Land:

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


Rethinking Federal Housing Policy

How to Make Housing Plentiful and Affordable  Local

Edward L. Glaeser

Joseph Gyourko

American Enterprise Institute


More Information


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