Reading List: Difference between revisions

*Hoffman, A. Kimbery. "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUVgnocCVI4 Yes, In My Back Yard.]" TEDxWilmington, 28 Oct 2016. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUVgnocCVI4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUVgnocCVI4].

 

 

== Land Use, Zoning, Planning ==

*Autor, David H., Christopher J. Palmer and Parag A. Pathak. "Housing Market Spillovers: Evidence from the End of Rent Control in Cambridge, Massachusetts."<br/> &nbsp;

*Bertolet, Dan.[http://www.sightline.org/2016/04/20/how-exclusionary-zoning-robs-our-cities-of-their-best-qualities/ "Exclusionary Zoning Robs Our Cities of Their Best Qualities."] Sightline.org, 2016-04-20.<br/> &nbsp;

*Furth, Salim. “[https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/11/two-board-knot-zoning-schools-inequality/ The Two-Board Knot: Zoning, Schools, and Inequality.]” &nbsp;American Affairs Journal, Winter 2017.<br/> [https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/11/two-board-knot-zoning-schools-inequality/. https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/11/two-board-knot-zoning-schools-inequality/.&nbsp;]<br/> &nbsp;

*George, Henry. "[http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/ahj1472.1-01.004/* What the Railroad Will Bring Us]" (1868).<br/> &nbsp;

*Glaeser, Edward. "[https://www.brookings.edu/research/reforming-land-use-regulations/ Reforming land use regulations]." Brookings Institute,&nbsp;April 24, 2017.&nbsp;[https://www.brookings.edu/research/reforming-land-use-regulations/ https://www.brookings.edu/research/reforming-land-use-regulations/].<br/> &nbsp;

*Hills, Roderick M, Jr, and David Schleicher. [http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/regulation/2015/9/regulation-v38n3-1.pdf "Can ‘Planning’ Deregulate land use?"]&nbsp;Regulation&nbsp;(Cato Institute), Fall 2015. &nbsp;[https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/regulation/2015/9/regulation-v38n3-1.pdf https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/regulation/2015/9/regulation-v38n3-1.pdf], &nbsp;<br/> ''"To overcome NIMBY politics and development constraints, urban areas&nbsp;should consider binding, comprehensive, citywide plans."''<br/> &nbsp;

*Kent, T. J.&nbsp;''The Urban General Plan. &nbsp;''At Internet Archive:&nbsp;[https://archive.org/details/TheUrbanGeneralPlan [1]].&nbsp;<br/> classic work, long used as a planning textbook, by influential Bay Area planner and educator [http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/T-J-Kent-81-a-man-who-helped-create-The-City-3092286.php T. J. Kent].&nbsp;<br/> &nbsp;

*Kiefer, Matthew J.&nbsp;"[http://Planetizen.com/node/34505|The The Social Functions of #NIMBYism]" ''Harvard Graduate School of Design Magazine'', 2008: a&nbsp;nuanced, relatively sympathetic examination of NIMBYism. Republished by Planetizen.&nbsp;<br/> &nbsp;

*Ricco, John. “[https://ggwash.org/view/42799/houston-took-this-winning-approach-to-adding-housing-could-dc-do-the-same Houston took this winning approach to adding housing. Could DC do the same?]” Greater Greater Washington, September 8, 2016. [https://ggwash.org/view/42799/houston-took-this-winning-approach-to-adding-housing-could-dc-do-the-same. https://ggwash.org/view/42799/houston-took-this-winning-approach-to-adding-housing-could-dc-do-the-same.&nbsp;]<br/> ''"in 1999, Houston decreased minimum residential lot size from 5,000 square feet to 1,400 in close-in neighborhoods...Areas once entirely ranch-style houses, McMansions, and underused lots are now covered in townhouses."''<br/> &nbsp;

*White, Gillian B. "[https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/11/zoning-laws-and-the-rise-of-economic-inequality/417360/ How Zoning Laws Exacerbate Inequality]." The Atlantic, Nov 23, 2015. &nbsp;[https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/11/zoning-laws-and-the-rise-of-economic-inequality/417360/. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/11/zoning-laws-and-the-rise-of-economic-inequality/417360/.&nbsp;]<br/> &nbsp;

*White House. [https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/images/Housing_Development_Toolkit%20f.2.pdf Housing Development Toolkit]. September, 2016.&nbsp;[https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/images/Housing_Development_Toolkit%20f.2.pdf. https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/images/Housing_Development_Toolkit%20f.2.pdf.&nbsp;]

 

=== <br/> Peer-reviewed research&nbsp; ===

 

*Fischel, William A. [https://www.dartmouth.edu/~wfischel/Papers/00-04.PDF "Why Are There NIMBYs?]" (2000). eminent US land-use/zoning scholar William provides a useful analysis of the NIMBY phenomenon from an economic perspective. [https://www.dartmouth.edu/~wfischel/Papers/00-04.PDF https://www.dartmouth.edu/~wfischel/Papers/00-04.PDF].<br/> &nbsp;

*Glaeser, Edward L, Joseph Gyourko and Raven Saks. "Why is Manhattan So Expensive? Regulation and the Rise in Housing Prices."&nbsp;<br/> &nbsp;

*Glaeser, Edward L, and Bryce A. Ward. "[https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/glaeser/files/the_causes_and_consequences_of_land_use_regulation_evidence_from_greater_boston_2009.pdf The causes and consequences of land use regulation: Evidence from Greater Boston.]" Journal of Urban Economics 65 (2009) 265–278. &nbsp;DOI:10.1016/j.jue.2008.06.003.<br/> PDF from author: [https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/glaeser/files/the_causes_and_consequences_of_land_use_regulation_evidence_from_greater_boston_2009.pdf https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/glaeser/files/the_causes_and_consequences_of_land_use_regulation_evidence_from_greater_boston_2009.pdf].<br/> &nbsp;

*Hall, Peter. "[https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_E90AYG2sPDelVqeFBVVDFobVk The Containment of Urban England]." The Geographical Journal, Vol. 140, No. 3 (Oct., 1974), pp. 386-408. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1796533. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1796533.&nbsp;][article summary of Hall's 1973 book of the same name].&nbsp;&nbsp;<br/> [https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_E90AYG2sPDelVqeFBVVDFobVk https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_E90AYG2sPDelVqeFBVVDFobVk].<br/> &nbsp;

*Hills, Roderick M. Hills, and&nbsp;David Schleicher.&nbsp;"[https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/print/volume-101-issue-1/planning-an-affordable-city/ Planning an Affordable City.]" 101 Iowa Law Review&nbsp;91 (2015).<br/> [https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/print/volume-101-issue-1/planning-an-affordable-city/ https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/print/volume-101-issue-1/planning-an-affordable-city/].<br/> <br/> "The solution to this housing crisis is economically simple but politically difficult. As a matter of economic rationality, local governments should deregulate their housing markets to allow an increased housing supply to meet a rising demand for housing. As a political matter, however, incumbent residents who already own housing vociferously and effectively protest against the reduction of zoning restrictions."<br/> <br/> How, then, to free up urban land markets from the stranglehold of zoning driven by NIMBY (not-in-my-back-yard) neighbors? We argue, paradoxically, that the solution to excessive zoning is centralized, comprehensive, and binding land-use planning.<br/> <br/> We argue in Part III.A that binding, comprehensive plans allow legislators to create “contracts” across electoral districts that are otherwise impossible when zoning proceeds through piecemeal lot-by-lot bargaining." [[Comprehensive_plan|Comprehensive plan]].&nbsp;<br/> <br/> "We argue in Part III.B that parcel-by-parcel bargaining imposes high information costs on outside investors, thereby reducing the market for investment in new housing to a handful of local insiders with incentives to constrain supply."<br/> <br/> "Prescriptions below in Part IV, including the idea that mayors and city planning departments ought to regularly redraw the citywide zoning map to comprehend all pending development proposals, a process that would look something like an annual budgeting process. [see [[Zoning_budget|Zoning budget]] -Yimbywiki].&nbsp;Other proposals include fixed prices, defined ex ante in the zoning ordinance, for additional building rights [see [[Transfer_of_development_rights|Transfer of development rights]] -Yimbywiki]&nbsp;and prohibitions on any downzoning until citywide housing goals, defined with hard figures like vacancy rates or building permits issued, are met."&nbsp;&nbsp;<br/> &nbsp;

*Huang, Haifang, and Yao Tang. "Residential Land Use Regulation and the US Housing Price Cycle Between 2000 and 2009."<br/> &nbsp;

*Lewyn, Michael. "[https://works.bepress.com/lewyn/150/ Does the Threat of Gentrification Justify Restrictive Zoning?]".&nbsp;''Real Estate Law Journal'' (2017) [https://works.bepress.com/lewyn/150/. @mlewyn https://works.bepress.com/lewyn/150/.&nbsp;@mlewyn]<br/> [he argues, generally no].&nbsp;<br/> &nbsp;

*Mangin, John."[https://journals.law.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/stanford-law-policy-review/print/2014/01/mangin_25_stan._l._poly_rev_91.pdf The New Exclusionary Zoning.]" Stanford Law & Policy Review&nbsp;Vol. 25:91 (2014).&nbsp;[https://journals.law.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/stanford-law-policy-review/print/2014/01/mangin_25_stan._l._poly_rev_91.pdf. https://journals.law.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/stanford-law-policy-review/print/2014/01/mangin_25_stan._l._poly_rev_91.pdf.&nbsp;]<br/> &nbsp;

 

== Housing ==

 

=== Articles/papers ===

**&nbsp;[https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2016/05/27/editorial-make-room-for-granny-and-other-zoning-fixes/F36yTmdbATQdVvGLRtMh8I/story.html "Make room for Granny, and other zoning fixes."] 2016-05-27.

**&nbsp;[https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/04/30/how-grandma-can-help-housing-crunch/BBul6fbzcinQ4iEPtsmvVJ/story.html?p1=Article_Related_Box_Article "How Cambridge and Lexington invented new housing."] ''Boston Globe'', 2016-05-01.<br/> &nbsp;

 

*Cortright, Joe. "[http://cityobservatory.org/urban-myth-busting-new-rental-housing-and-median-income-households/ Urban myth busting: New rental housing and median-income households."] ''City Observatory'', 17.2.2016<br/> [http://cityobservatory.org/urban-myth-busting-new-rental-housing-and-median-income-households/ http://cityobservatory.org/urban-myth-busting-new-rental-housing-and-median-income-households/].<br/> &nbsp;

*Durning, Alan, et al.&nbsp;[http://www.sightline.org/series/legalizing-inexpensive-housing/ Legalizing Inexpensive Housing] (article series). Sightline.org.&nbsp;<br/> &nbsp;

*Engels, Frederick. "[https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/housing-question/ The Housing Question.]" (1872).&nbsp;[https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/housing-question/ https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/housing-question/].<br/> &nbsp;

*Hertz, Daniel. [http://cityobservatory.org/housing-cant-be-a-good-investment-and-affordable/ "Housing can’t be a good investment and affordable."]. ''City Observatory'', 2016-07-20.<br/> &nbsp;

*Jacobus, Rick.[http://www.shelterforce.org/article/4408/why_we_must_build/ "Why We Must Build."] ''Shelterforce'', 2016-03-09.<br/> &nbsp;

*Diamond, Rebecca, and Tim McQuade. “[https://web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/LIHTC_spillovers.pdf https://web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/LIHTC_spillovers.pdf][https://web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/LIHTC_spillovers.pdf https://web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/LIHTC_spillovers.pdf]” Stanford GSB, December 2017.&nbsp;[https://web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/LIHTC_spillovers.pdf. https://web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/LIHTC_spillovers.pdf.&nbsp;]<br/> ''"Abstract:<br/> We nonparametrically estimate spillovers of properties Önanced by the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) onto neighborhood residents by developing a new difference-in-differences style estimator. LIHTC development revitalizes low-income neighborhoods, increasing house prices 6.5%, lowering crime rates, and attracting racially and income diverse populations. LIHTC development in higher income areas causes house price declines of 2.5% and attracts lower income households. Linking these price effects to a hedonic model of preferences, LIHTC developments in low-income areas cause aggregate welfare beneÖts of $116 million. Affordable housing development acts like a place-based policy and can revitalize low-income communities."''<br/> &nbsp;

*Diamond, Rebecca, Tim McQuade, & Franklin Qian. “[http://conference.nber.org/confer//2017/PEf17/Diamond_McQuade_Qian.pdf The Effects of Rent Control Expansion on Tenants, Landlords, and Inequality: Evidence from San Francisco.]” NBER working paper, October 11, 2017. [http://conference.nber.org/confer//2017/PEf17/Diamond_McQuade_Qian.pdf http://conference.nber.org/confer//2017/PEf17/Diamond_McQuade_Qian.pdf].<br/> &nbsp;

*Rosenthal, Stuart S. "[http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/rosenthal/recent%20papers/Is_Filtering_a_Viable_Source_of_Low-Income_Housing_%206_18_13.pdf Are Private Markets and Filtering a Viable Source of Low-Income Housing? Estimates from a 'Repeat Income' Model.]" ''American Economic Review'', Vol. 104, No. 2, Feb 2014 (pp. 687-706).&nbsp;<br/> DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.2.687. &nbsp;<br/> Preprint, June 2013: [http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/rosenthal/recent%20papers/Is_Filtering_a_Viable_Source_of_Low-Income_Housing_%206_18_13.pdf http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/rosenthal/recent%20papers/Is_Filtering_a_Viable_Source_of_Low-Income_Housing_%206_18_13.pdf].