Housing

Topics

• Affordable housing
  • Inclusionary housing
  • Missing middle housing
  • Non market housing
• Zoning

The effect of housing supply and rezoning on housing price

Non-academic analyses

• FT: Repeat after me: building any new homes reduces housing costs for all
• Submarkets With Low Inventory Growth Maintaining Rent Increases: the analysis by RealPage. As the number of inventories grow, the rent price drops.
• Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation: Supply constraints have increased prices of apartment condominiums in Canadian cities (another version)

Academic papers

• Why is Manhattan so expensive? Regulation and the rise in house prices.
• Do new housing units in your backyard raise your rents?
• Supply Shock Versus Demand Shock: The Local Effects of New Housing in Low-Income Areas, Does Building New Housing Cause Displacement?: The Supply and Demand Effects of Construction in San Francisco
• Land-use reforms and housing costs: Does allowing for increased density lead to greater affordability?
• Missing Middle Housing: Accelerating America’s Transition from Single-Family Zoning
• Unlocking the Potential of Missing Middle Housing

• Does Building New Housing Cause Displacement?: The Supply and Demand Effects of Construction in San Francisco

• https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4629628

• https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10835547.2024.2303895?casa_token=AMS9YsamcuYAAAAA%3A3NcgKcvvLxUnfDf_1VrBm1jiZXscv8_PKgOCZgM9G78yXDoF8ZLgqa7Dg3At7SubBKnz2yS6vbpr
• https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4955033
• https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4742883
• https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=related:65vqxbvU0aQJ:scholar.google.com/&scioq=&hl=en&as_sdt=0,15
• https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w10124/w10124.pdf

Op-eds

• Missing Middle Housing Opponents Are Missing Important Facts. Here’s What They Need To Know

Explainers

Videos by Oh The Urbanity

• Does Induced Demand Apply to Housing?
• Expensive Housing Is A Choice (and we bought in)

Vacancy

• What Vacancy Rates Tell You About a Housing Shortage (And What They Don’t)
• Do You Believe in ‘Ghost Apartments’?
• “No vacancy” is a problem when people need homes
• The Vacancy Myth
• What Is a Housing Shortage, Anyway?
• Vacant Nuance in the Vacant Housing Debate

Investing & owning

• What Happened When This City Banned Housing Investors by Oh The Urbanity

Streamlining permitting

• Pre-Permitted Plans Help Kalamazoo Bring Housing Back by Strong Towns

Building cost

• What Makes Housing So Expensive? by Brian Potter

Building code regulation

Single-stair building

• The Case for Single-Stair Multifamily
• Why North America Can’t Build Nice Apartments (because of one rule) by About Here
  • Could This Change Make Apartments More Deadly in a Fire?
• How Breaking Rules Could Create Better Apartments
• Single Stair, Many Questions
• Small Single-Stairway Apartment Buildings Have Strong Safety Record

Senior housing needs

• Why fighting small apartment buildings is self-defeating and short-sighted

Climate change

• Urban Environmentalists LA co-publishes white paper on infill housing and climate change