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1. Confronting the Real Barriers to Housing Affordability

   Using Research to Assemble Durable Coalitions and Expand Political Capacity
   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2021
   Benjamin Teresa, Kathryn Howell, and Leah Demarest

   The paper begins from the perspective that barriers to affordable housing are less about having good ideas but rather about how to enact policy changes. It focuses on the relationship between housing...

2. A Reformer’s Guidebook to Zoning’s Knots

   Approval Processes for Multi-Family Housing in Greater Boston
   Documentos de trabajo
   Octubre 2021
   Amy Dain

   Local permitting of residential construction in Boston’s suburbs has evolved, along a centurylong trend line, to be more flexible, political, complex, unpredictable, and ad hoc. The route to...

3. Mandating Access to Affordable Housing, City by City

   Is France’s Fair-Share SRU Law a Model for U.S. Metropolitan Areas?
   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2021
   Yonah Freemark

   In 2000, France’s legislature passed the Loi relative à la Solidarité et au renouvellement urbains (SRU) law, a housing affordability requirement for many municipalities across...

4. Climate and Housing Crisis

   A Research Agenda for Urban Communities
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2021
   Michael P. Johnson, Patricio Belloy, Heather MacLean, and Sajani Kandel

   Housing unaffordability and climate change adversely affect the lives of Boston area residents. These crises are amplified by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and are especially salient for low- and...

5. Eight Ingredients for a State-Level Zoning Reform

   Lessons from Oregon’s House Bill 2001
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2021
   Michael Andersen

   In 2019, Oregon passed a first-of-its-kind state law that ordered larger cities and the Portland metro area to rapidly legalize duplexes on all residential lots and fourplexes, triplexes, townhomes,...

6. The Eight Deaths of Portland’s Residential Infill Project

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2021
   Michael Andersen

   In 2020, Portland became the largest modern U.S. city to end so-called “single-family zoning,” legalizing up to four market-rate homes on almost any residential lot, or up to six homes on...

7. Providing Affordable Home Ownership Opportunities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2021
   Larissa Larsen and Kumelachew Yeshitela

   The City Administration of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has engaged in an extensive public effort to build owner-occupied housing to meet the needs of low- and moderate-income residents. By comparing the...

8. Social Equity Policies and Spatial Development

   The Case of Lisbon’s Subway Expansion Projects (1998-2018)
   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2021
   João Rafael Santos, David Vale, and Fernando Nunes da Silva

   Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, is a city and distinct municipality with 545,000 inhabitants at the center of a metropolitan area, home to 2,810,000 inhabitants (2011 Census). Its position at the...

9. Santiago de Chile

   Breaking through Urban and Social Inequality with Inclusionary Housing
   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2021
   Isabel Brain and Francisco Sabatini

   Chile’s housing policy has efficiently addressed the housing needs of the country’s most vulnerable populations; today, its housing deficit is the lowest in Latin America. The downside of...

10. City of Copenhagen, Denmark

    Reestablishing Affordable Housing Post-Economic Recovery
    Documentos de trabajo
    Mayo 2021
    Hans Thor Andersen and Jesper Ole Jensen

    This study examines the development of the city of Copenhagen’s housing market in the late twentieth century and the subsequent boom and crisis after 2007. It covers the period from 1990 to the...