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1. From the House to the Ground: Insights Into the Challenges of Implementing State Housing Policies

   Otro
   Septiembre 2023
   Jenny Schuetz, Julia Gill, Semida Munteanu, and Sydney Zelinka

   As housing affordability concerns increase, state legislatures are increasingly intent on implementing reform. New insights from a workshop held by the Lincoln Institute and Brookings Metro offer a look at the challenges and opportunities along the way.

2. The Case for Climate-Informed Zoning

   A Study of Fiscal Impact in Norfolk, VA
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2023
   Katherine Burgess, Michael Rodriguez, Jordan Howard, Jared Klukas, and Megan Wright

   As the impacts of climate change continue to intensify, zoning presents a key tool to direct development to protect communities from climate events. Norfolk, Virginia, a city at severe risk from sea...

3. Can Removing Development Subsidies Promote Adaptation?

   The Coastal Barrier Resources System as a Natural Experiment
   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2023
   Hannah Druckenmiller, Yanjun (Penny) Liao, Sophie Pesek, Margaret Walls, and Shan Zhang

   As natural disasters grow in frequency and intensity under climate change, limiting populations and properties in harm's way will be one important facet of adaptation. This study focuses on one...

4. A Series of Articles about the MBTA Communities Zoning Law

   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2022
   Amy Dain

   In 2021, the Massachusetts state legislature adopted the MBTA Communities zoning law requiring municipalities served by Greater Boston’s public transit agency, the MBTA, (with the exception of...

5. A Global Perspective on Land Use Regulations and Housing Outcomes

   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2022
   Cynthia Goytia and Eric J. Heikkila

   This paper examines the relationship between land use regulations and housing outcomes, especially housing affordability and informality. Using a unique and important database of 191 metropolitan...

6. 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...

7. Climate Change Adaptation and Property Values

   A Survey of the Literature
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2021
   Katherine A. Kiel

   This paper surveys the current literature of the impact of climate change adaptation on residential property values. Several categories of adaptation are considered including ecosystem management,...

8. 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,...

9. 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...

10. Moderately Priced Dwelling Units

    Montgomery County, Maryland’s Model of Inclusionary Housing
    Documentos de trabajo
    Mayo 2021
    Brittany Wong, Gerrit Knaap, and Willow Lung-Amam

    Montgomery County, Maryland, is a relatively wealthy suburb of Washington, DC. Once predominantly racially white, Montgomery County’s nearly one million current residents are racially diverse,...