A collection of the evidence on the relationship between land use regulation (zoning) and a wide range of outcomes. Click the > arrows to expand each category.
- What is the effect of zoning on housing construction?
- What is the effect of zoning on house prices?
- What is the effect of construction on rents and displacement rates?
- What is the effect of zoning on rents?
- Submarket Effects
- What is the effect of zoning on the price elasticity of supply? What is the effect of supply-elasticity on housing costs?
- Moving Chains/Filtering
- Downstream effects of land use regulation (e.g. on job growth)
- Welfare effects of zoning
- Distributional effects of zoning:
- Zoning’s effect on demography
- What are the effects of density?
- Elasticity of Housing Demand:
- Literature Reviews
- Endogeneous Gentrification/Amenity vs Supply Effects
- Yet to review:
- Income/productivity benefits of upzoning
- Political Economy of NIMBYism