The Effects of Local Growth Controls on Regional Housing Production and Population Redistribution in California

Levine, Ned

doi:10.1080/0042098992539

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“…The second piece of evidence consists of several recent studies showing that more restrictive regulations slow growth in new construction (Thorson 1997, Levine 1999, Pendall 2000. The most compelling of these is a study by Mayer and Somerville (2000), which shows that the costs imposed by local land-use regulations reduce both the current level and future growth of new construction within an MSA.…”

Section: Greater Regulatory Barriers To New Constructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Lack of Affordable Housing in New England: How Big a Problem? Why is it Growing? What are We Doing About it?

2007

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Although housing costs in greater Boston and elsewhere around the region have leveled off, affordable housing is still high on the public policy agenda in every New England state. A growing chorus of employers and policymakers are warning that the region's high cost of housing is now undermining its ability to attract and retain workers and businesses. This paper presents a thorough, region-wide analysis of the housing affordability problem in New England. We construct three affordability indicators to examine differences in the cost of housing across socioeconomic, demographic, and occupational groups, for every New England state and for the region's principal metropolitan areas.We find that owner-occupied housing is often not affordable, particularly in southern New England, and the problem is getting worse over time. In contrast, New England's rental housing is expensive relative to the rest of the nation, but incomes are high enough that rentals are still affordable to most New Englanders. However, the lack of affordable owner-occupied housing is a problem for both middle-income and very lowincome households. Households headed by young professionals can afford to purchase median homes in New England, but not as easily as they used to, and not as easily as in most rival metropolitan areas. At the same time, the very low-income are being squeezed by falling household incomes coupled with rapidly appreciating prices for houses at the lower end of the price distribution. Finally, fewer rental and owner-occupied units are actually available to the very low-income than in the past because households with higher incomes are moving down the housing distribution in order to secure shelter. Finally, we summarize the strategies New England governments have adopted to address the problem. These policies attempt either to increase the ability of households to rent or purchase a home or to increase the supply of affordable units. Supply-side strategies are likely to be particularly critical in improving housing affordability given the sluggish growth in the region's housing stock over the past decade.

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Section: Greater Regulatory Barriers To New Constructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, informal growth controls exist in both groups of cities that may have caused them to experience roughly equal restrictions on housing supply. Levine (1999) 443 cities in California…”

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The Lack of Affordable Housing in New England: How Big a Problem? Why is it Growing? What are We Doing About it?

2007

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“…Second, the authors compared municipal and county housing elements without recognizing that municipal and county processes are nonequivalent (Lobao and Kraybill 2005). Lastly, Florida's GMA takes a containment approach to development, so it may be unrealistic to expect future lowincome housing production without specific planning policies that address the political, fiscal, and technical aspects of low-income housing production (Downs 2004;Levine 1999;Scally 2013;Tighe 2012).…”

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State Mandates, Housing Elements, and Low-income Housing Production

Ramsey-Musolf

2017

Journal of Planning Literature

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In order to create low-income housing opportunities and mitigate exclusionary zoning, in 1968 Congress mandated that municipalities receiving comprehensive planning funds must create a housing element. In tandem, many states mandated that municipal housing elements must accommodate low-income housing needs. After examining empirical research for California, Florida, Illinois, and Minnesota, this review found aspirational success because those states rewarded the municipal planning process. In order to increase low-income housing, this review argues for state housing policy reform. Under US Department of Housing and Urban Development's revised fair housing rule, which requires an assessment of local data, states can no longer ignore the exclusionary behavior of municipalities.

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“…Regulations differ enormously in scope and detail, and enforcement practices vary as well. Fortunately, two comprehensive surveys of the regulatory environment at the city level were undertaken by Madelyn Glickfeld and Ned Levine andtheir associates, in 1988 and1992. The 1992 survey was administered by the League of California Cities (LCC) and elicited a series of factual and attitudinal responses from the Planning Director or comparable official in each city.…”

Section: Using Growth-control Measures As Instruments For the Land-usmentioning

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Local Land-use Controls and Demographic Outcomes in a Booming Economy

2004

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Summary. The article analyses the link between autarchic land-use policies adopted by local governments in California and the substantial redistribution of its population during the decade of the 1990s. Changes in population growth by racial and ethnic group in California cities are related to measures of the extent to which locally adopted policy favours expansion of the single-family housing stock. Controlling for the initial conditions of housing and labour markets by relying upon census measures for 1990, the paper accounts for the potential endogeneity of contemporaneous land-use policies by relying upon exogenous measures of the 'exclusivity' and 'pro-growth' propensities of the local public sector recorded by a state-wide survey in the early 1990s.

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The Effects of Local Growth Controls on Regional Housing Production and Population Redistribution in California

Cited by 154 publications

References 14 publications

The Lack of Affordable Housing in New England: How Big a Problem? Why is it Growing? What are We Doing About it?

The Lack of Affordable Housing in New England: How Big a Problem? Why is it Growing? What are We Doing About it?

State Mandates, Housing Elements, and Low-income Housing Production

Local Land-use Controls and Demographic Outcomes in a Booming Economy

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