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Publication Date: January 2007
Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Wendell Cox; Ronald D. Utt
Research Area: Social conditions
Keywords: Smart growth; Affordable housing; households
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
Housing affordability problems are concentrated in regions where anti-growth land-use regulations have limited the supply of building lots. High-cost housing encourages business and households to move elsewhere and undermines the regional economy. The solution is to attack the root cause of the affordability problem (restrictive land-use regulations) and increase the supply of building lots.