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Land Use Prof Blog
Slow Recovery in States Dependant on Home Construction
According to this article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, states like Georgia and Florida whose economies are heavily dependent on the home construction industry are struggling harder to emerge from the…
Land Use Prof Blog
Did Planners Cause the Financial Crisis?
The Cato Institute has released a new study titled How Urban Planners Caused the Housing Bubble (Policy Analysis, No. 646, Oct. 1, 2009). Its author is the economist Randal O'Toole, who has…
Land Use Prof Blog
Cities, vacant houses, and foreclosure
I'll have more posts in the future about what local governments might do to decrease the magnitude of boom-and-bust housing cycles that wreak havoc on cities and communities. To address the current…
Land Use Prof Blog
The Demand for Federal Housing Aid…
Land use and housing policy are in many ways inextricably woven together. For instance, a large portion of a municipality's land development involves residential units. In addition, the budgets of…
Land Use Prof Blog
White House Office of Urban Affairs
I thought I would share an article that appeared in today's Washington Post about the White House Office of Urban Affairs. As land use aficionados well know, a long list of federal policies, including public housing,…
Land Use Prof Blog
Affordable housing and racial dialogue
Over the weekend I read with interest a piece in The New York Times about a battle in a New Orleans suburb over the building of affordable housing. The author…
PropertyProf Blog
Fennell and Roin on Controlling Residential Stakes
By propertyprof
Lee Anne Fennell and Julie Roin (Chicago) have posted Controlling Residential Stakes on SSRN. Here's the abstract:Local communities often suffer when residents have too small a stake in their homes…
PropertyProf Blog
Lee Fennell’s The Unbounded Home
By propertyprof
Yale University Press has just released Lee Fennell's book The Unbounded Home. Here's the publisher's description:The Unbounded Home grapples with a core metropolitan reality -- that the value and meaning of…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“DOC May Have To Pay For Sex Offenders To Stay In Motels”
Main August 5, 2009"DOC May Have To Pay For Sex Offenders To Stay In Motels"The title of this post is the headline of this local story from Colorado that highlights…
Real Estate Advisor Law Blog
HUD Green Retrofit
In the past, we have spoken about grants and loans available through the Ohio Department of Development for advanced energy residential projects, such as solar and wind energy installation. Federal…