Our paper addresses the fundamental belief of community planners that multifamily housing development does not pay for itself. This belief is based on flawed cost-of-community-service studies, produced and used mainly by urban planners. These studies fail to understand market responses to land...

Housing affordability has become a major issue in recent years. To address the problem, many cities have adopted a policy known as below-market housing mandates or inclusionary zoning. As commonly practiced in California, below-market housing mandates require developers to sell 10-20 percent of...

Inclusionary zoning, also known as below-market housing mandates, is now in place in one-third of California cities and is spreading around the united states. Supporters of this policy advocate making housing more affordable by placing price controls on a percentage of new homes. But if almost...

In the 1920s, Ludwig von Mises argued correctly that the problem of making economics calculations without market-generated prices would be an insuperable difficulty for socialist systems of production. Bryan Caplan is right to argue that there is no theoretical way to infer the magnitude of this...