Urban planning has shaped cities for millennia, demarcating property rights and mitigating coordination failures, but its rigidities often conflict with market-driven development, which reflects preferences. Although planning is widespread in high-income countries, rapidly growing cities in the...

Neighborhoods are the result of a complicated interplay between residential choice, housing supply and the influences of the larger metropolitan system on its constituent parts. We model this interplay as a system of reduced-form equations in order to examine the effects of a generous spatially...

State and local governments have sought out initiatives to increase the housing supply in response to the rising cost of housing. Encouraging the development of accessory dwelling units (ADUs), small residential backyard units, is one way that governments are approaching this issue. While ADUs...