Despite interest in the impact of land use regulations on housing construction and housing prices, little is known about the drivers of these policies. The conventional wisdom holds that homeowners have an influence on restrictive local zoning. In this paper, we contend that the party...

Das Thema Fläche gewinnt angesichts zunehmender Flächenkonkurrenzen und ambitionierter Flächensparziele an Bedeutung. Ein der Nachhaltigkeit verpflichtetes Flächenmanagement und ein zuverlässiges Flächennutzungsmonitoring sind für die Flächenhaushaltspolitik und die Bewertung der...

Major urban areas are often hampered in their ability to deal with vacant, abandoned, and tax-delinquent properties. They encounter obstacles with inefficient tax foreclosure procedures and ineffective nuisance abatement codes. They face reluctance to add to public inventories the title to...