Following popular discourse, we abuse economic terminology by defining the "housing shortage" in the United States as … of homes. The magnitude of the housing shortage is important to policymakers, who use it to measure the scope of the … housing supply problem and the extent to which proposed policies would solve it. However, previous studies understate the …

-family housing, while reforming past exclusionary zoning and infrastructure decisions that exacerbated inequality. Cities will have …

Housing costs across the nation and in Greater Boston are rising, and many policymakers have turned to Inclusionary … Zoning (IZ) in an attempt to dampen these effects on their lowest-income residents. Yet design and implementation of IZ …. We identify the potential for various policy levers to create affordable housing, and address the risks and limitations …