The politics of urban land use frustrate even the best intentions. A number of cities have made strong political commitments to increasing their local housing supply in the face of a crisis of affordability and availability in urban housing. However, their decisions to engage in “up-zoning,”...

This paper analyzes the components of housing demand in Mexico in the context of developing and developed nations. The case of Mexico is particularly interesting given that population and income dynamics, as well as current housing shortages, suggest that the demand for housing will...

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...

The historical experience of Mexican Americans from 1848 till the present period provides a rich understanding of this large and growing segment of the U.S. population, and suggests several useful public policy lessons. These lessons can help us design appropriate policies to create a more...

This research focuses on if housing rehabilitation by community development corporations pays its own way. The recent experience of ten local housing organizations in the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation network is examined. These organizations assist homeowners in rehabbing existing units...

Local governments often use powers of eminent domain to take residential properties for public use. In such cases, the local government will use their appraisers to calculate an offer on the property. If the government's goal is to avoid costly (use of administrative resources) litigation it may...

In the past few decades, across the United States, middle- and upper-class whites have been returning to those they abandoned in the 1970's, attracting renewed investment from public and private actors to once-disinvested neighborhoods. Meanwhile, lower-income communities of color who remained...

The research aims at spatial and socio-economic analysis of landscape patterns in Baltic coastal area of Estonia. The process of active suburbanization, which is analysed in the current work, is caused by complex socio-economical factors which arise from sociopolitical changes since the end of...

Access to good quality housing at reasonable price is one of the basic factors that affect human well-being. Yet, for years many residents of socialist states had to face a very problematic housing situation, because the centralised planning system failed to provide adequate housing space for...

Few studies estimate housing demand for developing countries. We contribute to the literature by estimating housing demand in Mexico, and analysing its main determinants. An advantage of this study is the use of market-based data of actual housing transactions. Our results show a strong positive...