Spanish Abstract: Este texto evalúa la evolución cuantitativa de la vivienda autoconstruida en Bogotá durante los últimos años, cuando la política de vivienda social ha tenido una de las orientaciones neoliberales más radicales de América Latina. En los círculos gubernamentales de la...

Natural disasters have been increasing in intensity at the same time that rental affordability has been declining in many cities. The intersection of these two trends presents an important challenge for policymakers as well as an insightful test for economic theory. This paper presents a new...

This article disrupts the false narrative of white supremacism that has, for more than a century, cast American land use law as race neutral. In doing so, this article builds on an important but underdeveloped body of legal scholarship elucidating zoning law’s role in creating and perpetuating...

Cities, states, affordable housing advocates, scholars, and others are looking to Oregon as the earliest adopter of statewide reform of restrictive residential zoning. Oregon’s bold new “middle housing” mandate required cities throughout the state to end the monopoly of single-family...

Two recent decisions of the Chief Justice of the BC Supreme Court, Evans (2016) and Brett (2020), introduced a dangerous new idea into homeless encampment jurisprudence: that the purportedly private character of encampment sites determines both that defendants’ Charter rights are not engaged...

Systemic risk must include the housing market, though economists have not generally focused on it. We begin construction of an agent-based model of the housing market with individual data from Washington, DC. Twenty years of success with agent-based models of mortgage prepayments give us hope...

La política de vivienda que se ha desarrollado en Colombia durante las dos últimas décadas ha tenido la orientación de claros principios liberales. A comienzos de los años noventa se introdujeron dos reformas substanciales al respecto: la eliminación de las particularidades de la línea de...

After less than two years from its accession to the EU, Romania was seriously hit by the global financial and economic crisis. Compared to other former transition countries, the turmoil was deeper and lasted longer and a modest recovery was recorded only in the second half of 2011, given deep...

Romania's communist regime used forced industrialization and urbanization policies as a solution for speeding-up the pace of development in the lagging areas, which resulted in reducing regional disparities. However, after 1989 there areas were the first that suffered the hardships of economic...

After less than two years from its accession to the EU, Romania was seriously hit by the global financial and economic crisis. Compared to other former transition countries, the turmoil was deeper and lasted longer and a modest recovery was recorded only in the second half of 2011, given deep...