Housing affordability is one of the most pressing issues facing California today. In the intense public debate over how to make housing affordable, the role of new supply is a key point of contention. This debate continues despite robust empirical evidence demonstrating that supply constraints...

The question of whether household structure converges with economic growth and urbanization. The question of whether household structure converges with economic growth and urbanization has been long discussed, but comparative empirical evidence is scant. This paper takes advantage of newly...

In the wake of the housing market crash in the United States in the late 2000s, images of abandoned homes on the urban periphery of American cities dominated international media coverage. This narrative of peri-urban over-extension was used by media documenting the housing crisis in Mexico,...

The idea of a housing deficit is a common, seemingly objective frame for housing policies. A deficit of between 3 and 8 million units in Indonesia has become a concern for the government in recent years. The wide range of estimates demonstrates not only that the methods used to estimate housing...

The profiteering developer is a common figure in debates over housing policy. Governments increasingly use developer profits to justify policies like inclusionary housing. Yet, we actually understand little about the competitiveness of housing development. One unresolved question is whether...

Given high rents and prices in California, housing production is at a relative historic low. Scholarship has connected restrictive land use regulations to high prices, with limitations on new construction being the assumed mechanism. Less research has focused on which regulations are most...

The spatial distribution of households of different income groups in urban areas has drawn longstanding attention from scholars and policy makers as residential location patterns have important implications for social outcomes and the economic efficiency of cities. Recent research on the...

The spatial distribution of households of different socioeconomic groups in urban areas has drawn longstanding attention from scholars because residential location patterns have important impacts on social outcomes and the economic efficiency of cities. Recent comparative work on this topic has...

International organisations increasingly encourage land regularisation programmes as a component of urban policy in developing countries, yet research on the mechanisms of these programmes is limited. This paper examines the land regularisation system in Tijuana, Mexico, which has had limited...