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来源

HOUSING POLICY DEBATE,Vol.28,Issue2,P.267-284

语言

英文

关键字

Housing; land use; zoning; regulation; state; municipalities; low-income housing; LAND-USE; REGULATIONS; MASSACHUSETTS; CALIFORNIA; PRICES; MODEL

作者单位

[Marantz, Nicholas J.; Dillon, Harya S.] Univ Calif Irvine, Urban Planning & Publ Policy, Irvine, CA 92697 USA. Marantz, NJ (reprint author), Univ Calif Irvine, Urban Planning & Publ Policy, Irvine, CA 92697 USA. E-Mail: nmarantz@uci.edu

摘要

Several U.S. states have supplemented traditional judicial review of local land-use regulation with a state affordable housing appeals system (SAHAS). Empirical evidence indicates that a SAHAS can increase the proportion of housing that is affordable to low- and moderate-income households. But some scholars have suggested that an effective SAHAS will ultimately backfire, by producing incentives to prohibit market-rate development, thereby rendering a state's housing stock less affordable overall. We test this backfire hypothesis with a longitudinal comparison of single-family housing development from 1980 through 2007 in municipalities located in adjacent areas of Connecticut (which adopted a SAHAS in 1989) and New York State (which did not have a SAHAS during the study period). Contrary to the predictions of the backfire hypothesis, our fixed effects regression indicates that Connecticut's SAHAS was associated with increased single-family development relative to the New York State jurisdictions in our sample. This result suggests that a SAHAS can increase below-market rate and mixed-income development without impeding market-rate development.