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In desirable cities, property owners and developers influence tighter land use regulations, which can lead to substantially higher urban and housing costs.
In desirable cities, property owners and developers influence tighter land use regulations, which can lead to substantially higher urban and housing costs.
In the US and elsewhere, zoning policies and other land use regulations are now widespread. Christian Hilber and Frédéric Robert-Nicoud look at the reasons behind these policies, finding that, driven by lobbying from developers and property owners, places that are more developed tend to adopt tighter land use regulations. With land regulations operating as a form of ‘shadow tax’, of […]