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Title: Housing Market Regulation and Homelessness

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2008

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Abstract: Local housing markets throughout the United States are subject to a host of regulations that tend to increase the cost of housing. Minimum lotsize requirements, quality standards, density restrictions, and other such municipally imposed regulation tend to limit the overall stock of available housing, increase average as well as minimum quality, and shift the overall distribution of housing prices toward higher levels. For the lowest income households, such factors will increase the proportion of household resources that one would need to devote toward housing. For the poorest of the poor, excessive regulation may push the price of even the minimum-quality units beyond the level of household income. To the extent that homelessness is in part driven by local housing affordability, local regulatory practices may be an important contributor to homelessness in the United States.

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Authors: Raphael, Steven

Conference Name: Conference on How to House the Homeless

Publisher Location: New York Univ, New York, NY

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Other, Race and Ethnicity

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