1st Edition

Red Tape and Housing Costs How Regulation Affects New Residential Development

By Michael Luger Copyright 2000
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

191 Pages
by Routledge

Homeownership - a core American Dream - remains elusive to millions of families priced out of the unstable housing market. This book explores the delicate balance between regulations designed to promote the production of sound, affordable housing in safe community environments and the red tape in which housing developers become entangled.Based on case studies of communities in New Jersey and North... Read more
1: Motivation and Conceptual Framework; 2: Previous Studies About Regulation and Housing Costs; 3: The Regulatory Process in New Jersey and North Carolina; 4: Regulation and Residential Development in Practice; 5: The Cost and Incidence of Regulation; 6: Community Case Studies in New Jersey and North Carolina; 7: Implications for Policy

Biography

Michael Luger