Changing Residential Land Use Regulations to Address High Housing Prices: Evidence from Los Angeles

Journal of the American Planning Association, 85(2): 152-168, 2019

By: American Planning Association National

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01944363.2018.1559078
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Affordable Housing Programs  |  Housing Supply Planning

This article tracks the evolution of housing regulations in Los Angeles from 2000 to 2016, showing how the city has enabled the construction of more affordable housing. It looks at how state policy change influenced local action and describes how homeowner pushback may have prevented the city from achieving more large-scale reforms.