Evidence and Innovation in Housing Law and Policy
Cambridge University Press, 8/29/2017
EAN 9781107164925, ISBN10: 1107164923
Hardcover, 400 pages, 23.5 x 15.6 x 2 cm
Language: English
No area of law and policy is more central to our well-being than housing, yet research on the topic is too often produced in disciplinary or methodological silos that fail to connect to policy on the ground. This pathbreaking book, which features leading scholars from a range of academic fields, cuts across disciplines to forge new connections in the discourse. In accessible prose filled with cutting-edge ideas, these scholars address topics ranging from the recent financial crisis to discrimination and gentrification and show how housing law and policy impacts household wealth, financial markets, urban landscapes, and local communities. Together, they harness evidence and theory to capture the 'state of play' in housing, generating insights that will be relevant to academics and policymakers alike. This title is also available as Open Access.
Introduction Lee Anne Fennell and Benjamin J. Keys
Part I. Housing and the Metropolis
Law and Policy Perspectives
1. The rise of the homevoters
how the growth machine was subverted by OPEC and Earth day William A. Fischel
2. How land use law impedes transportation innovation David Schleicher
3. The unassailable case against affordable housing mandates Richard A. Epstein
Part II. Housing as Community
Stability, Change, and Perceptions
4. Balancing the costs and benefits of historic preservation Ingrid Gould Ellen and Brian J. McCabe
5. Historic preservation and its even less authentic alternative Lior Jacob Strahilevitz
6. Losing my religion
Church condo conversions and neighborhood change Georgette Chapman Phillips
7. How housing dynamics shape neighborhood perceptions Matthew Desmond
Part III. Housing as Wealth Building
Consumers and Housing Finance
8. Behavioral leasing
renter equity as an intermediate housing form Stephanie M. Stern
9. Housing, mortgages, and retirement Christopher Mayer
10. The rise and (potential) fall of disparate impact lending litigation Ian Ayres, Gary Klein and Jeffrey West
Part IV. Housing and the Financial System
Risks and Returns
11. Household debt and defaults from 2000 to 2010
the credit supply view Atif Mian and Amir Sufi
12. Representations and warranties
why they did not stop the crisis Patricia A. McCoy and Susan Wachter
13. When the invisible hand isn't a firm hand
disciplining markets that won't discipline themselves Raphael W. Bostic and Anthony W. Orlando.