Studies & Media

Lucy Ann Lance Interviews

Tom Stulberg, Ann Arbor’s Plans to Change Zoning Laws, Oct 22, 2025

Ann Arbaugh and John Godfrey, Comprehensive Land Use Plan, May 13, 2025

Studies - Unregulated Markets Won’t Deliver Affordability

Freemark, Yonah, “Upzoning Chicago: impacts of a zoning reform on property values and housing construction.” Urban Affairs Review, 2019. (link)

Freemark, Yonah. “Zoning change: upzonings, downzonings, and their impacts on residential construction, housing costs, and neighborhood demographics.” Urban Institute, Apr 5, 2023. (link)

Schuyler, Louie, John Mondragon & Johannes Weiland. “Supply constraints do not explain house price and quantity growth across U.S. cities.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 33576, March 2025. (link)

Stacy, Christina Pierhoples, C. Davis, et al. “Land-use reforms and housing costs: does allowing for increased density lead to greater affordability?” Urban Institute, Mar 29, 2023. (link)

Storper, Michael and Andrés Rodriguez-Pose. “We cannot build our way out of inequality.” VoxEU/Centre for Economic Policy Research, Oct 2 2019. (link)

Kirk McClure & Alex Schwartz. “Where Is the Housing Shortage?” Housing Policy Debate, 35:1, 2025. (link)

Other Studies And Commentary

"Minneapolis's residential upzoning risks unintended consequences: Alissa Luepke Pier." The Planning Report: Insider’s Guide to Planning and Infrastructure, June 2019. (link)

Becker, Carol. "The failure of the Minneapolis 2040 plan to boost housing." MinnPost, Feb 19 2025. (link)

deRitis, Cristian, Ira Goldstein, et al. “Bringing the Housing Shortage Into Sharper Focus.” Urban Institute, July 2025. (link)

Florida, Richard. “Does Upzoning Boost the Housing Supply and Lower Prices? Maybe Not.” Bloomberg CityLab, Jan 31, 2019. (link)

Friedrich, Michael. “More building won’t make housing affordable.” The New Republic, Feb 9 2023. (link)

Friedrich, Michael. “The case against YIMBYism.” The New Republic, Mar 15 2024. (link)

Fryer, Alex. “More concrete, less green: a cautionary tale about upzoning from South Park.” The Seattle Times, Jan 24, 2025. (link)

McDonald, Patrick. “Trickle-Down Housing is a Failure. Here’s What You Need to Know.” Housing Is a Human Right, May 25, 2021. (link)

Meronek, Toshio. “YIMBYs Exposed: The Techies Hawking Free Market “Solutions” to the Nation’s Housing Crisis.” In These Times, May/June 2018. (link)

Singer, Hal. “Are Hedge Funds and Private Equity Firms Driving Up the Cost of Housing?” The Sling, July 12, 2024. (link)