Ep 13: State Housing Mandates with Nicholas Marantz and Huixin Zheng

Cities across the country have dropped the ball when it comes to planning for and building housing at all income levels — especially housing affordable to low-income residents. In response, many states have intervened. The form these interventions take varies from place to place, however, with Northeastern states relying on legal appeals by developers to deliver low-income homes, and Western states mandating local planning processes to achieve similar ends. How is that going? Professor Nicholas Marantz and Dr. Huixin Zheng join us this week to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of these different approaches, and reforms that could make them work better.

Show notes:

• Marantz, N. J., & Zheng, H. (2020). State affordable housing appeals systems and access to opportunity: Evidence from the northeastern United States. Housing Policy Debate, 30(3), 370-395.
• Marantz, N. J., & Zheng, H. (2018). Exclusionary zoning and the limits of judicial impact. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 0739456X18814924.
• Zheng, H., Marantz, N. J., Kim, J. H., & Houston, D. (2021). Accessibility, Affordability, and the Allocation of Housing Targets to California’s Local Governments.
• Li, L. H., Lin, J., Li, X., & Wu, F. (2014). Redevelopment of urban village in China–A step towards an effective urban policy? A case study of Liede village in Guangzhou. Habitat International, 43, 299-308.
• Guo, Y., Zhang, C., Wang, Y. P., & Li, X. (2018). (De-) Activating the growth machine for redevelopment: The case of Liede urban village in Guangzhou. Urban Studies, 55(7), 1420-1438.
• Kapur, S., Damerdji, S., Elmendorf, C. S., & Monkkonen, P. (2021). What Gets Built on Sites That Cities “Make Available” For Housing? Evidence and Implications for California’s Housing Element Law. UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies.
• Freemark, Y. (2021). Lessons from France for Creating Inclusionary Housing by Mandating Citywide Affordability. Urban Institute.