作者：Mast, Evan
作者单位：W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
摘要：Local control of land-use regulation creates a not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) problem that can suppress housing construction, contributing to rising prices and potentially slowing economic growth. I study how increased local control affects housing production by exploiting a common electoral reform-changing from at-large to ward elections for town council. These reforms, which are not typically motivated by housing markets, shrink each representative's constituency from the entire town to one ward...
