Zoning Laws, Housing Affordability Needs, and NIMBYism: How Policy and Economic Pressures Shape Opposition to Affordable Housing Development

• In Event: Impacts of Economic Inequality

Brief Overview

This study uses geocoded survey and adminstrative data on housing with a Regression Discontinuity (RD) design to investigate how zoning laws and housing affordability needs interact to shape public opposition to affordable housing development.

Author

• Ding Wang, University of Western Ontario