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Open Philanthropy has explored some of these and other funding options; as of MayAugust 2022, it has granted over $11.3$12 million to organizations working on land use reform.[6]

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    Glaeser, Edward L., Joseph Gyourko & Raven Saks (2005) Why is Manhattan so expensive? Regulation and the rise in housing prices, Journal of Law and Economics, vol. 48, pp. 331–369.

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    Open philanthropy (2015) Land use reform, Open Philanthropy, March, section 2.1.

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    Hsieh, Chang Tai & Enrico Moretti (2019) Housing constraints and spatial misallocation, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, vol. 11, pp. 1–39.

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    Hsieh, Chang-Tai & Enrico Moretti (2017) How local housing regulations smother the U.S. economy, The New York Times, September 6.

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    Open philanthropy, Land use reform, section 2.2.

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    Open Philanthropy (2022) Grants databasedatabase: Land use reform, Open Philanthropy.

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    Wiblin, Robert (2016) Land use reform, 80,000 Hours, April 14.

Land use reform describes attempts to change legislation regulatingis the set of interventions aimed at improving regulation of dense housing construction in urban areas.

Open Philanthropy has explored some of these and other funding options; as of JanuaryMay 2022, it has granted over $9.5$11.3 million to organizations working on land use reform.[6]

Tyler Kolota2y10

Brief compilation video explaining the basics of the floor area regulations and building construction costs: 

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  1. ^

    Glaeser, Edward L., Joseph Gyourko & Raven Saks (2005) Why is Manhattan so expensive? Regulation and the rise in housing prices, Journal of Law and Economics, vol. 48, pp. 331–369.

  2. ^

    Open philanthropy (2015) Land use reform, Open Philanthropy, March, sec.section 2.1.

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    Hsieh, Chang Tai & Enrico Moretti (2019) Housing constraints and spatial misallocation, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, vol. 11, pp. 1–39.

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    Hsieh, Chang-Tai & Enrico Moretti (2017) How local housing regulations smother the U.S. economy, The New York Times, September 6.

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    Open philanthropy, Land use reform, sec.section 2.2.

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    Open Philanthropy (2022) Grants database, Open Philanthropy.

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    Wiblin, Robert (2016) Land use reform, 80,000 Hours, April 14.

Berger, Alexander (2014)Bowman, Sam, John Myers & Ben Southwood (2021) A conversation with Stephen SmithThe housing theory of everything, GiveWellWorks in Progress, March 13.

Berger, Alexander (2014) A conversation with Gabriel Metcalf, Open Philanthropy, March 31.

Berger, Alexander (2014) A conversation with David Schleicher, Open Philanthropy, May 15.September 14.

  • "Local governments in high-wage high-regulation metropolitan areas could simply “upzone,”'upzone', permitting more and denser development."
  • "Local governments could change the process by which they decide how to regulate land use. For example, they could adopt a “zoning budget”'zoning budget' targeting an overall level of housing growth, so that restrictions in one area would have to be balanced by expansions elsewhere. This would help align incentives of advocates for individual projects to support greater overall growth."
  • "Decision-making in land use policy could be re-assigned from local to regional or state authorities, which would likely be less susceptible to neighborhood pressure to oppose new development."

Open Philanthropy has explored some of these and other funding options; as of January 2022, it has granted over $9.5 million to organizations working on land use reform.[6]