Problem, research strategy, and findings In light of recent debate over upzonings and
leveraging markets as means of expanding housing opportunity, I review the evolution of …

Debates over the development and density of housing have gained visibility in recent years
as housing costs have skyrocketed in many metropolitan areas. With those who seek to limit …

Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data
from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and …

Baltimore, Maryland. Buffalo, New York. Cleveland, Ohio. Chicago, Illinois. Cincinnati, Ohio.
Columbus, Ohio. Detroit, Michigan. East Haven, Connecticut. Ferguson, Missouri. Highland …

This article documents a new macro-segregation, where the locus of racial differentiation
resides increasingly in socio-spatial processes at the community or place level. The goal is …

Why do racial inequalities endure despite numerous attempts to expand civil rights in certain
sectors? A major reason for this endurance is due to lack of attention to structural racism …

Public goods in the United States are largely funded and delivered at the local level. Local
public goods are valuable, but their production requires overcoming several collective action …

Commentators have long decried the pernicious effects that overly restrictive land use
regulations, which stifle new development, have on housing supply and affordability …

In this paper we adjudicate between competing claims of persisting segregation and rapid
integration by analyzing trends in residential dissimilarity and spatial isolation for African …

Under the New Jersey State Constitution as interpreted by the State Supreme Court in 1975
and 1983, municipalities are required to use their zoning authority to create realistic …