Download or read book The Effects of Land Use Controls on Housing Prices written by Lawrence F. Katz and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The major portion of this paper examines the impacts on housing costs of the most important types of land-use, environmental, and construction regulations - zoning, subdivision controls, growth management techniques, building codes, and environmental regulations - by reviewing the literature and presenting some simple theoretical models. A final section of this paper presents some initial empirical results of the author's research on the impact of local land-use regulations on land and housing costs in California."--Page 3