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Will empowering developers to challenge exclusionary zoning increase suburban housing choice?
Author(s) -
Mitchell James L.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of policy analysis and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.898
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1520-6688
pISSN - 0276-8739
DOI - 10.1002/pam.10182
Subject(s) - zoning , urban sprawl , gentrification , affordable housing , socioeconomic status , empowerment , census , economic growth , business , land use , public administration , geography , political science , economics , sociology , law , engineering , civil engineering , population , demography
The municipal zoning process in the United States has come under increasing attack as a tool to create andmaintain suburban socioeconomic homogeneity by mandating sprawl‐producing single‐family detachedhouses at the expense of less costly townhouses, apartments, and mobile homes. Beginning in the 1970s, theSupreme Courts of the neighboring states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey addressed municipal exclusionary zoningin different ways: Pennsylvania empowered residential developers to compel municipalities practicing exclusionaryzoning to authorize market‐rate development of all types of housing, while developer empowerment in NewJersey was conditioned upon inclusion of low‐ and moderate‐income units. Using aerial survey andhousing census data over a 20‐year period, this article finds that outcomes by housing type over a20‐year period in Pennsylvania municipalities around Philadelphia were more diverse than those in adjacentNew Jersey municipalities. © 2004 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.