Housing Law And Policy

Ed. note: Paul Mark, a student in the LL.M program at Georgetown University Law Center, and Research Assistant for thre Project on State and Local Government Policy and Law (SALPAL), is a State Senator for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This post is part of our "Voices from the Field" series Skyrocketing housing prices in Massachusetts threaten the competitiveness of the Comminwealth at a time when the ability to work remotely has become more common, more desirable, and

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Here is a call for papers from AALS that may interest you: Call for Papers for the Sections on Property and State and Local Government Law at the 2023 AALS Annual Meeting The Property Law and State and Local Government Law Sections are pleased to announce a Call for Papers from which up to four presenters will be selected for a joint program to be held during the AALS 2023 Annual Meeting in San Diego, California from January 4-7, 2023. The program is entitled Homes, Neighborh

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We're delighted that SLoGLaw partnered with Georgetown's Project on State and Local Government Policy and Law (SALPAL) for a panel featuring three of our Founding Editors--Sheila Foster, David Schleicher and moderator Meryl Chertoff-- together with blog contributor llya Somin and Dean Rose Cuison-Villazor. The January 27 event is particularly resonant this week. Meryl reports. Policy choices that impact mobility will have profound implications for our politics on the local,

The Perils of Land Use Deregulation , my intervention in the land use/housing debate, has now been published by the University of Pennsylvania Law Review . This article has already attracted some critical attention , including by others on this blog , and—as with all things housing-related these days—the disagreement can be sharp. No one will mistake an 80-page article on land use for a tweet. But I suspect hot takes are inevitable because I challenge the anti-zoning consensu

This is the last in a four part series. SLoGLaw thanks Chris Elmendorf and Tim Duncheon for this timely treatment of the important issue of affordable housing for California, and urban regions around the country--Ed. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires state and local agencies that have discretion to choose among possible options to study environmental effects before making their choice. In theory, this leads to better agency decisions. (A contestable cla

In yesterday’s post , we asserted that the recent denial of a downtown housing project in San Francisco portends a generational clash of super-statutes, with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) facing off against the state’s Housing Accountability Act (HAA). In subsequent posts, we will explore the particulars of the CEQA-HAA conflict, as illustrated by the saga of the San Francisco project. Today, however, our goal is simply to show that CEQA and the HAA both hav

Late last month, observers erupted in fury when San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted down a proposal to build nearly 500 new homes -- many affordable -- on a downtown site now being used for valet parking. The Board’s vote came short on the heels of a major Court of Appeal decision upholding the state’s Housing Accountability Act (HAA), which the Legislature has greatly strengthened in recent years. The HAA usually requires cities to approve housing projects that a r