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A Brazen Proposal: Increasing Affordable Housing Through Zoning and the Eminent Domain Powers


Victor Byers Flatt


UNC Chapel Hill School of Law; University of Houston Global Energy Management Institute

January 1994

Stanford Law & Policy Review, Vol. 7, p. 115, Spring 1994

Abstract:     
As homeownership becomes less affordable to some, government may be able to use its control of land scarcity through zoning to manipulte prices in a way that would allow values associated with changing zoning density to be captured for prospective homeowners. In particular, government could condemn land and pay its market value under one set of development possibilities, then increase the zoning density so that prospective buyers will have paid less than if the land had been obtaind through eminent domain at the higher development level.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 16

Keywords: zoning, eminent domain, land use, housing, affordable, condemnation

JEL Classification: H23, K11, R14, R21, R31, R38, R52, R58

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Flatt, Victor Byers, A Brazen Proposal: Increasing Affordable Housing Through Zoning and the Eminent Domain Powers (January 1994). Stanford Law & Policy Review, Vol. 7, p. 115, Spring 1994. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1981728

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Victor Byers Flatt (Contact Author)
UNC Chapel Hill School of Law ( email )
Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road
CB #3380
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3380
United States
HOME PAGE: http://www.law.unc.edu/faculty/directory/details.aspx?cid=1022
University of Houston Global Energy Management Institute ( email )
Houston, TX 77204-6021
United States
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