John Infranca

Suffolk University Law School

Professor of Law, Director of Faculty Scholarship and Research

120 Tremont Street

Boston, MA 02108-4977

United States

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1.

The Sharing Economy as an Urban Phenomenon

Yale Law & Policy Review, Vol. 34, No. 2, 2016, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2802907, Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 16-10
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 03 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2016
Nestor M. Davidson and John Infranca
Fordham University School of Law and Suffolk University Law School
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Sharing economy, local government, urban studies, property, land use, local regulation, agglomeration economics

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Transferable Development Rights Programs: 'Post-Zoning'?

Brooklyn Law Review, Vol. 78, 2012, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-50, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 12-31
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 12 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2013
Vicki Been and John Infranca
New York University School of Law and Suffolk University Law School
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Transferable Development Rights, Zoning, Land Use, Property

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The New State Zoning: Land Use Preemption amid a Housing Crisis

Boston College Law Review, Vol. 60, p. 823 (2019), Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 18-17
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 02 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2019
John Infranca
Suffolk University Law School
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land use, zoning, NIMBY, YIMBY, affordability, housing, density, California, Massachusetts, ADU, preemption

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Housing Changing Households: Regulatory Challenges for Micro-Units and Accessory Dwelling Units

25 Stanford Law & Policy Review 53 (2014), Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 13-35
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 13 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 09 May 2015
John Infranca
Suffolk University Law School
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Land Use, Property, Housing, Urban Policy, Building Regulation, Accessory Dwelling Units, Micro-units

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The Cambridge Handbook on the Law of the Sharing Economy

The Cambridge Handbook on the Law of the Sharing Economy, Nestor Davidson, Michèle Finck & John Infranca, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2018, Forthcoming, Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 18-15, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 12 Sep 2018
Nestor M. Davidson, Michèle Finck and John Infranca
Fordham University School of Law, Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen and Suffolk University Law School
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Singling Out Single-Family Zoning

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 111, No. 4, pp. 659 (April 2023), Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 22-6
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 12 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 14 May 2025
John Infranca
Suffolk University Law School
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Single-family, Zoning, Housing, Police Power, Property, Land Use

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Differentiating Exclusionary Tendencies

72 Florida Law Review 1271 (2020)
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 14 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2022
John Infranca
Suffolk University Law School
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Zoning, Property Theory, Housing, Localism, Gentrification, Local Government Law, Subsidiarity

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Spaces for Sharing: Micro Units Amid the Shift from Ownership to Access

Fordham Urban Law Journal, Vol. 43, p. 1, 2016., Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 15-38
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 22 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2018
John Infranca
Suffolk University Law School
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sharing economy, peer-to-peer economy, micro-units, land use, local government, housing, urban policy, property, zoning, urban planning

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Variances: A Canary in the Coal Mine for Zoning Reform?

50 Pepperdine Law Review 443 (2023), Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 22-15
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 10 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 31 May 2024
John Infranca and Ronnie Farr
Suffolk University Law School and Suffolk University - Suffolk University, Law School, Students
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Variances, Zoning, Zoning Board of Appeal, Land Use, Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline

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Intermediary Institutions and the Sharing Economy

90 Tul. L. Rev. Online 29 (2016), Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 16-8
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 26 May 2016 Last Revised: 07 Jun 2016
John Infranca
Suffolk University Law School
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sharing economy, coordinated market economy, intermediary institutions, gig economy, Uber, Airbnb, TaskRabbit

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The Place of the Sharing Economy

Forthcoming, Cambridge Handbook on the Law of the Sharing Economy (Nestor M. Davidson, Michele Finck & John J. Infranca, eds.), Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 18-1, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 11 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2018
Nestor M. Davidson and John Infranca
Fordham University School of Law and Suffolk University Law School
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The Earned Income Tax Credit as an Incentive to Report: Engaging the Informal Economy through Tax Policy

N.Y.U. Law Review, Vol. 83, p. 203, 2008
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 04 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 07 Apr 2008
John Infranca
Suffolk University Law School
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EITC, informal economy, tax policy, law and economics, poverty law

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(Communal) Life, (Religious) Liberty, and Property

Michigan State Law Review, p. 481, 2017, Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 17-16
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 16 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2018
John Infranca
Suffolk University Law School
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Property, Religion, Free Exercise, Progressive Property, Group Rights, Institutional Rights, Communitarianism, Human Flourishing, RLUIPA, Native American sacred sites, Sanctuary churches

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Themes and Trends in Land Use and Planning Law Research: Introduction to A Research Agenda for US Land Use and Planning Law

A Research Agenda for US Land Use and Planning Law (Edward Elgar), 2023, Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 24-7, U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 08 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 07 May 2024
John Infranca and Sarah Schindler
Suffolk University Law School and University of Denver Sturm College of Law
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land use, zoning, planning, housing, public participation, segregation, historic preservation, transportation, private controls, sustainability

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Safer than the Mattress? Protecting Social Security Benefits from Bank Freezes and Garnishments

St. John's Law Review, Vol. 83, Issue 4, 2009
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 06 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2012
John Infranca
Suffolk University Law School
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Social Security, exempt benefits, debt collection, creditor-debtor issues, banking, direct deposit

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Housing Resource Bundles: Distributive Justice and Federal Low-Income Housing Policy

University of Richmond Law Review, Vol. 49, p.1071, 2015, Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 15-12
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 23 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2017
John Infranca
Suffolk University Law School
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property, housing, distributive justice, horizontal equity, income targeting, equality of resources, capabilities approach, affordable housing policy, rental assistance, Section 8, public housing

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Institutional Free Exercise and Religious Land Use

34 Cardozo Law Review 1693 (2013), NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-09
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 16 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2013
John Infranca
Suffolk University Law School
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Land Use, Property,Hosanna-Tabor, RLUIPA, Institutional Free Exercise, First Amendment, Landmarks, hardship

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The Sharing Economy and the Allocation of Urban Space

Zoning and Planning Law Report (2019, Forthcoming), Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 19-10
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 21 Mar 2019
John Infranca
Suffolk University Law School
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Single-Family Zoning and the Police Power: Early Debates in Boston and Seattle

25 Cityscape 11 (2023), Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 22-20
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 10 Jul 2023 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2023
John Infranca
Suffolk University Law School
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Zoning, Single-family, Police Power, Local Government, Boston, Seattle

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Striking a Balance:  Massachusetts' MBTA Communities Law and the Channeling of Local Control

Suffolk University Law School Research Paper 24-12, Virginia Environmental Law Journal (symposium on Land, Climate & Justice), forthcoming
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 01 Jul 2024
John Infranca
Suffolk University Law School
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Decoding Land Use Discretion

110 Iowa Law Review (forthcoming 2025)
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 11 Sep 2024 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2025
John Infranca
Suffolk University Law School
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zoning, land use, housing, zoning reform, variances, zoning board of appeals, discretion, administrative law, local government, transparency

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Assessing the Prospects for Fair Housing

Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law, Vol. 30, No. 3 (2022), Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 22-8
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 30 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2023
John Infranca
Suffolk University Law School
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fair housing, affirmatively furthering fair housing, HUD, housing, federalism

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Book Review of Evidence and Innovation in Housing Law and Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, Volume 27, Number 2, 2018
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 17 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2024
John Infranca
Suffolk University Law School
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affordable housing, land use law, urban policy, historic preservation, gentrification, mortgage finance, home ownership

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Slicing (and Transferring) Development

University of Chicago Law Review Online, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 15 Jan 2020
John Infranca
Suffolk University Law School
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Fennell, Slices and Lumps, Land Use, Property, Transferable Development Rights, single-family zoning, ADUs, zoning reform, Deep Work