Miscellaneous Reports
“Housing Affordability” by Patrick Condon and Thomas Kroeker. Insights. April 3, 2026. HERE
"Supply Constraints do not Explain Price and Quantity Growth Across U. S. Cities." by Schuyler Louie et al., National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper. March 2025. HERE
“The unintended consequences of multi-family zoning” by Jennifer Brill. Cambridge Day (11.3.25) HERE
“Multifamily Zoning has Made Cambridge Developer Candy” Sara Nelson et al. (Nov. 3, 2025) HERE
"Compromise on Zoning Wasn’t Leadership” by Young Kim Cambridge Day (10.24.25) HERE
Boston Globe Op Ed on the citywide upzoning by CCC and CV4GG: "Cambridge's new housing plan is deeply flawed: The city’s upzoning measure prioritizes developer profits over housing affordability." HERE
"Boston Area Lab Boom Meets Life Sciences Bust" Boston Globe (3.16.25) HERE
"Number of those Burdened by Rental Affordability Hits Record High" Harvard Gazette (3.14.25) HERE
Conclusions: "You’re going to have a hard time solving the affordability problem through zoning."
"How Giant White Houses Took Over America" by Dan Kois, Slate (March 6, 2025): HERE
"Why Housing Efficiency Isn't Making Homes Affordable" Strong Towns (3.10.25) HERE
"How Much Does it Actually Cost to Build Housing" Medium (transit posts - (2.5.25) HERE
"Urban Studies report by Minjee Kim et al. (Dec.24 2024) on how NYC up-zoning has promoted gentrification by forcing out of lower income residents by higher income ones). HERE
"This Bike Lanes Story Isn't About Bike Lanes" Boston Magazine (3.9.25) HERE
“Uglification of Metro-Vancouver Mass-Upzoning” Vancouver Sun (11.28.24) HERE
The Housing Loophole: As the U.S. struggles with a housing shortage, investors continue to exploit a gap in affordable housing law to raise rents. Propublica. 2.13.25 HERE
The American Dream (Water Not Included)- Real estate developers are running a dark-money campaign to overturn new housing rules — and ignore basic laws of nature. The Lever (2.7.25): HERE
“Lexington Residents Call for Limiting Multifamily Housing” 2.5.25 Lexington Observer HERE
Design Matters! Harvard GSD Mayor's Forum: "State, City Officials Emphasize Importance of Design in Addressing Housing Issues" (2.7.25): HERE
“Can Co-Op Development Be A Housing Crisis Solution?” AIA (11.7.24) HERE
"Billionaire Blowback & Housing Disruption" (10.2024): HERE
"Citywide Upzoning Proposal and Impacts (1.26.25). Featured speaker: Andrew Berman, Executive Director, Village Preservation (NYC). Local speakers: Liz Byron (co-founder CARE Housing, Cambridge), Ed Abrams (Cambridge Realtor), Al Peterson (Cambridge Developer and Landlord). Watch the video HERE
Recording of Cambridge Day discussion of Up-Zoning (1.29.25): HERE
San Francisco Examiner Housing "...rallies end with YIMBYs shouting down protesters of color" (4.5.18): HERE
"How Higher Densities Makes Traffic Worse" The Public Purpose (May 2003): HERE
READ our Blogpost: Up-Zoned: Economists Weigh-In (3.18.24). HERE
READ our Blogpost: "Science is Real: Cambridge House Flipping and Cost Factors in Luxury Housing Upzoning" (3.12.25) HERE
READ: State Senator Pat Jehlen's Letter to Constituents on How Investors are Now Outbidding Local Buyers: HERE
READ: "Supply Constraints do not Explain Price and Quantity Growth Across U. S. Cities." by Schuyler Louie et al., National Bureau of Economic Research" March 2025. "...our findings imply that constrained housing supply is relatively unimportant in explaining differences in rising house prices among U.S. cities. These results challenge the prevailing view of local housing and labor markets and suggest that easing housing supply constraints may not yield the anticipated improvements in housing affordability." What does matter? Income Level Increases among other things. HERE
READ: "Homes for Profit: Speculation and Investment in Greater Boston An Analysis of Investor Activity in the Greater Boston Residential Real Estate Market, 2000 - 2022" Metropolitan Area Planning Commission (MAPC): HERE "Using MAPC’s Housing Submarkets to analyze investor activity in Greater Boston’s varied housing markets, our research finds that investor activity is most likely to occur in the region’s high-density urban submarket with relatively low housing prices (Submarket 2), which is home to the highest share of renters, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), and immigrant populations of the region’s seven submarkets." Cambridge is a key target.
"Supply Constraints do not Explain Price and Quantity Growth Across U. S. Cities." by Schuyler Louie et al., National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper. March 2025. HERE
“The unintended consequences of multi-family zoning” by Jennifer Brill. Cambridge Day (11.3.25) HERE
“Multifamily Zoning has Made Cambridge Developer Candy” Sara Nelson et al. (Nov. 3, 2025) HERE
"Compromise on Zoning Wasn’t Leadership” by Young Kim Cambridge Day (10.24.25) HERE
Boston Globe Op Ed on the citywide upzoning by CCC and CV4GG: "Cambridge's new housing plan is deeply flawed: The city’s upzoning measure prioritizes developer profits over housing affordability." HERE
"Boston Area Lab Boom Meets Life Sciences Bust" Boston Globe (3.16.25) HERE
"Number of those Burdened by Rental Affordability Hits Record High" Harvard Gazette (3.14.25) HERE
Conclusions: "You’re going to have a hard time solving the affordability problem through zoning."
"How Giant White Houses Took Over America" by Dan Kois, Slate (March 6, 2025): HERE
"Why Housing Efficiency Isn't Making Homes Affordable" Strong Towns (3.10.25) HERE
"How Much Does it Actually Cost to Build Housing" Medium (transit posts - (2.5.25) HERE
"Urban Studies report by Minjee Kim et al. (Dec.24 2024) on how NYC up-zoning has promoted gentrification by forcing out of lower income residents by higher income ones). HERE
"This Bike Lanes Story Isn't About Bike Lanes" Boston Magazine (3.9.25) HERE
“Uglification of Metro-Vancouver Mass-Upzoning” Vancouver Sun (11.28.24) HERE
The Housing Loophole: As the U.S. struggles with a housing shortage, investors continue to exploit a gap in affordable housing law to raise rents. Propublica. 2.13.25 HERE
The American Dream (Water Not Included)- Real estate developers are running a dark-money campaign to overturn new housing rules — and ignore basic laws of nature. The Lever (2.7.25): HERE
“Lexington Residents Call for Limiting Multifamily Housing” 2.5.25 Lexington Observer HERE
Design Matters! Harvard GSD Mayor's Forum: "State, City Officials Emphasize Importance of Design in Addressing Housing Issues" (2.7.25): HERE
“Can Co-Op Development Be A Housing Crisis Solution?” AIA (11.7.24) HERE
"Billionaire Blowback & Housing Disruption" (10.2024): HERE
"Citywide Upzoning Proposal and Impacts (1.26.25). Featured speaker: Andrew Berman, Executive Director, Village Preservation (NYC). Local speakers: Liz Byron (co-founder CARE Housing, Cambridge), Ed Abrams (Cambridge Realtor), Al Peterson (Cambridge Developer and Landlord). Watch the video HERE
Recording of Cambridge Day discussion of Up-Zoning (1.29.25): HERE
San Francisco Examiner Housing "...rallies end with YIMBYs shouting down protesters of color" (4.5.18): HERE
"How Higher Densities Makes Traffic Worse" The Public Purpose (May 2003): HERE
READ our Blogpost: Up-Zoned: Economists Weigh-In (3.18.24). HERE
READ our Blogpost: "Science is Real: Cambridge House Flipping and Cost Factors in Luxury Housing Upzoning" (3.12.25) HERE
READ: State Senator Pat Jehlen's Letter to Constituents on How Investors are Now Outbidding Local Buyers: HERE
READ: "Supply Constraints do not Explain Price and Quantity Growth Across U. S. Cities." by Schuyler Louie et al., National Bureau of Economic Research" March 2025. "...our findings imply that constrained housing supply is relatively unimportant in explaining differences in rising house prices among U.S. cities. These results challenge the prevailing view of local housing and labor markets and suggest that easing housing supply constraints may not yield the anticipated improvements in housing affordability." What does matter? Income Level Increases among other things. HERE
READ: "Homes for Profit: Speculation and Investment in Greater Boston An Analysis of Investor Activity in the Greater Boston Residential Real Estate Market, 2000 - 2022" Metropolitan Area Planning Commission (MAPC): HERE "Using MAPC’s Housing Submarkets to analyze investor activity in Greater Boston’s varied housing markets, our research finds that investor activity is most likely to occur in the region’s high-density urban submarket with relatively low housing prices (Submarket 2), which is home to the highest share of renters, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), and immigrant populations of the region’s seven submarkets." Cambridge is a key target.
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