Government regulations play a crucial role in ensuring public safety, environmental protection, and community development and they can also significantly prolong the land development process. Land ...

President Donald Trump has made deregulation a policy pillar for his second term — and housing regulations are up for review. But as it relates to housing costs, the unfortunate reality is that the ...

We document a Kuznets curve for construction productivity in 20th-century America. Homes built per construction worker remained stagnant between 1900 and 1940, boomed after World War II, and then ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adam writes about state and local policy and urban economic issues. As defined in the study, a “minimum-lot-size regulation is a ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- Fayetteville officials are watching with some concern the fate of two bills in the Arkansas Legislature that address developments built on county-owned land within a municipality.

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. — The Volusia County Planning and Land Development Regulation Commission approved a nine-month moratorium on I-2 Heavy Industrial development in a meeting Thursday morning. On Nov ...