The Homevoter Hypothesis: How Home Values Influence Local Government Taxation, School Finance, and Land-Use Policies

By W. Fischel. 2001

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Supply Constraints Are Not Valid Instrumental Variables for Home Prices Because They Are Correlated with Many Demand Factors (2016, background): “Hamilton (1975), Fischel (2001), and Ortalo-Magne and Prat (2011) describe theoretically how local politics are likely to lead to a correlation between zoning and housing demand.”
An Economic History of Zoning and a Cure for its Exclusionary Effects (2004, background): “I submit that the urban transport revolution that replaced walking with motorised transport led to a less obvious political revolution (Fischel, 2001a).”
Supply Skepticism: Housing Supply and Affordability (2019, background): “the higher housing prices they believe will result from limits on supply (Fischel, 2005).”
When Do Renters Behave Like Homeowners? High Rent, Price Anxiety, and NIMBYism (2018, background): “Not only do homeowners want their home values to remain stable or increase, but they are exceptionally risk averse towards this large, fixed, illiquid asset (Fischel, 2001).”
The Importance of Trust in Government for Public Administration: The Case of Zoning (2008, background): “Based on the work of Fischel (2001) , we expect homeowners to be supportive of zoning as a means of protecting their property.”
On the origins of land use regulations: theory and evidence from us metro areas (2013, unknown): “The proposition that the restrictiveness of land use regulations goes beyond welfare economics considerations is consistent with our model and the homevoter hypothesis (Fischel, 2001).”
The Geographic Determinants of Housing Supply (2010, background): “In a review of much of this literature, Fischel (2001) develops the homevoter hypothesis, according to which zoning and local land use controls can be largely understood as tools for local homeowners to maximize land prices. at M IT L ibraries on January 8, 2014 http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/ D ow…”