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 ...

It's not surprising county governments in Benton and Washington counties have seen an increase in planning applications and inquiries since the Arkansas Legislature stripped so-called ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Urban Studies, Vol. 41, No. 7 (June 2004), pp. 1269-1282 (14 pages) As part of the post-Soviet transition of civil law and economic relations, cities of the Russian Federation have sought to reform ...