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Robert C. Ellickson exposes in convincing detail the deleterious impact of restrictions on new housing.

America’s Frozen Neighborhoods: The Abuse of Zoning, by Robert C. Ellickson, (Yale University Press, 320 pp., $40) As recently as the 1950s, the area we now call Silicon Valley was an agricultural region, filled with fruit orchards. But as the American population shifted West, a vast influx of more than a million newcomers transformed the […]

Human rights, the changing labor market, privacy, securities regulation, and Shakespeare are just a few examples of the wide-ranging topics that NYU Law faculty members addressed in books they recently authored or edited. 

Today’s housing market combines the worst of two worlds: a lack of supply for those with the means and desire to buy, and unaffordability for those of lower income. A June report for the National Association of Realtors found that the growth in U.S. housing stock over the past decade was less than half what it was between 1968 and 2000, “exacerbating a growing affordability crisis in many parts of the country.”