Paris is building—California is not


Though the French capital and its suburbs house less than one-third the population of California, the region produced more new homes last year than the entire Golden State.



MIT Urban Planning doctoral candidate Yonah Freemark, writing in The San Francisco Chronicle, highlights the successes that have taken shape in Paris in recent years with regards to increasing housing production and affordability. 

The recipe for success, according to Freemark’s research, includes a mix of well-known housing carrots, like imposing new inclusionary zoning initiatives, both locally and at the national level, funding the construction of public housing on excess government-owned land, and allowing for infill development consisting of smaller buildings on smaller parcels. 

The recipe includes a couple of stick, too, including a dash of eminent domain and a dose of heavy fines for municipalities that do not meet housing goals. The approach, according to Freemark, is working.

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