Racial Implications of Metropolitan Land Use Regulation
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2021-05
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The Ohio State University
Abstract
Recent work has explored the dynamics of segregation and the impacts that city planning can have on it. Restrictive zoning and other regulations may decrease the available housing to minorities and therefore serve to increase racial segregation, despite being nominally race-blind. I exploit variation in land use regulations generated by natural differences in geography as an instrument for land use regulation stringency and understand its relationship to investigate whether restrictive land use regulation increases segregation. The results of analysis, while inconclusive, indicate land use regulation may have a sizable effect on urban segregation, but more exploration is needed.