Book Talk: America's Frozen Neighborhoods
Please join the Lillian Goldman Law Library for a talk with Professor Robert C. Ellickson ’66 about his new book, America’s Frozen Neighborhoods: The Abuse of Zoning, with commentary by Professor David Schleicher.
**Online Registration is Required**
This event will take place on Thursday, February 16, at 12:10 PM in SLB 127.
Boxed lunch will be available during the event for those who register at: http://bit.ly/3WXZ7Zj
This book talk will be recorded and available to watch on the Law Library’s YouTube channel following the event.
About America’s Frozen Neighborhoods:
This book examines local zoning policies and suggests reforms that states and the federal government might adopt to counter the negative effects of exclusionary zoning.
In this book, Robert Ellickson asserts that local zoning policies are the most consequential regulatory program in the United States. Many localities have created barriers to the development of less costly forms of housing. Numerous economists have found that current zoning practices inflict major damage on the national economy. Using Silicon Valley, the Greater New Haven area, and the northwestern portion of Greater Austin as case studies, Ellickson shows in unprecedented detail how the zoning system works and recommends steps for its reform Ellickson demonstrates that zoning regulations are hard to dislodge once localities have enacted them. He develops metrics to measure the existence and costs of exclusionary zoning and suggests reforms that states and the federal government could undertake to counter the detrimental effects of local policies. These include the cartelization of housing markets and the aggravation of racial and class segregation.
