Urban containment policies and housing prices: an international comparison with implications for future research

Colouring Inside What Lines? Interference of the Urban Growth Boundary and the Political–Administrative Border of Brussels

“…In an international comparative study, Dawkins and Nelson (2002) found that land prices within an UGB indeed increase faster than outside the UGB, but that this is not necessarily the case for the prices of houses. The price evolution in the housing market depends, among other factors, on how the UGB is implemented, and in particular on the presence or absence of any policy aimed at urban compaction through redevelopment.…”

“…The price evolution in the housing market depends, among other factors, on how the UGB is implemented, and in particular on the presence or absence of any policy aimed at urban compaction through redevelopment. However, in case the total number of homes inside the UGB is intentionally limited, as is done in several cities in California, rapid price increases in the housing market are observed (Dawkins and Nelson, 2002 (Knaap, 1985).…”

“…In the academic literature, such strategies are typically referred to as urban containment policies (Dawkins and Nelson, 2002), and are, in most cases, implemented in the form of an urban growth boundary (UGB).…”

Urban land-use regulations and housing markets in developing countries: Evidence from Indonesia on the importance of enforcement

“…Urban land-use regulations are the diverse range of rules and requirements governing housing and urban development, such as growth management or urban containment (Dawkins and Nelson, 2002); height restrictions and plot ratios (Bertaud and Brueckner, 2005); the length and cost of the permitting process (Malpezzi and Mayo, 1997); standards on plot size or infrastructure (Dowall, 1992); or the number of approvals required for a project (Kok et al, 2010). It has been long theorized that excessive land-use regulations negatively impact housing markets in two ways.…”

“…Formal developers produced about 100,000 housing units in 1988 and in 2005 nearly 200,000 (Hoek-Smit, 2008). The dominant form of housing production in Indonesia remains self-built incremental housing, which was responsible for more than 70 percent of houses produced between 2002(Badan Pusat Statistik, 2007. The absolute number of developer-produced housing units has been growing, although their share of total new supply has remained fairly steady.…”