{"id":30412,"date":"2016-09-20T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=30412"},"modified":"2016-09-10T10:21:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T14:21:46","slug":"qotd-municipal-parking-regulations-hurt-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/09\/20\/qotd-municipal-parking-regulations-hurt-the-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Municipal parking regulations hurt the poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Another land-use regulation that makes space more expensive is municipal requirements that establish a minimum number of parking spaces per housing unit.<\/p>\n<p>According Donald Shoup\u2019s analysis, parking requirements add significantly to the cost of housing, particularly in areas with high land values. For example, in Los Angeles, parking requirements can add $104,000 to the cost of each apartment. Parking requirements limit consumers\u2019 choices and increase the cost of housing even for those who prefer not to pay for parking.<\/p>\n<p>Developers typically build only the minimum amount of parking required by law, which indicates that those requirements are binding. That is, in a less-regulated environment, developers would devote less land to parking and more land to living space. A greater supply of living space will, other things equal, lower the cost of housing.<\/p>\n<p>Sandy Ikeda, <a href=\"http:\/\/fee.org\/freeman\/detail\/shut-out-how-land-use-regulations-hurt-the-poor\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Shut Out: How Land-Use Regulations Hurt the Poor&#8221;, <em>The Freeman<\/em><\/a>, 2015-02-05.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another land-use regulation that makes space more expensive is municipal requirements that establish a minimum number of parking spaces per housing unit. According Donald Shoup\u2019s analysis, parking requirements add significantly to the cost of housing, particularly in areas with high land values. For example, in Los Angeles, parking requirements can add $104,000 to the cost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,84,41,13],"tags":[111,426,661],"class_list":["post-30412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-cars","tag-housing","tag-regulation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7Uw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30413,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30412\/revisions\/30413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}