Nye AB, 5th floor Taubman Building

Although Chapter 40B is the state's best known policy for producing affordable housing, many Boston-area communities also use local inclusionary zoning (IZ) programs to create affordable housing. New analyses of these programs and of similar programs in the San Francisco and Washington, D.C. metro areas find considerable variation in how IZ programs are designed and how much housing they have produced. Moreover, there is some evidence that less new housing is built in communities with IZ requrements and housing in those communities is more costly as well.