A city planner for a 40,000 population community called the
other day with an inquiry regarding anticipating the economic impact
of adopting a community minimum standards housing code. I suspect
there has been empirical work to assess the economic impact of
housing codes. Anyone have any leads?
John Leatherman
Department of Agricultural Economics
331F Waters Hall
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506-4026
Phone: 913-532-4492
Fax: 913-532-6925
E-mail: jleather@loki.agecon.ksu.edu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Ag. Economics & Rural Soc.
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID 83843
http://www.uidaho.edu/~scooke/onepercent
208-885-7170 (phone)
208-885-5759 (fax)