Pandemics and Housing Insecurity: A Blueprint for Land Use Law Reform

Substance use: time for drug law reform.

I n the article " Substance abuse and developments in harm reduction " (page 1697 of this issue 1) Dr. Yuet Cheung concludes that in the 21st century harm reduction should be welcomed as an important player in addressing the use of currently illicit drugs, alongside prohibition and legalization. Other strategies that have become part of the discourse on how to resolve the drug problem include m...

Residential Land Use Regulation and the US Housing

In a sample covering more than 300 cities in the US from January 2000 to July 2009, we find that more restrictive residential land use regulations and geographic land constraints are linked to larger booms and busts in housing prices. The natural and man-made constraints also amplify price responses to the subprime mortgage credit expansion during the decade, leading to greater price increases ...

Homelessness and Housing Insecurity Among Former Prisoners.

The United States has experienced dramatic increases in both incarceration rates and the population of insecurely housed or homeless persons since the 1980s. These marginalized populations have strong overlaps, with many people being poor, minority, and from an urban area. That a relationship between homelessness, housing insecurity, and incarceration exists is clear, but the extent and nature ...

Blueprint for Early Childhood Development and School Reform

Land Reform:

Land reform, after a long period of being considered irrelevant or passé, has now emerged into the media and political limelight. To some extent, this is due to the well-publicised land invasions in Zimbabwe. However, the Brazilian MST's mobilizations in the 1990s have attracted attention and land invasions have also occurred in South Africa in the recent period (Merten and wa ka Ngobeni, 2001;...