Brian M. Miller

Assistant Professor of Law at @DuqKlineLaw. Theology PhD Student.

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My article, "Housing Gridlock," has been published in the Southern California Law Review @SCalLRev . The pic below gives a quick synopsis from the abstract. Please give the article a read here if you're interested!: https://t.co/2peDJAFJct

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Happy to report that my article, "Exclusive Property Harms," will be published in The George Washington Law Review. I'll provide an SSRN link to the full draft soon, but for now here's the abstract:

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So, if housing prices happen to fall in Trump's 2nd term, it likely won't be because of the admin's policies. Moving forward, as before, we should push local and state leaders to relax restrictions that make it harder to build housing. They have the most direct role anyway. 6/6

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I have a short piece out today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette @PittsburghPG on why it's unlikely that the policies of the next presidential administration will help lower housing costs. Quick summary in the thread below... https://t.co/xkorosW0BF

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He also aims to reduce immigration and increase deportations. But even if doing so slightly reduced housing demand by slowing population growth, it ignores the spark to the construction industry immigrant workers are. Undercutting that workforce would again slow home building. 5/

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"WHAT are you doing in my (client's) SWAMP?!"

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It was a tremendous joy to give a lecture this week on the occasion of my appointment as the Louis D. Brandeis Professor. The lecture's here, and the substantive part, after many embarrassing thank yous, begins circa 16:55. https://t.co/l9ppvC3HCQ

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Where does that leave us?: @MayorEdGainey's plan is solid because it allows more housing production. More abundance, more affordability. The plan would be even better if it focused the expansion of inclusionary zoning to the pricier and more popular neighborhoods. 7/7.

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Overall, the plan tackles many of the primary obstacles to housing construction -- restrictions on multi-family housing, ADU prohibitions, minimum lot size requirements, parking minimums. Removing some of these should help make housing more abundant and affordable. But . . . 1/x

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I have a short piece out today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette @PittsburghPG giving roughly two-and-a-half cheers for Mayor Gainey's zoning plan. It's a great plan to tackle the housing shortage, but it has one potential shortcoming. Please read here!: https://t.co/jiUC9a3fOd

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In these "hot" neighborhoods, developers might still have reason to go through with a large apartment plan. Inclusionary zoning cuts their profits some, but they still have a lot to gain because the market rate for the other units they rent out is still quite high. So . . . 6/x

[Brian M. Miller @Brian_M_Miller]

I have a short piece out today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette @PittsburghPG giving roughly two-and-a-half cheers for Mayor Gainey's zoning plan. It's a great plan to tackle the housing shortage, but it has one potential shortcoming. Please read here!: https://t.co/jiUC9a3fOd

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@Maxwell_Stearns @OrinKerr @DuqKlineLaw Thank you, Max!