
Sara C Bronin
Mexican-American architect, attorney, and Freda H. Alverson Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School; author of "Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World" and founder of the National Zoning Atlas.
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Sep 24, 2026
Sara C Bronin, "Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World" (Norton, 2024)
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Jim WalshHOST
Now, professor, true or false, has zoning contributed, tough question, has zoning since 1926 contributed to the housing shortage we have today?

Sara C BroninGUEST
It has gone into, zoning has been adopted in places where there used to be two, three, four or more family housing and down zoned it to allow for less housing, even that was there, let's say a hundred years ago before zoning.

Sara C BroninGUEST
In addition to that, in many, many newer neighborhoods and newer cities and towns, where zoning has been adopted, oftentimes that zoning will say only single family housing can be built here and that type of housing can only be on large lots.

Sara C BroninGUEST
So in the book, I talk about some of the stats for a few cities, but I'm also working on this project called the National Zoning Atlas, which is online at zoningatlas.org. And we've collected information about these trends nationwide.

Sara C BroninGUEST
And we found that the vast majority of residentially zoned land is zoned for single-family housing, and very little of it is zoned for multifamily housing.