Theses - Program in Real Estate Development

Starter homes : middle income housing in Boston

Cohen, Phillip D.(Phillip David); Stattman, William T. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)

This thesis assesses the residential real estate development industry in Greater Boston and makes policy recommendations to increase the supply of middle-income housing. Boston's rapid growth in the decade since the Great ...
Hybrid-industrial zoning : a case study in Downtown Los Angeles

Brown, Sarah(Sarah Dalton) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)

Historically, land use planning has treated industrial land uses either antagonistically or ambivalently. Traditional zoning approaches have restricted, regulated, spatially isolated, and pushed industrial land to the ...
The power of context and location : a spatial approach to model the market for new housing in Bogota, Colombia

Pérez Sarralde, Sebastian. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)

This study introduces a geographical approach to analyze the market for new housing in Bogota, Colombia and address limitations of currently available research that is not sensitive to underlying spatial determinants in ...