Land supply is widely recognized in economic literature as relatively inelastic due to physical constraints, regulatory hurdles, and long development timelines required to bring new plots to market.
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The Industrial Organization of Housing Supply: Market Activity, Land Supply and the Size of Homebuilder Firms
1999 · cited by 57
Paper [0] highlights that land supply and readily developed land availability directly shape market activity and builder concentration.
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Land development and frictions to housing supply over the business cycle
2024 · cited by 4
Paper [7] demonstrates that residential land development involves significant time lags and frictions, quantifying housing supply inelasticity across business cycles.