Land supply is inelastic

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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 retrieved papers include studies explicitly addressing land supply, development frictions, and housing supply elasticity. Papers [0] and [7] support the premise that land and housing supply face structural lags and constraints, whereas the remaining papers are off-topic (covering tobacco, health, agriculture, and digital infrastructure). Thus, the claim is supported by the relevant economic literature.

Evidence for · 2

The Industrial Organization of Housing Supply: Market Activity, Land Supply and the Size of Homebuilder Firms

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C. Tsuriel Somerville. The Industrial Organization of Housing Supply: Market Activity, Land Supply and the Size of Homebuilder Firms. 1999. https://doi.org/10.1111/1540-6229.00788

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

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Hyunseung Oh, Choongryul Yang, Chamna Yoon. Land development and frictions to housing supply over the business cycle. 2024. https://doi.org/10.17016/feds.2024.010

Paper [7] demonstrates that residential land development involves significant time lags and frictions, quantifying housing supply inelasticity across business cycles.

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first checked01 Aug 2026

judged → SUPPORTED · 8601 Aug 2026

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