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Researcher to Flagstaff: housing supply is central to affordability and to climate goals
Summary
UCLA researcher and author Shane Phillips told Flagstaff attendees that increasing housing supply—coupled with location and building type choices—reduces upward pressure on prices, improves mobility and can yield climate benefits if it supports denser, infill development.
Shane Phillips, a researcher who manages the Randall Lewis Housing Initiative at UCLA and author of The Affordable City, delivered the workshop keynote and argued that supply is the most powerful local lever for affordability and has strong ties to climate outcomes when paired with infill and smaller housing types.
Phillips summarized national research showing that in regions with more permissive land‑use policy, housing supply responds to rising demand and moderates price growth; in restrictive markets, demand instead pushes up prices,…
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