🚨 New publicly available dataset on housing regulations across US municipalities

With Alex Bartik and Dan Milo, we highlight a novel AI-based method for accurate categorization of regulations in unstructured text, which we use to establish 5 facts about housing regulation:

"PDFs are no longer sufficient to contain the research outputs of economists. There are too many choices in the code and data to accept the outputs without verification and too many contributions to future economics research to leave “available upon request."
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Something I never expected to see: people in my hometown mourning the demolition of our first McDonald’s—now being replaced by a local grocery store.