In the United States, particularly in high-cost urban areas, local resistance to multifamily housing development has been widely noted. In many metropolitan areas, legal authority over land-use regulation is assigned to jurisdictions that often are very small, and some scholars argue that this small-scale local control institutionalizes neighborhood-level opposition to new construction. Using census tracts as units of analysis, we assess the relationship between the population size of the city, county, or township that regulates a tract’s land use and the change in multifamily units between two recent waves of the American Community Survey (2008–2012 and 2014–2018). Results of regression analysis indicate that larger jurisdictional population size is indeed associated with increased multifamily construction. However, the relationship applies only for jurisdictions with populations exceeding 100,000 and decays at jurisdictional populations of more than 1 million. This nonlinearity may reflect quasi-monopolistic land-use control in the largest jurisdictions.

在美国，特别是在高成本的城市地区，当地对多户住房开发的抵制已引起广泛关注。在许多大都市地区，土地使用监管的法律权力通常分配给很小的辖区，一些学者认为，这种小规模的地方控制使邻里层级对新建筑的反对制度化。使用人口普查区作为分析单位，我们评估了规管该区土地使用的城市，县或镇的人口规模与最近两次美国社区调查（2008-2012年）之间的多户单位变化之间的关系。 2014–2018）。回归分析的结果表明，更大的司法管辖区人口确实与增加的多户家庭结构有关。然而，该关系仅适用于人口超过100,000的司法管辖区，并在管辖人口超过100万的司法管辖区衰减。这种非线性可能反映了最大辖区中的准垄断土地利用控制。