Housing regulation varies sharply—even within the same region.
The updated Wharton index maps high- and low-regulation communities across 44 metropolitan areas.
REDRAWN FROM STUDY DATAFigure 1 · Regional variation in land-use regulation
Figure 1 · Regional variation in land-use regulation. Values digitized from Figure 1; metropolitan map summarized to Census-region means for legible comparison in the archived publication; minor reading error is possible.