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However, later in the introduction and book, Ellickson writes instead that the effects of local land use regulations are "distortions that prevent efficiency to a market economy" (pp. 12-14, 114). However, recent research from the Urban Institute (Stacy et al., [4]) shows that loosening local land use restrictions is associated with increased housing supply but not lower-cost housing. Simplifying concerns to CBA and economic efficiency risks putting not just local land use regulations but I all i regulations within the monolithic neoclassical-economic category of deadweight loss (p. 201). [Extracted from the article]

Professionals may maintain these racist networks because they are a rational profit-maximization strategy: Real estate professionals may want to build wealthier White networks because they can generate higher commissions and profits. The author wields data from 102 interviews and 21 participant observations to support her argument that housing segregation is partially produced by real estate professionals, not only by the racist wealth gap and individual preferences. The book's findings rest on 1 year spent observing and interviewing real estate professionals in Houston (TX) with the goal of explaining the causes of residential segregation. [Extracted from the article]