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Excessive government intervention in the housing market makes housing in Israel much more expensive than it should be.
Excessive government intervention in the housing market makes housing in Israel much more expensive than it should be. Among the myriad artificial policies that constrain building in Israel, Kohelet researchers identified three cardinal barriers:
Our recommendations are to immediately make a large amount of land in urban areas available for private ownership and development; to reform the municipal revenue structure in order to give local authorities more fiscal autonomy and restore their natural incentive to encourage development; and to implement reforms that would make approval of a building permit automatic contingent on the plan meeting whatever transparent criteria the planning authorities decide upon.