Jake completed his doctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley in 2014, with a dissertation entitled "'We Just Built It:' Code Enforcement, Local Politics, and the Informal Housing Market in Southeast Los Angeles County." His research lies at the nexus of housing, real estate development, and planning. He particularly focuses on the supply aspects of housing affordability in high-growth regions.
Ph.D.
in City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley, 2014
M.S.
, Department of Urban Studies and Planning and Center for Real Estate, MIT, 2006
M.S.
, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2000
B.A.
in Computer Science, Dartmouth College, 1997
Wegmann, J. (2019). Is there room for children in booming western cities? Empirical evidence from Austin, Denver, and Portland. Cities, 96. doi:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264275119301490.
Wegmann, J. (2019). Residences without residents: Assessing the geography of ghost dwellings in big U.S. cities. Journal of Urban Affairs, 42(8), 1103-1124. doi:.
Wegmann, J., Reina, V. & Guerra, E. (2019). Are Location Affordability and Fair Housing on a Collision Course? Race, Transportation Costs, and the Siting of Subsidized Housing.. Cityscape, 21(1), 125-142.
Pfeiffer, D., Wegmann, J. & Schafran, A. (2019). Exploring the Relationship Between Housing Downturns and Partisan Elections: Neighborhood-Level Evidence From Maricopa County, Arizona. Urban Affairs Review, 56(6), 1630-1658. doi:.
Wegmann, J. (2019). Sharing and Housing: Is There An App For That. Housing: Local Dynamics in a Global Age (, pp. 199-210). Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Pendall, R., Wegmann, J., Martin, J. & Wei, D. (2018). The Growth of Control? Changes in Local Land Use Regulation in Major US Metropolitan Areas from 1994 to 2003. Housing Policy Debate, 28(6), 901-919.
Wegmann, J. & Jiao, J. (2018). Urban Vacation Rentals and the Housing Market: Boon or Bust (or Both) in the Millennial City?. The Millennial City: Trends, Implications, and Prospects for Urban Planning and Policy (, pp. 167-180). New York: Routledge. (View)
Wegmann, J. & Jiao, J. (2017). Taming Airbnb: Toward Guiding Principles for Local Regulation of Urban Vacation Rentals Based on Empirical Results from Five US Cities. Land Use Policy, 69, 494-501. doi:.
Wegmann, J. & Mawhorter, S. (2017). Measuring Informal Housing Production in California Cities. Journal of the American Planning Association, 83(2), 119-130. doi:.
Wegmann, J. & Pacheco Bell, J. (2017). The Invisibility of Code Enforcement in Planning Praxis: The Case of Informal Housing in Southern California.. Focus: The Journal of Planning Practice and Education, 13(1), 20-29.
Durst, N. & Wegmann, J. (2017). Informal Housing in the United States. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 41(2), 282297.
Wegmann, J., Schafran, A. & Pfeiffer, D. (2017). Breaking the Double Impasse: Securing and Supporting Diverse Housing Tenures in the United States. Housing Policy Debate, 27(2), 193-216.
Wegmann, J. & Christensen, K. (2016). Subsidized Rental Housing in the United States: What We Know and What We Need to Learn in Three Themes. Planning Forum, 17, 55-74.
Wegmann, J. (2015). Research Notes: The Hidden Cityscapes of Informal Housing in Suburban Los Angeles and the Paradox of Horizontal Density. Buildings and Landscapes, 22(2), 89-110.
Wegmann, J. (2014). Measuring What Matters: A Call for a Meaningful Metric of Affordable Rental Housing Production Cost-Efficiency. Housing Policy Debate, 24(4), 692-716.
Wegmann, J. & Chapple, K. (2014). Hidden Density in Single-Family Neighborhoods: Backyard Cottages as an Equitable Smart Growth Strategy. Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, 7(3), 307-329.
Schafran, A. & Wegmann, J. (2012). Restructuring, Race, and Real Estate: Changing Home Values and the New California Metropolis, 1989-2010. Urban Geography, 33(5), 630-654.
