Urban renewal programs have been implemented in many countries to fight housing decay, poverty concentration, and associated social ills in the last decades. In this paper, we propose an evaluation of a large-scale urban renewal program launched in France in 2004. Using a novel estimator aimed...

We develop a new dynamic equilibrium model with heterogeneous households that captures the most important frictions that arise in housing rental markets and explains the political popularity of affordable housing policies. We estimate the model using data collected by the New York Housing...

Prologue -- The Origins of Cooperative Housing -- Cooperative Housing after World War II -- The United Housing Foundation -- Co-op City -- A More or Less Auspicious Start -- Fiscal Troubles -- Carrying Charges -- The "Second Front" -- "No Way, We Won't Pay!" -- The Great Rent Strike -- Epilogue.

India's housing problem and the housing market -- Urban India: the world of development disparities -- Housing finance system and major development contours -- Development of housing policies for the urban poor -- Major development issues of contemporary urbanizing India -- towards a pragmatic...