temporary rent control policy in Berlin, Germany. We calibrate the model to key features of Berlin’s housing market, in … renter households lose. Our counterfactual analysis mimicks the rent control policy. We find that this policy reduces welfare …

community amenities payments in arrears remained the same as in the previous years. The monthly rent cost of a one …

dataset of 436,000 rent observations, we build new indices of housing rents, quality and inequality, and relate these to … changes in wages and population. Long-term growth in real rent prices has been limited. Before 1900, markets were unregulated … and rent prices and wages rose in tandem when cities grew, while housing quality and inequality increased. After 1900 …