We study the relationship between housing inequality and crime in South Africa. We create a novel panel dataset … combining information on crimes at the police station level with census data. We find that housing inequality explains a …. An increase of one standard deviation in housing inequality explains between 9 and 13 percent of crime increases …

temporary rent control policy in Berlin, Germany. We calibrate the model to key features of Berlin’s housing market, in … study alternative affordable housing policies such as subsidies and re-zoning policies, which are better suited to address …

through housing wealth. …

Using the data on maintenance expenditures and self-assessed house value, I separate the measure of individual housing … stock and house prices, and use these data for testing whether nondurable consumption and housing are characterized by … nondurable consumption and housing. I reach a similar conclusion for some separate consumption categories, such as food and …

-cycle incomplete-markets model with a liquid financial asset and illiquid housing to match the large heterogeneity of households asset …

With the ageing of the European population, the housing choices of the elderly will have consequences on the whole … housing market. In this paper we use data from the first two waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe …