the French social housing program and obtain that empirically observed departures from these assumptions are small enough …

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 …

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 …

This paper analyzes the relative merits of large place- and tenant-based housing programs in Finland in terms of … housing affordability and neighborhood quality. Using hedonic regression methods and household micro data, we find that rent … savings to public housing tenants are less targeted towards low-income households than housing allowance. In addition, low …

analyze the role of three specific policies which discourage homeownership in Germany: an extensive social housing sector with … mortgage interest tax deductions, but it would improve in the absence of social housing, in particular when coupled with … housing subsidies for low-income households. …

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 …