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Housing cooperatives, housing affordability, and rent control

Wrede, Matthias - 2024 - This version: October 2024

Housing cooperatives have a significant share in some countries, particularly in urban housing markets, and are supported by municipalities through tax breaks and preferential access to land. We examine the contribution of housing cooperatives to the provision of affordable housing and how they...

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Delivering affordable housing and neighborhood quality : a comparison of place- and tenant-based programs

Eerola, Essi; Saarimaa, Tuukka - 2017 - This version: September 2017

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...

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Homeownership : low household mobility, volatile housing prices, high income dispersion

Ortalo-Magné, François; Rady, Sven - 2002

joint location and tenure mode decisions. To investigate the effect of homeownership on equilibrium prices and allocations … three results. First, homeownership enables more households to remain in the more desirable location at the expense of … newcomers. Second, homeownership adds to the volatility of the housing market. Third, homeownership may amplify the dispersion …

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Property taxes and housing allocation under financial constraints

Coven, Joshua; Golder, Sebastian; Gupta, Arpit; Ndiaye, … - 2024

act as a “forced mortgage,” reducing upfront downpayments and enabling greater homeownership among younger households. We …-tax Texas increases homeownership in California by 4.6% and among younger households by 7.4% in steady state. Asset taxes can …

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The geographical determinants of within-city heterogeneity in urban density

Krause, Melanie; Seidel, André - 2020

This paper studies the impact of building land limitations on within-city variation in urban density and its components crowding, residential coverage, and building height. We utilise geographical obstacles like steep inclines or water bodies as exogenous source of building land limitations...

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Gentrification and affordable housing policies

Borck, Rainald; Gohl, Niklas - 2021

We use a quantitative spatial equilibrium model to evaluate the distributional and welfare impacts of a recent temporary rent control policy in Berlin, Germany. We calibrate the model to key features of Berlin’s housing market, in particular the recent gentrification of inner city locations....

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Explaining spatial variation in homeownership rates : results for German regions

Lerbs, Oliver; Oberst, Christian - 2011

A wide range of aggregate data is used to examine the spatial variation in homeownership rates among a cross-section of … spatial dependence in homeownership levels. In addition to familiar demographic and socioeconomic variables, the regional … disparities in homeownership rates between eastern and western Germany as well as between rural, urbanized and agglomerated …

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Limited attention in the housing market : threshold effects of energy-performance certificates on property prices and energy-efficiency investments

Sejas-Portillo, Rodolfo; Comerford, David; Moro, Mirko; … - 2020

We study the effects of limited attention on property prices and energy efficiency (EE) investments in the housing market. Using a novel dataset, we analyse over 5 million residential property sale transactions in England and Wales, each containing information about sale price, property and...

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The short and the long of it : stock-flow matching in the US housing market

Smith, Eric; Xie, Zoe; Fang, Lei - 2022

This paper investigates the US housing market from just before the Great Recession onward (2006-2019) and assesses the viability of stock-flow matching in generating the observed outcomes. The paper documents that the probability a house sells declines sharply after listing for two weeks....

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Understanding spatial house price dynamics in a housing boom

Kaas, Leo; Kocharkov, Georgi; Syrichas, Nicolas - 2024

housing market to understand the driving forces of rising spatial price dispersion, highlighting the role of housing supply …, housing demand and frictions in the matching process between buyers and sellers. While both shifts in housing supply and …

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