costs are on the order of 2 to 3 months of rent, and the majority of evictions involve tenants who are unlikely to pay going …-term rent subsidies are more likely to prevent evictions of tenants who would resume paying …

, financial security, and mental health. We find that assistance increased rent payment modestly and improved mental health …

' probabilities of staying at their addresses by nearly 20%. Landlords treated by rent control reduced rental housing supply by 15 … benefits to covered tenants. Welfare losses from decreased housing supply could be mitigated if insurance against rent …We exploit quasi-experimental variation in assignment of rent control to study its impacts on tenants, landlords, and …

landlords and renters lack commitment; a landlord evicts a delinquent tenant if they do not expect total future rent payments to … cover costs, while tenants cannot commit to paying more rent than they would be able or willing to pay given their outside … adverse shock. Finally, rent support can effectively eliminate evictions even without covering all missed rent and delivers …

estimates of supply and demand elasticities, which we use to estimate the drop in natural gas prices that is attributable to the …, we provide the first estimates of broad-scale welfare and distributional implications of this supply boom. We provide new … supply expansion. We calculate large, positive welfare impacts for four broad sectors of gas consumption (residential …

queuing frictions in the market for public housing. Having access to rent-stabilized housing increases household welfare by up … to $65,000. Increasing the supply of affordable housing by ten percent significantly improves the welfare of all renters …

In this essay, we review the basic economics of housing supply and the functioning of US housing markets to better …