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The Effects of Emergency Rental Assistance During the Pandemic : Evidence from Four Cities
Collinson, Robert; DeFusco, Anthony A.; Humphries, John Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
, financial security, and mental health. We find that assistance increased rent payment modestly and improved mental health …
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Arbitrage in Housing Markets
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2007
Urban economists understand housing prices with a spatial equilibrium approach that assumes people must be indifferent across locations. Since the spatial no arbitrage condition is inherently imprecise, other economists have turned to different no arbitrage conditions, such as the prediction...
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A New Spatial Hedonic Equilibrium in the Emerging Work-from-Home Economy?
Brueckner, Jan K.; Kahn, Matthew E.; Lindeman, Gary - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper studies the impacts of work-from-home (WFH) in the housing market from both intercity and intracity perspectives. Our results confirm the theoretical prediction that WFH puts downward pressure on housing prices and rents in high-productivity counties, a result of workers starting to...
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The Remote Work Revolution : Impact on Real Estate Values and the Urban Environment
Nieuwerburgh, Stijn van - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The covid-19 pandemic induced a major shift in the prevalence of remote and hybrid work arrangements. This article reviews the effects of this remote work revolution for residential and commercial real estate values and for the future of cities. It also discusses consequences for productivity,...
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Housing Demand and Remote Work
Mondragon, John; Wieland, Johannes - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
What explains record U.S. house price growth since late 2019? We show that the shift to remote work explains over one half of the 23.8 percent national house price increase over this period. Using variation in remote work exposure across U.S. metropolitan areas we estimate that an additional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210069
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Prices and Trading Volume in the Housing Market : A Model with Downpayment Effects
Stein, Jeremy C. - 1993
This paper presents a simple model of trade in the housing market. The crucial feature is that a minimum downpayment is required for the purchase of a new home. The model has direct implications for the volatility of house prices, as well as for the correlation between prices and trading volume....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474650
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Discrimination During Eviction Moratoria
Arefeva, Alina; Jowers, Kay; Hu, Qihui; Timmins, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We provide evidence of intensified discriminatory behavior by landlords in the rental housing market during the eviction moratoria instituted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data collected from an experiment that involved more than 25,000 inquiries of landlords in the 50 largest cities in...
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The Effects of Rent Control Expansion on Tenants, Landlords, and Inequality : Evidence from San Francisco
Diamond, Rebecca - 2018
We exploit quasi-experimental variation in assignment of rent control to study its impacts on tenants, landlords, and … the overall rental market. Leveraging new data tracking individuals' migration, we find rent control increased renters …' probabilities of staying at their addresses by nearly 20%. Landlords treated by rent control reduced rental housing supply by 15 …
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Eviction and Poverty in American Cities
Collinson, Robert; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
More than two million U.S. households have an eviction case filed against them each year. Policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels are increasingly pursuing policies to reduce the number of evictions, citing harm to tenants and high public expenditures related to homelessness. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362036
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The Damages and Distortions from Discrimination in the Rental Housing Market
Christensen, Peter; Timmins, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
By constraining an individual's choice during a search, housing discrimination distorts sorting decisions away from true preferences and results in a ceteris paribus reduction in welfare. This study combines a large-scale field experiment with a residential sorting model to derive...
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