Introduction / Tony Crook and Peter A. Kemp -- Germany / Peter A. Kemp and Stefan Kofner -- The Netherlands / Marietta E.A. Haffner -- Spain / Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway and María Teresa Sánchez-Martínez -- Denmark / Hans Skifter Andersen -- Norway / Mary-Ann Stamsø -- Australia / Kath Hulse...

This edited collection analyses recent changes in the private rental housing market, using case studies from the UK, Europe, Australia and the USA, and assesses the initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In many countries, the cost of housing has greatly outpaced income growth, leading to a housing affordability crisis. Leveraging Canadian loan-level data and quasi-experimental variation in payment-to-income constraints, we document an increasing reliance of first-time homebuyers on financial...