Supply subsidies to owners of rental housing construction are typically aimed at increasing the overall size of the housing stock or at guaranteeing affordable housing for low-income households. This paper studies whether and how much the tenants of the social housing units benefit from this...

We explore the impact of central government grants on local house prices in England using a panel data set of local authorities (LAs) from 2001 to 2008. Electoral targeting of grants to LAs by the incumbent national government provides an exogenous source of variation in grants that we exploit...