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....

A paper presented at the February 2002 conference quot;Policies to Promote Affordable Housing,quot; cosponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy

Prologue -- The Origins of Cooperative Housing -- Cooperative Housing after World War II -- The United Housing Foundation -- Co-op City -- A More or Less Auspicious Start -- Fiscal Troubles -- Carrying Charges -- The "Second Front" -- "No Way, We Won't Pay!" -- The Great Rent Strike -- Epilogue.

New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) tenants' health are put at risk by the policies and practices of the government. Public housing tenants receive unequal treatment when compared to tenants in private housing in obtaining repairs and preventing dangerous conditions. These conditions include...